Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-01-13
Z. 4. BISHOP, Island Pond, VI

| SAlias ~ ltt utAlt ~ Ohl us tuc lHlt OF ufn6.
DR.. Rush, the greatest and bu iest ply
sician OF his day, appreciated the value OF
time, and when asked how he had been
able 10 gather so much information for his
books and lectures he replisd: az have been
able to do it by economizing nv time.
have not spent ons hopr in amusement in
thirty years" And taking blaukboo
from his pocket he said, II all a book like
| this every week with thoughts that occur to
me and facts collected in the rooms OF m
patients"
| Napoleon appreciated the value OF tune
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 aud said, "Whst would
not give to be this day possessed of the
power OF Joshua and enabled to retard thy
march for two hoursr' The good old woman
appreciated the value of time when at
ninety-three years of age she said, "Ths
Judge OF all the earth does not mean that 1
shall have any excuse for not being prepared
| TO meet Him"
Voltaire, the blatant inhdel. appreciated
the value OF time when in his dying mo-
ments he said to his docto-. II will give you
half of what | am worth il 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 20 to hell" John
| Wesley appreciated the va ue of time when
he stood on his steps watching for delayed
carriage to take him to au appointment,
| saying. 81 have lost ten minutes forever"
| Lord Nelson appreciated the value of time
when he said, II owe everything in the
world to being always II quarter OF an hour
| beforehand
A clockmaker 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 or wheny' Mitchell the as
tronomer, appreciated the value OF time
| when he said, II have been in the habit OF
calculating the vaide OF a thousandth part
of u second That minister OF the Gospel
did not appreciate the value OF time who.
| during season OF illness, instead OF employ
| ing his time in useful reading or writing,
wrote Il silly religious romance, which in
| some unknown way came into the possession
| of the famous Joe Smith, who introduced
| the book as divine revelation, which be-
came the foun lation of Mormonism the
most beastly abonination OF all time.
They best appreciate the value OF time
| whose Sabbaths have been wasted and
whose opportunities OF repentance and use
/ fuluess are all gone, an who have nothing
| left but memories, baleful and elexiac
! They stand in the bleak September. with
/ bare feet on the sharD stubbe OF a reaped
wheat field, crying, "The harvest is past"
! And the sough o. an autunal equinox
means forth in eclp. "rhe harvest is past
l}us do no, let US get an impression from
| chronology that because the years OF time
have been 50 long in proc ession they are TO
60 on forever. Matter is not eternal No.
/ no! II YOU watch h.,lf day, or whole
| dav or two days as once did to see a mill
/ tarY procession, you remember the last
brigade ami the last regiment, and the last
| company finally passed on, and as we rose TO
! so we said TO each other. III is all over"
1 So this mighty procession o. earthly years
will terminate. Just when have no power
to pyognosticate, but scienca confirms the
! Bible prophecy that the earth cannot always
I last. Indeed there has been a fatality OF
worlds. The moon is merely the corpse OF
! what it once was, and scientists have again
an IL gain gone up in their observatories to
atten the deathnei of dying worlds, and
/ have seen them crematej. SO | am certain,
both from the Word OF Col and scienc.,
/ tAat the worlds chronology will sooner or
! later come 10 its last chapts..
| The final century will arrive and pass on,
ard then will come the final decade, and
| then the final year aud the fiual month, and
the final day. The last spring will swing its
censar of apple blossoms and the last winter
! bank its SHOWS The last sunset will burn
] like Moscow and the last morning radiate
| the hills. The clocIs will strike their last
| hour and tle watches will tick their last
second No jncend,nries will bs needed to
run hither ami yon with torches to set the
worlt on fire
Chemistry teaches us that there is a very
! intla unable element in water. While oxy-
gen makes up a part OF the water. the other
part OF the water is hydrogen, and that is
very combustibe. The oxygen drawn out
from the water, the inasmmable hydrogen
will put instantly into confagration the
Hu isons AMI Savannahs and Mississippis and
Rnines AMI Urals and Danubes. and Atlantic
and Pacific aud Indian and Mediterranean
seas Aud then the angel OF God, de-
scending from the throne, might put one
foot on the surf of tho sea ami the other on
the beach and cry 70 the four winds OF
heaven, Time was, but time shall be no
longerT' Yet found in CHRIST pardonsd
and sanctitied, we shall welcoms the day
with more gladness than you ever vel
coined q Christmas or New Years morn.
When wrapt in fire the rea ms of ether glow
And heavens last thunder shakes the earth bo.
low,
Thou. unuismayed, shalt DER the ruin suile
And light tny torch at natures funeral pile