The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-03-17
Barlow Man Has an Interesting
Treatise on Time"
FIGURES s49eV' LOOKS VERY STRANGE
They Indicate That Old Father Time
On the Move-Century Question
Discussed.

upon the reason why the years grow
shorter and shorter as he grows older
and wiser, and how the period is
surely coming when there will be nc
years or months and time will be nc
more. According to scripture this
thing called time is a perishable elastic
compressible creation adapted to man
in his state of probation and not at all
necessary to the creator who said
"before the world was made I am. a"
God always speaks of himself in the
present tense 81 am" He Is one
eternal now without beginning OF
years or end of days. We cannot
comprehend this, but as we near the
goal we can almost catch glimpse OF
its possibility.
That time is compressible and elias
tic all of us have experienced, for some
times the hours seem very short. In
our dreams we sometimes condeuse
hours and days of events in few de-
lirious moments. I never shall for
get the anxiety and agony of long
effort to keep my brother from fight
ing duel and how helped to write
all the correspondence between him
and his adversary and how at the last
the duel could not be avoided and how
/ carefully selected and loaded his pis-
toll and measured off the distance and
then made another effort to pacify and
adjust and prevent the duel, but all in
vain, and he stood to the mark and fred
and fell.
The report of gun that was fred
back of our house at squirrel awaked
me and it was this report that con-
densed all the long train of thought
and events into a moments space.
My wife was sitting by my bedside
with her hand upon my feverish brow
and declared I had not been asleep
more than a minute-and yet I re-
membered every line and word o. that
correspondence, and when l recovered
from my fever could repeat it. The
time of hours was condensed into mo-
ments. Just SO those who were
thought to be drowned and were re-
suscitated tell lis that o panorama OF
their whole life came before them as
they lost consciousness. Every word
and thought and deed and every scene
they had witnessed from their child
hood was as vivid and real as if it were
just transporting. There can be no
doubt about this experience of many
persons. It is well confirmed.
We are just on the verge of know
ing wonderful things and my faith is
that we will know when we put off this
mortal coil and our souls are released
and free. We have implanted within
us spark of divinity, but only 9
spark.
But alas, how little we do know and
how utterly helpless we are. We know
not whence we came, or whittier We
are going. We cannot make one hail
: white or black. We cannot tell by what
mysterious power we raise our hands
or move our feet or wink our eyelashes.
We cannot add q day or an hour tc
our lives, nor foresee the accidents
that may befall us as we move to and
, fro on the land or sea. We cannot es
cape the pestilence that walketh a
| uOOuudy uOT uudhe OuTSclftS bcCuIs
against fire and flood and famine.
What pitiful creatures we are, ,an6
! yet we see everywhere around us young
men who are conceited and proud o.
their manhood or their money and We
!. see young girls who are vain of theil
beauty or their dress when they played
, no part in the formation of the one Oh
the earning of the other. A beautiful
woman is close kin to the angels. ano
she should be thankful that God made
her so, but she has NO excuse in the
world for being vain. Humility il
her loveliest ornament. As for these
conceited and naughty young men who
! strut around in fine clothes that they
b never earned or that they got by short
cuts and dishonorable means, they ex-
. cite only pity or contempt. When We
, look upon them we can but exclaim
with David, 'Lord what is man that
thou art mindful of him?"
Young men, why don't you humble
yourselves under the mighty hand of
God, who made you. You have not
the remotest idea who you are today,
and you don't care if you haven't.
You have travelled 300,000,O 900 of
miles since the last year and got
back to the same place you started
from. You travel 30, miles an
hour and every day turn "a summer
sault 25,0 miles round and don't
know it, and you don't care if
you don't. The Creator is your en-
gineer and runs yonr train without a
run-off or collision and yon never
think of Him or thank Him. You seem
to think that you are doing it.
! reckon the twentieth century prob
lem is about settled. 1t is an old
problem and perplexed mankind away
back in the ages. The question used
to be whether the year prior to the
birth of Christ was B. c., or O B.
c., and the mathematicians and the
astronomers settled it down at 0 B. c.,
and began the new era with /, A. d.,
and it remained i, A. ID. for 365 days.
But aside from this the problem is
purely mathematical one, for if it
takes 100 years to Ike a century it
will take 1900 years to make
make 10 centuries, and they will not
have passed until next January comes.
What world Of confusion those old
pODaS and monks apd riprv rro4 orr