Daily Republican., 1884-01-17
Time.
Time.
" Life's poor player, who struts and

irets his hour on :he stage, ana then II
heard no more"
Were II fairly considered how much
we may do In . little time. and how
muchmore we may doiB 'he great length
Of time ofn moderate life allowed to many
of us, 1t would be q useful study TO en-.
deavOr to attain some knowledge OF
what may he called the art Of 0ccupa.
tion-that Is to say, the art Of apportion.
ing our time to the greatest advantage ;
not merely that profit which is wealth,
but tho more valuable advantage which
yields self fsatisfaction, and the reason
able hope that never fails to attend on
the man who has endeavored to do the
l'est he could In the station in whidh he
Is placed.
Time, which Is said to fleet away 80
fast, freque' tly stops, as it were, to
conduct ns to virtue and reason.
The spendthrift has time before him
TO enable him to redeem the past; the
foolish man has time enough to get
wiser, and the wicked man has enough
of 1t left to give him time to repent.
Yet no perverse is the humOr OF man,
and so adverse is he to his happiness,
that he will not believe that he has
time, and therefore, like q distressed
and harassed merchant, lets all his af.
fairs go at once to ruin. Time is, never
theless, an excellent counsellor, the
servant and tho friend of virtuous In
dustry.
Itappears, therefore, to be material
part of the duty of parents, whenever
their children are about 10 be launched
into the world, to give them proper
notions OF the worth Of time.
In schools, owing to the learning and
scholastic habits of masters, and the
laws of colleges, time is attended to
with particular respect and horror but
no sooner il a youth relieved from these
restraints, than he begins to shun, or
even to abuse, his best friend, who was
always ready to give whenever he was
asked, and to enrich whsnever the
scholar would add to his store of learn
ing riches that no vicissitude could
rob him of, and from which no revolu-
tion could take away the honors.
1t would be we'll, then, for a young
man, at his first entrance into the
world, TO begin to live by rule, 30 far
az respects the application Of his time.
He has, perhaps, made u profession
his choice, in which, II he wishes to
succeed, he should not be afraid to bor.
row from his old school-fellow, who,
lend him as much as he will, never will
ask to be repaid all that be does ask
is, that what he bestows may be well
applied.
II is true, that as our generous bene-
factor never refuses, We may waste or |
abuse his treasures, but the punishment
follows the crime =; for we purchase
nothing but care and sorrow by the
misapplication Of bis bounty while, on |
the other hand, II properly used, it
is the true philosopher stone, and will
turn everything into gold.
II may be said, that such are the &C.
cidents, the delays, and the cross pur-
poses to which we are every day liable,
that nothing can be more absurd than
10 endeavOr to establish any certain
system for the appointment Of our
lime.
1t il nevertheless as true, II a man
who may be placed at the point A
should be desirOus to go along q given
inc to the point G, that he may never
be able, from Interruptions, to reach
he point G; but it will be too much to
ay that he may not reach the points d
n f or 4 in the scale, and which will
bring him nearer to the point
than if no had never moved at all. Il
1t is true that a deviation from the
ause laid down by the wise man should
'ibrate az little from the true one, Is
he unhappy variation caused BY hu- a
nan intirmities, resembling that Of the 4
Mariners needle will permit; like that,
90, 1t should be allowed for by the can \
id and the humane; nor indeed can t
10 tell, when the heavy swells Of mis- S
Drtune or the strong currents of adver- v
lty drive the bark, how soon, with tho II
est of us, the reckoning may be lost.
One comfort ID, that these storms do u
OF last; that there is harbor to which, ~
y lowering the rope-sais of our pride :.
nd vanity, we may run into even under y
are poles, and bring up in safety. n
1t is true that this harbor has not . y
cry hospitable shore, but 1t is land
cked, and the vessel may lie there in y
'fety until the wind may be lulled or ~
ir u