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HALF AN HOUR IN HEAVEN
The Only Time in All Eternity That
Silence Reigned.
tlie Hlilcr* on the White Horae* Kelneil
In Their Charger*, the Uoiolnglp*
Were Hushed uml the Trump
et* Ceased to Hound,
Bnooxi.r*. N. Y.. 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
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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.