Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1892 — Page 3

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. — ——— SILENCE LASTED BUT THIRTY MINUTES. UP'- ‘ " —r Dr. Talm.ge Pr.ooh., from tho BeMtlful Toxt In Hev.latlnn That Toll, of th*. Only latermiMlon |C».r Known la »’ara- <«'•* _*■ Bllonoo In lloavnn. Dr. Talmage has of late been preaching on texts of Scripture that seem to , '.Sfiutvo been nogloetod, and there is a scrThon on a beautiful text which probably was never before selected for adlsCourse. Bev. vitl. 1, “There was silence in Heaven about the space of half an hour.” The busiest place In the universe Is Heaven. It Is the center from which all • good influences start; It Is the goal at A which all good results arrive. The Bible represents It as active with wheels and wings and orchestras and processions mounted.or charioted. But my text do- .. scribes a space when the wheels ceased to roll, and the trumpets to sound, and the voices to chant The riders on the white horses reined tn hiphod and’tiio processions halted. The hand (ft arrest was Sut upon all the “Stop, leaven!” cried an omnipotent voice, and tt stopped. For thirty minutes everything celestial stood still. “There was silence in Heaven for half an hour.” From all we can learn It is the only time Heaven ever stopped. It does not atop as other cities, for the night for there is no night there. It does not stop for a plague, for the inhabitant never says, “I am sick.” It does not stop for bankruptcies, for its inhabitants never fail. It does not stop for no fallen snows nor’ sweeping freshets. What, then, stopped it for thirty minutes? Grotlus and Prof. Stuart think that it was at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem. Mr. Lord thinks it was in the year 311, between the close of the Diocletian persecution and thu beginning of the wars by which Constantine gained the throne, But that was all a guess, though a learned and brilliant guess. I do not know when it was and I do not care when it was, but of the fact that such an interregnum of sound took place lam certain. “There was silence in Heaven for half an hour.” And, first of all. wo may learn that God and all Heaven honored silence. The longest and widest dominion that ever existed is that over which stillness was queen. For an eternity there had not been a sound. World making was a later day occupation. For unimaginable ages it was a mute universe. God was the oply being, and as there was no one to speak to there was no utterance. But that silence has been all broken up into worlds, and it has become a noisy universe. Worlds in upheave!, worlds in congelation, worlds in conflagration, worlds in revolution. If geologists are right (and I believe they are) there has not been a moment of silence since this world began Its travels, and the crashings, and the splittings, and the uproar, and ttfe hubbub are ever in progress. But when among the supernals a voice cried, “Hush’’! and for half an hour Heaven was still, silence was honored. The full power of silence manv of us have vet to learn. We are told that when Christ was arraigned “He answered not a 'word.” That silence was louder than any thunder that ever shook the world. Ofttimes, when wo are assailed and misrepresented, the mightiest thing to say is to say nothing, aud the mightiest thing to do is to do nothing. Those people who are always rushing into print to get themselves set right accomplish nothing but their own chagrin. Silence! Do right and leavathe results with God. Among the grandest lessons the world has ever learned are the lessons of patience taught by those who endured uncomplainingly personal or domestic or social or political injustice. Stronger than any bitter or sarcastic or revengeful answer was the patient silence. Oh, the power of patient silence! Eschyltis, the immortal poet, was condemned to death for writing something that offended the people. All the pleas in his behalf were of no avail until his brother uncovered the arm of the prisoner and showed that his hand had been shot off at Salamh. That silent plga liberated him. The loudest thing on earth is silence if it be of the right kind and at the right time. There was a quaint old hymn, spelled in the.old style, and once sung in the churches: The rsco is not forever got By him who fastest runs. Norths Hatt •! by those peopeli That shoot with the longest gum. My friends, the tossing Sea of Galilee seemed most to offend Christ by the amount of noise it made, for He said, “Be still!” Heaven has been crowning kings and queens unto God for many centuries, yet Heaven never stopped a moment for any such occurrence, but it stopped thirty minutes for the Coronation of Silence. “There was silence in Heaven for half an hour.” Learn also from my text that Heaven 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 Heaven that seemed to demand a whole day or a whole week or a whole year for celestial consideration. If Grotlus was right and this silence occurred at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, that scene was so awful and so urolonged that the. inhabitants of Heaven could not have done justice to it in many weeks. After fearful beseigement of the two fortresses of Jerusalem—Antonio and Hippicus—had been going for a long while, a Roman soldier hurled into the window of the temple a fire-brand and the temple was all aflame, and after covering many sacrifices to the holiness