The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-01-05

~ Ut. Nusn. the greatest anf busiest s,hv.
nc'an OF his day. appreciated the value OF
time, and when asked how he had been
able TO vather 81 much information for his
books and lectures he repliei: 81 have been
aois TO 10 II bv ecouomixing nv time.
| nave not scent ono hour in amusement in
thirty years Aud taking n blankbook
rom his pocket he said 81 fill a book like
tnls every week with thoughts that occur to
me and facts collected in the rooms of nv
| patients"
! Napoleon appreciated the value of tina
wnen tho sun was sinking upon Waterloo.
and he thought that little more tims
would retrieve his fortunes, and he pointed
10 the sinking sun ana said "What woull I
not give to he this day possessed of the
power or Joshua and enabled 10 retard thy
march FOR two hours The good old woman
appreciated the vaue Of time wnen at
n'nety-three years Of age she said, "rhs
Judge of all the earth does not mean that 4
snall have anv excuse for not being prepared
| to meet Him"
Votaire. the blatant intidel. appreciated
the value of time when in his dying mo.
ments he said 10 his docto ~ will give you
half OF what am worth IL you will give mo
SIX months OF life" and when told that bs
could not live six weeks he burst into tears
aud said. "Then 1 shall go To hellm John
Wesley appreciated the value of time when
ne stood on his steps watching for "A delayed
N't'obt " 70 hn AnnOntmpnt.
saying. II have lost ton minutes forever"
Lori Nelson appreciated the value OF tins
WIN n he said, ~ owe everything i'm the
world TO being always quarter of an hour
boforehnnir
Aclockmaker In ons of the old English
towns appreciated the value OF time when
ne rut on the front OF the town clock tho
woris "Now or whens' Mitch,ll. the a..
troromer. appreciated the value OF time
when he said, II have been in the habit OF
calculating the value OF thouSendth part
ot asecond.' That minister OF the GospeI
did 1ot appreciate ths value OF time who.
durng season OF illness, instead OF employ.
ny iis time In useful reading or writing
sroe silly religious romance, which in
soms unknown way came into the possession
\ NJ tie famous jos Smith, who introduced
the book as a divine revelation which be.
1am, the foun alton OF Mormonsm, the
most beastly aboinination of all time.
They best appreciate the value of time
whose Sabbaths have been wast,d and
whose opportunities of repentance and Use.
iulntss are all gone, ami who have nothing
eft but memories, baleful and eleyiac.
They stand IN tue bleak September with
bare feet, on the sharp stubble OF "A raaped
vheet field, CRYING. THE harvest is pastw
And tho sough OF an autumal equinox
noahs forth In ecio "ihe harvest is pastr
But do not lot Us got an impression from
nave been 50 long in procession thoy are to
20 oi forever. Matter is not eternal. No.
mol II you watch halt day, or whole
lay a. two days, as L once did TO see mill.
tary procession, you remember the last
brigade, aud the last regiment. and the last
company finally pissed on, and n, we rose to
20 we said to each other, "lt is all over -
So this mighty procession OF earthly years
will terminate. just when have no power
70 Drognosticate, but science confirms the
Bible prophecy That the earth cannot always
last. Indeed there has been "A fatality OF
worlds. The moon is merely the corpse of
what u once was, aud scientists have again
an again gone up In their observatories TO
attend the deathoot of dying worlds. and
have ieen them crematel. SO | am certain,
both rom the Word OF God and science,
that the worlds chronology will sooner or
later ,ome TO its last chapter
The final century will arrive and pass on,
and tlen will come the final decade. and
then he fiual year, and the tinal month, aud
the filal day. The last spring will swing its
Gems ~: of apple blossoms and the last winter
bank - SHOWS. The last sunset will burn
like and the last morning radiate
the 'rks will strike their last
hou Hns will tick their last
secs m - will he needed TO
rY W. L. OlssssSs.. to set set tn. the
" .sgd~ ielcue e-lts buhJ tnere ~ n very
ni ,nmabie clement IN water. ",hile oxy-
gel makes up part OF the water the other
lart of the water is hydrogen, and that is
very combustible. The oxygen drawn out
rom the water, the infamlnablo hydrogen
will put instantly into connagration tho
Hudsons aud Savannahs and Mississippis and
Rhines and Urals and Danubes, and Atlantic
md Pacific and Indian aud Mediterranean
'eas. And then tho angel of God, do
csading from the throne, might put one
DOT on the surf OF the ssa and the other on
he beach and cry TO tho four winds Of
heaven, "rlme was. but time shall be no
ongerp Yet, found in Christ, pardonei
lnd sanctihcd. we shalt welcome the day
With more gladnesS than you ever well
'Umed caristmas or New Years morn.
When W "A ot in fire the roa ms Of ether glow
And heavens last thunder shakes the ear,h b..
low,
Thou, undismayed, shalt o'cT the ruin smile
Mud light tny tOrcn al natures iunerG Pile.