Milford chronicle., 1895-07-19

vantages gfvens How bas it been wit
your You may make resolutions for tn
future, but past opportunities are gone
In the long procession Of future years al
! those past moments will march, but tn
archangel's trumpet that wakes the deaf
will not wake up for you one of those priv
legos.
Esau has sold his birthright, and then
! is not wealth enough in the treasur
houses of heaven to buy it back again
What does that mean? 1t means that
you are going to got any advantage out o
this Sabbath day, you will have to get II
before the hand wheels around on the cloci
to ~ tonight 1t means hat every moment
Of our life has two wings, and that it doe.
not fly, like a hawk, in circles, hut in a
straight line from eternity to eternity
1t means that though other churiots
may break down, or drag heavily, this
one never drops the brake and never
ceases to run. 1t means that while at
other feasts the cup may be passed TO lis
and VIC may reject it, and yet after awhile
take it, the cupbcarors to this feast never
give us but one chance at the chalice, and,
rejecting that, We shall find no place for
repentance, though we seek it carefully
with tears +"
Lost Opportunities.
There is one more class of sins that l
put in this category of irrevocablc sins and
that is lost opportunities Of usefulness.
Your business partner IL proud man. In
ordinary circumstances, say to him, BE
lieye in Christ, 4" and nc will say, "You
mind your business and III mind mine"
But there has been afIliction in the house
hold. His heart is tender He is looking
around for sympathy and solace Now is
your time Speak, speak, or forever hold
your peace There is time in farm life
when you plant the corn and when you
sow the seed Let that go by and the
farmer will wiring his hands while other
husbandmen are gathering in the sheaves.
You are in a religious meeting, and there
Is an opportunity for you to speak a word
for Christ. You say, II must do it,"
Your check flushes with embarrassment.
You rise half way, but you cover before
men whose breath is in their nostrils, and
Tou sag back, and the opportunity is gone
and all eternity will feel the effect Of your
silence. Try TO get back that opportunity
You cannot find it. You might as well
ry to find the fleece that Gideon watched,
IT take in your hand the dew that cnme
Town on tho locks Of the Bethlehem shop |
herds, or to find the plume Of the first |
Obin that went across paradise. 1t is 1
zone; it is gone forever.
When an opportunity for personal repent I
nee or of doing good passes away, you
nay hunt for it; you cannot find it. You
nay fish for 10; it will not take the hook
You may dig for it; you cannot bring it
p. Remember that there are wrongs and
ms that can never be corrected; that our
rivilcges fly not in circles, but in
traight line; thar tho lightnings have not
S swift feet as our privileges when they
re gone, and let an opportunity of saliva
On go by us an inch, tho one hundredth
art of an inch, the thousandth part of an
ioh, the millionth part of an inch, and
OF man can Overtako it. Fire winged
'raphim cannot come up with it. The
ernal God himself cannot catch it.
! stand before those who have a glorious /
rthright. Esaus was not so rich as
ours. Sell 1t once, and you sell it forever.
remember the story of the lad on tho
rctic some years agO-the lad Stewart
olland. A vessel crashed into the Arctic
the time Of fog, and it was found that
10 ship must go down. Some Of tho pas
myers got off in tho lifeboats, some got
on RATS, but 300 went to the bottom {
uring all those hours of calamity, Stew '
t Holland stood at the signal gun, and
sounded across the sea, boom, booml
he helmsman forsook his place, the engi-
er was gone and some tainted and some
aged and some blaSphemed, and the r
WIDER was gone and they could no more =
off the signal gun. The lad broke in n
e magazine and brought out more pow n
r and again tho gun doomed over the y
4. Oh, my friends, tossed on the rough I,
as Of life, some have taken the warning, \
We gone off in the lifeboat and they are a
ie, but others are not making any at "a
npt to escape. So stand at this signal h
n Of the gospel, sounding the alarm Be n
RE- beware CHOW is the accepted time; h
W is tho day of salvation" Hear it that i
1r soul may live a