The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-03-12

cbsorhi2c. os % crowd oua y.':~r things
tkas contribute to tie h.altn i1d symme-
t,"- of iiie More mel dc OF "cGlcS
iuncl.' than OF huGcc". No: = fg" famIsa
on the hGsks OF harried de"o.lon. ''Loo
busy, too busy and the trumpet sounds.
We have tine enou.h Tor NErSitat resi-.
The night Is for sleep, ''tirct naiarCs
night too long. Though many gSo?.S act as
If rhcv thought it so.
We have time enCugh for devotion. Al
the days are Gods days. bHt 81 oa@ 1t =
written. 'I'he Lord Blessed the Sabbath
dav and hai.owel H." ] hay. known i
man to curtail his rest six r;"hts IN the
week and recuperatc on SUNDAY. Tins -
robbinr God The night and the Sabbath
have separate uses. Christ SAID. 'Ihe SAB
bath was made fo- man 1t was made 10
.;rbserve our highest interests rs children
of God. 1t is not enough that we should
close the shop; we must open the Windows
of OF" souls toward God. The Sabbath is
"hallowed" or holy dav. The Lord knew
how busy we would be on the secular days
so busy that we are likely TO give list.e
or no thought to sniritual thinss-wherc-
fore He said. Il will give them 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-
fused to our needs. and it beho3vCs Us 20
maze an economical use o. ic. Some people
are always in haste; others are always be-
hind time. II was = wise saying OF Fla.
vel;. To come before the opportunity is
to come before the bird is hatcbed; to
come after the opportunity is TO come at.
ter tie bird is flown Every day. every
hour. every moment strikes its own bal
ance Postponement is nrofigacy. Pro-
crastir alton is spendthrift as we'll as
thief. 1t was Lord Chesterfield. one or
the wor,diicst of men, who wrote to his
son. Never put off until tomorrow what
yoI can do to-day"
But the worst of all capital crimes is
'Ekiling time" The phrase is significant
significant of murder most foul. The
youth who seeks to quiet memory and an
uneasy conscience by piunging into dissipa-
ton; the old social campaigne- who wan
ders about with worn-out stomach and
wizened heart in search OF pastures new;
the devotee of fashion, whose Idle days
are spent in recovering from worse than
idle nrghts-thesc all are chronocides, aud
thev are moral suicides as well.
Oh, the waste, the frigbtful, irrevocabie
waste! Dreaming empty dreams. building
castles in the air, fighting specters and
wlndmills, entertaining vain regrets and
foolish hopes. broodinG on Old grudges,
tearing characters to tatters over the tea
cups, borrowing trouble. writing hooks
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 till!
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 squandered their birthricht and
fallen short of all the large possibilities of
their being through the misuse of time.
They sit tilted back in their chairs and
twiddling 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 Sear in and year out.
One Of the valuable secrets of success is
knowing how to economic the fragments
of time. An hour seems a little matter,
but you can read twenty quarto pages in
an hour, and an hour day for four years
would carry You through the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. Ten minutes are hardly worth
considering. yet Longfellow in his youth
translated Dante's "Inferno" in the ten
minutes day after day. while he waited
for his coffee to boil. Gather up the frag-
me ITS that nothing be lost" While Pro-
fessor Mitchell was in charge of a division
during the Civil War he said to young
officer: "You excuse yourself on the ground
that you are only few minutes late. Sir,
have becn in the habit Of calculating the
value of millionth part OF second!" It
there, that makes life failure and eternity
an irremediable disappointment.
Will there be an end of time? Aye,
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 or time for everv 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 un its
loose ends. Schoo! 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 poest. 1t is true saving of
Emerson's. 'No man has learned any
thing rightly until he knows that every
hour has the issues of eternity wrapped up
in it. In hoe momento pendit eternitas.
The time to will. to choose, to act is now.
If sin IL to be repented of. repent now. If
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 offered twice; seize thou the hour
when. fortune smiles and duty points the
way"