Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-04-07

was silence in heaven about the spac
of half an hour"
Heaven Eventfu1 Place.
Learn also from my text that HEAVIER
must be an eventful and active place
from the fact that it could afford only
thirty minutes of recess. There have
been events on earth and in HEAVIER
that seemed to demand a whole day o.
whole week or whole year for celestial
consideration. If Grotius was RICH
and this silence occurred at the timI
of the destruction of Jerusalem, tina
scene was so awful and so prolonged
that the inhabitants of heaven coult
not have done justice to it in man!
weeks. After fearful besiegement o:
the two fOrtreSseS of Jerusalem, AntO
mia and Hippicus, had been going on TO
a long while, Roman soldier, mounted
on the shoulder of another soldier
hurled into the window of the temph
a firebrand, and the temple was al
aflame, and after covering many sacri
fees to the holiness of God the build
ing itself became q sacrifice to tn,
rage Of man. The hunger of the PEG
pie in that city during the besiege
ment was so great that as some out
laws were passing a doorway and in
hailed the OdOrs of food they burs
open the door, threatening the mothe
Of the household with death unless
she gave them some food, and she tool
them aside and showed them that
was her own child she was cooking fO
the CHASTITY repast. Six hundred priests
were destroyed on Mount Zion because
the temple being gone, there was moth
ing for them to do. Six thousand PEG
pie in one clOiSter were consumed
There were 100000 dead according
to JOsephus. GrOtiuS thinks that this
was the cause of silence in heaven fol
half an hour. If Mr.. Lord was right
and this silence was during the Diocle
tan prosecutions, by which S44,OO(
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 tn,
celestial programme is so crowded
with spectacle that it can afford only
one recess in all eternity, and that fol
a short space. While there are grea'
choruses in which all heaven can join
each soul there has a story of divine
mercy peculiar to itself, and it mus
be a solo, How can heaven ge'
through with all its recitatives, will
all it's cantatas, with all its grand
marches, with all it's victories? Eter
nifty is too short to utter all the praise
In my text heaven spared thirty min
utes, but it will never again spare on
minute. In worship in earthly church
es where there are many to take par
we have to counsel brevity, but how
will heaven get on rapidly enough t.
let one hundred and fOrtyfOur thou
sand get through each with his OWL
story and then one hundred and forty
four million and then one hundred ant
forty-fOur billion and then one hundred
and forty-fOur trilliOn? Not only arr
all the triumphs of the past to be com
memOrated, but all the triumphS t,
come Not only what we now know o.
God, but what we will know of hin
after everlasting study of the deitic. l.
my text had said there was silence il
heaven for thirty days, l would no
have been startled at the announce
ment, but it indicates thirty minutes
Why, there will be so many friends t.
hunt up, so many of the greatly gOOt
nd will Mt RI CT
many of the inscrutable things of eartl
we will need explained, so many eXcit
ing earthly experiences we will wan
to talk over, and all the other spirit;
and all the ages will want the same
that there will be no more OppOrtunit!
for cessation. How busy we will b.
kept in having pointed out to us tn,
heroes and heroines that the wOrl(
never fully appreciated-the yellow
fever and cholera doctors who died, no
flying from their posts; the female
nurses who faced pestilence in the laZa
rettos; the railroad engineers who stay
ed at their places in order to save tn
train, though they themselves persisted
Hubert Coffin, the master miner, who
landing from the bucket at the bottom
of the mine just as he heard the water
rush in and when one jerk of the rOp
would have lifted him into safety, pu
in the bucket blind miner who want
ed to go to his sick child and jerke
the rope for him to be pulled up, cry
| ing, Tell them the water has burst i
and we are probably lost, but we wi
seek refuge at the other end of tn
right gallery" and then giving the CON
mand to the other miners till they dig
! ged themselves so near out that tn
people from the outside could come t
their rescue. The multitudes of me
and women who got no crown on ear.
we will want to see when they get the
crown in heaven. l tell you heaven wi
have no more half hours to spare.
Besides that, heaven is full of chi
dren. They are in the vast majorit.
No child on earth who amounts to an.
| tbipU COR no LyoDt OI1iot half on HIM