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Jon. 8t.—Dr. Tnlmage ha* of late been preaching on texts of acripture that *cem to have been neg lected anil here Is a sermon on a beautiful text which probably was never before se lected for a discourse: Rev. viii: 8: “There was silence in heaven about the apace 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 which all good results arrive. The bible represents it as active, with wheels and wings and orchestras and processions mounted or charioted, llut my text describes 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 in their chargers. The doxolo gies were huslu d and the processions halted. The hand of arrest was put upon all the splendors. "Stop, heaven !”<ried an omnipotent voice, and it stopped. For thirty minutes everything celestial Btood still. "There was silence in heaven for the space of half an ltour. ” rrom all wo can learn it is the only time heaven ever stopped. It does not stop as other cities for the night, for there is no night there. It does not stop for a plague, for the inhabi tant never says, “1 am sick. ” It does not ■top for bankruptcies, for its inhabit ants never fall. It docs not stop for impassable streets, for there are no fallen snows nor sweeping freshets. What, then, stopped it for thirty minutes? Urolius and Pro fessor Stuart think it was at the time of tho destruction of Jerusalem. Mr. Lord thinks it was in the year 311, be tween the close of the Diocletian perse cution and tho beginning of the wars by which Constantine gained the throne. Hut 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 on the fact that such an interregnum of sound took place, I am certain. “There was silence in heaven for tho space of half an hour. ” And, first, of all, we may learn that God and all heaven then honored silenco. The longest and widest do minion 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 occu pation. 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. Hut that silence lins been all broken up into worlds, and it lias become'a noisy universe. Worlds in upheaval, worlds in congelation, worlds in conflagra tion, worlds in revolution. If gaologists are right (and I believe, they are) there has not been a moment of silence since this world began its travels and tliu crashings and thu splittings and the uproar and thu hubbub are ever in progress ltut when among the supernals a voice cried, “Hush!” and for half an hour heaven was still, silence was honored. The full power of silence many of us have yet 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 we are assailed and misrepresented,the mightiest thing to do, is to do nothing. Those people who arc always rushing into print to get themselves set right accomplish nothiug but their own chagrin. Sil ence! Do right and leave the results with God. Among the grandest les sons the world lias ever learned are the lessons of patience taught by thoso who endured uncomplainingly personal or domestic or social or political injustice. Stronger than any bitter or sarcastic or revengeful answer was tho patient silence. The famous Dr. Morrison, of i/iieisea, accompnsneu as much Dy his silent patience as by his pen and tongue. lie had asthma that for twenty-five years brought him out of his coueh at 2 o'clock each morning. His four sons and daughters dead. The remaining child by sunstroke made insane. The aillicted man said: “At this moment there is not an inch of my body thut is not filled with agony.” Yet, he was cheerful, tri umphant, silent. Those who were in his presence said they felt as though they were in the gates of heaven. Oh, the power of patience Bilence! Eschylus. the immortal poet, was con demned 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 Salamls. That silent plea liberated him. The loudest thing on earth is silence if it be of the right kind and at the ■ right tiihe. There was a quaint old hymn, spelled in the old style, and once sung in the churches: The race is not forever got By him who fastest runs. Nor the battel! by those pcopell That shoot with the longest guns. My frieuds, the tossing sea of Gali lee seemed most to offend Christ in the amount of noise it made, for, he said to it, “He 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 min utes for the coronation of silence. “There was silence in hoaven for the space of 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 whole week, or whole year for celes tial consideration If Grotius was right nnd this silence occurred at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, that scene was so awful and so pro longed that the inhabitants of heaven could not have done justice to it in many weeks. After fearful besiege ment of the two fortresses of Jerusalem —Antonia and Hippicus . hud 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 sacri fices to the holiness of God, the build ing itself became a sacrifice to the rage of man. The hunger of the people in that city during the besiegement was so great that us some outlaws were passing a doorway and inhaled the odors of food, they burst open the door, threatening the mother of the house hold with death unless she gave them some food, and she took them aside and showed them it was her own child she wub cooking for the ghastly repast Six hundred priests were destroyed on Mount /ion because the temple being gone there was nothing for them tido. Six thousand people in one cloister were consumed. There were 1,100,000 dead, according to Josephus. Grotius thinks that this was the cause of silence in heaven for half an hour. If Mr. Lord was right and this silence was during the Diocletian persecutions, by which 844,000 Christians suffered death 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 program is so crowded with spectacle that it can afford only one recess in all eternity and that for a short space. While there are great choruses in which all heaven can join, each soul there has a story of divine mercy pe culiar to itself and it must be a soio. liow 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 the praise. In