The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-03-13
Of God II is no. enough that we .boul.

| Of God. II is not enough that we sbouk
| close .he shop; We must open the window
OF OF souls toward God. The sabbath IL
"hsllowed" or hoy day. The Lord knew
I how busy we would be on the secular days
so blsy that we are likely 10 gDs little
or no thought 20 spiritual things-where
| fore He said. Il will give them a day !of
| their souls; when they may come up into
the mountains and breathe the Gear ali
/ with Ne"
So He mas given US time divided and ad,
| jus.ed 20 our needs, aud il behooves US &c
maze an economical nse OF II. Some people
/ are always IN haste; others are ALWAYS be-
i hind time. IL was a wise saving OF Fla
vel1, TO come before the opportunity is
10 come before the bird is hatched 70
/ tel tie bird Is flown" Every day. every
/ hour. every moment strikes its own ball
ance. Postponemeut Is prohigacy. Pro-
/ craFtn alton is a spendthrift as well as a
/ thief. II was Lord Chesterfield. one of
| the worldhest OF men, who wrote 10 his
SON Never put of until tomorrow what
you can do to-day"
But the worst Of al capital crimes is
| ki!llng time" The phrase is significant
/ significant OF murder most foul. The
youth who seeks 10 quiet memory and an
uneasy conscience oy plunging into dissipa.
| 'ion; the old social campaigner who wan
/ ders about with a worn-out stomach and a
/
the devotee of fashion. whose idle DAYS
| are scent in recovering from worse than
/ die nights-these all are chrOnocides. and
| thev are moral suicides as well.
On, the waste the frishtful. irrevocable
waste Dreaming emntv dreams. building
castles IN the air, fighting specters and
wlndmIlls, entertaining vain regrets and
| foolish hopes, brooding on old grudges,
tearing characters 20 t1tters over the tea
cups, borrowing trouble. writing hooks
that never will be published nor ought TO
| be. gToanng over imaginary aches and
pains, crossing bridges before we come 70
them-what large part OF life these fill?
And every moment lost this way is lost 10
self culture, lost 20 humanity, tiched from
the service Of God.
The world is full OF commonplace people
who have squandered their birthri-ht and
fallen short of all the large possibilities Of
their being through the misuse of time.
I They. slt tilted back in their chairs and
twddllng their thumbs while Waterloo is
beng fought, and they wake up and begin
10 fret when nothing is going on They
never catch Up with themselves The
more convenient season" leads them a
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 a little matter,
but. you can read twenty quarto pages in
an hour, and an hour day for four wears
would carry you through the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. Ten minutes are hardly worth
considering, vet 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 ats that nothing be lost" While Pro-
fessor Mitchell was in charge of a division
during the Civil War he said 10 a Young
officer: You excuse yourself on the ground
that You are only a few minutes late Sir,
/ haN~ HnR - ha Lal, e, IL IL.
value OF millionth part OF a second" 1t
Is the loss OF time. little here and little
there, that makes life failure and eternity
an rremediable 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 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 up it's
loose ends School is out and life begins.
Wherefore, whatsoever thy hand findeth
to 90, 30 1t with thy might, and do 1t here
ana now, LOT there ls no Work, nor device.
nor knowledge. nor wisdom on the grave
whittier thou goest. 1t Is true saving of
Emerson's, mo man has learned any
thing rightly until he knows that every
day is doomsday," for every day and every
hour has the issues of eternity wrapped up
IN 1t. In hoe momento pendit eternitas.
The time to will, TO choose. to act is now.
II sin ie 70 be- repented Of repent now. lf
Christ IL to be accepted accept Him row.
Now Is the accented time ard TODAY i the
day of salvation. THE golden opportunity
is never offered twice; seize thou the hour
when fortune smiles and duty points the
way"