The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-19

absorbing as to crowd out other things
that contribute to the health and symme-
try of life. More men die of quick
lunch than of hunger. Not few famish
on the husks of hurried devotion. TOO
busy, too BUSY" and the trumpet sounds!
ihe night Is Tor. sleep, tired natures
sweet restorer, balmy sleep" Nor is the
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 it is
written, The Lord blessed the Sabbath
day and hallowed it." l have known a
week and recnperate on Sunday. This is
rObbing God The night and the Sabbath
have separate uses Christ said, 'The Sab
| bath was made for man." It was made to
snbserve 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
"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 things-where-
fore He said, II 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 adj
Jnsted 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 ia wise saying of Fla
vels, ITO come before the opportunity is
TO come before the bird us Matched; to
come after the opportunity is to come af
ter the bird is flown" Every day. every
hour. every moment strikes It's own bal
! ance. Postponement is prohigacy Pro-
crastir alton is a espendthrift as well as a
thief. It 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
| significant of murder most foul The
| youth who seeks to quiet memory and an
uneasy conscience by plunging into dissipa-
| ton; Che old social ,campaigner who wan
| ders about with a WORKOUT stomach and
| Wlzened heart IN search OF pastures new;
the devotee of fashion, whose idle days
| are spent In recovering from worse than
| Idle nights-these all are chronocides, and
| they are moral suicides as well.
| Oh, the waste, the frightful, irrevocable
waste! Dreaming empty dreams, building
castles IN the air, fighting specters and
Wlndmllls, entertaining vain regrets and
| toohsh 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, grooming over Imaginary aches and
pains, crossing bridges before we come to
them-what large part of life these fill?
And every moment lost this way is lost to
self culture, lost to humanity, flched from
the service of God.
The world is full of commonplace people
who have sGuandered their birthright and
fallen short of all the large possibilities of
| their belng through the misuse of time.
Ihey -, SIT Tilted back in their chairs and
twlddllng their thumbs while Waterloo is
beng fought, and they wake up and begin
to fret when nothing lis going on. Thev
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.
put you can read twenty quarto pages in
an hour, and an hour day for four Years
would carry you through the Encyclopedias
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
Tor his coffee to boil. Gather up the frag-
me1ts that, nothing be lost" While Pro
during the Civil War he said to a young
offfeer: You excuse yourself on the ground
that you are only few minutes late Sir,
l haze beer in the habit of calculating the
value of milionth part of a second!" 1t
IS the loss of time, little here and a little
there, that makes life failure and eternity
an irremediable disappointment
Will there be an end of time2 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 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 up its
loose ends. School is out and life begins.
Wherefore, whatsoever thy hand findeth
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. It is true saying 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 It,. In hoe momento pendit eternitas.
The time to will, to choose, to act is now.
If sin is 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
wcy."