The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-04

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until it cries out, MAN, immortal; woman,
immortal, look out for that minute; look
/ out for that secondF'
| We talk a great deal about the value Of
| time. but will never fully appreciate its
value until the last fragment of it 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 repent! All the fingers of chronology
| point to punctuality as one of the gracesc
The minister or the lecturer business
man who comes to bis place ten minutes
after the appointed time commits a 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.
IL there are 800 persons present, and he be
ten minutes too late, he has committed a
robbery of 5000 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: IL have been
able to do it by economizing my time. ]
have not spent one hour in amusement in
thirty years" And taking a blankb book
from his pocket he said, II fill book like
this every week with thoughts that occur
to me and facts collected in the rooms Of
my patients"
THE PERKS or DELAY
Napoleon appreciated the value of time
VII he xS-aS -ir L inn ny
and be 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 hours 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 infidel,
appreciated the value of time when in his
dying moments be said to his doctor, II
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 APP
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 elockmaker
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
when" Mitchell the astronomer, appreci-
ated the value of time when he said, Il
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value OF Il thOuSandth part of n second.
That minister of the Gospel did not APP
preciate the value of time who during a
season OF Illness, instead OF employing his
time in useful reading and writing, wrote
silly religious romance, which in some I'M
known Way came into the possession of the
famous Joe Smith, who introduced the
book diviae revelation, which became
the foundation OF Mormouism, the most
beastly abomuation Of all time They best
appreciate the value of time whose Sab
baths have been wasted, and whose oppor
tunities OF repentance and usefulness are
all gone. and who have nothing left but
memories baleful and eiegiac. They stand
in the bleak September, with bare feet. on
the sharp stubble of reaped wheat field
crying, The harvest IS past" and the
slough Of an autumnal equinox means forth
IN echo. The harvest is pastr
TIKI END MUST COME.
But do not let us get IN impression from
chronology that because the years of time
have been 80 long in procession they are TO
20 or forever Matter is not eternal No
20 II yOu watch half day, or a whole
day, or TWO days, IL, / once did to see "A mil
itary procession, you remember the last
brigade. ard the last regiment and the
last company finally passed on, and we
rose 70 20 we said to each other, 1t is all
over"
SO this mighty procession of earthly
years viii terminate just when / have
no power 10 prognosticate, bit science con-
firms 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 and scientists
have again and again gone up in their
obseryatOries TO attend the deathbed of
dying worlds and have seen them cremated.
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, and the final month,
and the final day. The last spring will
swing its censor OF apple blossoms and the
last winter bank its SHOWS. The last sun
set VIII burn ike MOSCOW ana the last
morning rstdiate the hills. The clocks Will
strike their last hour and the watches Will
tick their last second. No incendiaries will
be needed to run hither and yon with
torches TO set the world on fire.
Chemistry teaches Us that there is very
inflammabie element in water. While oxy-
gen makes up part Of the water the other
part of the water is hydrogen, and that is
very combus5ible. The oxygen drawn out
from the water the inhammable hydrogen
will put instantly into confagration the
Hudsons and Ssvannahs and Mississippis
anal Rhines and Trails md Danubes, and At
lantic and Pacific and Indian and Mediter-
ralean seas. And then the Angel of God
descending from the throne might put one
foot 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
longtr? Yet found in Christ, pardoned
and sanctified, we shall welcome the day
with more gladuess than you ever welcomed
a Christmas or New Years morn.
When wrapt IN fire the realms Of ether glow
And heavens last thunder shakes the earth he
low,
Thou undismayed. shalt DER the ruin smile
And light thy torch at natures funeral pile.
PERPETUiTY.