Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-01-05

You and remember when ministers of
the Gospel in the country, giving out no
tice of an evening service, instead of saying
at or or s o'clock, would say, "The serv-
ice will begin at early candle light" Thank
God for chronological achievements which
have ushered in calendars and almanacs
and clocks and watches, and at so cheap
rate all may possess them. Chronology,
beginning by appreciating 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 secondp'
We talk 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 II man can commit is to rob
another of his time. Hear it, ye laggards,
and repent! All the fingers of chronology
point to punctuality Ms one of the graces.
The minister or the lecturer or business
man who comes to his place ten minutes
after the appointed time commits crime
the enormity of which can only be estimat-
ed by multiplying the number of persons
present by ten. If the engagement be made
with five persons, he has stolen fifty min
utes, for he is ten minutes too late, and he
has robbed each of the five persons of ten
minutes apiece, and ten times five are fifty.
If there are 500 persons present, and he be
ten minutes too late, he has committed a
robbery of 200 minutes, for ten times 500
are 5000, and 5000 minutes are So hours,
which make more than threa 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 physi-
clan of his day, appreciated the value
of time, and when asked how he had been
able to gather so much information for his
books and lectures he replied: ~ have been
able to do it by economizing my time. !
have not spent one hour in amusement in
thirty years" And taking blankbook
from his pocket he said, II fill book like
this every week with thoughts that occur
| to me and facts collected in the rooms OF
my patients"
THE PERIIs OF DELAY.
| Napoleon appreciated the value of time
when the sun WAS sinking upon Waterloo,
and be thought that little more time
would retrieve his fortunes, and he pointed
! to the sinking sun and said, What would
not give to be this day possessed of the
power of Joshua and enabled to retard thy
march for two hoursp' The good old woman
appreciated the value of time when at nine
ty-three years of age she said, THE judge
of all the earth does not mean that shall
have any excuse for not being prepared to
meet him." Voltaire, the blatant infidel,
appreciated the value of time when in his
dying moments he said to his doctor, Il
will give you half Of what am worth Il
you will give me six months Of life" and
when told that he could not live six weeks
he burst into tears and said, Then | shall
go to hell"
John Wesley appreciated the value OF
time when he stood on his steps waiting fol
delayed carriage TO take him to IN AZ
pointment, saying, II have lost ten minutes
forever" Lord Nelson appreciated the
value of time when he said, Il owe every
thing in the world to being always quar-
ter of an hour beforehand" a ciockmakel
in one Of the old English towns appreciated
} the value of time when he put on the front
of the town clock the words, Now OF
, when" Mitchell, the astronomer, appreci
ated the value of time when he said, :"
have been in the habit Of calculating thu
value OF thousandth part of second"
, That minister of the Gospel did not ap
, preciate the value Of time who during ;
season Of illness, instead of employing hi
: time in useful reading and writing, wrote
/ silly religious romance, which in some un
: known way came into the possession of th'
; famous Joe Smith, who introduced th'
book as divine revelation, which becam
3 the foundation of Mormonism. the mos
beastly lyahomination Of all time. They hes