The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-01-12

stout reversal. Grecian civilization
was vast improvement on Egyptian
civilization, and Roman civiIiZatiCna
vast improvement on Grecian civiiZa-
tlon, and Christian civilization Is a vast
Improvement on Roman civilization.
What was the boasted age Of Pericles
compared with the age OF LOngfell0w
and TennysOn? What was Queen
Elizabeth as a specimen of moral wo.
manhood compareh with Queen Victo-
riap What were the cruel warriors Of
olden times compared with the most
diotinR uished warriors of the last half
century, all Of them rs much distin.
guis!nh OF Kindness and good mor ais rs
for J 70 vess-the two military leaders
OF or civil war on northern and south
ern side communicant members of
Cnristian churches, and their home life
as pure as their public life?
Nothing impresses me IN this chrono-
logical review more than the fact that
the regiments OF years are better and
better regiments as the troops move
on. l thank God that you and were
not born ;tny sooner than we were
born. How could we have endured the
disaster of being born In the Eighteenth
or Seventeenth or Sixteenth century I?
Glad am that we are in the regiment
now passing tho reviewing stand and
that our children will pass the stand in
still better regiment. God did not
build this world for a slaughter house
or 4 den of infamy.
A good deal Of cleaning house will be
necessary before this world becomes as
clean and sweet rs 1t ought to be, but
the brooms, and the scrubbing brushes,
and the upholsterers and plumbers are
already busy, and when the world gets
fixed up as it will be, If Adam and Eve
ever visit it, as | expect they will, they
will say to each other, "Well, this beats
paradise when we lived there. and the
pears and the plums are better than we
plucked from the first trees, and the
WaTdrObes are more complete, and the
climate Is better" Since | settled in
my own mind the fact that GOD was
stronger than the devil | have never
lost Faith in the emparadis ,tion OF the
planet. With the exception of re.
progression III the Dark Ages the move
ment of the world has been on and on,
and up and up, and have two jubiiant
hosannas-one for the closing year and
the other for the new year.
But the other thought coming out of
this subject is that Biblical chronology,
and indeed all chronology, is urging
the world to more punctuality and im.
Indebtedness. What an unsatisfac .Ory
and indefinite thing it must have been
for two business men in the time of
AhaZ to make an appointment, saying,
I'VE will settle that business matter to-
morrow when the shadow on the dial
or AhaZ reaches the tenth step from
the top" or, IL will meet you in the
street called Straight IN Damascus in
the time of the new moon," or when
| asked III court room what time an oc
currence took place should answer, at
was during the time of the latter rain, -
or, at was at the time OF the third
Growing of the barnyard.
You and | remember when ministers
OF the Gospel in the country, giving
out notice OF an evening service, in.
stead Of saying at q or 7 or8 O'Clock,
would say, "Fhe service will begin at
early candle light" Thank God for
chronological achievements which
have ushered in calendars ard almanacs
and clocks and wat ches, and 1T 80 cheap
rate all may possess them. Chrunol.
ogy, beginning by appreciating the
value of yenrs and the value of days,
has kept on until 1t cries out, "Man,
immortal; woman, immortal; look out
for that minute; look out Ior that Sec
ond!'
We talk a great deal about the value
OF time. hut Will never fully appreciate
It's value until the last fragment of it
has passed out Of our possession for
ever. The greatest fraud man can
commit IL 10 rob another of his time.
Hear 1t, ye laggards, and repent! All
the fingers OF chronology point to
punctuality as one of the graces. The
minister or the lecturer or business
man who comes to his place ten minu-
tes after the appointed time commits
Il crime the enormity of which Can only
he estimated by multiplying the nun
Der OF persons present by ten. If the
engagement be made with five persons,
he has stolen fifty minutes, 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.
If there are 500 persons present, and
he be ten minutes too late, he. has com
mitted a robbery of 5000 ninutes, for
ton times 500 are 5000, and 5000 minu-
tes are 80 hours. which make more
than three days. The thief of dry
goods, the thief of bank bills is not
half 50 bad as the thief of time. DR..
Rush, the greatest and busiest physi-
clan Of his day. appreciated the value
of time. and when asked no" ne had
been able to gather So much informa.
tion for his books and lectures he re-
piled: 81 have been able to do it by
ecOnomizlng my time. l have not
spent one hour in amusement IN thir.
ty years." And taking blankboOk
from his pocket ne said, 81 fill book
like this every week with thoughts that
occur to me and facts collected in the
rooms of my patients"
Napoleon appreciated the value Of
| time when the sun was sinking upon
| Waterloo, and he thought that a 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 cid woman ap-
preciated the value Of time when at
ninety 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." Vol.
taire, the blatant inlidel, appreciated
The value of time when in hts dying
moments, he said to his doctor, 81 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