The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-02

Thank God for chronological achievements
which have ushered in calendars and alma
macs and clocks and watches. and at 50
cheap a rate all may possess them. Chron-
oiogy 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 a man can commit 10 70
rob another Of his time Hear it, ye lag
CARDS, aud repent! All the fingers Of chron-
ology point to punctuality as one OF the
graces.
The minister or the lecturer or business
| man who COMES to his place ten minutes
after the appointed time commits a crime,
the enormity of which can only be esti-
mated by multiplying the number of per-
J sons present by ten. II the engagement be
| made with five persons he has stolen fifty
| minutes, for he is ten minutes too late and
| be has robbed each of the five persons Of ten
/ minutes apiece, and ten times five are fifty.
1 If there are Ave hundred persons present,
/ and be be ten minutes too late he has COM
\ mited a robbery Of five thousand minutes,
for ten times five hundred are i've thou
sand, and five thousand minutes are eighty
/ three hours. which make more than three
| days. The thief of dry goods, the thief OF
| bank bills is not half 90 bad as the thief of
| time Dr. Rush. the greatest, busiest
| physician Of bis time appreciated the value
| OF time, and when asked how he had been
able to gather so much information for his
| books and lectures, be replied IL
have been able to lit by economizing my
time / have not spent one hour in
amusement in thirty years." And taking
a blank book from his pocket said, 81 fill
| book like this every week with thoughts
that occur to me aud facts collected IN the
rooms of my patients" Napoleon appre-
ciated the value Of time when the sun was
sinking upon Waterloo, aud he thought that
a little more time would retrieve his fort
| unes, and be pointed 10 the sinking sun, and
| said: "What would not give TO be this day
| possessed OF the power OF Joshua and ena-
| bled to retard thy march for two hoursp
! The good old woman appreciated the value
| Of time when at ninety-three years Of age,
she SAID: THE judge of all the earth does
no0 mean that / shall have any excuse
for not being prepared to meet him."
| Noltaire, the blatant inddel, appreciated
the value of time when. in his dying mo-
ments, be said to his doctor: 81 will give
you half of what am worth If you will
| give me six months of life" and when told
that he could not live six weeks be burst
into tears and said Then l shall 60 TO
hell.n John Wesley appreciated the value
| of time when he stood on his steps waiting
for delayed carriage to take him to an ap-
| pointment, saying; Il have lost ten min
utes forever" Lord Nelson appreciated
| the value of time when he said: 81 owe
everything in the world to being always a
| quarter of an hour beforehand" A clock
maker In one of the old English towns appre-
| ciated the value of time when he put on the
| front of the town clock the words; Now or
| when" Mitchell, the astronomer. appre-
! ciated the value of time when he said: 81
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value Of thousandth part OF a second"
| That minister of the gospel did not appre-
oiate the value Of time who. during a
season of illness, instead Of employing his
time In useful reading or writing, wrote a
silly religious romance, which, in some I'M
| known way, came into the possession Of the
famous Joe Smith, who introduced the
| book as q divine revelation. which became
the foundation of Mormonism, the most
beastly abomination Of all time. They best
appreciate the value of time whose Sab
baths have been wasted and whose oppor-
tunities of repentance and usefulness are all
agone, and who have nothing left tut
memories, baleful and elegaic. They stand
| in the bleak September, with bare feet on
the sharp stubble of reaped wheat field,
crying; The harvest is past" and the
sough of the eutumnal equinox means
| forth In echo; THE harvest 10 pastl"
But do not les us get an impression from
| chronology that because the years OF time
have been 80 long in possession they are to
go on forever. Matter is not eternal. No,
no. IL you watch half a day, or a whole
day or two days, as / once did, to see a
military procession, You remember the last
| brigade and the last regiment and the last
! company 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. l have no power
49, k,,N a.. al
| Bible prophecy that the earth cannot always
last. Indeed there has been q fatality of
| worlds. The moon is merely the corIs, of
| what it once was, and scientists have again
and egain gone up in their observatories to
| attend the deatb-bed Of dying worlds and
have seen them cremated. So am certain,
| both from the word of God and science that
the worlds chronology will sooner or later
| come to its last chapter. The final century
| will arrive aud 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 bios
| SONS, and the last winter bank 1t 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
| hitler and yon with torches TO set the world
on fire. Chemistry teaches us that there is
| a very in1ammable element in water.
While oxygen makes up part of the water,
the other part of the water is hydrogen,
and that is very combustible. The oxygen
drawn out from the water. the infammable
hydrogen NAV put instantly into conhagra-
ton the Hudsons and Savannahs and Mis-
| sisAppis and RhiDes and Urals and Danubes,
and Atlantic and Pacific and Indian and
Mediterranean seas. And then the angel OF
God descending from the throne, might
put one foot in the surf OF the sea and the
other on the leach. and cry TO the four
! winds Of heaven: thine was But time
shall be no longer !" Yet, found in Christ,
pardoned and sanctihed, we shall welcome
the day with more gladness than you ever
welcomed Christmas or o New Years
| morn.
| When wrapt in fire, the realms OF ether glow,
And heavens last thunder shakes the earth
| below;
| Thou, undismayed shalt DER the ruin smile
| And light thy torch at natures funeral pile.