The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-30
RAILROAD CASES
 ARE POSTPONED
JUDGE THOMAS G. JONES OF FED- ERAL COURT GIVES HIMSELF ONE WEEK TO RECOVER FROM REGENT INJURIES.

REGENT INJURIES.
 Montgomery, December 0-(Special)- Because of the possibility of his not be- ing fully recovered from a recent in- jury, Judge Thomas G. Jones has post poned the hearing on the railroad injunc- tion application from January to Janu- ary IS.
 Both sides expected to be ready, but the judge feared he might not be strong enough for prolonged hearing on the date set, so he thought best to allow him. self another week. These hearings are on the applications of certain railroads for fnjunctions to prevent enforcement of state rate and regulation laws.
 your past, what, I ask, shall the next decade of years bring? Shall they find you better or worse than you are today In the sacramentai presence of your God? Ask your older brother or sister. You--young man or woman of 30-have the last 10 years brought you nearer heaven or hell? If they have not brought you closer to the object of your life, to the prize at the end of your journey, they have been spent in vain; they have been lost time which can never be re- covered, they have left you as poor as if you had been but born today, or perhaps, still worse, with sins of a darker and more heinous hue, and bad habits more ineradically fixed.
 At Riper Age.
 And you-man of 40 or 50-whose head Is full of experience, and whose mind is occupied with schemes of earthly profit, how much of your thought have you given to God and the affairs of your eter- nal salvation? Or have you given up His service and stopped by the wayside to gather the spells of worldly wealth? Has the sacred writer outlined your life in the words of the wise man, We wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and de- struction, and have walked through hard ways, but the way of the Lord we have not known'-(Wisd V. 7.) If so, I be- seech you to stop and think, for God is a bad enemy to make. The little treasure you have hoarded the house you have built, the family you have reared. may vanish like the snow before the summers sun: They slept their sleep, and awak- ing found nothing of their riches in their hands. You will admit the possibility, For the hope of the wicKec is as dust, which is blown away with the wind and as thin froth, which is dispersed by the storm, and a smoke which is scat tered abroad by the wind, and as the 1< ne fbof passeth by.'-(Wisdom V. 15) Enlight- ened by the same divinely inspired word we may go forth and say with St. James, Go now, ye rich men, howl and weep in your miseries which shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your gar ments are moth-eaten,, your gold and sii- yer is cankered and the rust of them shall be testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.'-Uames V. 1-3) Don't be rash, therefore, in your onward career in pursuit of that for which you were not created. Pause and reflect.
 And you-hoary- headed old man-you, the sands of whose life-glass are fast running to an end, the decades of whose years must soon be counted, tell me, do you expect to meet cross or crown at the end of your chaplet? Are you in your old age building up hopes upon no foundation? Though your fading vision and palsied limbs warn you of the near approach of dissolution, has your grasp on life relaxed, or rather has 1t not tight ened and hardened as the years rolled past? And for the future is the mercy and bounty of God your only reliance, or Is life of virtue or of frequent pen ance your sustaining hope? Why. I pray you, do you not ask yourself in the words of the wise man: For whom do I labor and defraud myself of good things?' | Have you forgotten the warning of the | same sacred writer, which in your long experience you have seen so frequently | verified: He that gathereth together by | wronging hls own soul. gathereth for oth- CTS, and another shall squander away his | goods in rioting.'
 Must Do Good.
 But granting that 1t be possible that | I may have painted the picture too dark ly, and that your lives have been free | from actual sin, yet bear in mind that 1t | is not sufficient for our salvation to avoid | evil; we must also do good. "Diverte a | malo' has attached to it the positive | precept fac bonum.' Doing nothing for | God and your souls salvation is surely | not doing good Doing nothing for God | is losing time, for time was given us