of God, the building 7 Itself became a sacrifice to the rage of man. * J ' The hunger of the people in that city during the besiegement was so great that 'as some outlaws were passing a doorway and inhaled the odors, of food they burst open the door, threatening the mother of the household with death unless she gave them borne food, and shfl took them aside and showed them that It was her own child that she was cooking for the ghastly repost Six hundred priests were destroyed on Mount Zion because the temple being gone there was nothing for them to do. Six thousand people In one cloister were consumed. There were one million vine hundred thousand dead, according td Josephus. Grotlus thinks that thla-was the cause of silence in Heaven for half an hour. r” If Mr. Lord was right and this silence T’ was during the Diocletian persecutions, by which eight hundred and forty-foilr thousand Christians suffered death from sword and lire and banishment and exposure, why did not Heaven listen throughout at least one of those awful , years? No! Thirty minutes! The fact is that the celestial programme, is so crowded with spectacle that it can afford only one recess in all eternity, and that for a short space. _ While there arc great choruses fn which all Heaven con join, each soul there has a story of divine mercy peculiar to itself, and It must boa solo. How can Heaven get through with all its recitatives, with all its cantos, with all its grand marches, with all its victories? Eternity is too short to titter all the prals&t 7' l. ■ In my text Hooven spared thirty minutes, but it will never agatn spare ane saiuuto. Ii worship in earthly churches,

when there are many to take part, wo havo to council brevity, but how will Heaven get on rapidly enough to let 144,000 get through each with his own story, and then the 141,000,000, end then the 144,000,000,000, and then the 144,000.000,000.000. Not oflly are all the triumphs of th* past to bo commemorated, but all the triumphs to come. Not oply what we now know of Gpd, but what wo will know of Him after everlasting study of the Dnlflc. If my text had said there was silence in Heaven for thirty days I would not have been startled at the announcement. but it Indicates thirty minutes. Why, there will be so many friends to hunt up; so many of 1110 greatly good and useful that wo will want to see; so many of the inscrutable tilings of earth wo will need explained; so many exciting earthly experiences wo will want to talk over, and all the other spirits and all the ages will want the same, that there will be no more opportunity for cessation. How busy we will bo kept In having pointed out to us 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 surges who faced pestilence In the lazarettos; the railroad engineers who staid at their places in order to save the train though they themselves perishod. 1 tell you Heaven will havo no more have hours to spare. Besides that, Heaven is full of children. They are In the vast majority. No child on earth that amounts to anything can be kept quiet half an hour, and how are you going to keep 500,000,000 of them oulot half an hour 9 You know Heaven is much more of a place than it was when that recess of thirty minutes occurred. Its population has quadrupled,sextupled,centupled. Heaven has more on hand, more of rapture, more of knowledge, more of iuter-coummimka-tion, more of worship. My subject also impresses me with the immortality of half an hour. That half hour metloned in mv text is more widely known than any other period In the calendar of Heaven. None of the whole hours of Heaven are measured off. none of the years, none of the centuries. Os the millions of ages past and the millions of ages to come, not one is. especially measured off in the Bible. The half hour of my text is made immortal. The only part of eternity that was ever measured by earthly timepiece was measured by the minute hand of my text Oh, the half hours! They decide everything. lam not asking what you will do with the years or months or days of your life, but what of the half hours? Tell mo the history of your half hours and I will 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 thirty minutes, the right or wrong things you can say in thirty minutes, the right or wrong things you can do in thirty minutes are glorious or baleful, inspiring or desperate. Look out for the fragments of time. They are pieces of eternity. It was the half hours between shoeing horses that made Elihu Burritt the learned blacksmith, the half hours between professional calls as a physician that made Abercrombie the Christian philosopher, the half hours between his duties as a schoolmaster that made Salmon P. Chase Chief Justice, the half hours between shoe lasts that made Henry Wilson Vico President of the United States, the half hours between canal boats that made James A. Garfield President. The half hour a day for good books or bad books, the half hour a day for prayer or indolence, the. half hour a day for helping others or blasting others, the half hour before you go to business, and the half hour after you return from business; that makes the difference between the scholar and the igna»nus, between the Christian and the Inn/iel, between the saint and the demon, between triumph and catastrophe, between Heaven and boll. The most tremendous things of your life were certain half hours. The half hour when in the parsonage of a country