The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-06-18


street comes in covered with dust, and. as
though the first disaster were not enough,
she whips it. After awhile tho child Is taken,
or the parent is taken, or the companion is
taken,and those who are left say: "Oh,if we
could only get back those unkind words,
those unkind deeds; IL we could only re-
call Them" But you can not get them
back You might bow down over the
grave of that loved one and cry and cry
and cry. The white lips would make no
answer. The stars shall be plucked out of
their sockets, but these influences shall not
be torn away. The world shall die, but
there are some wrongs immortal. The
moral of which is, take care of your friends
while you have them; spare the scolding;
be economical Of the satire; shutthem up in
dark cave from which they shall never
swarm forth all the words that have
sting in them. You will wish you had
some day-very soon you will-perhaps to-
morrow.
There is another sin that place in tho
class of irrevocsSle mistakes, and that is
lost opportunities Of getting good. How
has it been with youP You may make
resolutions for the future, but past oppor-
tunities are gone. / never come to my
birthday but can see that l have wasted
many chances of getting better.
There is one more class Of sins that put
in this category Of irrevocable offenses,
and that is lost opportunities of useful
ness. There comes time when you can
do good thing for Christ. 1t comes only
once. Your business partner is proud
man. In ordinary circumstances say to
him: "Believe in Christ" and he will
say:-"You mind your business and pll
mind mine" But there has been affliction
in the household His heart is tender. He
is looking around for sympathy and solace.
Now is your time. Speak, speak, or for.
ever hold your peace. There is time in
farm life when you plant the corn and
when you sow the seed. Let that go bv,
and the farmer will wiring his hands while
other husbandmen are gathering in the
sheaves. You are in q religious meeting,
and there is an opportunity for you to
speak out for God. You say: 81 must do
it," Your cheek hushes with embar-
rassment. You rise half way, but you
cover before men whose breath is in their
nostrils, and you shrink back and
tho opportunity is gone, and
all eternity will feel the effect of your
silence. Try to get back that opportunity
You can not find it. You might as well
try to find the fleece that Gideon watched,
or take in your hand the dew that came
down upon the locks OF the Bethlehem
shepherds, or to find the plume of the first
robin thai went across Paradise 1t is
gone; it is gone forever When an oppor.
tunity for personal repentance or Of doing
good passes away you may hunt for it,
you can not find IL; you may fish for it, it
viii not take the hook; you may dig for it,
you can not bring it up. Remember what
tell you this morning in June, 1884, that
there are wrongs aud sins that can never be
corrected; that our privileges fly not in
circles, but in straight line; that the
lightnings have not as swift feet as cur
privileges when they are gone; and let an
opportunity of salvation 60 by us an inch,
the one-hundredth part Of an inch, the
one-thousandth part of an inch, the mil.
llonth part of an inch, and no man can
oyortaGe it. Fire.winged seraphim can not
come up with it. The eternal God himself
can not catch It.
stand before those who have glorious
bir.hright. Bsau'5 was not so rich as
yours. Sell It once, ami you sell it for.
ever. Tho world wants ~ buy 1t. Satan
wants 70 buy IT, Listen for moment to
those brilliant offers, ard IL IS gone. Why
do tell you these truths? | have stood
before you year after year, tolling you
thcsc ,Aing5. Some have yielded their
hearts 30 God, and a glorious crop Of souls
has been reaped; bat this audience Of i'm.
mortal men and women: arc they all pre-
pared for the great futureS could stand
here and play usweeter harp l couldtalk
Of the gates Of pearl and tho walls of pre-
c.ous stona5 Gnd tha crowns Of light.
| WLGt IS Tue u7o.of .alklnG Of those things
70 those who have no preparation for that
land! WHO are on the wrong road? And
7 50 Stand here, Sabbh h aftcr Sabbath, on.
dcavoring TO persuade you to give up your
sin and soci, after Col, ani bo at peace
! with Him.