The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1902-04-11

OF Divine mercy peculiar TO itself.
and il must be a solo. How can
Heaven get through with all its reci-
tatives, with all its cantatas, with
all its grand marches, with ab its
victories? Eternity is too short to
utter all the praise.
In my text Heaven spared go min
utes. but IL will never again spare
one minute. In worship in earthly
churches where there are many to
take part we have to counsel brey-
ity. but now will Heaven get on Zap
idly enough to let $4,000 get through
each with his own story and then
1t4.0O0.CO0 and then $4,000, OO0,O 900 and
then 1f4O00.o0O.OO 600? Not only are
all the triumphs of the past To he
COMMUNICATED. but all the triumphs
20 come. Not only what we now
know Of God, but what we viii kuow
OF Him after everlasting study OF the
deiiic. If my text had said there
was silence i'm Heaven for 80 days.
would not have been startled at the
announcement, but IL indicates 80
minutes. Why. there win 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 inscru-
table things Of earth we viii need
explained, so many exciting earthly
experiences we will want TO talk
over and all the earthly spirits and
all the other spirits and all the ages
viii want the same. that there will
be no more opportunity for cessa-
ton. How busy we will be kept in
having pointed out to rs the heroes
and heroines that the world never
fully appreciated-the yellow fever
and cholera doctors who died. not
flying from their posts: the female
nurses who faced pestilcnce in the
lazarettos; the railroad engineers
who stayed at their places in order
to save the train, though they them
selves persisted. Hubert Coffin, the
master miner. who. landing from the
bracket at the bottom Of the mine
just as he heard the waters rush in
and when one jerk of the rope would
nave lifted him into safety. put in
the bucket blind miner who wanted
90 go 10 his sick child and jerked the
rope for him to be pulled up. crying:
Tell them the water has burst in
and we are probably lost. but we will
seek refuge at the other end of the
right gallery" and then giving the
commend TO the other miners til
they Gigged themselves so near ont
that the people from the outside
could come 10 their rescue The null
titudes of men and women who got
no crown on earth we will want to
see when they get their crown in
Heaven. I ten YOU Heaven win have
no more half hours TO spare.
Pcsides that. Heaven is full 81 chill
dren. They are in the vast majority
No child on earth who amounts to
anything can be kept quiet half an
hour. and how are you going to keep
j00G00.0o0 Of them quiet hall an
hour2 You know Heaven is much
more of place than ii was when
shat recess of 80 minutes occurred.
Its population has quadrupled. sex
tuplcd. centupled. Heaven has more
on hand. more Of rapture, more OF
knowledge. more Of iutercommunica-
ton. more of worship. The most
thrilling place we have ever been in
is stupid compared with that. and. If
we now have no time to spare. we
viii then have no eternity to spare.
Silence in Heaven only half an hourl
Ny subject also impresses me with
the immortality of a half hour. That
half hour mentioned in my text is more
widely known than 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 cen
turtles OF the millions of ages past
and the millions of ages to come not
one IS especially measured of in the
Bible. But the half hour Of my text is
made immortal. The only part of eter-
nifty that was ever measured bv earth
" ,imcpiece was measured by the min
ute hand OF my text. Oh. the half
hours. They decide everything. l am
not asking what you will do with the
years or months or days of your life,
but what OF the half hours? Tell me
the history of your half hours and
viii tell you the story of your whole
life on earth and the story of YOUR
whole life in eternity. The right or
wrong things you can think in 30 min
utes, the right or wrong things YOU
can say in 80 minutes. the right or
wrong things yoa do in 80 minutes are
glorious or baleful. inspiring or des-
perate.
Again, my text suggests a wav 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 it only once. We saw "for-
ever and ever" But how long k .for-
ever and ever?" l am glad tha4my
text puts under our eye Heaven for
30 minutes. As when you see great
picture, you put a sheet of papsx
into scroll and look through itor jo}f
your forefinger 10 your thumb d 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
80 minutes of it at a time. Now. we
have something that we can come
nearer to grasping, and it is quiet
Heaven. When we discourse about the