Milford chronicle., 1895-02-08


would split with all this noisel" An
things get broken and ruined, and it Il
!, Where's my hatf" who took m
hooksG' who has been busy with N
2 playthingss" And it is a-rushing this wa
and a-rushing that until father and moth
a er are well nigh beside themselves
: Ii is astonishing how much noise flv
! or six children can make and not half try
/ But the years glide swiftly away Afte
awhile the voices are not so many, AM
those which stay are more sedate. Firs
this room gets quiet and then that room
Death takes some and marriage take
others until after awhile the house is aw
/ fully still. That man yondcr would Civ,
all he Is worth to have that boy who L.
gone away forever rush into the room ono,
more with the shout that was once thought
too boisterous That mother who wa.
once tried hecauso her little girl, now gone
forever, with careless scissors cut up some
thing really valuable would like to have
the child come back, willing to put in her
hands the most valuable wardrobe to cut
as she pleases Yosl Yes! The house
noisy now will soon be still enough, I
warrant you, and as when you began
housekeeping there were just two of you
there Will be just two again. Oh, the
hoodl The opportunity is glorious, but it
soon passes. Parents may say at the close
Of life, what pity we did not do more
/ for the religious welfare Of our children
while we had them with usl' But the
| lamentation viii be of no avail The op-
portunity had wings, and it vanished.
When your child gets out of the cradle, let
it climb into the outstretched arms of the
beautiful Christ Come thou and all thy
house into the ark "
The Glorious Now.
But there is one opportunity so much
brighter than any other, so much moro
inviting and so superior to all others that
there are innumerable fingers pointing to
it, and it is haloed with a glory all its
own. 1t is yoursl 1t is minel 1t is the
present hour. 1t is the now. We shall
never have it again. While 1 speak and
you listen the opportunity is restless as If
to be gone. You cannot chain it down.
You cannot imprison it, You cannot
make it stay. All its pulses are throbbing
with haste that cannot be hindered or
controlled, It is the opportunity of invi-
tation on my part and acceptance on your
part The door Of the palace of Gods
mercy is wide open. Go in. Sit down
and be kings and queens unto God for
ever. We'll, you say, 1 am not ready. "
You are ready Are you a sinnerg'i |
Yes " DO you want to be saved now /
and foreverf'' Yes. " DO you believe |
that Christ is able and willing to do the 1
work?" " Yes. Then you are saved. You
are inside the palace door of God s mercy
already. You look changed You are
changed. "Halleluiah, 'tis doneP Did
you ever see anything done so quickly?
Invitation offered and accepted in less than
a minute by my watch or that clock Sir
Edward Greasy wrote book called The
Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
From Marathon to Waterloo. " But the
most decisive battle that you will ever
light, and the greatest victory you will
9yer gain, is this moment when you con.
luer first yourself and then all the hin.
iering myrmidons of perdition BY saying.
Lord Jesus, here I am, undone and help
ess, TO be saved by thee and thee alone.
That makes panic in hell That makes
celebration in heaven. Opportunity
On the l1th Of January, 1866, collier
rig ran into the rocks near Walmer
leach, England. Simon Pritchard, stand
ng on the beach, threw off his coat and
aid, Who will help me save that crew.
'wenty men shouted, Il willp though
My seven were needed. Through the
wful surf the boat dashed, and in . min
tes from the time Pritohard threw off his
pat all the shipwrecked crew were safe on :
he land Quicker work today. Half that :
me more than necessary to get all this
ssemblage into the lifeboat of the gospel :
nd ashore, standing both feet on the rock =
ages. By the two strong oars of faith =
nd prayer first pull for the wreck and :
len pull for the shore. Opportunity =
Over the city went the cry, =
Jesus Of Nazareth passeth byi :,
All May Have 1t. =
Let the world go. 1t has abused you a,
lough, and cheated you enough, and Sian al
,red you enough, and damaged you 81
lough. Even those from whom you ex- a,
'cted better things turned out your as &c
ilants, as when Napoleon in his last will "a
I'd testament left o, 200 francs to the man
ho shot at Wellington in the streets Of Il
lris. Oh, it is a mean world Take the n,
orious Lord for your companionship. / In
20 what the good man said to one who al
ID everything but religion. The affluent al
an bOasted of what he owned and of his ia
lenders Of surroundings putting into ak
significance, as he thought, the Chris al
IN S possessions All, - said the Chris
IN, man, l have something you have hi
Ig. The answer was, 'Peacapi And "
u may all have it-peaoe with God, tn
ace with the past peace with the future, le,
leace that all the assaults of the world Bf
all the bombardments satanic cannot II,
erfere with no
A Scotch shepherd was dying and had ma
3 pastor called in. The dying shepherd loI
d to his wife, Mary, please to go into en-
, next room, for l want to see the min api
ar alone. When the two We're alone, VA
dying shepherd said, Il have known the
Bible all my life, but / am going, and the
m 'afeered to dee. Then the pastor Tn,
tied the psalm: "The Lord is ny shep- car
d. I shall not want. ." Yes, mon," q
/ the shepherd, Il was familiar with ,tv
& before yOu were born, but am ago tba
and 1 am afeerd to dee. Then said aIo
pastor You know that the psalm mi,
s. Though walk through the valley con
the shadow of DEATH l will fear no anC
L. Yes, said the dying shepherd, acc
knew that before you were born, but ON
oes not help me-" Then said the pas nnr
Don't you know that sometimes effr
en- you were driving the sheep down We
ouRh the valleys and raVines there me,
nd be shadows all about you, while SUI
re was plenty Of sunshine on the hills
We! You are in the shadows now, but
! sunshine higher up" Then said the n
ng shepherd: "Ah, that is good. "a,
er saw it that way before All is we'll ~. ~.
ough pass through the valley of the -, -
dow Of death, thou art with me
dows here but sunshine above. So ~. ~
dying shepherd got peace. Living and % ~
ig, may we have the same peacei Tt, -
The Goal. -
pportunityl Under the arch Of that FeIi
ndid word let this multitude of my r.
rers pass into the pardon and hope and fro,
I, Jpn i. u sne gospel. 20 Dy collpahies den
nuiuIe'' l-is cacn- 90 9y regiments OF a ceal
7, the middle aged throwing off their s Ne,
lens as they pass and the young to snol l
3 their present joys augmented by tbe
Q glorious satisfaotions Forward into - =
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