The National tribune., 1897-02-18
EDITORS CHAT.

What we Would Do If We Had Time.
Ills an everyday expression from all sorts
of neople: What would do If had the time !!
No people are really in earnest when they talk
like this.
If had the time, would do a great deal OF
reading, the busy young man or woman says
when asked if he or she has read this or that
and is obliged to confess mentally that he has
= really been reading nothing, though finding
plenty of time for trivial matters
III had the time would do nice sewing or
embroidery. the young girl says to herself
when she is shown the wonderful work accom-
plishea by others, not taking time to consider
that this is usually done at odd times which
she herself consumes in idle chat
If had the time, / would visit the sick and
comfort the distressed and find out my friends
who are suffering with disappointment and
.flirtion saws the lover of ease, who is content
IN rock and read in the vain belief that he is
spendjuc his time as his Creator wilied that he
should do.
And so it is in everything we think or do:
II is always if we had time. We would paint
pictures and sing songs aud read books aud DO
kindly deeds Of charity and MAKE our homes
beautiful and do our Masters bidding, If We
had bnt tire time.
What idle talk is thisp Why not learn to
make the most Of our time. to hoard the min.
utes and multiply the hours by keeping head
and heart busy devising the ways and means
through which we can make the most oil the
talents that God has given us2
Remember that there is no such thing as
finding n convenient season. Whoever does
this is resoriing TO a subterfuce which has been
exposed as fraud aud makeshift since the
world began.
You will never have any more time than you
have now. Improve the minutes, have your
work ready to catch up when yeu SIT COVE.
Have your book ready, with mark at the page
where you would begin. 1t may be that you
can read but page st time hut your nina
will 60 over it during the Intervals ana wneh
YOU are through the thoughts you hare gath
cred will stand by you. Be ever ready TO lend
q helping hand to- those who are about you
DO not wait to be asked. Keep your eyes open
and opportunities viii multiply on every aaho:
Never fear, if you resort TO method ana
system, that time and opportunity VIII not
come to you. 1t is an old saying that one gen
orally finds what ne is looking for. aud ii We
are looking for time we shall have 1t.
An eminent scientist says there is no such
thing as time. Time is immutable; 1t is we
who change beating ourselves against our SELF
imposed environments as bird beats Its wings
against a cage.
Could we put ourselves in harmony with the
great forces of the universe, we should never
get sick, or old. or wrinkled. or respondent;
We should not vainiy sigh Cor more time. foi
time would be ours for everything we should
want to do.
An unknown writer expresses tbonght on
the subject of more time beautifully in the foi-
lowing verses:
WHEN HAVE TIME.
When have time. SO many things I'll do
TO make life happier and more fair
For those whose lives are crowded now With care!
III help TO lift them from their low despair
When have time.
Shall know more these weary toi!ing days:
Ia lead her feet in pleasant paths always,
And cheer her heart with words OF sweetest praise.
When have time.
When you have time the friend you hold SO dear
May be beyond The reach OF your sweet intent;
May never know that you 60 kindly meant
To ill her life will, sweet content,
When you had Time.
Now is the time. Ali, friend, no longer wait
To scatter loving smiles and words of cheer
To those around whose lives are dear:
They may not meet you in the coming year
Now is the time
BUNKER HILL MONUMENT.
The one great commanding object of the
peninsula OF Boston is the Bunker Hill Mouu-
ment in the Charlestewn suburbs 1t marks
the battle fought between the American Revo-
lutionists and the British forces, June IL. 1775
Upon arriving in Boston on a recent early
Winter morning the editor of the Loyal Home
Workers found herself on the railroad grounds
on the west side of the Charles River. cut of
from the city proper by long stretch of blaz-
ing coal-honses. car-sbops. and burning bridges.