Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-01-07

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by ten. II the engagement be made
with i've persons, he has stolen nifty
minutes, for he is ten minutes too late,
and he has robbed each of tn five per
sons of ten minutes apiece, and ten
times five are fifty.
II there be 500 persons present and he
be ten minutes too ls.e, he has commit
ted robbery of $3.50 minutes, for ten
times 500 are 5000, and 5000 minutes
are eighty-three hours, which make
more than three days. The thief OF dry
goods, the thief of bank bills. is not
half so bad rs the thief Of time.
DR.. Rush, the greatest and busiest
physician of his day, appreciated the
value of time, and when asked how he
had been able to gather so much infor-
nation for his books and lectures he re-
piled: 81 have been able to do it by
economiEing my time. have notspent
one hour in amusement in thirty years"
And taking q blank book from his
pocket, he said, ~ fill book like this
every week with thoughts that occur to
me and facts collected in the rooms OF
my patients"
But do not let us get an impression
from chronology that because the years
OF time have been SO long in procession
they are to 20 on forever. Matter is not
eternal No, no! If you watch half q
day, or whole day, or two days, as
once did, to see military procession
you remember the last brigade, and
the last regiment, and the last COM
pany finally passed on, and as we rose
to 60 we said to each other, ut is all
over"
So this mighty procession Of earthly
years will terminate. Just when have
no power to prognosticate, but science
confirms the Bible prophecy that the
earth can not always last. Indeed there
has been a fatality of worlds The
moon is merely the corpse of what 1t
once was, and scientists have again
and again gone up in their Observable
ries to attend the deathbed of dying
worlds and have seen them cremated
So l am certain, both from the Word OF
God and science, that the worlds chro-
nology will sooner or later come to its
last chapter.
The final century will arrive and pass
on, and then will come the final decade,
and then the final year, and the Anal
month, and the final day. The last
spring will swing its censor Of apple
blossoms and the last winter bank its
SHOWS The last sunset will burn like
Moscow and the last morning radiate
the hills. The clocks will strike their
last hour, and the watches will tick their
last second. No incendiaries will be
needed to run hither and yon with
torches to set the world on fire.
Chemistry teaches us that there 10
very inhammable element in water.
While oxygen makes up part of the
water, the other part of the water is ny
drogen, and that is very combustible.
The oxygen drawn out from the water,
the infammable hydrogen will put in
stantly into conhagration the Hudsons
and Savannahs and Mississippis and
Rhines and Trails and Dan
ubes, and Atlantic and Pacific
and Indian and Mediterranean
seas. And then the angel of God, de-
scending from the throne, might put
one foot on the surf of the sea and the
other on the beach and cry to the four
winds of Heaven, Time was, but time
shall be no longer" Yet, found in
Christ, pardoned and sanctitied, we
shall welcome the day with more glad.
ness than you ever welcomed Christ
mas or New Years morn.