The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-04-12
THE HEAVENLY LIFE
It's Splendors and Glories Presented
by DR.. Talmage.
MS Activity Also Brought Outline
Immortal HaIf-Hour When Every
thing Was silent-valuabie
Fragments of Time.


In the following discourse. pre-
pared by DR.. Talmage before his i'll
ness, a vivid glimpse of the splendors
and glories of heavenly life is pre-
sented; text, Revelation will, i:
-There was silence in Heaven about
the space of half an hour"
The busiest place in the universe Is
Heaven. 1t is the center from when
all good influences start; 1t Is the
goal at which all good results arrive.
The Bible represents 1t as active with
wheels and wings and orchestras ana
professions mounted or charioteo.
But my text describes space when
the wheels ceased to roll and the
7srumpets to sound and the voices TO
chant. The riders on the whlte
horses refined in their charges. Inc
Sdoxologies were hushed and process
,sions halted. The hand of arrest was
apon all the splendors. stop, Heav-
en!" cried an omnipotent voice, ana
u stopped. For 80 minutes everything
celestial stood still. There was 81.
hence in Heaven about the space OF
half an hour"
From all we can learn it is the only
time Heaven ever stopped. III does
not stop as other cities for the night'
for there Is no night there. IL does
mot stop for plague, for the inhabl-
tant never says: 81 am sick IL
does not stop for bankruptcies, LOT
It's inhabitants never fail. 1T does not
stop for impossible streets, for there
are no falling SHOWS or sweeping
freshets. What, then, stopped 1t for
no minutes? Grotius and Prof. Stuart
think It was at the time OF the de-
sytruction of Jerusalem. Mr.. LORD
thinks it was in the year 3ll, be-
tween the close of the Diocletian per-
secution and the beginning OF the
wars by which Constantine gained
the throne. But that was all guess
Enough learned and brilliant guess.
do not know when it was, and j do
not care when it was, but of the fact
chat such an interregnum of sound
took place / am certain. There was
silence in Heaven about the space OF
half an hour"
And, first of all, we learn that God
and all Heaven then honored silence
The longest and widest dominion
that ever existed is that over which
stiffness was queen. For an eternity
there had not been sound. World
making was a later day occupation
For unimaginable ages it was mute
universe. God was the only Being
and as there was no one to speak tt
there was no utterance. But that 81
lcnce has all been broken up int
worlds, and IL has become noisy uni
verse. Worlds in upheaval, worlds il
congelation, worlds in conflagration
worlds in revolution.
If geoldgists are right-and be
ticve they are-there has not been
moment of silence since this worl'
began it's travels, and the crushing
and the splitting and the uproar ant
,thc hubbub are ever in progress. Blu
when among the supernals n yoic
cried: "Hush!" and for half an hou
Hcaven was still, silence was hon
ored. The full power of silence man,
of us have yet to learn. We are toll
chat when Christ was arraigned III
answered not word" That silenc
was louder than any thunder tina
ever shook the world. Oftentime
when we are assailed and misrepre
scented the mightiest thing to say
TO say nothing and the mighties
thing to do is to do nothing. Thos
people who are always rushing int
print to get themselves set right nc
l,asy oh
grin. Silence! Do right and leav
the results with God.
Learn also from my text tina
Heaven must be an eventful and AZ
tive place from the fact that it coul
afford only 30 minutes of reces
There have been events on earth an
IN Heaven that seemed to demand
whole day or whole week or who
wear for celestial consideration.
,Grotius was right and this silen'
occurred at the time of the destru
zion of Jerusalem, that scene was
awful and so prolonged that the /
habitants of Heaven could not ha'
done justice to IL In many week
After fearful besiegement of the tv
fortresses of Jerusalem, Antonio al
Hippicus, had been going on for
long while. a Roman soldier. mour
ed on the shoulder of another 81
siier, hurled into the window of {
temple n fircbrand, and the temp
-was all afame, and after GOVERN
many sacrifices to the holiness
God the building itself became 81
rifice to the rage of man. The hu
ger of the people in that city dl
ing the besiegement was so gre
chat as some outlaws were passi
n doorway and inhaled the odors
food they burst open the do
threatening the mother of the hou
hold with death unless she gave tn
some food, and she took them as
and showed them that 1t was
own child she was cooking for
ghastly repast. Six hundred prize
were destroyed on Mount Zion
cause, the temple being gone, tn
was nothing for them to do.
thousand people in one cloister w
consumed. There were 100000 d.
according to Josephus. Grot