The Forrest City times., 1892-02-05

calls as a physician that made Aber- crombie the christian philosopher, the half hours between his antics as school-master that made Salmon F. Chase chief justice. the half fhours be- tween snce-lasts that made Henry Wilson vice-presidcnt of the United States, the half-hours between canal boats that made James A. Garfield President The half-hour . day for good books or bad books; the half-hour day for prayer or indolence; the balf-hour day for help ing others or blasting others; the half hour before you go to business, and the half-hour after your return from business; that makes the difference between the scholar and the ignor- anus, between the christian and the in- fidel. between the saint and the de- mon, between triumph and catastro- phe. between heaven and hell. The most tremendous thing of your life and mine were certain half-hours- The half hour when in the parsonage of a country minister l resolved to be- come a christian then and there; the half-hour when l decided to become a preacher of the gospel; the half-hour when first realized that my son was dead: the half-hour when l stocd on the top of my house in Oxford street and saw our church burn; the half-hour In which l entered Jerusalem; the half hour in which ascended Mount Cal vary; the half hour in which stood on Mars Hill; the half hour in which the dedicatory prayer of this temple was made; and about ten or fifteen ether half-hours, are the chief times Of my life. You may forget the name of the exact years or most of the important events of your existence, but those half hours, like the half-hour of my text, will be immor- tai. do not query what you will do with the Twentieth century, do not query what you will do with 1892, but what will you do with the next half hour Upon that hinges your destiny.
 But how will you sf end the first half-hour of your heavenly citizenship after you have gone in to stayP After your prostration before the throne in worship of him who made it possible for you to get there at all, l think the rest of your first half-hour in heaven wilt be passed in receiving your re- ward if you have been faithful l have a strangely beautiful book con- taining the pictures of the medals struck by the English Government in honor of great battles; these medals pinned over the heart of the returned heroes of the army, on great oc- casions, the Royal family present, and the Royal bands playing: the Crimean medal, the Legion of Honor, the Vic toria Cross, the Waterloo medal In your first half-hour in heaven in some way you will be honored for the earthly struggles in which you won the day. Stand up before all the Royal House of heaven and receive the in signia while you are announced as Victor over the droughts and freshets of the farm field, Victor over the temptations of the stock exchange, Victor over professional allurements, Victor over domestic infelicities, Victor over mechanics shop, Victor over the store house, Victor over home worriments, Victor over phys ical distresses, Victor over hereditary depressions, Victor over sln and death and he'll Take the badge that cele- brates those victories through our Lord Jesus Christ. Take it in the pres ence of all the galleries, saintly, angelic and Divine, While all heaven chants: ..These are they who came out of great trIbulation and had theIr robes washed and made white in the blood of tho Lamb,'
 Thy saints in all this glorious war
 Shall conquer though they die
 They see the triumph from afsr
 And seize it with their eye.
 uad a Day OE
 Mrs. Out-of-town (to near neigh bor): Such trouble I've had today; I'm nearly dead.
 Neighbor: Dear me! Whats hap. penedpn
 My husbands watch stopped last night"
 Il don't see why that"
 .No, neither could we. 1t never stopped before, and we did'n know it was stopped this morning, because. it stopped at seven o'clock last evening. and so set the clock by it and that was wrong. and my husband missed the train to town and the children were late to school. '
 Not pleasant of course; but"
 'Oh. but haven't told you all. You see. my husband. after missing his regular train. concluded to take day off and mend all the furniture
 '.l see
 Yes He's got everything in the house apart and can't get them to. gether again.
 She Dipper and the North Star.
 Most people in clear day can. without a watch or other timepiece. form a closely approximate idea o{ the time of day by the position of the sun, but few. perhaps, have guessed any similar method of computing tho time during the night without any other means than the starry skies.