Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-01-05

mind the taCt thai GOd was stronger imam +
the devil | have never lost faith in he en-
paradisatiou II the planet. With the cScep- /
ton of a rr'rotression in the Dark Ages /
the movement of the world has been On /
and ON, and up and up, and have two iu- ,
biaut ho-ln1a---one for the closing year
and the other for the new year
NOW Is YOUR ONLY CERT AIN TIME.
But the other thought coming out Of this !
subject is that Biblical chronology, and in-
deed all chronology, is urging the world to
more punCtuality and immediatcness.
What an unsatisfactory and indciinite
thing it must have been for two business
men in the time of Ahaz to make an mp
pointmcnt, saying, 1--WE 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 DamaS-
Gus in the time Of the new moon" or when
asked III courtroom what time an occur
renee took place should answer, at was
during the time of the latter rain" or, ut
was at the time of the third growing of tho
baruyArl'
| You and remember when ministers of
the Gospel in the country, giving ont mo-
tice of an evening service, instead Of saying
at & or or : O'Clock, would say, The serv-
ice will begin ut early candle light" Thank
God for Chronological achievements which
have ushered in calendars and almanacs
and clocks and watches, and ut so cheap
rite 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 ;hat second"
We talk great deal about the value of
Ill,s fttt
value until the last fragment of it has
passed out OF our possession forever. The
greatest fraud a man can commit is to rob
another Ct hi, time. Hear il, ye agGards,
and repent All the fingers Of chronology
point to puuCttiailty ~ one Of the glAcCS.
The minister or the lecturer or business
man who comes to his place ten minutes
after the appointed time commits crime
the euOrnlty o! which can only be estinat-
ed by multiplying the number of persons
present by tea. If the engagement be made
with five PERSONS. he has stolen fifty min
utes, for he - ten minutes too late, and he
has robbed tuch oi the five persons OF ten
minutes apiece, aud ten times five are iIity
II there are 500 persons present, and he he
ten minutes too late, he has committed a
robbery OF 5000 minutes, for ten times 800
are 5000. and 5000 minutes are e3 hours,
v
thief OF dry goods, the thief of bank
bills IN not halt 80 bad as the thief of time.
DIR Hush, the greatest and busiest phYsi-
clan Of his day, appreciated the value
of time. aud when asked how he had been
able to gather 50 much information tor his
books and lectures he replied: II have been
able TO do it by economihing my time. |
have not epert QUE hour in amusement in
thirty years" And taking ii blaukbook
from hio pocket he said, II MI "A book like
this every week with thoughts that occur
to me and facts collected in the rooms Of
my patients
THE PERKS OF DELAY.
Napoleon appreciated the vUiue of time
when the sun was sinking upon Waterloo,
and lie Thought that II little more t.nAe
would retrieve hi- fortunes, and he pointed
to the sinking san and said. "WHat wotId
not give to he tins day possessed of the
power of Joshua and enabled to retard thy
march fortwo huur>l" The good Old woman
appreciated the value of time when at nine
tythree years of aye she said, The judge
of all the earth does not mean that shall
have any excuse for not being prepared 20
meet him" Noltnire, the blatant ini0tl,
appreciated the value OF time when III his
dying moments he said TO his doctor, II
viii 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
he burst into tears and SAID, Then shall
go to Lcii.'
john Wesley appreciated the value of
time VEvn he stool on his steps waiting for
delayed carriage to ttke him to an APP
poiutmeut, saying, Il have lost ten minutes
forever" Lord Nelson appreciated the
value of time when he said, Il owe every
Il "a Init,t nj
! ter OF AN hour beforehand" 4 clockmaker
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 or
Wueuy' Mitchell, the astronomer, Hpprecl-
atcd the value Of time WHEN lie said, Il
: have been in the habit Of calculating the
: value OF II thoustuujh part O! Il second"
That minister Of the Gospel did not APP
prcciatt tine value of time who during a
season OF iluc,s, instead of employing his
time IN u>ciul reading and writing, wrote n
silly religious romance, which III some UNI
known way came into the possession of the
Iamou, doe smith, who introduced the
book ~ II divine revelation, which became
the foundat on OF Mormouism, the most
beastly illumination of all time They best
appreciate the value of time whose sab
baths have Lern wasted and whose oppor
: all gone aud who have nothing left but
memories, hnletul and elcGiac. They stand
III the bleak september, with bare feet, on
Z the sharp stubDle OF II reaptd wheat field
crying, The harvest is past and the
slough OF an lutulnnil equinox inOi.lls lorth
= III echo, THE harvest is past!'
t THE END MUST COME
= But do not let us get IN impression from
= chronology that because the years Of time
A have been so long in procession they are tt
go on forever. Matter is not eternal. No
l. no. Ii you watch half u day, or who'll
+ day or two days as once did, to see n mil
4 itary procession, you remember the las
4 brigade, and the last regiment, and tn,
i last company finally passed on, and as w
e rose to w we said to each other, 1t is al
I over"
i SO this mighty procession of earthl!
= years will terminate. Just when | hav,
il no power to prognosticate, but science con
+ firms the Bible prophecy that the eartl
y cannot always last. Indeed there has beer
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