The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-01-13

seventeenth or gixteenteenth 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
or 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 broons and the scrubhing brushes,
and the upholsterers and plumbers are
already busy, and when the world gets
fixed up as it will be, if Adam and Eve
ever visit it, as l expect they will, rhey
will say to each other: wei, this
beats paradise when we lived tht-ce,
and the pears and the plums are bet, n
than we plucked from the first trees,
and wardrobcs are more complete, and
the climate is better.
Since l settled in my own mind the
fact that God was stronger than the
devil have never lost faith in the
capitalization of this planet. With the
exception of a retrogression in the Dark
/ Ages. the movement of the world has
been on and on, ard up and up, and l
have two jubilant hosannas -one 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; 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, at WAS during
| the time of the latter rain" or 1T was
at the time of the third Growing of
! the barnyard."
You and l remember when ministers
of the gospel in the country, giving out
n notice of IN evening service. instead
of saying at 6 or : or s o'clock, would
say, The service will begin at early
candle light" Thank God for chron-
oiogical achievements which have
ushered in calendars and slmanacs and
clocks and watches, and at SO cheap a
rate all may possess them! Chronology.
beginning by appreciating the value of
years and the value of days, has kept
on until it cries ont, Man, immortal;
woman, immortal; Look out for that
60 hot
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 man can commit is
10 rob another of his time. Hear il, We
laCgards, 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 number of persons present
by ten. If the engagement be made
with i've persons, he has stolen fifty
minutes, for he is ten minutes too late,
AID he has robbed each of the FIVE per-
SONS OF ten minutes apiece. and ten
tines five are fifty.
If there be 500 persons present ard he
b.. ten minutes too late. he has commit
tod robbery of $500 minutes. for ten
times 500 are 5000. ana 5000 minutes
are eighty-three hours. which make
more than three days. The thief of dry
goods, the thief OF banl. 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 10 gather so much infor-
nation for his books and lectures he re-
piled: Il have been able to do 1t by
economizing my time. have not spent
one hour in amusement in thirty years"
And taking a blank book from his
pocket. ne said, II fill book like this
every week with thoughts that occur to
me and facts collected in the rooms OF
my patients"
Bat 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 i
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 com
pany 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 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 observato-
ries to attend the deathbed of dying
worlds and have seen them crematcd.
/ SO an 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,
aud 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
J 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 hithcr and yon with
! torches to set the world on FIRE
Chemistry teaches us that there is a
very intiammable element in water.
While oxygen makes up part of the
water. the other part of the water is n.y.
droCen, and that is very combustible.
The oxygen drawn out from the water,
the inflammable hydrogen will put in
| e+a,+I1 into conf7a Grafton the HudSonS