The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-08-19
LIFE's OPPORTUNITIES.


Susan NJ. Spaulding, in s. 5. Times
LIFE's OPPORTUNITIES.
1t Would BE q Failure without the Many
Cares and Responsibilities.
Opportunity often seems only another
word for responsibility; because in this
strange life Of ours much that we have
a chance to do becomes a clear and
positive duty. Each day, each week,
each month, each year is new chance
given you by God. A new chance, a
new leaf, new life-this is the golden,
the unspeakable gift which each new
day offers to you" This from Canon
Farrar, which puts each division OF time
with its glorious chances in the light of
great gift, also suggests the absolute
duty of making the most and the best of
such gift. AS years roll on, and life
presses with it's burdens of cares, griefs
and duties, it is an encouraging thought
that every period of time may be
regarded as new chance to
start afresh, with better aims, more de.
serving purposes, and higher aspira-
tions than those of yesterday or the
day before. 1t is a great help to garner
in the memory the helpful thoughts
and suggestions of Others. In the hurry
of every days work and absorbing anx-
ieties there is too frequently but little
time to puzzle out many of the perpleX-
ing problems that vaguely hint their
own significance. yet elude distinct and
satisfying defination. Then in the care
! fully-written book, or the sensible arti-
Gle in the paper or magazine, out flashes
the very sentence needed to set matters
forth in clear, convincing, wholesome
light. Sir Walter Scott breaches q
whole sermon in less than two lines of
print, in saying: MANY of our cares are
but II morbid way of looking at our
privileges" How many man worries
over the work ard entanglements of
business career. How many women
fret and murmur over the enforced ex-
ertion involved in housekeeping and
maternal responsibilities Yet what
would life become if suddenly the
ability to prosecute business utterly
failed the busy driving man, who after
all is privileged in that he can attend
to the necessary, legitimate work of
mixing with other men, and taking his
chance in the great, restless, throbbing
world of barter and of trade. And if
the mother for some of them
should all at once find herself released
from large portion of household
duties and the ceaseless toll incident to
the grand position of wife and mother,
and that perchance through the removal
of some of the members of the dear
household circle, how would both heart
and hands long and suffer for the be-
loved privilege of ministering to the
usual requirements of each and every
one. and Of each and every day.
Responsibility and care are looked at,
time and again, as mortal enemies but
they are not; they are helps and friends
in driving out discomfort, keeping the
springs of life and action in healthful
play; and let them but be missed
awhile. and only too gladly and thank
fully the energies would spring to the
daily task with never suspicion of q
murmur or complaint. Sooner or later
| the fact reveals itself that there is bu,
; very little satisfaction or benefit in liv
ing a selfish, one-sided kind of life
We need support and help from each
other all the way long. Never day but
> some new chance offers itself to make
living bit easier for some one else. NJ
one so humble or unlearned but they
can shoulder one of life's most sacred
and binding duties-that of helping
some one else. A most excellent rule
: for everyone to consider, but whose au
thor we do not know, is this: 1.-The bes
recipe for going through life in a com
mendable way is to feel that everybody
no matter how rich or how poor. need
all the kindness they can get from
J others in the world" 1t truly, as il
often crudely remarked, takes all kind
to make up world:
And God, who studies each separate soul,
Out Of commonplace lives makes His beau
tiful whole.
; There can be but little doubt that a
. life draws toward the close, the chic
qualification of retrospect will b,
. in remembering such good an,
kindly deeds as may hav
= been done for others, and i
. might have been said that the recip
r quoted above was not only the mos
: commendable way to 60 through life
but was also the most satisfactory, an
the one that would pay the best in tn
4 long run. There is SO much heartache
Q so much hidden sorrow, small chanc
!, exists of offering an unwelcome or ur
= needed kindness to either rich or pool
:: Riches are powerless to make happines
d of themselves, and are equally power
less to ward off sickness, danger q
4 death. Pleasure can never satisfy tn
soul, and adisposition TO shirk the ster