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TINE.
Ess,y READ nEFoGE THE HERsfEsiAS SOCIETY
Oh DRIPPING SPRINGS ACADEMY,
JUNE /, 1858.


JUNE !, 1858.
Time IL an essential factor in producing
any important result. Things OF the great
est worth aud excellence require the longest
time in their acquisition. The facts that q
creation was wrought and the untold beau
t's, aud substantial works Of nature were
created only by the slow processes OF time.
are unquos,ionablc proofs of this assertion.
IA attempt 20 ascertain just when time
commenced, is like trying to find the foun-
aiu.heai OF q stream that rises in IN mac.
o,,,.ble mountain. 1t il beyond our reach,
ono of tho unsearchable and unrevealed
things that belong to God. "In the begin
ming God created the heavens and the earth, "
AMI everything of which We have any knowl-
else followed this creation.
We can 20 back in our imaginations to
il,a first song that the morning stars sang
i,asther." to the first hymn of praise ever
oa>red to Jehovah by angels voices with no
eu iitors but themselves and Him to whom It
WI, ascribed; to the time when He spoke
light into existence; but the beginning was
before this-before everything we can con-
ce.ys Of And since its birth, though many
sun, have risen and set, Sabbath after Sab
bath has passed away, many moons have
waved and waned, season has followed sea-
son, generations have sprung mp and return
el /, dust. nations have risen, reigned and
collapsed, era after era has dawned, ages on
a 10, nave rolled; yot time has sped on in its
unt:ring and unwavering flight, without
moments rest. Let all who appreciate
p,r,istent perseverance,, bestow their regards
on time. 1t has visited the inhabitants of
every planet in all ages witnessed the Gre
alton aud peopling of worlds, the fall of
man on earth, the deluge, the birth of Christ.
tue rise and fall of Rome, the discovery OF
America all of the inventions of the nine
tstnth century. No event that ever occur
rel has escaped its presence. 1t is our guest
t1.iiy and a witness to this occasion. Has
it not, then, infinitely more experience than
tho Oldest and the wisest men of earth?
Should not all yield to its dictates? Some
writer has laconically said: Time is the
,raile of hope, but the grave of ambition.
Tac salrltary counselor of the wise, but the
.t,yn corrector of fools. He who has made
it his friend has little to fear from his ene-
n.ial, but he who has made it his enemy has
Et,I. to hope for from his friends"
OF all the gifts of u temporal character,
bestowed by heaven, we should be most |
mindful and appreciatve of time; but, alas,
il is the gift Of which we are most prodigal |
and most neglectful, the pearl we trample
mos. under our feet
"Oh man, while In thy earlier years
How prodigsi OF time
disappearing all thy precious hours,
Thy glorious youthful prime"
We shall be held to as strict an account
for the misuse and abuse of time, as for the
neglect of talents. In the end the idler will
receive the same rebuke as he who buried
his talent: Thou wicked and slothful SER
want" Spurgoon says: San idle man
tempts the devil. He who neither works
nor plays is the workshop of Satan. If the
devil ca ches man idle, he will set him at
work, furnish him TOOLS and before long pay
him wages. Idleness is the key of beggary
ana the root of all evil"
Time is so precious that God gives us but
one moment at once, and (''that nothing be
lost") rs soon as one is gone another comes.
We have in life q sowing and reaping
time, and ''as we SOW shall we reap;" prov
iug that one part of life merges into another,
nus making the whole of life either useful
Or harmful, according as we SOW.
Lives OF great men all remind US.
We can make cur lives sublime
4 nd departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands OF time"
The Old adage that "time is money" is
FOOD as far rs it goes, and it may be added
Tine is fame, honor, glory, power on one
hand, and shame, ruin, bondage, mediocre
y on the other. All these are the possibili-
ties of time.
Time will prove MI things. Murder will u,
,ut " Truth crushed to earth Will rise
again" Talents always ascendent."
Nuaves may deceive, but time will undeceive.
Merit may go for Il while unrewarded, but ,
inc will bring the Just recompense. ,
Tie departed forms of earths many Illus
r;ous sons end daughters, the crumbled S
walls of her many mighty cities, are painful
yidances of times ravaging march; and 6
bundant proofs that time has no favorites.
lhe rich, the poor the high, the low; the .
ding. the peasant are alike subject to its
haugeful tide.
As far as We are concerned time is short. r
rom infancy to age is but span.
"A little rule, little sway,
A sunbeam winters day,
Is all the proud and mighty have +,
Between the cradle and the grave"
The placid countenance of youth must
i.'l in time, to the burrows of age.
hough we possess the rose-tint of health :,
nj life. yet the pallor of death must follow. =
The glory of young man is his strength" c
The beauty of IN old man is his gray
airs" but both must he subdued by time. G
Time is like a river that swallows all of .
= tributaries, but soon its waves will be
,. n the sen Of eternity. Even now we
a- lear the defiant roar of the ocean as the &
.lp'esS and needless stream dashes towards 7
,ui above all the triumphant shout of the