my text heaven spared thirty minutes, but it will never again sppre one minute. In worship in earthly churches, when 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 then the 144,000,000,000, and then the 144,000,000,000,000. . Not only are nil the triumphs of the past to be commemorated, but all the triumphs to come. Not only what wo now 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 nt 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 of the in scrutable things of earth we will need explained; so many exciting earthly experiences we 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 cessa tion. How busy' wo will be kept in having pointed out to us the heroes and heroines that the world never fuliy 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 them selves perished. Hubert Goffin, the master-miner, who, landing from the bucket at the bottom of the mine, just as he heard the waters 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: "Tell them the water 1ms 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. I tell you heaven will have no more half hours to spare. Kcsides that, heaven is full of child ren. They are in the vast majority. No child on earth who amounts to any thing can be keep quiet half an hour, and how are you going to keep five hundred million 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 popu lation has quadrupled, scxtupled, cen tupled. Heaven has more on hand, more of rapture, more of knowledge, more of intercommunication, more of worship. There is not so much differ ence between Brooklyn seventy-five years ago, when there were a fjw houses down on the East river and the village reached up only 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 up-town and now when Canal street is ftir down town, than there is a difference between what heaven was when my text was written and what heaven is now. The most thrilling place we have ever been in is stupid compared with that, and, if we now have no time to 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 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 cen turies. Of the millions of ages past, and the millions of ages to come, not one is especially measured off in the biblc. 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. I am not asking what you will do with the years or months or days 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 cun 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, in spiring or desperatu. hook out for the fragments of time. They are pieces of eternity. It was the half-hours be tween shoeing horses that made Klihu Burritt the learned blacksmith, the half-hours between professional calls as a physician that made Abecrombie the Christian philosopher, the half hours between his duties as school master that made Salmon P. Chose chief justice, the half-hours between shoe lasts that made Henry Wilson vice-president of the United States, the half-hours between eanal boats that made Jamea 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, I and the half-hour after your return from business; that makes the differ ence between the scholar and the | ignoramus, between the Christian and I the infidel, between the saint and the | demon, between triumph and catastro j phe, between heaven and hell. The most tremendous things of your life | and mine were certain half-hours. The half-hour when in tho parsonage of a country minister I resolved to bc ! come 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 I dead; the half-hour when X stood on the top of my house in Oxford street and saw our church burn; the half | hour in which I entered Jerusalem; I the half-hour in whieh 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. You may forget the name of the exact years or most im portant events pf your existence, but those half-hours, like the half-hour of my text, will be immortal. 1 do not query what you will do with the twen tieth century, I do not query what you will do with 1802, but what will you do with the next half-hour? Upon that hinges your destiny. And, during that some of you willVeceive the gospel and make complete surrender, and during that others of you 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 min utes of your earthly existence, far back in history a great geographer stood with a sailor, looking at a globe that represented our planet, and he pointed to a place on the globe where he thought there was an undiscovered continent. The undiscovered conti ueut was America. me geo grapher who pointed where he thought there was a new world was Martin ltehaim, and the sailor to whom he showed it was Columbus. This last was not satisfied until he had picked that gem out of the sea and set it in the crown of the world's geography. Oh, 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 world, that you may yourselves find, a rapturous world, and that is the world a half hour of which we now study. Oh, set sail for it! Here is the ship and here are the compasses. In other words, make this half-hour, beginning at twenty minutes of twelve by my watch, the grandest half-hour of your life and become a Christian. Fray for a regen erated spirit Louis XIV., whilo walk ing 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 tho king, “for the evening is damp and cold.” And Mansard, 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 tne king said: "1 can make a duke or a marquis, but God only can make a Mansard.” And 1 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.” Iler'Memory. "Memory, tho warder of the brain," says Shakspenrc; hut with manv it would seem that the full inenuiug of the aphorism is sadly lost. Most every one has some sort of a memory, good, bad. or indifferent, as the case may be; but one person out of fifty has some process or other iuteuded to aid Ids memory, hoping iu time to be ublo to retain in uiiud all mattors worthy of | retention. This rucalis to a writor in the Kan sas City Times a story told of a young indy friend, who has’ lately taken on tho fad of “memory brushing.” She conhdod in a gentleman