Milford chronicle., 1905-01-13
Village
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lit Talmase. DID.

Woru 'LOStI We hea
atfairlng cry Of the miner
ofhe Death valley Of the
We hear it in the bit
&c travellers bewiIdered in
O the Montana prairies II
II horror on the lips OF the
m on the General Slocum
the sound Of New York.
II dismay from the crew Of
Charter wrecked on the
II is cry Of agony from
the upper story Of the
otel in New York, whose
supphant arms stretched in
the fremen falls into the
furnace, HE is lostp' we
me Of our number slides over
of the Alpine glacier. HE is
we SAID in sorrow when our
le Rev. DR.. Robert B. TAYLOR
TIego, made false step from /
I the sailboat and sank to /
re- "Lost!' cries the mother
pacing the streets looking
ndering child. "LostT cries
II who has ventured his last
turn of the wheel Horror
ly and agony and despair are
that thrilling word.
is another kind of loss of which {
to speak to you today. At tbe q
'ng Of new year it is impressed S
Is with solemn import. Looking d
ard over the year that is gone n
V'ad is the thought of our lost Il
Days there have been in which ST
RsHt nave done work for God n
we have suffered to pass awav c,
dsar~
y which we have frittered away B
~. -
til know the old adage that "tlme ia
he. We are all ready to grant Of
lhis axiom is true. IF man has in,
regard for the time Of other men" Of
te Horace Greeley, "why should he 81
ae Tor their money? What is the DIFF fri
eHce DetWeen stealing a mans bour on
stealing his So? There are MANY inc
10 whom each hour of the business
Is worth more than So" But, though 90
Hleahs money to most of US. time rim.
ouiu mean more than that. It is -
Ifeu trust committed to us. for the Nh,
Ut use OF which we shall have To doc.
I'VE account Little enough is the nor not
~" we can devote to our Masters serv- evye
'ee' II we waste it we defraud God M
Losing the Minutes. is II
we waste these days simply bv vast Tbo
y mere a minute and there a minnie 7 wi
us thought was brought home to me AVA
=. s,.t soui 'liouhd me world. In 1898 do n
~ 'dtner and left our homes in the tbe (
asst ana started on our Journey. We or ~
DlOWed the course of the setting SIM Then
g travelled from New Yorl, TO pitts. elder
urg' from Pittsburg to Chicago fron, o,,ob,
enro, - oL LOUIS from st. Louis to drags
-, ''u 'iieh 70 san Francisco. We run
M So $50 up ana down. but always away
~, p@sliils toward the west At San dishe.
anelsco we set sail for the Sandwich hal
''--l's '',nl.,. zen we went on to Samoa. for pl
'ne.ihles we would stop two or three goes
- N town, sometimes a full week famil,
'o'A Us seven long months to encir gether
'H' slooe' Each day, as a rule. was at the
Us not twenty-fOur hours. but twen- Of the
louf hours and ten or fifteen or even sponsi
rly minutes long. OF course Won and m,
sp my meaning. We were Iengtben- Ice of
our Gays, because we were travel the ba
westward. How were we TO straight. Napole
'ut our calendar? This was the wav ciate t
liu IL. one night we went to bed on reason
ihesday. The next morning when life's s,
woke 1t was Friday There. in the secrate
lle Of tne Pacific ocean. we lost n not apr
uay How did that day disappearY minutes
sat that Friday morning after ing.
'sday was dropped out Of my cal.
II said to myself: "Yes. YES. This How
le way many days are lost for Christ
81 IN our great journey of life Ing the
IL IS rev minutes wasted for tered al
i IN the morning. There it is a Dy not
minutes wasted at noon or at utes her
lde or at night. These few min. telligent
10 not seem to amount to much Mt the wor
me but In tie aggregate they supposin
up whole days, weeks. months pret the
perhaps whole years Of wasted receive;
that might have been spent in and it 81
e for the Master" our lips
many days that might have palsied &
given to Christ have we lost9 right pat
10 we lose them? First. by not are helpl
lg the work Of each day prompt the blind
enefgetically as we ought to do thing col
ersleeping in the morning or bv little chill
ing through our dressing. by lin unless 81
too long at the breakfast table creep and
wning and stretching and idlv We mus
g air castles In bed after the rection Of
bell has rung, by ignoring the will go 70
> call, which King Solomon IN think If
th chapter Of Proverbs pounds walk up
very bedroom door when he steamer a
How long wilt thou sIeep. q like to tn
d? When wilt thou arise ont Would the
sleep? Yet a little sleep. a lit mandT .
nber. little foldine of tbe ship?v ~
0 Sleep So shall thy poverty swer- "DC
J one that traveleth and tbv she laws OF
an armed man." Lord vii I cannot lie
once declared that the cause know not Il
allure Of the famous English great surfa
n, the Duke Of Newcastle. everywhere
he never started the DAVIS as on the
tiaae. He loses half an hour thing you !
our me saaanrr,,s