The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-10

nothing 90 the purpose or nothing that We
ought TO do We are ever complaining
that our days are lgw and acting as IF they
were without end
We have time enough for work. An
"eight-hour day is a purely artificial
thing. God never made e. care there
now twelve hours in the dayW Gods day
IN which imam goeth 10 his work" is from
morning until evening, and there IS not too
much OF t.
We have time enough for recreation. No
mal IS at liberty TO ovcrwork or TO work
without relaxing. IAN work and no play
makes Jack not only a dull but an uupt0f.
table boy. No business should ever be 30
absorbing as TO crowd out other things
that contribute to the health and symma.
try of lie. More men die OF a "qge;
lunclp than OF hunger Not q few iam.-l
on the hGsks Of hurried devotion Too
busy, too busy" and the trumpet sounds,
We have time enough for physical res
The night Is for sleep. tired natures
sweet rest0rer, balmy sleep" Nor IS tine
night too long, though many people act as
If they thought it so.
We have time enough for devotion All
the days are Gods days, but of one 10 ia
written. "The Lord blessed the Sabbath
day and halowed it," ! have known
man to curtail his rest six nights in the
week and reCuperate on Sunday. This is
robbing God. The night and the Sabbath
have separate uses. Christ said. "The Sab
bath was made for man." 1t was made to
5ubsrTye our highest interests as children
| Of God. II is not enough that we should
close the shop we must open the windows
OF ou- souls toward God The Sabbath is
/ a "hallowed" 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 thngs-where-
/ fore He said. ~ viii 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 adj
] 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 wise saying of Fla.
vel5, TO come before the opportunity is
! to come before the bird is Matched: 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 prohigacy. Pro-
! cras tn alton Is a spendthuft as well as a
! thief. 1t was Lord Chesterfield, one OF
! the worldliest of men, who wrote to his
! son, Never put off until tomorrow what
you can do to-day"
But the worst Of all capital crimes is
! killing time" The phrase is significant
I significant Of murder most foul The
/ youth who seeks to quiet memory and an
uneasy conscience by plungng into dissipa-
ton; the Old social campaigner who wan.
ders about with a WORKOUT stomach and a
| wlzened heart in search of pastures new;
the devotee Of fashion, whose Idle days
| are spent in recovering from worse than
| Idle nrghts-these al are chronocides. and
thew are moral suicides rs well.
Oh, the waste, the frightful, irrevocab!e
waste Dreaming empty dreams. building
castles in the air, fchting sDecters and
windmllls, entertaining vain regrets and
foolish hopes, brooding on old grudges,
tearing characters to tatters over the tea
cups, borrowing trouble writing books
that never will be published nor ought to
/ be, grOanng over imaginary aches and
pains crossing bridges before we come to
them-what large part of life these FIJI?
And every moment lost this way Is lost to
self culture, lost to humanity, 6.ched from
the service Of God
The world is full of commonp' ace peop,e
who have squandered 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
tWlddhng their thumbs while Waterloo is
being fought, and they wake uD 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 economic the fragments
OF time. An hour seems 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 vet LonCfellow in his youth
| NJ fTvFo - -
minutes day after day. while he waited
for his coffee to boil. Gather I'm the frag-
me1ts 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,
! have beer in the habit Of calculating the
value of a millionth part OF a second" 1t
Is the loss of time, Q little here and little
there, that makes life failure and eternity
an irremediable disappointment
VIII 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 lntents 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 M its
loose ends. School is out and life begins.
, Wherefore, Whatsoever thy hand fudeth
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 a true saving oG
Fmerson's. ono man has learned any.
thing rightly until he knows that cverv
: day is doomsday" for every day and every
hour has the issues of eternity wrapped mp