acquaintance that she was poor at dates, a sad fail ure on placo and weak on events. ‘ How may I learr. to retain things in in my mind as they should be?” she exclaimed, ns if in disgust nt her in tellectual shortcomings. “Oil, that is easy,” repliod he, “as ail you have to do in each case is to form some little . touplet with anything yon wish to re member aud you will uever forget it." “Explain,” site said. "For instance," the gentleman replied, . “In fourteen hundred nnd ninety-two Columbus sailed the oceaft blue. The young lady was in a high state of glue at such a practical and really beautiful manner of aidiug memory and her thanks were profuse. Time went by—two days, I believe—when the two met again. “How are you get ting on with the couplets?” nsked ”he. “Capitally,” she exclaimed. “A pound of caudy goes tiiat you don’t remember what I told you. verbatim,” he bantcringlv said, and she took tiie bet on the spot Then sho rattled oil tho words: “In fourteen hundred and ninety-three Columbus snllcil the deep blue sea.” Hindoo Bread making. The Hindoo though as primitive in his breadmaking as the Bedouin, is a little more dainty. He waits until the wood tire he lias'built on the ground has been burned to coals; then, putting two or three stones around it, he places on these a shallow metal bowl, the under side being up. When his dough of flour and water has been pressed and pulled into a cuke of an lucli and a half iu thickness he bakes it on top of the bowl. It is by no means a bread to be despised. Vertical Beams of Bight. An extraordinary result has been ob tained by 'gome experiments made in England iu signaling with electric lights turned vertically to the sky. The light of the Eddystone lighthouse can be seen only seventeen and a half miles, and theu on a clear night; but a vertical beam of less power is visible just twice as far. with n strong chance of its surmounting an ordieary fog. Bear Fuel. Coal costs $23 per ton In Venezuela, but tbeu few people need lire*. ikVjhestcrlicId (Va..) man receutlv killed a deer with his uockelknife. THE REPORT ON THE EXAMijjjmjjjp -OF DIE NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY By the New York State Superintendent of Insurance nuh lished January 22, 1892, shows: ’ P D' Amts June 30.1191, per Superintendent's Report i $120,710,690. Assets January 1,1992. per Company's Deport i $115,947,809. Surplus June 30,1131, ptr Supetfntsniht’s lepnt $14,708,675. Surplus January 1,1191, per Company's Report i $14,898,450. The above surplus, as shown by the Superintendent’s Report, Is large than that of any other Purely Mutual Insurance Co. In the ’world. ' Further attention is called to the fact that the new business written by the New York Life in the State of Iowa for 1891 was over five and one-half million dollars, or over a million dollars in excess of that written in 1890, and also over a million dollars more than the new business writ ten by any other company in the State of Iowa during 1891 To^those contemplating taking a policy of Life-Insur ance we would say: Do not make an application for a policy till you have seen an agent of the New York Life. * THE NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Begs leave to announce that its Twenty-Year Ton tine Policies, issued in 1872, are now matur ing with the following results: I. *•—Ordinary Life Policies are returning from 20 to 52 per per cent, in excess of their cash cost according to the age of insured. (See example below). 2*—Twenty-year Endowment Policies are returning from 58 to 71 per cent, in excess of their cash cost, accord ing to age of insured, (See example below). 3- Limited Payment Life Policies are returning from 43 to I4I Per cent, in excess of their cash cost, according to age of insured. (See example below). Examples of Maturing Policies: 1. -Policy taken at Age 43. $2,000. Cost, $1,402. Cash Yalne, $1,757.76 2. —Policy taken at Ago 30. $5,000. Cost, $4,853. Cash Yalne, $8,238.45 3. -Policy taken at Age 37. $10,000. Cost, $7,166. Cash Yalna, $10,338.40 These returns are made to members after the company has carried the insurance on the respective policies for twenty years. II. i-—Persons insured under Ordinary Life Policies may, in lieu of the above cash values, continue their insurance at original rates, and receive cash dividends of from 71 to 115 per cent, of all premiums that have been paid, and annual dividends hereafter as they accrue. (See ex ample below). 2. Persons insured under Limited-Payment Life Policies may, in lieu of the above cash values, continue their in surance, without further payments, and receive cash , dividends of from 67 to 163 per cent, of all premiums that have been paid, and annual dividends hereafter as they accrue. (See example below). EXAMPLE OF DIVIDENDS. Policy (see above) may be continued for the original amount, at original *a ann“al dividends, and the accumulated dividends, amounting to *980.62, may be withdrawn in cash. " 'Policy (see above) may be continued without further payments, receiving annual dividends and the accumulated dividends, amounting to S4.830 30, may be drawn in cash. r.,-^erSOns.,de“rin^ 866 resi’lts on policies issued at their present age, and lurther particulars as to options in settlement, will please address the com pany or its agents, giving date of birth. III. ^ management of the company further announces *,-The Company’s new business for 189) exceeded $150,000,000. 2.—Its income exceeded that of 1890. Assets and insurance in force were both largely increased. 4.—Its Mortality Rate was much below that called for by the Mortality Table. ®* ^ detailed statement of the year’s business will be published after the Annual Report is completed. WILLIAM H. BEERS, President* HENRY TUCK, Ylce-Prcsideut. ARCHIBALD H. WELCH, ad Vice-Pres. RUFI S W. WEEKS, Actuary. 346 and 348 Broadway, New York. ^le r,ght men, who can show good business records, liberal contracts will be granted to act as agents. GILBERT A. SMITH, Office, Peavey Grand, Sioux City-,a> MaMpr for Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota.