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It does not stop for bankruptcies, for its inhabitants never fail. It does not stop for impassable streets, for there are no fallen snows nor sweeping freshets. What, then, stopped it for thirty minutes? Grotins and Prof. Stuart think it was at the time of the destruction of Jerussalem. Mr. Lord thinks it was in the year 311, between the close of tbe Diocletian persecution and ihe 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, I am certain.

Aud, first of all, we may learn that t«od and all heaven then honored silence. The longest and widest dominion that ever existed is that over which Stillness is 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 only Being, and, as there was no one to speak to, there was no utterance. But that silence has all been broken up into worlds, and it has become a noisy universe. Worlds in upheaval, woi'lds in congelation, worlds in conflagration, worlds in revolution. If geologists are right and I believe they are, ^here has not been a moment of /silence since this world began its travels, and the crashings and splittings and the uproar and the hubbub are ever in progress. But when among the supernals a voice cried. "Hushl'' and for half an hour heaven was still, silence was honored. The full pow^r of silence many of us have yet to learn. We are told that wiien Christ was arraigned "He answered not a word." That silence was louder than any thunder that ever shook the world. 0®.tirnes, when we are assailed and misrepresented, the mightiest thing to say is to say nothing, the mightiest thing to do is to do nothing. Those people who are always rushing into priat to get themselves set right accomplish nothing but their own chagrin. Silewe! Do right and leave the results with God. Among the grandest les-

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offord only thirty minutes of recess. There have been events on earth and in heaven that seemed to demand a whole day or whole week or year for celestial consideration. If Grotius was right and this silence occurred at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, that scene was so awful and so prolonged that the inhabitants of heaven could not have done justice to it in many weeks. After fearful besiegement of the two fortresses of Jerusalem—Antonio and Hippicus— had been going on for a long while, a Roman soldier mounted on the shoulder of another soldier hurled into the window of the Temple a firebrand, and the temple was all aflame, and after covering many sacrifices to the holiness of God, the building itself became a sacrifice to therageof man. The hunger of the people in that city during the besiegement was so great that as some outlaws weie passing doorway and inhaled the odors of food, they burst open the door,threat ening the mother of the household with death unless she gave them aside and showed them that it was her own child she was cooking for the ghastly repast. Six hundred priests were destroyed on Mt. Zion

because the temple being gone there was nothing for them to do 6ix thousand people in one cloister were consumed. There were 1,100.000 dead, according to Josephus. Grotius thinks that this was the cause of the silence in heaven for half an hour. If Mr. Lord was right and this silence was daring the DiocHtian pereecutions, by which 844,000Christians avSmred death from sword and fire «md banishment and exposure, wfajr

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The busiest place in the universe is heaven. It is the center from which all good influences start: it is the goal at which all good results arrive. The Bible represents it as active with wheels and wings, and orchestras and processions, mounted or charioted. £iit my text describes llspaoe when the wfi :els ceised to roll and the trumpets to sound, and the voices to chant. The riders on the white horses reined in their chargers. The doxologies were hushed and the processions halted. The hand of arrest was put upon all the splendors. "Stop, Heaven!" cried an omnipotent voice, and it stopped. For thirty minutes everything celestial stood still. There was silence in heaven for the space of half an houi\"

From all we can learn it is the onl^ stopped. It does other cities for the night, there. It does not stop for a plague, but the inhabitant never says, *'I am sick."

the world has ever learned are The most thrilling place we have the lessons of patience taught by ever been in is stupid compared with those who endured uncomplainingly that, and, if we now have no time to personal or domestic or social or po litical injustice. Stranger than any bitter or sarcastic or revengeful answer was the patient silence.

not heaven listea throughout at least one of those awful years? No! Thirty minutest The fact is that the Celestrial programe is so crowded with spectacle that it can afford only one recess in all eternity, and that for a short space. While there are

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Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Text, Rev. viii, 1: "There was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." He said: i:L jj# f£j5( J.

choruses in which all heaven can join, each soul there has a story of Divine mercy peculiar to itself, and it must be a solo. How can heaven get through with all its recitatives, with all its cantatas, with all its grand marches, with all its victories? Eternity is too. short to utter all its praise? Iti my text heaven spared thirty minutes, bu)t it will never again spare one ltamute. In worship in early churches, where there are many to take part, we have to counsel brevity but how will heaven get on rapidly enough to let the. 144,000 get through, each with his own story, and then the 144,000,000 and theo the 144,000,000,000, and then the 144,000,000,000,000.

