Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-31

future work. If the sea captain who once hat
charge of White Star steamer across the AT
iantlc ocean, one foggy night runs on rock OF
Newfoundland, and passengers and ship perish
snail he refuse TO take command of sma.
boat up the North River and say: II never vii
go on the water again unless I can run one o.
the White Star liner" Shall the engineer OF
lightning express, who at station mis-read tht
telegram of a train dispatcher and went init
colllslon, and for that has been put down t.
the work OF engineering freight tran
say say, II ,Ns never will again mount, mount al al
press?" Take what you have of opportunity
left Do your best with what remains. YOU
shortest winter day is worth more to you thar
can be the longest day of previous summer
Your opportunity now. as compared with pre-
vious opportunities, may be small as rat ter
| rfer compared with the lion which at Matabosa,
fatally wounded by the gun Of David Living ing
| stone, in its death agony leaped upon the mis-
| sionary explorer, and with its jaws crushed the
| bone of his arm to splinters, and then rolled
| over and expired, but, better is living dog
| than a dead lion."
My text also means that the condition of the
| most wretched man alive is better than that OF
| the most favored sinners departed. The chance
! OF these last is gone. Where they are they
cannot make any earthly assets available.
| After Charlemagne was dead he was set in an
| urnamented sepulchre on golden throne, and
crown was put on his cold brow. and sceptre
| In his staff hand, but that gave him no domin-
| ion in the next world. One of the most IN
! tensely interesting things l saw last winter In
| Egypt was
PHARAOH OF oLDEN TIMES,
the very Pharaoh who oppressed the Israelites.
The Inscriptions on his sarcophagus and the
writing on his mummy bandages prove beyond
controversy that he was the Pharaoh of Bible
times All the Egyptologists and the explora-
tinns agree that it is the old scoundrel himself
Visible are the very teeth with which he
gnashed against the Israelitish brickmakers
l,
which he looked upon the overwhelmed people
of God. There is the hair that foated in the
breeze off the Red Sea. There are the very lips
with which he commanded them to make bricks
without straw. Thousands of years afterward,
when the wrappings of the mummy were un-
rolled, old Pharaoh lifted up his arm as if in
imploration, but his skinny bones cannot again
clutch his shattered sceptre. He is a dead lion.
And is not any man now living, in the fact that
he has opportunity of repentance and salvation,
better off than any of those departed ones who,
by authority or possessions or influence were
positively leonine, and yet wicked?
What encouragement in the text for all
Christian workers! Despair of no ones saliva
ton. While there is life there is hope. When
IN England young lady asked for a class in n
Sunday school. the superintendent said: bet
ter go out on the street and get YOUR own
class" She brought in a ragged and filthy boy
Inc superintendent gave him good apparel In
se oIscoverea InaL IN street fight he had his de.
acdpS tin norr OFF He was brought IN and
q SECOND tlme respectfully clad. After few
~. I NC again disappeared, and It was louDo
..1n .naa ne was again ragged and wretched.
!nen, said the teacher, I'VE can do nothing
Wild him." But the superintendent fitted him
up again and started him again.
THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST.
After while the gospel took hold of him
and his heart changed. He started for the
nli,i'0y ~ anu ueoaino a ioie nileeiohaiy auu
on heatnen GROUNDS lived, and translated the
Scriptures and preached, until among the
most illustr1ous names of the church on earth
and in heaven is the name of plorious Robert
No-r;so, O. tor,b - s.,,o a. ios, - 70
hoffIsoh. uo iortn anu save tne loS', anu ie-
member however depraved, however ragged,
and however filthy and undone a child is, or a
man is, or woman is, they are worth an effort
I would rather have their opportunity than
,ha+ ill oro ho o;,,o,, 60 tboso ,,b - 1iyad
any 'nos "4ii e'oi oe sNeh w siioSS nv 4i'@N
mass and then wranned their goroeous tapestry
cronnd thpm aud witbonr a nTaver exnired
"pa+rar ;s a Ir;nr do, tban dead iion >,
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