The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-02-17

by ten, II the engagement be made
with ave persona he has stolen hfty
minutes. for he II ton minutes too lntA
and he has robbed each Of tbs hvc per
sons OF ton minutes apiece, and ten
times i've are atty,
II thore be 500 persons present and he
be ton minutes too late. he has commit.
ted robbery OF 1900 minutes, for ton
times 500 arc 5000. and 5000 minutes
are elghty.thrcc hours, which make
moro than three days, The thief OF dry
goods, the thief OF bank bills, In NOT
half so bad IA tho thief OF time,
DR. Rush. the greatest and busiest
physician OF his day, appreciated the
value of time, and when asked how he
had been able to gather so much infor-
nation for his books and lectures no re-
piled; ~ have been able 10 do IL by
economlzing my time Ihave not spent
one hour In amusement In thirty yeara."
And taking blank book from hia
pocket, he said, ~ al book like this
every week with thoughts that occur 10
mo and facts collected In the rooms OF
my patients"
Hut do not let us get an Impression
from chronology that because the years
OF time have been So long In procession
they are to 20 on forever. Matter In not
eternal No, mol II you watch half n
day. or "a whole day, or two days, an
once did, To seo military procession
you remember the last brigade, and
the last regiment and tho last com
pany finally passed on, and as we roac
| to- 20 we said to each other ut In NIL
over"
So this mighty procession OF earthly
years will terminate. just when have
no power TO prognosticate, but science
contlrms the bible prophecy that the
earth can not alwaya last Indeed there
has been fatality of worlds The
moon Is merely tho corpse OF what 10
once was, and scientists have again
and again gone up la their Observable
rics 10 attend the deathbed OF dying
worlds and have seen them eremated.
SO am certain, both from the Word OF
God and science, that tho worlds chro
nology will sooner or later come 20 Its
last chapter
The final century will arrive and pass
on, and then will come the final decade,
and then the hnal 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 ita
snowa The last sunset will burn like
Moscow and the last morning radiate
the hills. The clocks will strike their
last hour. and the watches will tick their
last second No inccndlaries will loo
needed To run hither and yon with
torches 10 set the world ON fire.
Chemistry teaches IN that there Ii u
very infiammnblo element In water
While oxygen makes up part OF the
water, the other part of tho water IL ny.
drogen, and that In very combustible
The oxygen drawn out from tho water
tho iniiammable hydrogen will put In
stantly into conhagration the Hudsons
and Snvannahs and Mississippis and
Rhines and Urala and Dan.
ubes, and Atlantic and Pacific
and Indian and Mediterranean
seas. And then the angel OF God, de-
scending from the throne, might put
one foot ON the surf of tho aca and the
other on tho beach and cry 10 the four
winds OF Heaven, "rime was, but time
shall be no longerw Yet found In
Christ, pardoncd and sanctihed, we
shall welcome the day with more glad
ness than you ever welcomed u Christ
mas or New Years morn.