The Opelousas courier., 1893-01-28

1911 " oV.0R,000. Where. then il 81
ell iaaposslo1ity that the seventy Jews
. noo @ oeaa ihGo Egypt in 43o years became
ology right. oioie cnfoh-
wow stop and reflect. Wby is II +ha+
TINS sublime subject of Bible chro,o,ou.
mas peen SO neglectedsAan that the most y
you nave neVer given ten minutes 70 tha
consideration of it, and that this is the first
sermon ever preached on this stunendons
anu oVefWnelming theme? We have stood
~ ene hail day or the whole day at grand
reviews and seen armies pass.
AGAIN and again and again on ~
Ghamps Elysees Frenchmen by tha HIM
ureas Oh thousands have stood and watched
Tue Tue pannered armies go by, and the huzza
mas peen three miles long and until the
popuiace were SO hoarse they could hpzza
~ longer. Again and again and again the
uein1ans by hundreds of thousands have
Stooa on the paiaced and statued Under den
i.ihuen, Berlin, and strewn garIands unSar
tho feet of uniformed hosts led on bv Won
MolSke or Butcher or Frederick the Great.
Wnen wellington and Ponsonby and the
seots Trays came back from Waterloo or
molseley from Egypt, or Marlborough from
Diehneim what military professions through
negent street and along by the palaces of
LONDON and over the bridges of the Thamesi
what almost interminabIe lines of military
on the streets of our American capitals.
Wniie Mayors and Governors and Presidents.
with uncovered heads, looked on! But put
all those grand reviews together, and they
retamescompared with the review which
on New Years day you from the pew and I
from the pulpit witness.
Hear them pass in chronological order
all the years before the food. all the wears
since the flood, decades abreast: centuries
a~breast; epochs abreast; millenniums
abreast; Egyptian civilization, Babylonian
populations, Assyrian dominIons; armies of
Persian, Grecian, Peloponnesian aud Roman
wars; byzantine empire, Saracenic hosts,
crusaders of the first, the second, third and
the last avalanche of men; Dark Ages in
somber epaulets and brighter ages with
shields OF silver and helmets of gold: italy.
Spain, France, Russia, Germany, England
and America, past and present; dynasties,
feudal domains, despotisms, monarchies, re-
publlcS. ages on ages, ages on ages, passing
to-day in a chronological review, until one
mas no more power to look upon the adj
vancing columns. now brilliant now
squalid, now garlanded with peace. now
crimson with slaughter, now horrid with
ghastlIness, now radiant with love and iov
This chronological study affords. amonp
other practical thoughts, especially two
the one encouraging to the last degree and
the other startling. The encouraging
thought is that the main drift off tba can.
1SSh WV bGuJ6ELlGQE. Wlgn
only here and there a stout reversal.
Grecian civilization was a vast improve
ment on Egyptian civilization, and Roman
clVlllzatlon a vast Improvement on Grecian
civilization, and Christian c~iyiliza ton @s a
vast improvement on Roman civil ization.
Wna5 was tne boosted age of Pericles
compared with the age of LongfelIow and
Tennyson? What was Queen Elizabeth as a
specimen or moral womanhood compared
with Queen Victoria? What were the cruel
warriors of olden times compared with the
most distinguished warriors of the last half
century. all of them as much distinguished
for kindness and good morals as for proves
the TWO military leaders Of our Civil War
on northern and southern side communicate
memhers OF Christian churches, aud their
home life as pure as their public life?
Nothing lmpresses me in this chronology
cal review more than the fact that the regi-
ments OF years are better and better regi-
ments as the troops move on. | thank God
that you and / We're not born any sooner
than we were born. How could we nave
endured the disaster of being born in the
Eighteenth or Seventeenth or Sixteenth
Century, Glad am I that we are in the regi-
ment now passing the revie wing stand. and
that our children will pass the stand in a
still better regiment. Col did not build
this world for a slaughter house or a den Of
infamY.
A good deal oil cleaning house viii be
necessary before this world becomes as
clean and sweet as is ought to be, but the
brooms and the scrubbing brushes, and the
uphoIsterers n plumbers are already busy,
and when the world gets fixed up. as it will
be. if Adam n Eve ever visit it, as l ex-
pect they will, they will say to each other,
"Well, this beats paradise W hen we lived
there. and tie pears and 'pluma are better
than we pincke9 from the first trees, and
the wardrobes are more co mplete and the
climate is BETTER
Since settled in my W N ind the fact
that GOD was stronger than the devil | have
never lost faith in the emparadisation or
this planet. With the exception OF a retro
erosion in the Dark Ages, the movement OF
the world has been OF n on, and up n
up. and / hava two ~jubilant hosannas-one
for the closing year and the other for tut
new year.
But the other thought coming out OF this
subject is that Biblical caron ofogy, and in
deed all chronology, is urging the world to
more punctuality and lf1yna dIateness. W nat
an unsatisfactory aud indefinite thing 1T
must nave been for two b usiness men IN the
time of Ahaz to make an appointment, say
ing. "We will settle that business matter to-
morrow when the sha1o W on the dial OF
Ahaz reaches the tenth step from the tor"
or 81 will meet you in the street called
| Straight il, Damascus in the time OF bhe
new moon.u or when asgedi il a courtroom
4 WhAl LtIfAb dA " sLSl WIZ
answer. sit was during the ii ne OF the latter
rains or sit was at the time of the third
Growing of the barnyardW
You and + remember when ministers OF
the Gospel in the country, giving oug a mo-
tice of an evening service, instead OF saying
at 6 or 4 or S O'Clock, would say: me ser,
vice will begin at early candle iIgnt:
Thank God for chronological achievement
which have ushered in calendars ana az
MANAGES aud clocks and watches. ana az %
cheap q rate all may possess them! enron
ologY, beginning by apprecIatlng uhe Falue
of wears and the value Of days, has Ken1 or
until it cri05 out: Man, Immortal; woman,
immortal; look out for that minubei ioo@
for that secondF'
We talk 4 great deal about the value OF
time, int viii never fully appreciate les
val,1e unta the last fragment of it has passed
ont Of orr possession forever. The greatest
fraud 4 man can commit is to rob another
OF his time. Hear it, We laggaras ana Ie
cent? All the fingers of chronology poin0Oo
D~unctuality as one of the graces. me n ILL
lister or the lecturer or business man "he
comes to his place ten minutes alter me ap
nnintad time commits u crime the enorm.1y
IF which can only be stimated by muitiply
ing the number of persons present oy eeh
If the engagement belasnade with nYe PER
sons. be has stolen fifty minute for ne !
ten minutes too late, and he mas fobosu eaci
of the five persons OF ten minutes apnSo
and ten times five are fifty. /,
Ii there be 500 persess present ana ne o
ten minutes too late,Vhe has %
robbery of 5000 minutes, for ten tlnle e.
are 5000, and 5000 minutes are elghoy- shle'
hours. which make more than three days
The thief of DRY goods. the thief OF DanA
bills. is not half SO bad as the thief Of time
Dr.. Rush, the greatest and busiest pny
sician of his day, appreciated the vaiue Q
time. and when asked how ne nag Pee