The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-01-12

Hills Il not half so bad as the thlei OF u ~
DR. Rush, the greatest am pusiesU, ~" ~
stefan of his day, appreciated ths ~ 49,,
t;r,,ss and when asked how he haa p91n
obIa 10 Gather so much information rof nls
49, and lectures he replied: ~ nave oTeil
ob1a n do il by economiZing my tLne.
ha.sa NOT snent one hour in Amusement ~ ~
.Eirtv vears~ And taking blanSofo,1IA
from his pocket he said, Il hi a pooA ~ ~
This avery week with thoughts thao occet ~, y,
me and facts collected in the ro'n9 -
patients. .L x,alue of time
rrbsn the sun was sinking upon WaoeIioo,
and he thought that little H,oie ,in+ad
Tuo,ld ratrieva his fortunes, and he polliIIeI
~ ths sinking sun ana said what "2al 10
not give to be this day posssssei "a ~
ROVER of Joshua and enabled 10 re'a ato,' ,a
march for two hours Inc gooi o ,.han of
appreciated the value OF tlns w era
net three wears of age She saio, III
Jndye of all the earth does not mean tna.
sbslI have anv excuse for MOI beng prepared
to meet Him" 80, .,.a,.a+aJ
Voltaire. the blatant inf ie'. aoprec .atea
the value of time when in ms gym nto
ments he said to his docto VIZ go nv, no
half of what am worth 1t you wiii CIV ', ne
civ months OF life" and when told ihaO ne
oonld nat live six weeks he burst INTO tears
onJ said uThen | shall go to hell! Jodu
Wes,ev appreciated the value of time when
ba stood on his steps watching for a oeiayei
carriage to take him to an appointment
saving. II have lost ten rninu 5e5 lorsx 49,
T,9rd Nelson appreciated the value OF Time
hon he ss;d II owe everything IN Ohe
world to being always quarter Oh an uou'
beforehand" =, r,,;s,,
A clockmaker in ons Of the old Engiish
towns snnreciated the value OF time wneh
he put on the front Of the town clock Tue
words, Snow or whenY MITCHELL cue a.
tronomer, appreciated the Va,us 80, " H.' nf
when he said II have baen in the haoi6 OF
calculating the value Of a thous 1nd6n parG
Of a second" That minister O. th5 Gospe'
did not appreciate the value OF tune WHO
during a season o. Illness, instead OF employ
ing bis time in useful reading or Wrltihg,
wrote silly religious romance, "hicn N
some unknown way came into the possession
of the famous Joe Smith, who 1ntroaucsd
the book as a divine revelation, which Pc
came the foun 1ation OF Mormonlsm' tnS
most beastly abomination OF all tune.
They best appreciate the value OF tine
whose Sobbaths have been wasted ana
whose opportunities of repentance ana use
fulness are all gone AMI who have notnlng
left but memories, baletul and eieelac,.
They stand i'll the bleak September, with
bare feet, on the sharp stubble OF feapeo,
wheat field, crying "The harvest is pasts
And the souqh of an eutunal equinox
means forth in echo. "rhs harvest Is pastF
But do not let Us get an impression from
chronology that because the years OF ullne
have been so long in procession they are 10
90 on forever Matter is not eternal. NO,
Dol If YOU watch half a day, or whole
tlav OF two DAYS, as l once did to see mill
tary procession, you remember the last
brigade. unn the last regiment and the last
company finally passed on. and as we rose to
20 we said to each other. 1T is all over y"
So this mighty procession 0. earthly years
will terminate Just WHEN have no power
to prornosticata but science confirms tue
Bible prophecy that the earth cannot always
last. indeed there has been fatality OF
worlds. The moon is merely the corpse OF
what it once was, aud scientists have again
an arain gone no ia their o5seryatorles to
attend the deathnei OF dying worlds, and
nave seen them cresuatei. So am certain,
both from the Word OF God and science,
that the worlds chronology VIII sooner OF
later come to its last chapter.
The Anal century will arrive and pass on,
md then will come the final decade, and
then the final year, AMI the ti1at month, ana
the final day. The last spring WI! swing IT'S
canser OF apple blossom; and the last winter
bank its SHOWS. The last sunset VIII burn
ike Moscow and thu last morning radiate
the hills. The CLOCKS will strike their last
hour and the watcher will TICK their last
FUN nTTlI7r g:II on -wrt1 rsr-Aeeeivfo
world on fire.
Chemistry teaches us that there is very
n1ammapls elemant in water. While oxy-
gen makes up part Of the water, the other
part of the water is hydrogen, and that is
very combustible. The oxygen drawn cut
from the water the inhammable hydrogen
will put instantly into confagration the
HUI sons a1d 5avannahs aud Mississippis and
Rhnes and Urals AMI Danubes, and Atlantic
and Pacific and indian an1 Medit erraneau
seas. And then the angel of God, de-
scanding from the throne, might put one
foot on the surf of the SEA AMI thu othsr on
the beach AMI cry to ths four winds OF
heaven, Time was, but time shall b. no
longerP Yet, found in Christ pardonsd
and sanctded, we shall welcome thu day
with more giadness than you ever well
coined Christmas c. New Years morn.
When wrapt in iro the rea ms of ether glow
And heavens las. thunder shakes the cara be-
low,
Thou, undismayed, shalt DER the rain smile
And lfohC funeral nile,