Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-04

,nv means OF livelihood for the largo house.
hold and hc wound up by eaying M
WIZ, have always fonnd iAnfe 4. trnst
tho Lord " My father has bean d..a M
years, but In oil tho crises Of INV liic--end
there have been many OF thcm-I haya
fcle the mighty boost Of that lesson In tho
farm wagon, 10 witt, l have always fonnd
it saio to trusfrhe Lord. y The fact WINS
my father saw that was his Opportunity.
and he improved II.
ms is one reason why am an entbu.
siastic friend of all Young Mems Chris.
tian associations. They act hold Of so
many Young men lust arriving In the city
ana while they arc worry smpressionablc.
ana u Is the best opportunity. Why, how
pig tho houses looked TO us as we first on.
tered the great city, and so many peoplel
4, seemed some meeting must have Just
CLOSED to MI the streets in that way, and
tnen the Dig placards announcing all styles
OF amusemonts and so many Of them on
the same night aud every night after our
boyhood had beon spent in regions whoro
only once or twice In whole year there
had been an entertainment in sohoolhousc
or church That is tho opportunity. start
that innocent young man In the right al.
fection. Six weeks after will be too late.
Tell inc what such young man does
with bis first six weeks in tho Rroat city.
and Will tell you what he will DO through
out his life ON earth and where he will
spend tho ages OF eternity. Opportunity
Opportunities That Were Seized.
We all recognize that commercial md
literary and political successes depend
upon taking advantage of opportunity.
The great surgeons Of England feared TO
touoh fhn tufnnr ~ Linf, Goar,., ny
Ashley Cooper looked at 1t and said to tho
king, II will cut your majesty rs though
you were a plownan, That was Sir
Astley's opportunity. Lord Give was his
fathers dismay climbing church stcoples
and doing reckless things His father
sent him to Madras, India, as a clerk in
the service OF an English officer Give
watched his time and when war broke out
came TO be the chief Of tho host that sa, ed
India for England. That was Lord Gives
opportunity. Pauline lucca, the almost
matchloss singer, was but little recognized
until in tho absence Of the soloist in tho
German choir she took her place and be-
gan the enohantment Of tho world. Tint
day was Luocas opportunity. John Scott,
who afterward became Lord Eldon, had
stumbled his way along In the practice OF
law until the case Of Aekroyd versus
Smithson was to be tried and his speech
that day opened all avenues of success.
That was Lord Eldon's opportunity.
William II. Seward was given by his fa-
Their thousand dollars to get collegiate
education That money soon gone, his IA.
Their said, "Sow you must light your own
way" and he did, until guberuatorlal
chair and United States senatorial chair
were his, with "a right TO the presidential
II. . -. .
tics had not swindled him out of It. Tho
day whom his father told him to fight his
own way was William II. Stewards oppor-
tunity. John Henry Newman, bccalmcd
whole week In an orange boat In tho
strait of Bonifaoio, wrote his immortal
hymn, Lead, Kindly Light" That was
John Henry Nowman's opportunity. You
know Kirk Whites immortal hymn,
when Mnrshaled on the Nightly Plain "
He wrote it in a boat by u lantern on q
stormy night as he was sailing along
rocky coast That was Kirk Whites OPP
portunity.
The Right Time.
The Importance of making the most OF
opportunities MS they present themselves Is
acknowledged In all other directions Why
not In tho matter Of usofulnessi The diff
feronOc OF usefulness Of good men and wom-
en- is not so much tho difference In brain
or social position or wealth, but in equip
ment of Christian common sense, to know
just the time when to say the right word
or do the right thing There are good peo
pie who can always be depended on to say
the right thing at the wrong time. A mer.
chant selling goods over the counter to a
willy customer who would like to get them
at less than cost railroad conductor
while taking up the tickets from passen-
gers who want TO work of a last years
free pass or get through at half rate
child fully grown, q housekeeper trying to
get tho table ready in time for guests, al
| though the oven has failed to do its work,
and the grocer had neglected to fulfil tho
order given him-those are not opportu-
/ mites for religious address. Do not rush
up TO a man IN the busiest part of the day.
! and when n half dozen people are waiting
for him, and ask, 'How is your souli"
But there are plenty of 1T occasions. 1t is
interesting to SEQ the sportsman, gun in
! hand and pouch at side and accompanied
! by tho hounds yelping down tho road, of
on hunting exped zion, but the best hunt
ers in this world are those who hunt for
opportunities to do good, and the game is
something to gladden. earth and heaven.
| will point out some OF the opportunities.
| Whom soul is In bereavement is the best
| time to talk Of gospel consolation and
heavenly reunion. When q man has lost
his property is the best time to talk to
him of heavenly inheritances that can
never BIO lowed on. When one is sick is
the best time to talk to him about the SUI
pernatural latitude in which unhealth is
an impossibility, When tho Holy Spirit Is
moving ON community is tho best time
TO tell man he ought TO be saved. BY
word, by smile, by q look by prayer,
the work may DO so thoroughly done that
all eternity cannot undo it. As the harp
was inyonted from hearing the twnng
of bowstrlng as the law of gravitation
was suggested by the fall OF nm apple, as
tho order in India for the use OF creased
cartridge started the mutiny OF 1851
which appalled, the nations, 90 something
INSIGNIFICANT may open the door for great
results. 30 on the watch 1t may be a
eiaGnoss; 1t may DO horror, but 1t VIII
BIO an opportunity.
A city missionary in the lower parts OF
the city found a young woman In wrotoh'
edness and sin. He said, why do you
not 90 homer" She sud, They would
not receive me at home" He said, 'Whnt
n .4aaaa ka.