The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-01-06

pared 10 meet him."
Voltaire, the blatant infdel, appreci-
Rted the value of time when in his dy-
ing moments he said to his doctor, 81
will give you half of what am worth if
Sou 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 GO time when he
stood on his steps waiting for a delayed
marriage to take him to an appointment,
saying, Il have lost ten minutes forever"
Lord Nelson appreciated the value OF
time when he said, II owe everything in
the world to being always quarter OF
an hour beforehand"
A clOckmaker in one of the old Eng
Esh towns appreciated the value OF time
when he put on the front Of the town
clock the words, Now or when| Mitch
Ell, the astronomer, appreciated the value
IF time when he said. Il have been III
the habit of calculating the value of a
thousandth part of q second" That min
lister Of the Gospel did not appreciate the
value Of time who during a season of
illness, instead Of employing his time in
useful reading or 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 as a divine revelation, which
became the foundation of MOrmonism,
the most beastly abOminatiOn Of all time.
They best appreciate the value of time
whose Sabbaths have been wasted and
whose opportunities of repentance and
usefulness are all agone, and who have
nothing left but memories. baleful and
elegiac. They stand in the bleak Sep
TENDER, with bare feet, on the sharp
stubbe of reaped wheat field, crying,
THE harvest is past" And the sough of
an autumnal equinox means forth in
echo, The harvest is pastr
TIE LAST OF ALL.
But do not let Us get an impression
from chronology that because the Yeas
of time have been 40 long in procession
they are IL 30 on forever. Matter is not
eternal. No, 10! If you watch half
day, or IL WAole day, or two days, as |
once did. to see IL military procession
you remember the last brigade. and the
last regiment, and the last company final
ly passed on, and as we rose to go we
said to each other. 1T is all over
So this mighty procession of earthly
years will terminate. Just when have
no power to prognosticate, but science
confirms the Bible prophecy that the
earth cannot always last. Indeed there
1as 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 observatoris to attend the
leathbed Of dying wols'.s and have seen |
hem cremated. So | am certain, both I
rom the Word of God and science, that !
he worlds chronology will sooner or
alter come to its last chapter.
The final century will arrive and pass
IN. and then will come the final decade
md then the final year, and the fna,
month, and the final day. The last spring
will swing its censor of apple blossoms
md the last winter bank It's SHOWS. Tie
asst sunset will burn like Moscow md
he last morning radiateA Me hills. The.t.
locks will strike their last hour, and tie
watches will tick their last second. No
ncendiaries will be needed to run hither
nd yon with torches to set the world
N fire.
Chemistry teaches us that there is a
cry infiammable element in water.
While oxygen makes up a part Of the
water, the other part of the water is by
rogen, and that is very combustible
he oxygen drawn out from the water, the
1fammable hydrogen will put instantly
lto confagration the Hudsons and 81
annals and sIississippis and Rhines and
rails and Danubes, and Atlantic ana
'acitic and Indian and Mediterranean
cas-. And then the angel of God, de-
lending from the throne, might put one
Dot on the surf of the sea and the other
n the beach and cry to the four winds ,
heaven, Time was, but time shall be
o longer!" Yet, found in Christ, par
oned and sanctified. we shall welcome
le day with more gladness than you
yer welcomed Christmas or New
ears morn.
hen wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow
nd heavens last thunder shakes the earth be-
low,
hou, undismayed. shalt DER the ruin smile
nd light thy torch at natures funeral pile.
Physical Culture in Women's Colleges. ,
The whole answer to the question, Is
le health of the average young woman s
lual to the successful prosecution Of
e work of a college course? may be
ven in the briefest terms as follows:
he first duty of the college authorities
to give just as careful "A physical ex.
for original entrance as their I
animation into the applicants scholar !
proficiency. and their next duty, the
,plicant having been admitted. is to see
at her advancement is symmetrical, ]
ID that she is led across the threshold @