The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-01-07

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fussy worker than placid idIer, even
as 1t IS better to have good features
with bad complexion than fair COM
plexion with a repulsive face.
Once more; many people have no
time because they have no method.
They do not manage well. There is 4
want of system in their way of doing
things. They have no idea of order.
1t may be their misfortune rather than
their fault that it is so; though every
one may cultivate method and order,
and then they would as,uredly find that
they bad more time. Few, indeed,
comparatively speaking, are naturally
endowed with that wonderful power of
grasplng things, that marvellous capacity
for business, which enables some men
to throw off an amount of work that i.
as mountain to molehlll contrasted
with what most of us can do. But there
is system in working, even with these
giants, at least as rule; and system
will make the molehlll a good deal lar
ger. The man who does not work bs
rule must needs run short of time. 1t
must be admitted, however, that this
working by rule may be carried to a
fantastic extent, and become almost a
nuisance to both the worker himself
and to all around him. 1t is possible
to be too systematic, and to lay out
every moment of the day with disagree
able minuteness, like parish allotment
ground. "There is a season and a
tine to every purpose under heaven :"
and so there is time "to keep" and
time to "cast away'-a sort of liberty
to cast rules aside at times, and really
make the most of time by seizlng op-
portunitles which is the highest order
OF method. 1t was the method of Him
who event about doing good" and
whose life was busy one infinitely be-
yond that of the ablest and busiest man
that ever lived. His rule was that the
work that came to hand was the work
He had to do, and that the man who
wanted 10 see Him was the man He
wanted to see. 81 will come and see
Him." ''And Jesus went with him."
Yet He found time so to work that it
could be said of Him, with less of hy-
perbole than of any other worker, that
if the things which Jesus did "should
be written every one, even the world
itself could not contain the books that
should be written"
But we must not omit to consider the
character in what after all is by far its
most serious aspect. Thousands, we
fear, answer to the character in thi.
particu ar way who do not otherwise
deserve it ; and some add this above all
to their having no time for the things
OF earth. We allude to that immense
multitude of persons of whom it may
be SAID now, and of whom (if they do
not take heed) it will be said one day
with hopeless retrospect, that they had
no time to seek the salvation of their
souls; that the way of salvation was
open to them. but they had no time to
be saved. A good many years ago, a
young officer, who had more than
tasted service in the great Peninsula
War, was led by sisters influence to
become soldier of Christ, and know
ing too we'll what the army then was
as irreligious as it was brave-thought
it impossible to serve God in it, and 50
resolved to throw it up. He told his
commanding officer of his determina-
ton, who was very sorry. "We all like
you," he said. "Why should you leave
Us like this?" The young man ex
planned that it was because he had be-
come religious, and feared he could not
act it out in the army "Oh, religious
hats it, is it?" said the colonel, quite
,elieved pray don't let such a thing
as that make you give up why, we all
mean to be religious, you know, some
lay" He did not give up then, for
he war broke out again and at the
battle of Waterloo the young officer
helped to carry the poor colonel off the
ield, mortally wounded. He meant,
but never had time, to be religious.
That man was like host of others.
The want of time is often nothing more
han dilatoriness. They put off to some
Indefinite convenient seasonn the
yreat matter of salvation, not because
hey are so busy about earthly things,
'ut simply because heavy weight of
Indifference indisposes them to imme-
late effort about 1t. They are like
ravelers in alpine regions. who know
the, iiiss.S Z Il .'sssa.s11s; ~
tat ut. an ginning dfo"
.1an them = say, "Not now; little
Il. and so they lie down and
Yet it is not ah-
that makes men neglectapathy simply
inp welfare. They are liteSVeiiasl-