The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-01-29
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thoughts on the Close Of the Yeas

What is time Austin said ~
know what IL H." I have Como cou.
coptiOn OF 1t. bat ifany one woulA
ask ma, What is tims : would SAY
cannot tell Time ia measured
duratiop--a nJnisus of space lying
b,t~oen two eterni;ies, eternily pat
and et0rnity TO coma Wesley nlvs
"Iins is fragment OF otornity bro.
hen or NJ both end y. limo is that
pGriod OF duration wtici cJm nsaccd
uhsn tho world bagal, end viii cou-
t.nuo while tho world cnduros and
which is fnsaaured by tho rey5lutious
Of suns, planeta aud sys.sps. Time
is dist:'gulsbei from stsruity, IN
shat tiois hal its beginning anl wil!
,.ava an cua but when did eternity
bsgip, ard whom will il epd Time
II tho record 9f shs past, preaeu.
and intcrs, i. IS brief point oI spacc
throwI off iron otaraiig, AND is
VIC yins ia course blcS 30 eternity.
Time is divided into periods. Il j,
made up cf soc1nls, inmates, hours
days, wGex5. months nul yegrs
This distribution Of time iull ye.i-
ods suablss Us 70 gyalomaiiIe ana
eoouVmisj time. in the d,scna,se oi
tbo pessoual aud relative drtios oi
hfe.
Death will bD the ond Of tims TO
ns, sud the i1dgnout day viii be the
eonsnnmot!3n OF lime itself. Attn.
loud blast Of tho angels Trumpet tha
last foot bah OF time will bs heard.
thon duration vii, cssso aud etarnity
beyin.
Time Is ever rolling onward bring.
ing toe future down to The presen.
0nd throwing tho preeeat hack 10
ths past 1t will sweep onward. until
1T covers every momont OF space, ab .
sorbl avery point Of duration ani is
fually lost AMID the endless cycles
OF eternity. lime 10 passing away,
it admits Of 10 delay. it consents TO
no postponomeut, It waits for no
one. We are often astonishsd at
tho rapidity with which time passes,
daya, months snd years are spec iin ?
onward, aud We are wiugiug our
Hight with them, though oftsn un
concious uf the speed wo are max
ing. II ia ssid that in makiug "a bal.
Icon ascension Won seem to be sta
tionary, While the earth seems 10 ro-
cede from you. So we seem to be
stationary while time is moving or.
Old ago creeps IN upon us silently
and ilnperceptibly, while we are yet
dreaming OF youth.
A child waits i'm patiently for tho
roll OF years which shall briug on
the period OF Manhood the youth
looks upon old age as far distant
in the future, whilst the aged look
back to childhood as the scene and
events OF yesterday. When we
speak Of time past wa sometimes ex.
claim "How time dies r. bus with
passing remark there is often no
purpose formed TO improve the pres.
ert moment. The present time is AZ
often freely squandered as the past
has been. How few reject that time
Is short, and that the momentous
interests often involved in the i'm.
proyement Of il.
Time ia even IN its course aud
regular in its fight. The earth
nova on, tho planets revolys, the
ssasous come aud go in regular sue
oession, day aud night succeed each
other alternately, seconds are cue
decided by minutes, miuutes by
hours and hours by days. 10 ms
time doss not seem even iu its
course and regular In it's flight
Sometimes it drags its slov pace
along. and then again it seems rapii
In its fight. The position wo sre
in, the circumstances surrouudiny
us, tho duties We haze 10 perform.
she good ws anticipate, aud the evils
We deprscase, make to ne this irrep.
MARTY 10 .he course OF time, When
we contemplate time to como nov
long II app 'ars. II cyeops eipne
With the psas al a senil, and We oi,
ten grow iiprn'ieat With delay
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