The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-24
GOOD USE OF TINE
REV. DIR. j. w. CONLEY FINDS IN
1T THE SECRET OF
GENIUS
PERSISTENT DEVOTION To IN
DUsTRY AND THE GRASPING
OF OPPORTUNITIES.
THESE ARE THE wAroHwoRDs
That He Advises for All, Young and
OLD Alike, for the Worlds
Good.

There was large congregation at
the First Baptist church yesterday
morning to welcome Rev. ]. w. Con-
ley, d. D., on his return from his sum-
mer vacation, and they were treated
to an eloquent and eminently practical
discourse from Ephesians, w., 16: RE
deeming the time. because the days
are evil"
DR.. Conley said in part: Perhaps
there Is nothing of which we are more
careless and wastefuI than time, al
though there is nothing upon which the
success of our life depends more than
the faithful use of it. The person who
has found out how to utilize to the
best advantage all the moments of
his life has found the highway to sue
cess. Genius is not so much peculiar
endowment with peculiar gifts as 1T is
the ability to make the most of time
Those who have succeeded in accom-
plishing the most in this life have, as
rule, been those who have known
how to use to the very best advantage
the days and the years as they came,
and those who have fallen by the way
side, whose lives are characterized by
no attachments of any worth, are those
who are careless of the use of their
time. Most Tof US are painfully con-
scious of the fact that we are not &C
complishing what we ought to accom-
plish, and that we are in large meas
ure failing of the attainment of the
higher ends of life. We resolve in the
valley of humiliation that we will
make a better use Of our time, and
soon we drop back into the same old
channels again, and Of very many Of
US, fear, it is true, and will be true,
that we shall reach the end with a
sense of having wasted a large part
of life. In childhood days everything
is strange and new the future is
boundless, and time practically illim-
liable, but the gravity of life more
and more impresses itself upon us.
although it is too often true that per-
sons approach the very end of life
before they appreciate the value of
time. We are aided in this under
standing of the value of time by see
ing what there is crowded into this
life. Marvellous have been the discov-
cries OF recent times, and it seems
as II, in the scientific world. we were
standing on the verge of others more
wonderful still.
Ihen there comes to us a sense of
the value of the opportunity for being
use1ul That soul has never found
the proper use Of time that has never
round time to minister to the needs Of
those ABOUT him. If your life does not
pIlng nope and help and strength and
courage and confidence into some other
life, then that life is not what if orght
70 be- Another consideration is that
this life is directly connected with tbe
life that is beyond What I am here
determines what / shall be hereafter
The use make Of time determines NV
position in eternity. If 1 trif1e with its
opportunities, reject Gods mercy, shut
CHRIST out of my mind and live this
life for self, then eternity is darkened
and bllghted by the life I have lived
here. l know many say it is all wrong
to try to crowd the destinies Of eter-
nifty into the time we live here Int
the whole possibilities of the oak are
wrapped up in the little acorn. This
he IS the terminating period Of des-
tiny. Then, too, we must not over
look the brevity Of life. We should
seek TO crowd each day and hour with
something useful. One more reason is
given. Because the days are evil. This
life is beset with evil and Temptation
on every side. The forces Of evil are
abroad. using every device that can
POSSIBLY be employed to drag US down.
Many young people are making the
awful mistake of resolving to give
their youthful days to the world and
pleasure, intending tC turn round after
a while, little dreaming that thew are
selllng themselves to the devil until
ne shall bind them hand and foot with
fetters that are almost impossible to
break -
How shall we redeem the timeq
By having right aim in life. The
boy or girl that is pushed or dragged
through school and college without any
inclination to make good use Of the on
portunltieS afforded will never amount
to anything in the way of scholarship
and the person who drifts through life
without purpose will never redeem
the time In the home seek to exaIt
Christ. In business have some worthy
aim, not merely the accumulation of
money. The social life Of today is poi
scned with an insidious WorIdliness
that is destroying the character Of too
many who have entered it's circles. In
the church have some definite work
some definite aim; do not drift along
as the tide may carry you, but seek
out some work and do it, We must
look out for the robbers of time. There
are those who are always late, and in
this way waste the time of those who
have to wait for them; those who have
nothing to do themselves take up the
time of others who have and prevent
them from employing it to good .advan-
tage. A vast amount of time is wasted
In reading This is a5.time Of books
and periodicals. and papers. and the
world is full of them. b Even this day
Is profaned by boys on the streets call
ing out the morning papers. great
sheets. which If you read them half
through, you would have time for yerv
little else. There are books you should
read, and books it is a waste Of time
to peruse, and others which are moral
the Imagination.
If we are to redeem the time we must
lay peculiar emphasis upon the present
moment. Whatever I do with it is
the all-important matter for me. The
tendency all the while is to look a.
little ahead for work we are going to
do. We will take our ease now. and
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