The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13

LOOK out Tor the fragments or tune. half hours between shoeing hsrses that made Elihu Burritf the learned black smith. the half ours between professional calls as a pysician that made Abercrcm- S.s S,,, the er sss n.
 ter that made Salmon Please Chief Jus tce. the half hours between shoe lasts that made Henry Witson Vtce-Presidenf of the United states, the half hours be- Garfield President. The half hour n day for good or bad books. the half hour a day for prayer or indolence, the half hour a day for helping others or blast- to business and the half hour after you return from business--that makes the dif- ference between the scholar and the ig- noramus. between the Christian and the between triumph and catastrophe, be- tween Heaven and he'll The most tre- mendous things of your life and mine were certain half hours. The half hour when in the parsonage of country mia- then and there, the half hour when I decided to become a preacher of the Cos pei, the half hour when firpt realized that my son was dead. the half hour
 when I stood on the top of my house in Oxford Street and saw our church burn. the half hour in which entered Jeru- salem, the half hour in which stopped on Mount Cavalry. the half hour in ten or fifteen other half hours are the chief times of my life. You may forget the name of the exact years or most of the Important events of your existence,
 but those half hours like the half hour query what you will do with the twen-
 tieth century. do not query what you
 will do with this year, but what you will
 do with the next half hour? Upon thst
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 some of you will receive the gospel and
 make complete surrender, and during
 that others of you will make final and
 fatal rejection of the full and free and
 nal. Oh. that the next half hour might
 be the most glorious sthirty minutes of
 your earthly existence! Far back in history a great geographer
 that represented our planet, and he point
 ed to place on the globe where he
 thought there was an undiscovered con-
 tinent. The undiscovered planet was
 where he thought there was a new world
 was Martin Behaim and the sailor to
 whom he showed 1t was Columbus. This
 last was not satisfied till he had picked
 that gem out of the sea and set 1t in
 ye who have been sailing up and down
 the rough seas of sorrow and sin let me
 point out to you another continent-yea, another wcrid--that you may yourself
 find; rapturons world. and thai is the
 world a half hour of which we now
 study! Oh. set sail for 1t! Here is the
 ship and here are the compasses. In other words. make this half hour the
 come cristian. Pray for a regenerated
 spirit Louis XIV, while walking in the
 garden at Versailles. met Mansard,
 the great architect. and the architect
 on t9ok vomr om his hs, hat before the King Put evening is damp and cold" And Man sard, the architect. the rest of the eyen-
 Ing kept on his hat; The dukes and mar
 qnlses, standing with bare heads before Mansard, but the King said, "I can make Duke or Marquis, but only God can make Manssrd.' And say to you, my hearers. only God by His convictions and but He is ready this very hour to ac-
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 Again. my text suggests a way of studying Heaven so that we can better understand 1t. The word ',e.ernity'' that ureabie world Knowing that we could not understand that word, the Bible uses it only once. We say forever and ever" But how long Is forever and
 under our eye Heaven for thirty min | utes. AS when you see a great picture. you put A sheet of paper into a scroll and look through 1t or join your forefinger to
 your thumb and look through the circle
 between and the pictuse becomes more intense, so this masterpiece of Heaven by St. John is more impressive when we take only thirty minutes of 1t at a time. Now, We have something that we
 can come nearer to grasping, and it is quiet Heaven. When we discourse
 about the multitudes of Heaven. it must be almost nervous shock to those who
 have all their lives been crowded by
 manS people and who want quiet Hea yen. For the last thirty-five years l have been much of the time In crowds and under public scrutiny and amid ex- elements, and have sometimes thought for n few weeks after reach Heaven l would like to go down in some quiet part of the realm. with a few friends,
 and for little while try comparative solitude. Then there are those whose hearing Is SO delicate that they get no of the eternal orchestra, and they feel like saying, as good woman in Hud- son, N. Y.. said after hearing mo speak
 of the mighty chorus of Heaven. That must be great Heaven. but what will become of my poor head?'' Yesl this half hour of my text Is a stlll experience. '"There was silence in Heaven for half an hour"
 You will find the inhabitants all at
 
 only glimpse. for we have only thirty minutes for all Heaven. "Is that Jesus"' Yes" Just under the hair along his forehead is the mark of a wound made by a bunch of twisted brsmbles. and his foot on the throne has on the round of His instep another mark of g wound
 made by a spike and scar on the palm of the tight hand and d scar on the palm
 of the left hand. But what q couuten-
 ance What a smile! What a grandeur!
 What 8 loveliness. What an overwheim-
 ing look of kindness and grace! Why
 he looks as if he had redeemed a world.
 But come on. for our time is short. Do
 you see that row of palaces? That is
 the Apostolic row. Do you sec that long
 reach of architectural giories? That is Martyr row. Do you see that immense
 structure? That Is the biggest house in
 Heaven; that is "the house of many mansions Do you Zee that wall? Shade
 your eyes against its burning splendor. for that is the wall of Heaven, jasper
 at the bottom and amethyst at the top.
 See this river rolling through the heart of tho great metropolis? That is the riv- CT concerning which those who once lived on the banks of the Hudson or the Rhine or the Shannon say, We never saw the like of this for clarity and sheen. '" That is the chief river of Heaven-so bright, SO wide, so deep. But you ask,
 Where are the asylums for the oldT'' I answer "The inhabitants are all young" Where are the hospitals for the lame? They are all agile" Where are the inflrmaries for the blind and
 deaf?' 'They all see and hear" Where are the almshouses for the poor?" They