The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-12

5uDserve our highest interests as children
OF God. 1t is not enough that We should
close the shop; we must open the windows
OF our souls toward God. The sabbath is
"halowed" or holy day. The Lord knew
how busy we would be on the secular days
so busy that we are likely to give little
or no thought to spiritual things-where.
fore He said, 81 will give them a day for
their souls; when they may come up into
the. mountains and breathe the clear air
with Me
So He has given us time divided and ad.
justed to our needs and it behooves us to
make an economical use of it. Some people
are always in haste; Others are always be-
hind time. 1t was n wise saying of Fla
ve5. ITO come before the opportunity is
to come before the bird is hatched; to
come after the opportunity is to come af
ter tie bird is flown" Every day. every
hour. every moment strikes its own bal.
ance. Postponement Is. protligacy.. Pro-
crastir alton is a spendthrift as well as a
thief. 1t was Lord Chesterfield. one Of
the worldiest OF men, who wrote to his
son, Never put olf until tomorrow what
you can do to-day"
But the worst of all capital crimes is
"killing time" The phrase is significant
significant of murder most foul The
youth who seeks to quiet memory and an
uneasy conscience by plunging into disspa.
ton; the old social campaigner who wan.
ders about with worn.out stomach and a
wizcned heart in search of pastures new;
the dcvotee OF fashion, whose idle days
are spent in recovering from worse than
idle nlghts-these all are chronocides. and
they are moral suicides as well.
Oh, the waste, the frightful. irrevocab,e
waste. Dreaming empty dreams. building
castles in the air, fighting speeters and
windmills. entertaining vain regrets and
foolish hopes, bTooding on old grudges,
tearing characters to tatters over the tea
cups borrowing trouble, writing books
that never will be published nor ought to
be, groaning over imaginary aches and
pains, crossing bridges before We come to
them-what a large part of life these fill?
And every moment lost this way is lost to
self culture, lost to humanity, filched from
the service of God.
The world is full of commonplace people
who have squandcred their birthright and
fallen short of all the large possibilities of
their being through the misuse of time,
They sit tilted back in their chairs and
twiddllng their thumbs while Waterloo is
being fought, and they wake up and begin
to fret when nothing is going on. They
never catch up with themselves The
more convenient season" leads them
stern chase year in and year out.
One of the valuable secrets of success is
knowing how to cconomize the fragments
OF time. An hour seems a little matter,
but you can. read twenty quarto pages in
an hour, and an hour a day for four years
would carry you through the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. Ten minutes are hardly worth
considering, yet Longfelow in his, youth
translated, Dante's "lnferno" in the ten
for his coffee to boil Gather up the frag.
me ITS that nothing be lost" While Pro-
fessor Mitchell was in charge of division
during the Civil War he said to a young
officer: You excuse yourself on the ground
that you are only few minutes late. Sir,
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value OF miliionth part of second" 1t
lS the loss OF time. a little here and little
there, that makes life failure and eternity
an irremediable disappointment.
VIII there be an end of time? Ave,
when eternity begins. The life beyond is
unconditional by the falling sands of the
hour glass. At the sounding of the sew
enth trumpet John saw an angel arrayed
In majesty, with one foot planted on the
sea and the other on the land who pro-
claimed the end of the present cycle,
There shall be time no longer!" But to
all intents and purposes death marks the
end OF time for every man. Probation is
over. once for all. The present probation
would, indeed. be farce, if there were
another after it, The fabric is lifted from
the loom and there is no gathering up its
loose ends. School is out and life begins.
Wherefore, whatsoever thy hand fndeth
to do, do it with thy might, and do it here
and now; for there is no work, nor device.
nor knowledge, nor wisdom on the grave
whittier thou goest 1t is true saying of
Emerson's, "No man has learned any.
thing rightly until he knows that every
day ia doomsday." for every day and every
hour has the issues of eternity wrapped up
in it. In hoe momento pendit eternitas
The time to will, to choose, 10 act is now:
il sin is to be repented of, repent now. II
Christ is to be accepted, accept Him now
Now is the accepted time and to-day is the
day of salvation. "The golden opportunity
is never offer twice; seize thou the hour
when, fortune smiles and duty points the
way"