Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-01-09

every morning and runs after IL during
the whole day without being able TO
overtake it." Many men and women
are wasting precious days that might
be used for Christ by not getting up on
time and starting the work of the day
on time and Systematically andaprompt-
ly meeting all demands as they come
up for settlement.
WASTING Time.
This warming against the wasted min
stes of the early morning is far more
necessary than some of us have here
tofore supposed. When we waste the
early minutes of the morning we waste
the very best minutes of the whole
day. The old prOyerb says: Beauty
sleep is always taken before u O'Clock
at night Every hour Of sleep before
midnight is worth two taken in bed
after that time" Along exactly tie
same line of thought | say. Every
hour of work done before . or 10
o'clock in the morning is worth nj
least two hours of work after u o'clock
noon" There is something about The
ozone of the early atmosphere. some
thing about the eXhilaration of the
early morning, that arouses us and
fires us and drives us on and clarifies
our brains. so that we can accomplish
at least double the work in one half
hour then than in any half hour OF the
afternoon or evening. Early to bed
and early to rise makes man healthy,
wealthy and wise" has just as much
truth tackled on to the last injunction
as on to the first.
Almost without exception the great
workers Of the world have been early
rlsers While other men were in bed
they were at their desks or In their
laboratories or down at their offices or
out making their investigations. Har-
ry Lee once said to his great leader, the
Father of His Country, 'Sir, we SOL
diers are amazed at the vast amount Of
work you can accomplish" Sir an
swered General George Washington, Il
do what l do because l rise every
morning at 4 o'clock, and a great deal
of my work is done while others are
asleep" How did Walter Scott write
his many books? He arose every morn
ing at ,. He then cleared away his
correspondence. He laid out his plans
of work, and "by breakfast time" he
said. Il have broken the neck of the
days work" Frederick the Great did
not need any one to describe for him
the rising sun. During all the long
seven years war which has been the
marvel of European strategists for a
century and a half he saw with his
own eyes the sun rise every morning.
But, though the great work of nearly
all our great workers was due to the
fact that they were early risers, many
of us linger in our beds in the morn
ing just as long as possible. Instead
of living up to the old prOverb we say,
Late to bed and late to rise" and we
fritter away the late hours of the night
on doing nothing, just as in the morn.
ing we fritter them away in bed.
A Family History.
"What tine does your rising bell
ring?' l ask ooh" you answer, 1--WE
do not have any rising bell; we get up
when we are slept out" what time
does your breakfast bell ring?" 1--WE do
not have any breakfast bell" you an
swer when we are slept out, we get
up and dress and go to breakfast. That
is the history of our house" oh, no.
That is part of the history; it is not all.
l will tell you the rest of it. When you
awake, you get up and dress, but you
l. of
the father has his breakfast. Then one
or two of the children straggle down.
Then the mother comes last, or the
elder sister. Then the breakfast which
ought to take just twenty-five minutes,
dragS out over an hour. The children
run off to school. The father hurries
away to business. The servant girls
dishes are not washed for an hour and
a half later There has been no time
for prayers. Everything in the home
goes topsy turvy merely because the
family did not arise together, eat to-
gether, pray together and go to work
at the same time, The wasted minutes
Of the early morning are directly re-
sponSible for whole days and weeks
and months of life wasted for the serv-
| ice of the Master. "The Austrians lost
the battles Of Lodi and Arcola," said
| Napoleon, because they did not appre-
| Ciate the value Of FIVE minutes" The
reason many men waste whole DAYS of
life's service that might have been con-
secrated for Christ is because they do
not appreciate the value of the sacred
minutes in the early hours of the morn
ing.
Utilize the Minutes.
How do we diminish our service fol
Christ by lost days? By not improv-
ing the fragments of time that lie scat
tered about us during the days work
by not utilizing those extra few min.
uteS here and there to fit ourselves in
diligently by reading and study fol
the work God has given us to do, by
supposing that God will let us inter
pref the passage, ASK, and We shall
receive; seek and We shall find; knock