Connecticut western news., 1902-04-10

tai rejection of the full and free and urgent and impassioned offer of life eternal. Oh, that the next half hour might be the most glorious thirty min utes of your earthly existence!
 Far back in history a great geogra- pher stood with a sailor looking at 6 globe that represented our planet, and be pointed to a place on the globe where he thought there was an undis- covered continent. The undiscovered continent was America. The geogra- pher who pointed where he thought there was a new world was Martin Behaim and the sailor to whom he showed it was Columbus. This last was not satisfied till he had picked that gem out of the sea and set 1t in the crown of the worlds geography. o ye who have been sailing up and down the rough seas of sorrow and sin, let me point out to you another con- tinent-yea, another world-that you may yourself find, a rapturous world, and that Is the world a half hour of which we now study! Oh, set sail for itl Here is the ship and here are the compasses. In other words, make this half hour the grandest half hour of your life and become a Christian. Pray for a regenerated spirit. Louis XIV, while walking in the garden at Versailles, met Mansard, the great ar chitect, and the architect took off his hat before the king. Put on your hat" said the king, flor the evening is damp and cold" And Mansard, the architect, the rest of the evening kept on his hat. The dukes and marquises, standing with bare heads before the king, expressed their surprise at Man sard, but the king said, "I can make duke or a marquis, but only God can make a Mansard." And I say to you, my hearers, only God by his convict ing and converting grace can make Christian, but he is ready this very half hour to accomplish it
 aForever and Ever."
 Again, my text suggests way of studying heaven so that we can better understand it. The word eternity" that we can handle SO much is an i'm measurable world. Knowing that we could not understand that word, the Bible uses 1t only once. We say 'for- ever and ever." But how long Is "for- ever and everT I am glad that my text puts under our eye heaven for l thirty minutes. As when you see a great picture. you put sheet of paper Into a scroll and look through it or join your forefnger to your thumb and look through the circle between, and the picture becomes more intense, so this masterpiece of heaven by St. John is more impressive when we take only thirty minutes of 1t at time. Now, we have something that we can come | nearer to grasping, and 1t Is quiet heaven. When we discourse about the | multitudes of heaven, it must be almost a nervous shock to those who have all their lives been crowded by many peo- pie and who want quiet heaven. For the last thirty-five years I have been much of the time in crowds and under public scrutiny and amid settlements | and I have sometimes thought for a few weeks after I reach heaven would like to go down in some quiet part of the realm, with a few friends | and for a little while try comparative solitude. Then there are those whose hearing is SO delicate that they get nc satisfaction when you describe the crash of the eternal orchestra, and they feel like saying, as a good woman ir Hudson, N. r., said after hearing me speak of the mighty chorus of heaven ''That must be a great heaven, but | what will become of my poor headr | Yes, this half hour of my text is a still experience. There was silence 1T heaven for half an hour"
 A Glimpse of the Kings Palace. You will find the inhabitants all al home. Enter the Kings palace and take only a glimpse, for we have only thirty minutes for all heaven. "Is that | JesusY' "Yes." Just under the hair along his forehead Is the mark of a wound made by a bunch of twisted has on the round of his instep another mark of a wound made by a spike, and a scar on the palm of the right hand
 and a scar on the palm of the left hand. But what a countenance! What 1 smile. What a grandeur! What { 1 loveliness! What an overwhelming look of kindness and grace! Why, ht
 looks as If he had\ redeemed a world
 But come on, for our time is short. Dt
 you see that row of palaces? That ii
 the Apostolic row. Do you see tha
 long reach of architectural glories
 That is Martyr row. Do you see tha
 immense structure? That Is the big
 gest house in heaven; that is ''th,
 house of many mansions" Do yoI
 see that wall? Shade your eyes agains
 its burning splendor, for that Is th'
 wall of heaven, jasper at the bottom
 and amethyst at the top. See this riv
 CT rolling through the heart of th'
 great metropolis? That is the rivel
 concerning which those who once livet
 on the banks of the Hudson or the Al
 abama or the Rhine or the Shannon
 say. "We never saw the like of thi
 for clarity and sheen" That is thu
 chief river of heaven - so bright, S,
 wide, so deep. But you ask, "Wher'
 are the asylums for the old? I an
 Bwer, 'The inhabitants are all young
 Where are the hospitals for tn,
 lameT ''They are all agile" "wher,
 are the inf1rmaries for the blind ant
 deafT ''They all see and hear
 Where are the almshouses for tn,
 poor" 'They are all multimillion
 aires" "Where are the inebriate asy
 lumsY "Why, there are no saloons.
 "Where are the graveyardsY' "Why
 they never die" Pass down thos
 boulevards of gold and amber and sap
 phire and see those intermina ble street
 built by the Architect of the univers
 into homes, over the threshold o
 which sorrow never steps and out O
 whose windows faces, once pale wit
 earthly sickness, now look rubicun,
 with immortal health.
 ''Oh, let me go in and see themw yo
 say. No, you cannot go in. There ar
 those who would never consent to le
 you come out again. You say, Let m
 stay here in this place where they ne,
 CT sin, where they never suffer, wher
 they never part" No, mol Our tim
 Is short, our thirty minutes are almos I A