Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-02-03
THRIFT OF TIME
\ Suggestion for Those who Would
Make the Best Use OF
This Life.

Mr.. Gladstone said on one occasion:
Thrift of time will repay you in after
life with a usury of profit beyond your
most sanguine dreams; while the waste
Of it will make you dwindle, alike in
intellectual and moral stature, beyond
your darkest reckonings." No better
illustration of the truth OF the first part
OF this saying could be found than Mr..
Gladstone himself, for by thrift OF time
he became one of the richest men of
his day in intellectual requirements.
Time is the most valuable capital
apart from natural endowments-that
God gives to us. While it continues it
Is the same to all men, end yet not
the same. To all who have lived
through the past year God has given
exactly the same capital In hours and
minutes, but some have been thriftful
or their time and others have been
wasteful, leading to the enrichment of
the first class and the impoverishment
of the second.
Not only Gladstone but also many
other wise men have advocated economy
OF time as the highest economy. Frank
lin said: "Dost thou love life?. Then
waste not time, for time is the stuff
that life is made Of" Cotton said of
time: Wisdom walks before it, OBJ
portunity with it, and repentance be-
hind it; he that hath made it his friend
will have little to fear from his enemies.
Sut he that hath made it his enemy
will have little to hope from his
friends" Adams said: "Show me a
man who has attained to eminence, and
you show me man who has econo-
mixed his time" Chesterfield was wise
in his letters to his son even II he was
not wise in his life, and in nothingmore
than this: Know the value of time.
snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment
of 1t. No idleness, no laziness, no pro-
crastination; never put off till to-mor-
row what you can do to-day" Emer-
son said; Write it on your heart thar
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Dooms-
day." Young's might Thoughts" are
not read very much In these days, but
one may pick up gems of wisdom here
and there along the track Of his SOM
Der lines, and this is one:
youth is not rich in time. It may be poor:
Not moment. but IN purchase OF its
worth;
And what it's worth. ask death-beds: they
can tell"
The writer of Eeclesiastes said:
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,
do it with thy might; for there is no
work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor
wisdom, in the grave whittier thou
goest." And Jesus, who made the best
use of time that can be seen in any life,
said: II must work the works of Him
that sent Me, while it is day; the night
cometh when no man can work"
When we think of it, a resolution to
make a good use of our time includes
all other good resolutions, or provides
opportunity for them as occasions for
action arise. AS that wonderful mo-
ment which we call the Present cuts
way for us through the sea of time and
bears us on to opportunity after op-
portunity, If our chief desire is to make
the best use of time, especially if that
desire is itself ruled by "the power OF
an endless life," we shall find that good
resolutions are the everyday working
resolutions of life.-Cbicaco Advance