moves in this inconceivably slow journey our pole selects for us
and points out the various suns which in turn we call the North
Star.

We have written thus much to fix the attention of readers on the
question of time. Now, how does it affect you? Time represents
your only chance, your only wealth, your only possibility for
achieving anything.

The man who lasts fifty years lives about four hundred and
thirty-eight thousand hours. Sleep takes at least one-third, or
one hundred and forty-six thousand hours. The processes of
eating, washing, dressing, getting up and going to bed take up at
least three hours per day, or fifty-four thousand seven hundred
and fifty hours.

In addition to all this TIME cut out of our lives there is the
time devoted to amusement, the time devoted to idle dreaming--and
yet millions of people are wondering how they can "PASS THE
TIME."

In every great city and in every small town there should be a
monument to time. Young children should be taken to see it,
clergymen should preach at the foot of it on the sacred
importance of the few hours of activity given to us here. As the
sand runs through an hour glass, so you run your short race on
this earth. That passing sand means the passing of your chances
for making your life worth while. Instead of thinking how you
WILL pass the time, cross-examine yourself and ask yourself how
you HAVE passed the time thus far.