Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-02

Then shall 20 10 keliy John Wesley
appreciated the value Of time when he
stood On his steps waiting fer delayed
carriage 70 take him 70 81 appointment.
saying, Il have lost ten minutes forever"
Lord Nelson appreciated the value Of
TINE whsn &c said, 4 owe everything II
the world TO bsing always 3 quarter Of
an hour beforehand
A c.ockm2ker IN enc Of the old Eng
hsh towns appreciated the value OF time
when he put on the front Of the town
clocz the wor5S, Now or when Mitch
el- the astronomer, appreciated the value
# tins when be sald. Il have been ii
the habit Of calculating the value OF
thoussndth part Of second" That min
lister Of the Gospel Gid not appreciate the
value OF time who during season Of
illness. instead of employing his time IN
Useful reading CT writing. wrote silly
religious romance, which N some IN
known way came into the possession of
the famous Joe Smith, who introduced
! &c book AS divine revelation. which
scame the foundation Of Mormonisn,
ne most beastly abominanoa Of all time.
They best appreciate the value Of tims
whose Sabbsths have been wasted and
whose opportunities of repentance and
usefulness are all agone, and who have
nothing left but memories. baleful ard
elegiac. They stand in the bleak Sep
stubble OF rssped wheat field, crying.
The harvest is psstr And the sough Of
an autunnal equinox means forth IN
echo. The harvest Is past."
THE LAST OF ALL
But do not let Us get an impression
from chronology that because the years
of time have been so long in procession
they are 10 go on forever. Matter is not
eternal. No, no! If you watch half
day. or whole day, or two days, as
once did, 10 see a 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 VIII terminate. Just when have
no power 10 prognosticate, but science
confirms the Bible prophecy that the
earth cannot always last. Indeed there
mas 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 observatories 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 viii come the final decade.
and then the final year, and the fna.
month, and the final day. The last spring
will swing its censor 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
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. W.
Chemistry teaches us that there is a
very inhammable element in water
While oxygen makes up part of the
water. the ether part of the water is by
drogen. and that is very combustible.
The oxygen drawn out from the water, the
infammab'e hydrogen will put instantly
into confagration the Hudsons and Sa
vannahs and Mississippis and Rhines and
Urals and Danubes, 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 the sea and the other
on the beach and cry to the four winds
Of heaven. Thine was, but time shall be
no longer!" Yet, found in Christ, par
doned and sanctifed, we shall welcome
the day with more gladness 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 be-
low,
Thou. undismayed. shalt DER the ruin smile
And Light thy torch at natures funeral pile.