Not only are all the triumphs of the past to be commemorated, but all the triumphs to come. Not only what we know of God, but what we will know of Him after everlasting study of the Deific. 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 the greatly good and useful that we will want to see so many fft the inscrutable things of earth that we will need explained so many exciting earthly experiences we will want to talk over, and all the other spirits and all the a^es will want the same, that there will be no more opportunity for cessation. How busy we will be 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 nurses who faced pestilence in the lazarettos the railroad engineers who stayed at their places in order to save the train, though they themselves perished. Hubert Goflin, 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 rope would have lifted him into safety, put a blind miner who wanted to go to his sick child in the bucket and jerked the rope for him to be pulled up, crying: "Teli them the water has burst in and we are probably lost but we will seek refuge at the other end of the right gallery and then giving the command "to the other miners till they digged themselves so near out that the people from the outside could come to their rescue. The multitudes of men and women who got no crown on earth, we will want to see when they get their crown in heaven. 1 tell you, heaven will have no more half hours to spare.

Besides that, heaven is full of children. They are in the vast majority. No children on earth who amounts to anything can be kept quiet half ail hour, and how are you going to keep 500,000,000 of them quiet half an hour? You know heaven is much more of a place than it was when that recess of thirty minutes occurred. Its population has quadrupled, sextuoled, sentupled. Heaven has more on hand, more of rap ture, more of knowledge, more of intercommunication, more of worship. There is not so much difference between Brooklyn seventy-five years ago, when there was a few houses down on the East x'iver and the village reached up to Sands street, as compared with what this great city is now—yea, not so much difference between New York when Canal street was far uptown and now when Canal street is far down town, than there is a difference between what heaven was when my text was written and what heaven is now.

spare, we will then have no eternity to spare. Silence in heaven only half an hour!

My subject also impresses me with the immortality of a half-hour. That half-hour mentioned in my text is

Learn also from my text that heaven must be an eventful and activc place, from the fact that it could 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. Of 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 1 Th3y decide everything.

I am not asking what you will do with the years or months or davs of your life, but what of the half hours. Tell me 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

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ieces of eternity. It was the half between shoeing horses that made Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, the half hour between professional calls as a physician that made Aberorombie, the Christian philosopher, the half hours between nis duties as schoolmaster that made Salmon P. Chase Chief-Justice, the half hours between shoe-lasts that made Henry Wilson Vice-President of the United States, the half hours between boats that made James A. Garfield President. The half hour a day for good books or bad half bour a day for prayer

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of 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 your return from business that makes the difference between the scholar and the ignoramus, between the Christian and the iufidel, between the saint and the demon, between triumph and catastrophe, between heaven and hell. The most tremendous things of your life and mine were certain half hours. The half hour when in the parsonage of a country ministers I resolved to Jbecome a Christian then and there, the half hour when I decided to become a preacher of the Gospel the half hour when I first 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 I entered Jerusalem, the half hour in which I ascended Mount Calvary the half hour in which I stood on Mars Hill tbe 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. You may forget the name of the exact years or most of the important events of your existence, but these half hours, like the half hour of my text, will be immortal. I do 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 completo surrender, and during that others will make final and fatal rejection of the full and free and urgent and impassioned offer of life eternal. Oh, that the next half hour might be the most glorious thirty minutes of your earthly existence.

But how will you spend the first haif hour of your heavenly ^tizenship after you have gone in tWbtay? After your prostration before the throne in worship of Him who made it possible for you to get there 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 bsautiful book containing pictures of the medals struck by the English Government in honor of great battles these medals pinned over the hearts

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the returned heroes of the army on great occasions, the royal family present and the royal bands playing the Crimean medal, the Legion of Honor, 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 the day. Stand up before all the Royal house of heaven and receive the insignia while you are announced as victor over the droughts and freshets of the farm-field, victor over the temptations of the Stoilc Exchange, victor over professional allurements, victor over domestic infelicities, victor over mechanic's shop, victor over the store house, victo? over home worriments, victor over physical^distresses, victor over hereditary depressions, victor over sin and death and hell. Take the badge that celebrates those victories through our Lord Jesus Christ. Take it in the presence of all tbe galleries, saintly, angelic and divine! While all heaven chants

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how. Catterpilai'3 clir-b trees, the other day saw a big, big catterpilai and he was so ^orriu that look a stick and kild him with it and threw it awav to let the swill man pick it up and "take it home period catterpilars have 1,000 or more legs, he may nol have so many, and he may have mow the big ones have more than the little ones gess that but don't know.

Catterpilars eat flies and other in*cts such as ants, micatos, and others ke that. Also they eat leaves, plnm j« aves aud in short ail kinds and some ers to, some have baby catterpilars, la short all of them. Catterpilars drink **.ter, in short everything they can fc. Catterpilars, can not say much ore about catterpilars, but one good ti»ol is never throw a catterpilar at a an or anybody for it gives them such

How a Spaniard Smokes.

El Paso Tribune. The Spaniards are the most expert smokers in the world. A Spaniard takes a heavy pull at his cigarette, inhales it, takes up a wine skin oi wine bottle, pours a half pint down his throat, holding the vessel a foot from his mouth and not spilling a drop, and then with a sight of satisfaction closes his eyes and exhales the smoke from his nose and mouth in clouds. He will also inhale the smoke, converse for a few minutes in a natural manner and then blow out the smoke.

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