Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-12-22

seeming tones OF thunder. But alas.
the old Sluggard never hears it at all.
Who does not remember distinctly
the first oath he uttered. the first
glass Of strong drink that passed his
lips, the first penny he stole Con-
science fairly shrickcd at his soul.
liut the soul hardened in sin never
hears conscience. Obey conscience
and conscience will obey you, and
awaken you every time from spiritual
The dealing of man in that way
with himscl! would be like the turn
ing o. the pointer of a clock by hand
instead Of winding ii up. \ man
who should act in that way would
make a fool of himself in a year.
Is there any way in which this can
he avoided. Certainly there is, Only
let soul be caught up into
knowledge of the beauty Of God in
Christ Jesus. and feel the heart Of
God, the blood Of Christ, as it were.
puisng in him, and that Affection
supreme, yegnant. Because the main
spring OF conduct and all the wheels
moYe, the hands keep time. ten
thousand evils are dissipatod, and
life becomes symmetrical and har-
moniou>. Morality keeps time by
constantly turning the hands.
Spirituality keeps time by closely
coming with God. Which method
Of lite is yours:
In the cityof Basic, Switzerland, it
was the custom to have all the clocks
Of the city an hour ahead of time. for
the following reason: Once an
enemy was moving upon the city, and
their stratagcm was TO take the city
al twelve o'clock moon: bat the
cathedral clock, by mistake, struck
one instead Of twelve: and 50 the
enemy thought they We're too late To
carry out the >tratagcm, and gave up
the assault, and the city vas saved;
and Therefore il WAS arranged that
for many years the clocks struck one
when ii was twelve. and twelve when
+ it WAS eleven. We must -, our
/ CLOCKS on il We would save ourselves.
save the world. Better far be too
early than too late.
4 Punctualty should be a matter Of
conscience. as we'll as a matter of
courtesy The successful n.cn of
every vocation in life have been they
who We're niSer> of minutes
Napoleon kept his eye As closely on
4 time As on the field of battle Nelson
1 said an his success in life was due to
| the fact that he had been a quarter
OF an hour before his time. All men
are seeking the best road to wealth
and every active clock is constantly
/ pointing out that road. Jane TAYLOR
made a fable OF til. clock. which.
! looking forward to years labor.
] calculating the number Of tunes it
1 would have to tick in the Year. got
/ discouraged and stopped. Bat some
OF the machinery, a little more con
siderate, intimated that il was an
easy task to tick once in second,
and proposed that the pendulum
should Try it. And so after the
experiment, all the members con
Guided that if only one tick was To
be made in a second. they would 20
To work and continue faithful
throughout the year, and thus make
up the vast sum OF the years work.
This same is true of fortunes. Solid
wealth is not the requirement Of a
day or year: il is Il collection OF
little items of industry. frugality,
and economy, and he is really rich
who is content with little. All
thinking men to-day are seeking q
solution of the so called Labor
Problem, and every active clock
points out Il very important but
constantly neglected factor in that
desired solution. The poet Hood,
Verse runs thus:
y mechanic his labor Will often di>coid,
II the rate of his pay he di>likcs;
But a clock-and its case is uncommonly
hard,
VII! con,ine To work though i, strikes
Every star is a sun around which
other stars rcvovc. And yet every
sun is but star in some larger
. system. So man is in himself ;
clocn, and at the same time is bA1
the part Of a larger clock. Here i:
the unknowable, and there is tn,
, impossible, and man is pendulum
that swings between the two, Away.
in procession. never at rest. wan
, to know how God can be absolut,
: sovereign and yet man Il free agent
| want 10 know why TINS sorrow wa
permitted TO come into my life:
| want to know where and what lif,
t eternal is; oh. a thousand things III,
soul longs to know but they are all
: at observation-disclosures | want {,
! help young people to a first elias
5 educatlon: want to help sickl,