minister I resolved to become a Christian then and there; the half hour when I decided to become a preacher of the Gospel; the half hour when I realized that my sou 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 I entered Jerusalem; the half hour in which I ascended Mount Calvary; the half hour in which I stood on Mars Hill; the half hour in which the dedicatory prayer of this temple was made, and about ten or fifteen other half hours are the chief times of my life. I 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 of my text, will be immortal. Ido not query what you will do with the twentieth century, I do not query what you will do with 1892, but what will you do with the next half hour? Upon that hinges your destiny. And during that some of you will receive the Gospel and make complete surrender, and during that others of you will make final and fatal rejection ol the full and free and urgent and impassioned offer of life eternal. Louis XIV, while walking in the garden at Versailles, met Mansard, the great architect, and the architect took off his hat before the King. “Put on your hat,” said the King, "for the evening is damp and cold.” And Mansard, the architect, the rest of the evening kept on his hat The dukes and marquises standing with bare heads before the King expressed their surprise at Mansard, but the King said, “I can make a duke or a marquis, but God only can make a Mansard ” And I say to you, my hearers, God only by his convicting and converting grace can make a Christian, but He is ready this very half hour to accomplish it Again, my text suggests away of studying Heaven so that we can better understand It The word “eternity” that We handle so much is an immeasurable word, knowing that we could riot understand that word, the Bible uses it only once. Wo say, "Forever and ever.” But how long is “Forever and ever?” I am glad that my text puts under our eye Heaven for thirty minutes. As when you would see a groat picture, you put a sheet of paper into a scroll and look through It, or join your forefinger to your thumb and 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 thirty minutes of it at a time. Now .we havo something that wo can come nearer to grasping and it is a qtiifit Heaven. When we discuss about the multitudes of Heaven, it mnst be almost a nervous shock to those who have all their lives been crowded bv many pooplq, and who want a quiet Heaven. For' the last thirty-five years I havo been much of the time in crowds and under public scrutiny and amid excitements, and I have sometimes thought foi a few weeks after I reach Heaven I would like to go down in some quiet part oL the realm, with a few friends, and for a little while try comparative solitudb. Thon there are those whoso hearing is so delicate that they got no satisfaction when you describe the crash of the eternal orchestra and they feel like saying, as the good woman in Hudson, N. ¥., said; after hearing mo sneak of thb mighty chorus of Heaven, “That must bri a groat Heaven; but what Will become of tay poor head?" ; .

Yes, this half hour of my text Is a still experience. “There was sllonco In Heaven for half an hour.” You will find the inhabitants all at home. Enter the King’s palace and take only ,a glimpse, for we havo only thirty minutes f<w all Heaven. “Is that Jesus?" "Yes.'/ Just under the hair along His forehead is the mark ut a wound made by a bunch of twisted brambles, and His foot on the throne has on the round of His Instep another mark of a wound made by a spike, and a scar on the palm of the right hand and a scar on the palm of the left hand. But.what a countenance! What a smile! What a grandeur! What a loveliness! What an overwhelming look of kindness and grace! Why, He looks as If He had redeemed a world! But coma on, for our tfino Is short. Do you see that row of palaces? That Is the Apostolic row. Do you see that long reach of architectural glories? 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 see that wall? Shade your eyes against its burning splendor, for that is the wall of Heaven, jasper at tho bottom and amethyst ut tho top. Seo this river rolling through the heart of tho great metropolis? That is the river concerning which thoso who once lived on tho banks of tho Hudson, or tho Alabama, or tho Rhine, or the Shannon, say, "Wo never saw the like of this for clarity aud sheen.” That ia the chief river of Heaven—so bright, so wide, sodeep. But you ask, "Wheroare tho asylums* for tho old?” I answer. “Tho Inhabitants are all young.’’ “Where are the hospitals for tho lame?” "They are all agile?" "Where are the Infirmaries for the blind and deaf?" ■■They all see and hear." “Whore ars the almshouses for tho poor?” “They are all multimillionaires.” “Where are the inebriate asylums?” “Why. there are no saloons.” “Where are the graveyards?” "Why, they never die.” Pass down those boulevards of gold and amber and sapphire aud see those nterminablo streets built by the Architect of the universe into homes, (Tver the threshold of which sorrow never steps, andoutpf whose windows faces, once pale with earthly sickness, now look rubicund with immortal health. “Oh, let me go in and see them!' you say. No, you cannot go in. There are those there who would •ever consent to let you come up. You say, “Let me stay here in this place where they never part.” No, no! Our time is short, our thirty minutes are almost gone. Come on! We must get back to earth