The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-02-25

now passing the reviewing stand, and
that our children will pass tho stand In
a still better regiment God did not
build this world for q slaughter house
or den of infamy.
A good deal of cleaning house VIII be
necessary before this world becomes as
clean and sweet as it ought to be, but
the brooms and the scrubbing brushes,
and the upholsterers and plumbers are
already busy, and when the world gets
fixed up, as 1t will be, if Adam and Eve
ever visit it, as expect they will, they
will say to each other: swell, this
beats paradise when we lived there,
and the pears and the plums are better
than we plucked from the first trees,
and wardrobes are more complete, and
the climate is better.
Since / settled in my own mind the
factthat God was stronger than the
devil / have never lost faith In the
emparadisation Of this planet With the
exception of a retrogression in the Dark
Ages, the movement Of the world has
been on and on, and up and up, and
have two jubilant hosannas -one for
the closing year and the other for the
new year.
But the other thought coming ont OF
this subject Is that Biblical chronology,
and indeed all chronology, is urging the
world to more punctuality and immedi-
ateness What an unsatisfactory and In
definite thing 1t must have been for two
business men in the time OF Ahaz to
make an appointment. saying; I'VE will
settle that business matter tomorrow
when the shadow on the dial OF Ahaz
reaches the tenth step from the top" or
Il will meet you In the street called
Straight In Damascus in the time OF the
new moon," or when asked In court
room what time an occurrence took
place should answer, ut was during
the time of the latter rain" or ut was
at the time of the third growing OF
the barnyard!'
You and remember when ministers
of the gospel in the country, giving out
notice of an evening service, instead
of saying at 6 or OF o'clock, would
say, 1.-THE service will begin at early
candle light" Thank God for chron-
illogical achievements which have
ushered in calendars and almanacs and
clocks and watches, and at SO cheap
rate all may possess them! Chronology,
beginning by approaching the value of
years and the value of days, has kept
on until it cries out, ''Man, immortal;
woman, immortal; look out for that
minute; look out for that second"
We talk great deal about the value
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its value until the last fragment of it
has passed out of our possession forever.
The greatest fraud a man can commit is
to rob another of his time. Hear it, ye
laggards, a. repent! All the fingers OF
chronology point to punctuality as one
of the graceA The minister or the lee
turer or business man who comes to his
place ten minutes after the appointed
time commits crime the enormity OF
which can only be estimated by multi
plying the number of persons present
by ten. If the engagement be made
with five persons, he has stolen fifty
minutes, for he is ten minutes too late,
and he has robbed each of the five per
sons of ten minutes apiece, and ten
times five are fifty.
If there be 500 persons present and he
be ten minutes too late, he has commit
ted robbery of 5000 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 as 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
economizing my time. have notspent
one hour in amusement in thirty years"
And taking a blank book from his
pocket, he said, 81 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 go on forever. Matter is not
eternal No, mol If you watch half
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 go we said to each other, at 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 fatality of worlds The
moon is merely the corpse of what it
once was, and scientists have again
and again gone up in their observato-
ries to attend the dcathbed of dying
worlds and have seen them cremated
So am certain, both from the Word OF
God AMI 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 final
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
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