Milford chronicle., 1902-04-11

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and it has become noisy universe
Worlds in upheaval. worlds in cOngela-
ton, worlds in cOnhagratiOn, worlds in
revolution.
The Power of silence.
IL biologists are right-and believe
they are-there has not been moment
Of silence since this world began its
travels, and the crashing and the split.
ting and the uproar and the hubbub
are ever in progress. But when among
the supernals voice cried. "Hushr'
and for half an hour heaven was still,
silence was hOnOrrd. The full power
Of silence many of us have yet to
learn. We are told that when Christ
was arraigned "he answered not Il
word" That silence was louder than
any thunder that ever shook the world.
Oftentimes when we are aSsailed and
misrepresented the mightiest thing to
say is to say nothing and the mightiest
thing to do is to do nothing Those
people who are always rushing into
print to get themselves set right ac-
cOmplish nothing but their own cha
grin. Silence! Do right and leave the
results with God. Among the grand
est lessons the world has ever learned
are the lessons of patience taught by
those who endured uncOmplainingly
personal or domestic or political injus-
tice Stronger than any bitter or sar-
castle or revengeful answer is the pa.
tient silence.
The famous DR. Morrison Of Chelsea
achieved as much by his silent patience
as by his pen and tongue. He had asth
ma that for twenty i've years brought
him out of his couch at o'clock eacl
morning. His four sons and daughters
r dead. the remaining child by sunstrokC
: made insane. the afflicted man once
; said. AT this moment there is not al
inch of my body that is not filed witt
agony" Yet be was cheerful. trium
phaut, silt@t. Those who were in BIZ
presence said they felt as though the!
were in the gates of heaven. Oh. til,
power of patient silence! ASschylus
the immortal poet, was condemned t,
: death for writing something that of
Tended the people. All the pleas in hi
behalf were of no avail until his broth
er uncovered the arm of the prisone
and showed that his hand had bee
/, shot Off at Salams That silent Pile
liberated him. The lOudest thing o.
a earth is sileTce if It be of the RICH
{, kind and Mt the right time. There wa
s quaint old hymn spelled in the oil
O. style and once sung in the churches:
n The race is moi forever got
e BY him who fastest runs
IS Nor the Battel by those peopen
That shoot with the longest guns.
1r My friends. the tossing sea of Galile
Is seemed most to offend Christ by til
II amount Of noise it made, for he sal
n to it. BE still"' Heaven has bee
? browning kings and queens unto Go
for many centuries. yet heaven nevt
stopped Il moment for any such occu
renee. but it stopped thirty minute
for the coronation Of silence. "Thel
was silence IN heaven about the suaC
Of half an hour"
Heaven an EventfuI Place.
= Learn also from my text that heave
must be an eventful and active plaC
from the fact that it could afford OnI
lhAll9 ulluuleS VI recess. llefe nav
been events on earth and in heave
.al that seemed to demand a whole day
whole week or whole year for ceEestii
consideration. If GrOtius was rigl
and this silence occurred at the tin
10. of the destruction of Jerusalem, Thu
scene was so awful and so prOlongt
= that the inhabitants Of heaven cOu
not have done justice to it in mar
weeks. After fearful besiegement
J.. the two fOrtresses of Jerusalem. Ant
al hia and Hippicus. had been going on f
a long while, Roman soldier, mount,
on the shoulder of another soldiC
hurled into the window of the tenn
"a a firebrand, and the temple was
afame, and after covering many sac
fees to the holiness of God the bull
ing itself became a sacrifice to t
rage of man. The hunger of the DC
pie in tnat city during the besieg
ment was so great that as some OF
laws were passing a doorway and
- hailed the OdOTs Of food they hul