before this half hour of heavenly silence breaks up, for in your mortal state you cannot enduri the pomp and splendor and resonance when this hour of silence is ended. The day will come when you can see Heaven in full blast, but not now. lam now only showing you Heaven at the dullest half hour of all the eternities. Como on! There is something in tho celestial appearance which makes mo think that the half hour of silence will soon be over. Yonder are the white horses being hitched to chariots, and yonder are seraphs fingering harps as if about to strike them into harmony, and yonder are conquerors taking down from the blue halls of Heaven the trumpets%f victory. Remember, wo are mortal yet, and cannot endure tho full roll of heavenly barmonies and cannot endure even the silent Heaven for more than half an Hark! tho clock in the tower of Heaven begius to strike and the half hour is ended. Descend! Come back! 4Come down! till your work is done. Shoulder a little longer your burdens. Fight a little longer your battles. Weep a little longer your griefs. And tjien take Heaven, not in its dullest half hour, but in its mightost pomp, and instead of taking it for thirty minutes, take it world without end. But how will you spend the first half hour of your heavenly citizenship after you have gone in to stay? After your prostration before the throne in worship of Him who made it possible for you to , get their at all, I think the rest of your first half hour in Heaven will be passed In receiving your reward if you have been faithful. I have a strange beautiful book containing the pictures of the medals struck by tho English Government in honor ot great battles; these medals pinned over the heart of the returned heroes of the army on great occasions, tho royal family present—the Crimean medal, the Victoria Cross, the Waterloo medal. In your first half hour in Heaven in some way you will be honored for the earthly struggles in which you won tho day. Stand up before all the royal house of Heaven and receive the tnsignia while you are announced as victor over the droughts and freshets of the farm field, victor over the.temptations ot the stock exchange, victor over professional allurements, victor over domestic infelicities, victor over mechanic's shop, victor over the storehouse, victor over home worriments, victor over physical distress, victor over hereditary depressions, victor over sin and death and hell. Take the badge that celebrates thoso victories through our Lord Jesus Christ Take it In the presence of all the gallaries—saintly, angelic and divine! Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall conquor though they die; They see the triumph from afar And seize it with their eye. A Valuable Boot. One of the prominent treasury officials told me a story about a former official of that department, who had a desk in the Bond Division. Anderson was in the habit of coming into his office promptly on time each morning, removing his boots and placing slippers on his feet. Then he would settle down to work. Millions of dollars’ worth of bonds passed through his hands, and his honesty was undoubted. Well, one day a bond of large denomination was missing, and the entire division was thrown-into great excitement Desks were ransacked, floors were swept, and every nook and corner in the division peered into, but still the bond was missing. As the hour approached for closing the department, the excitement ran up to fever heat, and Anderson was fully as agitated as any of the rest of his associates. After the: vigorous search had been pursued for a longtime, Anderson made up his mind that he would go home; so he reached down for one of his boots, and ns he drew it on he felt something crisp inside. Thon the vVhole matter of the disappearance of the bond became ns clear as daylight? He had throw the bond into the ample recesses of his boot in a fit of absentmindedness, mistaking it, as he afterward explained, for the basket ordinarily used for the reception of money. It was a good many days before Anderson heard tho last of the “bond story. * . Leiter. If you think it is fight to differ from the times, and make a stand for any valuable point of morals, do it, however rustic, however antiquated, however pedantic, it may appear; do it, not for insolence, but seriously, as a man who wore a soul of his own in his bosom, and did not wait until it was breathed into him by the breath of fashion. ■ I have no enemies but the people whq abuse animals, and tho men who abnw animals are -never dangerous to anybody else. They wouldn’t even hurt the animals if they could defend them•elves.—2/enry Lcrgh. •

