Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-01-12
thought that a little more time would


retrieve his fortunes, and he pointed
to the sinking sun and said: "What
would l not give to be this day pos.
sessed of the power of Jo6aua and
enabled to retard thy march for two
hours" The good old woman ap-
preciated the value OF time when at
SO years Of age, she said: "The Judge
of all the earth does not mean that 1
shall have any excuse for not being
prepared to meet him." Voltaire,
the blatant infdel, appreciated the
value OF time. when, in his dying mo-
ments, he said to his doctor; III will
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 hell" John
Wesley appreciated the value OF time
when he stood on his steps waiting
for delayed carriage to take him to
an appointment saying: II have
lost ten minutes forever" Lord Mel
son appreciated the value of time
when he said; II owe everything in
the world to being always a quarter
of an hour beforehand"
But do not let us get an impression
from chronology that because the
years of time have been so long in
procession they are to go on fore er.
Matter is not eternal. No, no. If
you watch half a day, or a whole day
or two days, as I once did, to see
military procession, you remember
the last brigade and the last regiment
and the last company finally passed
on, and as we rose to go we said to
each other: cit is all over" So this
mighty procession of earthly years
will terminate. just when l have no
power to prognosticate, but science
confirms the Bible prophecy that the
earth can not always last. Indeed
there has been a fatality OF worlds.
The moon is merely the corpse of
what it once was, and scientists have
again and again gone up in their OBJ.
servatOrles to attend the deathbed of
dying worlds, and have seen them Gre
mated. So I 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, and the final
month, and the final day. The last
spring will swing it's censor OF apple
blossoms, and the last winter bank -
SHOWS. The last sunset will burn ike
Moscow, and the last morning radiate
the hills. The clocks will strike their
last hour, and the watches will tick
their last second.
No incendiaries will beneeded to run
hither and yon with torches to set the
world on fire. Chemistry teaches us
that there is a very iniammable ele-
ment in water. While oxygen makes
up q part of the water the other part
OF the water is hydrcgen, and that is
very combustible. The oxygen drawn
out from the water, the inflammable
hydrogen may put instantly into con-
tlagration the Hudsons and Savan-
nahs and Mississippis and Rhines and
Trails and Danubes, and Atlantic and
Pacific and Indian and Mediterranean
Seas. And then the angel OF God de-
scending from the throne might put
one loot in the surf OF the sea and the
other on the beach. and cry to the
four winds OF heaven: thine was, but
time shall be no longer" Yet, foundin
Christ, pardoned and sanctihed, we
shall welcome the day with more glad
ness than you ever welcomed Christ
mas or New Years morn.
When wrapped in fire, the realms of ether
glow.
And heavens last thunder shakes the earth
below;
Thou. undismayed, shall DER the ruin
smile,
And light thy torch at natures funeral pile.
Surpri Ing Temperatures.
When Mr.. Whymper visited the
summit of Cotopaxi, he pitched his
tent for the night on the slope of the
ashy cone, about two hundred and
fifty feet from the rim OF the crater.