Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-01-12

bills, Is not half SO bad as the thief OF time
DR.. Rush. the greatest and busiest ply
stefan of his day, appreciated the value OF
time, and when asked how he had been
able to gather 50 much information for his
books and lectures he replied: II have been
able to do 1t by economizing my time, I
have not spent enc hour in amusement in
thirty years" And taking blankbook
from his pocket he said, II fill a. book like
this every week with thoughts that occur to
me and facts collected in the rooms OF my
patients
Napoleon appreciated the value of time
when the sun was sinking up1n Waterloo,
and he thought that little more time
would retrieve his fortune, ani he pointed
to the sinking sun ana said, What woui /
not give to be this dav possessed Of the
power Of Joshua and euablei to retard thy
march for two hoursp' The COOL old woman
appreciated the value of time when at
ninety.three venrs of age she said, 1.-THE
Judge of all the earth does not mean that
shall have anv excuse for not being prepared
to meet Him.
voltaire, the blatant inf lei. apprec ated
the value of time when In his dying mo-
nents he said to his docto-. i will give you
half of what am worth II you will give me
six months of lise.n and when told that he
could not live six weeks he burst into tears
and said, Then ! shall go to hellr John
Wesley appreciated the va ue of time when
he stood on his steps Watching for delayed
carriage to take him to an appointment.
saying. II have lost ten minutes forever"
Lord Nelson appreciated the value OF time
when he said, II owe everything in the
world to being always a quarter OF an hour
beforehand"
A clockmaker in ons of the old English
towns appreciated the valus OF tins WIN en-
he put on the front OF the town clock the
or xpt,a all
tronomer. appreciated thu vau, OF time
when he said, Il have heen in the habit of
calculating the value Of thous ,ndth part
OF second" That minister of the GOSPEL
did not appreciate thu value OF time w'io.
during season OF illness, instead OF en-, ~
ing his time in useful reading Or vi. 'ng,
wrote silly religious romance, W CT in
some unknown way came into the DO session
OF the famous Jos Smith. who introduced
the book as divine revelation, which be-
came the foun lation of Mormonism, the
most heastly abomination of all time
Tdey best appreciate the value of time
whose Sabbaths have been wasted and
whose opportunities Of repentance and use
fulness are all gone, an who have nothing
LETT but memories, baleful and elegiac.
They stand in the pleak September, with
bare feet, on the share stubb,e OF O reaped
wheat field, crying, "Tne harvest is pastr
And the sough OF an autunal equinox
means forth ia echo, "fhs harvest is pastp
But do not let US get an impression from
chronology that bocauss the years of time
have been so long in proc sssion they are to
go on forever. Matter is not eternal No,
no! II you watch half day, or a whole
day or two days. as l once did to see q mill
tary procession, you remember the last
brigade, and the last regiment, and the last
company finally pissed on. and as we rose to
go we said to each other, ut is all over"
n m iy1af TO ,r
will terminate. Just when have no power
to prognosticate but scienc, confirms the
Bible prophecy that the earth cannot always
last Indeed there has been fatality of
worlds. The moon is merely the corpse of
what it once was, aud scientists have again
AMI again gone up in their observatories to
attend the deathoei of dying worlds, and
nave seen them crematei. 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 and pass ON.
and then will come the final decade. and
then the final year, an l the final month. and
the final day. The last spring viii swing its
censor of apple blossoms an the last winter
bank its SHOWS. The last sunset will burn
like Moscow and tbs last morning radiate
the hills. The ciocks will strike their last
hour, and the watches will tick their last
second No jncsndiaries will bs needed to
run hlther ana yon vita torches to set the
world on fire.
Chemistry teaches US taat there is very
indammable element in water. While oxy.
gen makes up part Of the water, the other
part OF the water is hydrogen, and that is
very comoustibse. Tns oxygen drawn out
from the water the inhamnab,e hydrogen
will put instantly into confagration the
Illusions and Savannahs and Mississippis aud
Rhines AMI Urals AMI Danubes, and Atlantic
AMI Pacific and Indian aai Mediterran mean
seas. Aud then the angel of God, de-
scending from the throne. might put one
foot on Che surf OF thu ssa aal the other on
the beach AMI cry to tis four winds Of
heaven. "Tims was. but tins shall BE- no
longerr' Yet, found in Christ, parionad
and sanctified, wa shalt wscom, ths day
with more gladness than you ever well
conei a Christmas o. New Years morn.
When wrapt in fire the ream of e.hsr GLOW
Aud heaven, last tanned shares tls elrll ns.
low,
Thou, undismayed, shat DER IA, ruin smile