I iKMHnplata Men, Man Is but an luwoiuulete being without a helpmeet—ln fact, only a moiety of a man, waiting to be perfected by the addition of a “better half." The royalty of his nature remains undeveloped while hn Is single. Only when ho has a wife to protect and cherish, and children to train and discipline, docs he attain his true status In tho world. Abdon, the Judge of Israel, whoso forty sons and thirty grandsons filed off before him, mounted on three score and Um ass colts, may be supposed to have felt wonderfully edified ami built up by tho spectacle. How the old man's heart must have bounds) with honest exultation when ho beheld such a cavalcade of his own raising. Homo and family—whnt a dreary, objectless life Is his who has not these to care for, and what a desert of a world this would be without the wives and babies!—Now York Ledger. La Grlppn. On December 19. I was confined to my room with tho Grippe. Tho Treasurer of the “Commercial Advertiser" recommended that I should try a bottle of "Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral.” as it had cured him of tho same complaint. I sent for a bottle, and in two days I was able to resume my business, and am now entirely cured. As I took no other remedy. I can but give all credit to tho “Cherry Pectoral." which I jHwstefully recommend as a speedy specific for this disease. Yours very truly, . , -1— —F. I- 11A RMBOX. 29 Pdrk Row, Now York, N. Y. Leather for Base Italia. There are two factories in Philadelphia that use _npJn._a.><:ason 100. horse each to cover baseballs. They are alum-tanned. One hide will furnish covers for ten dozen No. 1. ballsand five to eight dozen Inferior ones. Horse hides for this purpose sell from size. Kips are They sell at 14 cents a foot and sheepskin $3.50 to 88 a dozen. The best regulation balls sell at 81.45 t 081.50 each. Apiece of rubber form the center, around which yarn is wound by hand. Then they are covered. They are "dead balls, and won't bounce.”—Shoe and Leather Reporter. The Modern Pirate. The story of the cruise or the Hattie Gage, a steamer that is now proceeding from Sitka to San Francisco, would charm even the most enthusiastic reader of the most melodramatic of dime novels. At the instigation of two of the' sailors the captain was abandoned somewhere on the coast near Coal Harbor, aud then, with the mate in command, off they sailed for Behring Sea, robbing the altar of a Greek church in a deserted village in Alaska, raiding a storehouse of the Alaska Commercial Company, and plundering a gold mine. Has a wilder crew ever sailed the ocean in the piping time of peace since the bold buccaneers of Capt Kid?—New York Sun. Dead Sea Fruits. They slay multitudes when they are the product of neglect of incipient disease. A 1 "slight’cold, a fit of indigestion, biliousness or constipation,each or any of these "minor ailments," advance in many cases with‘‘leaguedestroying strides." Give them a swift, early defeat with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and ; 1 avert the danger. Abernethy administered an i alarming rebuke to the man «ho informed him . that he had “cnly a cold!" ’‘Only a cold," repeated the Doctor. “What would ye have—the 1 plague I* Rheumatism a»d la grippe are easily extinguishable at the start. Why then allow them to get up a full head of steam? Put on the breaks with the Bitters. The genial warmth which this superb medicine diffuses through the system, the impetus it gives to the circula- ' tion of the blood, its soothing and streugthen- . Ing effect upon the nervous, specially recommend it to the enfeebled aud sick. 'Tia thegreat specific for malaria. I ;—O ... i Worth Thinking Os. A Boston physician thinks that hu- . mane people who are so fond of raising funds for the unfortunate in foreign lands might more wisely do something 1 lor the consumptives of their own country. In New England there are at least 15,000 consumptives, half of whom might be benefited if they could afford to live in another climate. And the same is true of the whole region, which he ca is the 1 “consumptive belt.” Rethinks that all consumptives ought to go to New Mexico, where consumption is altogether un--1 known among tho natives, and he calls 1 on the churches to start a consumptive 1 emigration movement to that Territory, f — Btate or Ohio, City of Toledo, ( Lucas County. | Fbank J. Cheney makes oath that he la the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., ' doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that eaid firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use ot Hill’s Catarrh Cube. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before nje and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day ot December. A, D. 188 c, , —a— A. W. GLEASON, | seal. 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Mrs. Peter Burns of Bridgeport, who eleven months ago distinguished herself by presenting her husband with triplets, again became locally famous by bearing twins. She has been married a little over seven years, and in that time has had twelve children, five of whom were born within tho past eleven months. The Personal Discomfort, and the worry of a Constant Cough, and tho Soreness of Lungs and Throat which usually attend it. • are all remedied by Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant. a safe medicine for Pulmonary disorders and Throat affections. The recent hanging of Bondinet Grumpton on the old gallows in the United States'jail vard at Fort Smith Ark., was the seventy-second execution . of the death penalty on that scaffold since the first day of January. 1863. All the victims were 'condemned in the Federal Courts for crimes con'niitted on territory belonging to the Indians. Is rot-n blood poor? Take Beecham’s Pills. Is your fiver but of order? L’so Beecham’s'PUls. 25 cents a box. The greatest bird cage on tho continent is said to be the Grand Cent ral Railroad Station in New York. Tho nplsy English sparrows swarm there by thousands aud nest in the great arching roof girders. The Su'.tnn o? Morocco has a thousand wives. Ho has been very heart sick a great many times, but always rr wived.—2a«w • itftinvs.

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