Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-10-12
From the Christian Mirror,
IMPROVE YOUR TIME.


"You'h is not rich in tims It may be poor.
Part with it as with moneI sparing Pay
No moment but in purchasdo its worth;
And what its wor h ash de4h beds.-they can
tell. "---iovso.
l7iiafe is short, and it .iaprecious. No
one can rightly understand its value.
And it would seem by the conduct Of
some, that they were to spend an etcr-
nifty on earth, so unconcerned they are,
and regardless of the many precious
hours they spend in idleness and sin.
While others would sooner part with
great riches than suffer their years to
linger away, while they repose i'll care.
less Indifference. But many of the
young do not estimate the preciousness
of time. They look to the future, and
wish again and again that their years
would faster flee; but do not seem to
think all the while that death and eter-
nifty are near athand every hourcomes
to its close. But, dear youth, that you
might, in some measure, set right val
ue on your passing moments, and be
prepared for useful lief and happy
heaven, is why write these lines. l
know something Of your indifference,
for | have been young; and now look
back to my early years with sorrow,
andby my experience can but hope that
these few remarks viii receive your
attention.
Never be without useful book which
you can take up at every leisure hour.
Neither read it in careless manner,so
that if questioned as to it's contents,
you will be at a loss for reply. Al
ways carry about some religious peri,
edical, for often you will have few mo-
ments' leisure. No matter if you have
read the book dozen times before,
read it again, and you will still find
something that you left unnoticed in
former pcrusals. Frequently you at
tend meetings five or ten minutes be-
fore the exercises commence. You are
idle then, but do you wish to be basy?
Take up the bible, or the hymn book,
t and there read until the meeting has
commenced. How much better this
will be than to gaze from one part Of
house to the other Improve these
short periods, and you will never re-
greet it to your dying day. If you
should lose five minutes for twelve
successive days, there would bean hour
lost; and in one year eighteen hours;
and in life of thirty years, one year,
five months, and IS days. Yes, all this
time would be actually lost. Then,
will not the youthful reader in future
be careful how he syuanders away his
precious moments? Perhaps you may
think five minutesa day not worth inn
proving; butyou see that in few years
it amounts to many days. l have not
the least doubt but many who are in
advanced life have lost even ten whole
years by neglecting to improve their
five, ten, and twenty leisure moments
q what an account will such have to
render to their Judge! For every hour
which God has given us here, he will
one day require an account Of the use
we have made of them. Then no long
cr esteem Of little value those moment
which are fastening with untold rapid
ity from you; but be entreated to turn
your thoughts to that great day, which,
at the farthest possible distance, cannot
be far, and remember that He whose
eye never slumbcrs nor sleeps, has
watched and still watches over all our
years, and keeps strict account Of the
manner in which every day is passed,
and will mete out to you the just re-
ward Of your dement's. The time of
your departure from this world may
be near at hand, and are you willing to
enter into an endless state OF being
with the guilt Of time misimproved,
and the Sigh preparations which you
have made for heaven? Ask that
youth who is now on the confines of
eternity, if time isprecious, and all his
Language would fail in pic!uring its
true estimation. But death beds can
give yon some faint idea Of the value
Of time. But do you reader hear the
warning voice? And if your former
years have been spent in idlcness and
vain pursuits, resolve the future shall
be spent in improving your time and
doing good, and thus be prepared for
the day Of death, which wilispeedi'y
hasten upon You.
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