Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-04-12


weeks. After fearful besiegement Of
the two fortresses Of Jerusalem. Anto-
MIA and Hlppicus, had been going on for
a long while. "A Roman soldier. mounted
on the shoulder Of another soldier.
hurled into the window OF the temple
d firebrand. and the temple was all
aflame. and after covering many sacri-
fees to the holiness Of God the build.
ing itself became a sacrifice to the
rage Of man. The hunger Of the peo-
pie In tnat city during the beslege-
ment was so great that as some out
laws were passing doorway and in
hailed the odors Of food they burst
open the door. threatening the mother
of the household with death unless
she gave them some food. and she took
them aside and showed them that 1t
was her own child she was cooking for
the ghastly repast. Six hundred priests
were destroyed on Mount Zion because.
the temple being gone. there was moth
ing for them TO do Six thousand peO-
Dle in one clOlster were consumed.
There were 100000 dead according
to Josephus. Grotlus thinks that this
was the cause Of silence in heaven for
half an hour If Mr.. Lord was right.
and this silence was during the Diocle
tian prosecutions. by which $4,000
Christians suffered death from sword
and fire and Punishment and exposure,
why did not heaven listen throughout
at least one of those awful years. NO.
Thirty minutes. The fact is that the
celestial programme Is so crowded
with spectacle that 1t can afford only
one recess I'm all eternity. and that for
q short space. While there are great
cboruses In which all heaven can join.
each soul there has a story OF divine
mercy peculiar to itself. and II must
be solo. How can heaven get
through with all Its recitatiyes, with
all its cantatas. with all Its grand
marches. with all It's victories? Eter-
nity is too short to utter all the praise.
In my text heaven spared thirty min
utes. but 1t will never again spare one
minute. In worship in earthly church
es where there are many to take part
we have to counsel brevity, but how
will heaven get on ralndly enough to
let one hundred and forty-four thou
sand get through each with his own
story and then one hundred and forty
four million and then one hundred and
forty-four billion and then one hundred
and forty-f0ur trilllon? Not only are
all the triumphs OF the pnst to be COM
memorated. but all the triumphs to
come Not only what we now know or
God. but what we will know of him
after everlasting study Of the deifc. If
nv text had said there was silence In
heaven for thirty days, l would not
have been startled at the announce
ment, but It indicates thirty minutes.
why. there will be so many friends to
hunt up, so many of the greatly good
and useful that we will want to see, so
many of the inscrutable things Of earth
we will need explained. so many excit-
ing earthly experiences we will want
TO talk over, and all the other spirits
and all the ages will want the same,
that there will be no more opportunity
for cessacson. How busy we viii De
kept in having pointed out to US the
heroes and heroines that the worlu
never fully appreciated-the yellow
fever and cholera doctors who died, not
6ying from their posts; the female
nurses who faced pestience In the laza-
rettos: the railroad engineers who stay
ed Mt their places in order to save the
train. though they themselves perlsheu'
Hubert Coffin, the master miner. VINO
landing from the bucket at the bottom
of the mine just as he heard the waters
rush in and when one jerk OF the rope
would have lifted him into safety, put
in the bucket a blind miner who want
ed to 20 to his sick child and JerReo
the rome for him to be pulled up. cry
ing "fell them the water has burst II
and we are probably lost, but we VII
seek refuge at the other end OF the
right gallery" and then giving the com
mand 10 the other miners till they dig
ged themselves 80 near out that th'
| people from the outside could come L
their rescue. The multitudes OF mel
and women who got no crown on eartl
we will want 10 see when they get thell
crown I'm heaven. | tell you tH"yen vii
have no more half hours 10 spare.
Besides that, heaven Is full OF chill
dren. They are In the vast majority
No child Oh earth who amounts to any
thing can be kept quiet half an hour
and how are you going to keep five hun
dred million Of them quiet half an hour
You know heaven Is much more OF
place than it was when that recess
thirty minutes occurred. Its .'opula
ton has quadrupled. sextupled, cen
tupled Heaven has more on hand
more OF rapture. more OF knowledge
more of lntercommunication, more 0
worship The most thrilling place W
have ever been In Is stupid compares
with that and. II we now have no tim
| to spare. we will then have no eternit
to spare. Silence In heaven only hal
an hOurl
That immortal Half Hour.
My subject also impresses me VIII
the immortality OF half hour. ThG
half hour mentioned In my text Is NOR
widely known than any other period
the calendar of heaven. None OF tn
whole hours OF heaven Is measure
off. none Of the years. none Of the Ger
turtles. OF the millions Of ages pas
and the millions OF ages to come nc
one Is especially measured OF In ID
Bible. But the half hour Of my text
made immortal The only part or etel
nifty that was ever measured by eartl
Iy tlmepiece was measured by the mil
ate hand of my text. Oh, the half hours
They decide everything. am not asi
Ing what you will do with the years
months or days Of your life, but VIE
of the half hours2 Tell me the histor
of your half hours and l will tell 20
the story Of your whole life on cart
, and the story Of your whole life in etc
, nifty. The right or wrong things yo
, can think I'm thirty minutes. the rigl
! or wrong things you can say In thii'
t. A.. .;,,b, or v-ronO things VC