Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-01-12

tentn step tfom 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 in . courtroom what time an occur
renee took place should answer, 1T was
during the time OF the latter rain, !" or, at
was At the time OF the third growing Of the
barnyard."
You and ] remember when ministers OF
the Gospel in the country, giving out y no
tice OF an evening service, instead OF saying
at 9 or or O'Clock, would say, ''Ths serv.
ice will begin NJ early candle light" Thank
God for chronological achievements which
have ushered In calendars and AlmAnacs
and clocks and watches, and At 80. cheap a
rate all may possess them. Chronology,
beginning by Appreciating the value Of
years and the value Of days. has kept Oh
until 1t cries out, Man, immortal; woman,
immortal; look out for that minute; look
out for that secondP'
We talk great deal about the value Of
time, but will never fully appreciate It's
value until the last fragment of il has
passed out Of our possession forever. The
greatest fraud man can commit is to rob
another Of his time. Hear it, ye laggards,
and repentI All the fingers OF chronology
point to punctuality as one Of the graces.
The minister or the lecturer or business
man who comes to his place ten minutes
after the appointed time commits crime
the enormity of which can only be estimat-
ed by multiplying the number of persons
present by ten. II the engagement be made
with five persons, he has stolen fifty min
utes, for he Is ten minutes too late, and he
has robbed each of the five persons of ten
minutes apiece, and ten times five are fifty
If there are 500 persons present, and he be
ten minutes too late, he has committed a
robbery of 900 minutes, for ten times 500
are 5000, and 5000 minutes are SO hours,
which make more than three days. The
thief of dry goods, the thief of bank
bills is not half so bad ~ the thief Of time.
DR. Rush, the greatest and busiest physi-
clan of his day, appreciated the value
of time, and when asked how he had been
able to gather so much information for his
books and lectures he replied: II have been
able to do it by economizing my time.
have not spent one hour in amusement in
thirty years" And taking blankbo
from his pocket he said, Il fill book like
this every week with thoughts that occur
to me and facts collected in the rooms of
my patients"
THE PERILs OF DELAY.
Napoleon appreciated the value of time
when the sun was sinking upon Waterloo,
and he thought that 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 hoursp The good old woman
appreciated the value Of time when at nine
ty-three years Of age she said, "The judge
Of all the earth does not mean that shall
have any excuse for not being prepared to
meet him." Voltaire, the blatant infdel,
appreciated the value Of time when in his
dying moments he said to his doctor, II
will give you half of what am worth II
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
60 to hell"
John Wesley appreciated the value Of
time when he stood on his steps waiting fol
delayed carriage to take him to an ap
pointment, saying, II have lost ten minutes
forever" Lord Nelson appreciated the
value of time when he said, II owe every
thing in the world to being always quar-
ter Of an hour beforehand. A clockmakel
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 OIL
when" Mitchell, the astronomer, appreci
ated the value of time when he said, 81
have been in the habit of calculating the
value of thousandth part of second"
That minister of the Gospel did not ap
preciate the value Of time who during 8
season of illness, instead of employing bis
time in useful reading and writing, wrote 9
silly religious romance, which in some un
known way came into the possession of the
famous Joe Smith, who introduced the
book as divine revelation, which became
the foundation Of Mormonism, the most
beastly abomination Of all time. They best
appreciate the value of time whose Sab
baths have been wasted, and whose oppor
tunities of repentance and usefulness art
all gone, and who have nothing left but
memories, baleful and elegiac. They stand
in the bleak September, with bare feet, OF
the sharp stubble Of a reaped wheat field
crying, 1.-THE harvest is past" and the
slough of an autumnal equinox means fortt
In echo. "The harvest is past"
THE END MUST COME.
But do not let us get an impression from
chronology that because the years Of time
have been SO long in procession they are te
20 on forever. Matter is not eternal No
mol II you watch half a day, or whole
day, or two days, as once did, to see mil
itary procession, you remember the last
brigade, and the last regiment, and tht
last company finally passed on, and as WI
rose to 60 we said to each other, 1T is al
over"
So this mighty procession OF earthl!
| years will terminate. Just when l havt
no power to prognosticate, but science con
firms the Bible prophecy that the eartl
| cannot always last. Indeed there has beer
| fatality of worlds. The moon is merely
the corpse Of what it once was, and scientist
have again and again gone up in thei
observatories to attend the deathbed o
| dying worlds and have seen them cremated
So am certain, both from the word Of Coz
and science, that the worlds chronolog.
will sooner or later come to its last chapter
The final century will arrive and pass on
and then will come the final decade ant
then the final year, and the final month
and the final day. The last spring will
swing its censer Of apple blossoms and tn
last winter bank its SHOWS. The last sun
set will burn like Moscow and the las
morning radiate the hills. The clocks vii
strike their last hour, and the watches will
tick their last second. No incendiaries will
be needed to run hither and yon witt
torches to set the world on fire.
Chemistry teaches us that there is yer,
infammable element in water. While oxy
gen makes up part of the water the othe
part of the water is hydrogen, and that i
very combustible. The oxygen drawn ou
from the water, the infammable hydrogen
will put instantly into confagration tn
Hudsons and Savannahs and Mississippi
and Rhines and Urals and Danubes, and At
lantio and Pacific and Indian and Mediter
rapaau sans And tban the Anpnl of Co