The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-01-13
eventeenth or sixteenteenth century,

| seven tenth or sixteenteenth century,
Glad am that we are In the regiment
now passing the reviewing stand, and
that our children will pass the stand IN
a still better regiment. God did not
build this world for slaughter house
OF den of infamY.
A good deal of cleaning house will be
necessary before this world becomes as
clean and sweet as it ought to be, but
the brooms and the scrubbing brushes,
and the tipholsterers and plumbers are
already busy, and when the world gets
fixed up. as it will be, if Adam and Eve
ever visit it, as Fexpect they will, they
will say to each other: "Well, 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
fact that God was stronger than the
devil I have never lost faith in the
emparadisation of this planet With the
exception of retrogression in the Dark
| Ages, the movement of the world has
been on and on, and up and up, and I
have two jubilant hosannas for
the closing year and the other for the
new year.
But the other thought coming out 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 it must have been for two
business men in the time of Ahaz to
make an appointment saying; eve will
settle that business matter tomorrow
when the shadow on the dial of Ahaz
reaches the tenth step from the top" or
II 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, st was during
the time of the latter rain" or ut was
at the time of the third growing of
the barnyardt'
You and l remember when ministers
of the gospel in the country, giving out
notice of an evening service, instead
of saying ate or or 8 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
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 a great deal about the value |
of time, but will never fully appreciate |
its value until the last fragment of it |
has passed out of our possession forever. |
The greatest fraud man can commit is |
to rob another of his time. Hear it, we |
laggards, and repent! All the fingers of |
chronology point to punctuality as one |
of the graces The minister or the lee |
turer or business man who comes to his !
place ten minutes after the appointed |
time commits a crime the enormity of |
which can only be estimated by multi |
plying the numb of persons present |
by ten. If the engagement be made |
with five persons, ne 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 not spent
one hour in amusement in thirty years."
And taking a blank book from his
pocket, he said, 81 fill a 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, no. If you watch half
day, or whole day, or two days, as 1
once did, to see a 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 l 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 it
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 I 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 final
and the final day. The last
spring will swing it's 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
ast hour, and the watches will tick their
asst second. No incendiaries will be
needed to run hither and yon with
torches to set the world on fire.
Chemistry teaches US that there is
very inf1ammable element in water.
While oxygen makes up part of the
water, the other part of the water Is n.y.
irogen, and that is very ombustible.
The oxygen drawn out from the water,
he inf1ammable hydrogen will put in
;tantly into confiagration the Hudsons
md Savannahs and Mississippis and
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