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been going on for long while, a Roman
soldier, mounted on the shoulder Of an
other soldier. hurled into the window Of
the temple a frehrand, and the TEMPO
was all aaame. and after covering many
sacrifices TO the holiness of God the build
ing itself became sacrifice to The rage
of man. The hunger Of the people in
that city during the besiegemcnt was SO
great that as some outlaws were passing
a doorway and inhaled the odors Of food
they burst open the door threatening the
mother Of the household with death un-
less she gave them some food. and she
took them aside sad showed them that it
was her own child she was cooking for
the ghastly repast. Six hundred priests
We're destroyed on Mount Zion because
the temple being gone there was nothing
for them 10 do. Six thousand people in
one cloister were consumed. There we're
100000 dead according to JosephuS
Grotius thinks that this was the cause OF
silence in heaven for half an hour. II
Mr.. Lord was right, and this silence was
during the Dlocletian prosecutions. by
which $4,000 Christians suffered death
from sword and fire and punishment and
exposure. why did not heaven listen
throughout ri least one OF those awful
years. No, Thirty minutes. The fact
is that the celestial programme is SO
crowded with spectacle that il can afford
only one recess in all eternity, and that
for II short space. While there are great
choruSes in which all heaven can join,
each soul there has a story Of divine
mercy peculiar to itself and il must he
solo. How can heaven get through
with all its rcctatives. with all its can
tatas, With all its grand marches, with
all IFS victories? Eternity is too short to
utter all the praise.
In my text heaven spared thirty min
utes. bat it will never again spare one
minute. In worship in earthly churches
where there are many to take part we
have 10 counsel hrevity, hut how will
heaven get on rapidly enough to Jet one
hundred and forty-four thousand get
through each with his own story and then
one hundred and forty-rouv million and
| then one hundred and forty four billion
and then one hundred aud forty four tril-
| lionF Not only are all the triumphs of
| the past TO be COMMUNICATED but all the
| triumphs 10 come. Not only what we
now know of God. hut what we will
know Of him after everlasting study nf
the deitc If my text had said there WAS
! silence in heaven for thirty days. ! would
not have been startled ut the announce.
ment, hut it indicates thirty minutes
| Why, there will hc so many friends Il
| hunt up. so many Of the greatly good
and useful that we will want to see. -,
many Of the inscrutahle things OF earth
we will need explained. so many excit.
! ing earthly experiences we viii want f.
talk over, and MI the other spirits anI
all the ages will want the same. thai
there will he no more opportunity foI
cessation. How busy NE will be kept ii
having pointed out to MS the heroes and
| heroiucs that the world never fully ap
preciated- yellow fever and cholera
| doctors who died, not flying from their
posts, the female nurses who faced pes
thence in the lazarettos; The railroad IN
gincerS who stayed at their places in or.
der to save the train, though they them
selves persisted The muItjtudcs Of men
and women who got no crown on earth
We will want to see when they get their
| crown in heaven. tell yon heaven viii
have no more half hours to spare
| Besides that, heaven is full of children.
They are ia the vast majority. No child
on earth who amounts TO anything cu0 hc
| kept quiet hair AN hour. and how are
YOU going to keep five hundred million Of
| them quiet half an hour? You know
! heaven is much more Of place than IT
was when that recess Of thirty minutes
occurred lis population has quadrupIc1
| seNtuplcd, centtplicd. Heaven has more
on hand. more Of rapture, more of know l.
! edge. more of intercommunicaiion moro
of worship. The most thrilling place We
have ever been in il stupid compared
with that. and. If we now have no time
to spare We will then have no eternity 10
| spare. Silence in heaven only half au
hour,
That Immortal HaIf Hour,
Nv subioct also iHipreSscS me with Inc
Immortality Of half hour. That half
hour mentioned in my text is more wide
Iy known han any other period in the
calendar OF heaven. None of the whole
hours OF heaven is measured off. none Of
the years. none Of the centuries. or the
millions OF ages past and the millions Of
ages 10 come not one is especially meas
ured off in the Bible. But the half hour
Of my text is made immortal The only
part Of eternity that was ever measured
by earthly timcpiece was measured by
the minute hand Of my text. oh thr
half hours They decide everything !
am not asking what you viii do with The
years or months or days Of your life. bnt
what Of the half hoursE Tell me tho his
tory OF your half hours and ] will tell you
the story Of yonr whole life on earth aud
the story Of your whole life in eternity
The right or wrong things yon can thinE
in thirty minutes, the right or wrong
things you can say in thirty minutes, the
right or wrong things you can do in thirty
minutes are glorious or baIefui Inspiring
or desperate.
Look out for the fragments Of time.
They are pieces Of eternity. II WAS the
half hours between shooting horses that
made Elihu Burritt the learned black
smith, the half hours between profess
sional calls as physician that made
Ahercrombie the Christian philosopher
the half hours between his duties MS