The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-02-08


church door at 5 o'cloclsr' You soe you
would have taken Thorn all to heaven.
and you would have got there yourself.
Opportunity lostl
The day l left our country home to
look after myself we rode across the
country, and my father was driving,
OF course said nothing that implied
how felt. But there arc hundreds of
men here who from their own experience
know how felt At such time
boung man may be hopeful and even
impatient to got into tho battle Of life
for himself, but to leave the homestead
where everything has been done for
you, your father or older brothers TAX
ing your part whom you were imposed
on by larger boys, and your mother al
ways around when you got the cold
with mustard applications for the chest
or herb tea to make you sweat off the
fever and sweet mixtu&s in tho cup by
the bed to stop the cough, taking some
times too much of 1t because 1t was
pleasant to take, and then to go out,
with no one to stand between you and
the world, gives one choking sensa-
ton at the throat and homo sickness
before you have got three miles away
from the old folks. There was on the
day l spoke of eilence for long while,
and then my father began to tell how
good the Lord had been to him in sick.
hess and in health and when times Of
hardship came how Providence had al
ways provided the means Of livelihood
for the large household, and he wound
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found it safe to trust the Lord" My
father has been dead 80 years, but il
all the crises of my life--and there
have been many of them-I have felt
the mighty boost of that lesson in the
farm wagon, ''De Witt, have always
found 1t safe to trust the Lord. The
fact was my father saw that was his
opportunity, and he improved 1t.
This is one resaon why am an en-
thusiastio friend of all Young Mems
Christian associations They get hold
Of SO many young men just arriving
In the city and while they are very i'm
questionable and it is the best oppor
tunity. Why, how big the houses looked
to US as we first entered the great city,
and SO many peoplel 1t seemed some
meeting must have just closed to I'll the
streets In that way, and then the big
placards announcing all styles OF amuse-
ments and SO many Of them on the same
night and every night, after our boy
hood had been spent in regions where
only once or twice in whole year there
had been an entertainment in school
house or church. That is the opportuni
ty. Start that innocent young man in
the right direction. Six weeks after will
be too late. Tell me what such young
man does with his first six weeks in the
great city, and l will tell you what he
will be throughout his life on earth and
where he will spend the ages Of eterni
ty. Opportunity!
Great Opportunities.
We all recognize that commercial and
literary and political successes depend
upon taking advantage of opportunity.
The great surgeons of England feared
to touch the tumor Ut King George w.
Sir Ashley Cooper looked at 1t and said
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as though you were plowman. That
was Sir Astley's opportunity. LORD
Give was his father dismay, climbing
church steeples and doing reckless
things. His father sent him to Madras,
India as clerk in the service Of an
/ English officer. Give watched his time,
and when war broke out came to be the
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England. That was Lord Gives oppor-
tunity. Pauline Lucca the almost
matchless singer, was but little recog
nized until in the absence Of the soloist
in the German choir she took her place
and began the enohantment Of the
world. That day was Luooa S opportuni-
ty. John Scott, who afterward became
Lord Eldon, had stumbled his way
along in the practice of law until the
case of Ackroyd versus Smithson was
TO be tried, and his speech that day
opened all avenues of success That was
Lord Eldon's opportunity.
William H. Seward was given by his
father 81, 900 to get collegiate educa
ton. That money soon gone, his father
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way" and he did, until gubernatorial
chair and United States senatorial chair
were his, with right to the presiden-
tial chair if the meanness of American
politics had not swindled him out of it.
The day when his father told him to
fight his own way was William H.
Stewards opportunity. John Henry
Newman, becalmed whole week in an
orange boat in the strait of Bonifacio
wrote his immortal hymn, LEAD, Kind
ly Light" That was John Henry New
mans opportunity. You know Kirk
Whites immortal hymn, "When Mar
Ihaled on the Nightly Plain" He wrote
1t in a boat by lantern on stormy
hight as he was sailing along rocky
coast. That was Kirk Whites oppor-
tunity
The Importance Of making the most
of opportunities as they present them
selves is acknowledged in all other di
rections Why not in the matter Of use
fitness: The difference Of usefulness of
good men and women Is not 30 much
tho difference In brain or social position
or wealth, but in equipment Of Chris
tian common sense-to know just the
time whGn to say the right word or do
the right thing There are good people
who can always be depended on to say
the right thing Mt the wrong time. A
merchant selling goods over the counter
to willy customer who would like 70
got them at less than cost, the railroad
conductor while taking up the tickets
from passengers who want to work or
last years free pass or get through at
half rate child fully grown, a house
keeper trying to get tho table ready in
time for guests although the oven has
failed to do its work and the grocer has
neglected to fulfill the order given him
those arr not opportunities for reli-
gious address. Do not rush up TO man
in tho busiest part of the day and when
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