Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-04-12

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7N the following discourse. prepared
by DR.. Talmage before his Illness.
Sviyid glimpse Of the splcndors ana
giories Of heavenly life is presented; text
Revelation =: /, There was silence in
heaven about the space Of half an hour.
The busiest place in the universe is
heaven. II is the center from which
all good influences start it is the goal
at which all good rsults arrive. The
Bible represents it as active with
wheels and wings and orchestras and
professions mounted or charioted. but
my text describes space when the
wheels ceased TO roll and the trumpets
to sound and the voices TO chant The
riders on the white horses refined in
thelr charges The doxologies were
hushed and professions halted. The
hand Of arrest was upon all the Splcndors.
Stop. heaven" cried sn omnipotcnt
voice. and it stopped. For thirty min
uteS everything celestial stood still.
There WAS silence m heaven about the
space of half an hour"
From all we can learn it is the only
time heaven ever stopped 1t does not
stop as other cities for the night, Tor
there is no night there. 1t does not stop
for n plague. for the inhabitaut never
saws, Il am sick" II does not stop for
bankruptcies, for its inhabitants never
fail 1t does not stop for impossible
streets. for there are no fallen SHOWS or
sweeping freshctS What. then. stopped
ii for thirty minutes? Grotius and Fro
feS>or Stuart think ii was ut the time of
the destruction Of Jerusalem. Mr.. Lord
thinks il was in the year 81, between
the close Of the DocIeIian persecution
and the beginning Of the wars 10y which
Constantine gained the throne. Bur that
WAS ali guess. though Il learned and
brilliant guess. I do not know when It
was. and do not care when il was but
OF the fact that 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 q sound. World making was 4
later day occupation. For unimaginablc
ages il was mute universe. God WAS
the only being, and as there was no one
to speak TO there was 10 utterance. Bat
that silence has all been broken up into
worlds, and il has become a noisy uni
verse Worlds in upheaval worlds in
9ngelatinu. worlds 10 eoniiagration.
worlds In revolution.
The Power Of silence.
If 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 ami She uproar and the hubbub are
ever in progress. But when among the
supernals a voice cried. Hush and
for half an hour heaven was still. silence
was houorcd. The full power of silence
many of us have vet to learn. We are
told tina; when Christ was arraigued he
answered not word" That silence was
louder than any thunder that ever shook
the world. Oftentimcs when We are as
sailed and msFrprcscnted the mightlcst
thing to say is 80 say nothing and The
NIGH hest thing TO do is 10 do nothing
Those people y no are always rushing into
print 10 gel themselves set right accom-
y,If1h Ia 500 chair fsL Nj.
lence DO right aud leave the results
with God. Among the grandest lessons
the world has ever learned are the les
sons of patience Taught by those who en-
dured uncomplainngly personal or domeS
tic or political injustice Stronger than
any bitter or sarcastic or reNengcful an
swer is the patient silence.
The famous DR. Morrison Of Chelsea
achieved as much hy his silent patience
a by his pen and tongue. lie had asth.
ma that fer twenty -ilye years brought
him out Of his cough at - o'clock each
morning. His four sons and daughters
dead, the remaining child by sunslrohc
made insane the afflicted man once said.
AT this moment there is not an inch ~
my body that is not filled with agony.
Yet he was cheerful. triumphant silent
Those who were in his presence said ihcy
felt as though they were in the gates Of
heaven. Oh, the power Of patient 81
lenee! Acschylus, the immortal poet. was
condemned 10 death for writing soulc-
thing that offended the people. All III"
pleas Ia his behalf were OF no avail until
his brother uncovered the arm Of the
prisoner and showed that his hand had
been shot of at SaIamis. That silent
plea liberated him. The loudcst thing
on earth is silence if it he Of the rjght
kind and nj the right time. There was
a quaint old hymn spelled In the old
style and onee sung in the churches:
The race is not forever got
by him who fastest runs,
Nor the gattel by those peopel
That shoot with the longest guns
Ny friends. the tossing sea OF Galiice
seemed most 10 offend Christ by the
amount of noise It made. for he said
to II. BE sfillr' Heaven has been
crowning kings and queens unto God for
many centuries. yet heaven never stopped