Milford chronicle., 1905-01-13

e ault With everything, yet they stay {
Ihey are respectable thieves Of yo
r time, who cannot be landed in Jail. b
4 they are bigger nuisance to You th,
2 II they stole the meat out Of your Il
chest or the bread and cake from yol
eupboards. All, these destroyers
time! How many precious moment
which in the aggregate have amounte
to precious days of work, have bee
lost for us in the journey Of life, wit
It's vital opportunities. through thel
unwelcome visits! Well wrote Olive
Wendell Holmes in reference to sue
as these:
shun such as lounge through afternoon
and ewes
And on thy dial write, Beware O
thieves"
Felon Of minutes. never taught to feel
Ihe worth OF treasures which thy finger.
steal;
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime.
But spare the right-it holds my golden
time.
God says: Work, work, work! Work
for the. night cometh when no man can
work" That means we must fight
against those who would waste our
precious moments as well as against
our own slOthful natures, and Of all
warnings for busy men think this one
OF the most important. Where there "a
one busy man who would voluntarily
waste his time there are ten law fol !
ows who are ready to waste It for him
Look out that these despised "nomadsv
nay not ruin any more of your days Of
In heather mythology there lived A
cd by the name Of Baldur His moth
r, Frigga, wanted to make him immor-
II. She demanded from the stones. the
'ees from fire and water and all met
IS and reptiles and birds and polsons.
oath that they never would kill him
nese all gave willing oath. Then the
'ds' believing that Baldur was immor-
l. began to strike him with swords
ears battleaxes and darts, but tbey
rmed him not. At last one of the
us picked up piece Of mistletoe
threw 1t at Baldur. The little twie
reed the skin and the heart. and Raj
cropped a corpse Many of these
It's Of tie ''destroyers Of time" NAV
NJ to be harmless. But are they?
e the despised mistletoe Of heatben
they may be fatal for.whole
s. whole months and years. that
uid have been used in service of the
ster. - '"e
Time Belongs to God.
ould God we might one and all
{ relenuessly against these "de-
yers OF time" You cannot afford to
away what is not your own. Your
belongs not to you, but to another
with me to a concert this after.
said one salesman to another
was employed in a large ware-
e. i cannot go this afternoon -
the answer my time is not NV
II belongs to another" "To
10 my employer" The fol.
. sabbath afternoon the same
nan said to the same clerk. Come
o riding with me this afternoon +"
mot said the other. "My time is
" own; 1t belongs to another"
'hom? TO God, who said .Ra-
er the Sabbath day to keen If
Whl you and waste our pre-
hereafter? Shall we NOT
ieel that in reality time does
'iohg to us? 1t belongs. in tbe
noDleF and purer sense. to tbano
we are sent to serve and TO fbe
God' who will demand at tbe
mt an accounting for every mo-
1e fritter away.
thought flashed upon me nc
on the deck Of the steamship
a. trying to figure out how
It day. If instead Of FOLLOWING
-ins sun l had been going to-
le east would not have lost n
It gained an extra day; If in
going from New York to San
20 and New Zealand had been
3 from London through tbe
nal to Australia, instead of
ost Thursday, would have
thursdays in one week. It ~
nothing on our voyage which
'e took, but in the voyage Of
ltters a great deal. They who
star in the east" as their
the journey Of life, who fol- T
ST. who are led by him, have
lys In this life they have in
iShts and in the end eternal
n direction are you sailing?
'oing away from the haven Of
re you and 1 travelling awav
! Are we following the "set- IL "
where we have our 'lost
are we leading toward the
the east" where we shall
found daysT Are we sail
iod at a point where we shall
the rocks Of sin. or are we
ward the harbor of peace
shall meet all our dear ones
t? 0'
aps, after all, the caption of THF
is a misleading one. There
lost day" in a mans life
is yet to be found day.
ill be found days" at the
seat OF Christ where thev