Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-01-05
SOME ENAMPLES.

InaN lnree UdNs. ne iL4el VI o4 ) SootH,
the thief of bank bills. is not half so bad
as the thief Of time.
SOME EXAMPLES
DR.. Rush. the greatest and busiestphy-
sician of his day appreciated the value
Of time. and when asked how he had
been able to gather SO much information
fo,. his books and lectures he replied: Il
have been able TO doit by economizins
my time. have not spent one hour in
amusement in thirty years. And tak-
ing blankbook from his pocket he said,
Il FIJI book ike this every week with
thoughts that occur to me and facts col
lccted in the rooms Of my patients.
Napoleon appreciated the value of
time when the sun was sinking upon
Waterloo, and he thought that a 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
hours. The good old woman appreci-
ated the value of time when at ninety
three years Of age She said. The Judge
of all the earth does not mean that
shall have any excuse for not being pre-
pared to meet him
yoltaire. ;he blatant intidel. appreci-
ated the value of time Wien III his dy-
ing moments he SAID TO his doctor, Il
will gise YOU half of what I'm worth if
vou will give me SIX months Of life, ~and
when told that he could not live SIX
weeks he brrst into tears aud said,
Then shall 90 to he'll" John Wesley
appreciated the value of time when he
stood on his steps waiting for a delayed
carriase to take him to an appointment,
saving, Il havelost ter minutes fore"er.
Lord Nelson appreciated the value OF
,1ne when he said, i owe everything IN
the world to being always quarter Of
an hour beforehand.
a clocklnaker in one of the old Eng
lish towns appreciated the value Of time
when he pat on the front OF the town
clock the words, Now or when: Mitch
el. the astronomer. appreciated the value
IF time when he said. Il nave been IN
the habit Of calculating the value OF a
thousandth part of n second. That min
lister Of the Gospel dlG not appreciate the
value of time who during season of
illness, instead of employing his time III
useful reading or writing. wrote a silly
religious romance. which in some un-
known way came. into the possession OF
the famous Joe Smith. who introduced
the book as a divine revelation which
became the foundation of MormoniSln.
the most beastlv abomination OF ali time.
They be=; appreciate the value OF time
whose Sabbaths have been wasted and
whose opportunities Of repentance. and
usefulness are all agone. and who have
nothing left but memories. balefnl AID
<lesiac They stand in the bleak Sep
tember. with bare feet, OF the sharp
stubble Of reaped wheat field. crying
The harvest is past. And the Sou@h OF
an autumnal equinox moans forth in
echo. The harvest is past.
THE LAST OF ALL.
But DO not let Us get an impression
from chronology that because the yeaio
of time have been so long in procession
they are to 90 on forever. Matter is not
eternal. No. no. If you watch half
day. or whole day, or two days. as
once dA. to see military procession
you remember the last brigade, and the
last regiment. and the last company. final
" passed on. ana as we rose to 80 we
said to each other, 1T is all over
: So this mighty procession of earthly
years will terminate. Just when have
no power to pfognosticate, but science
confirms the Bible prophecy that the
earth cannot always last. Indeed there
mas been fatality of worlds. Themoon
is merely the corpse Of what it once was,
an2 scientists have again and again gone
up in their obscrvatories to attend the
deathbed. of dying worlds and have seen
them cremated. Sc I. am certain, both
from the Word OF cod and science, that
the worlds chronology will sooner or
later come to its last chapter.
The final century will arrive and pass
on, and then will come the final decade
and then the final year, and the fna.
month. and the final day. The last spring
will swing its censer of apple blossoms
and the last winter bank its SHOWS. Tie
last sunset viii burn like Moscow aud
the last morning radiate the hills The
clocks viii strike their last hour, and the
watches viii tick their last second. No
incendiaries viii be needed to run hithef
and yon with torches to set the world
on fire
Chemistry teaches us that there is
very infammable element in water
While oxygen makes up a part of the
water, the other part Of the water is by
drogen. and that IS very combustible
Theoxygen drawn out from the water, the
inAammable hydrogen will put.instantly
into cenfagration the Hudsons and Sa-
vannaha and Mississippis and Rhines and
Urals and IDanubes, and At-.ntic md
Pacific and Indian and Mediterranean
seas. And then the angel of God, de
scending from the throne, might pnt one
footon the surf OF thesea and the other
!, on The. beach and tsfy to the four winds
sof heaven. Time was, but time shall. be