Connecticut western news., 1895-07-18

Charlie, and though you bow down prone in tho grave and seek place of repentance and seek it carefully with tears, you cannot find it.
 There is another sin that I place i'll tho class of irrevocable mistakes, and that is lost opportunities of getting good. never come to Saturday night but I can see during that week that I have missed opportunities of getting good. I never come to my birthday but I can see that I have wasted many chances of getting better. l never go home on Sabbath from the discussion of a religious theme without feeling that I might have done it ill more success ful way. How is it with you? If you take a certain number of bushels of wheat and scatter them over certain number of acres of land, you expect a harvest in proportion to the amount of seed scattered. And I ask you now, Have the sheaves of moral and spiritual harvest corresponded with the advan- tages given? How has it been with you? You may nIske resolutions for the fu- ture, but past opportunities are gone. In the long procession of future years all those past moments will march, but the archangel's trumpet that wakes tho dead will not wake up for you one of those privileges. Esau has sold his birth right, and there is not wealth enough in the treasure houses of heaven to buy it back again. What does that mean? 1t means that if you are going to get any advantage out of this Sabbath day you will have to get it before the hand wheels around on the clock to 12 to- night. It means that every moment of our life has two wings, and that it does not fly like hawk in circles, but ill straight line from eternity to eternity. It means that, though other chariots may break down or drag heavily, this one never drops the brake and never ceases to run. It means that while at other feasts the cup may be passed to us and we may reject it, and yet after awhile take it, the cupbearers 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 irrevocable sins and that is lost opportunities of useful ness. Your business partner is proud man. In ordinary circumstances say to him, Believe in Christ" and he will say, "You mind your business and I'll mind mine" But there has been afflic- tion in the household. His heart is ten der. 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 husband men arc gathering in the sheaves. You are in a religious meeting, and there Is an opportunity for you to speak word for Christ. You say, II must do it. !" Your cheek f1ushes with embarrassment. You rise half way, but you cover before men whose breath is in their nostrils, and you sag back, and the opportunity is gone, and all eternity will feel the eff feet of your silence. Try to get back that opportunity You cannot find it. You might as well try to find the fleece that Gideon watched, or take in your hand tho dew that came down on the locks of the Bethlehem shepherds, or to find the plume of the first robin that went across paradise. It is gone-it is gone forever. When an opportunity for personal repentance or of doing good passes away, you may hunt for it; you cannot find it. You may fish for it; it will mt take the hook You may dig for it.; you cannot bring it up. Remem- Der that there are wrongs and sins that can never be corrected; that our privi- leges fly not in circles, but in a straight line; that the hghtnings have not as swift feet as our privileges when they are gone, and let an opportunity of sal vation go by us an inch-the one hun dredth part of an inch, the thousandth part of an inch, the millionth part of an inch-and no man can overtake it. Fire winged seraphim cannot como up with it. The eternal God himself can not catch it.
 I stand before those who have glori- ous birthright. Esau's was not so rich as yours. Sell it once, and you sell it forever remember the story of the lad on the Arctic some years ago-the lad Stewart Holland. A vessel crashed into the Arctic in the time of fog, and it was found that the ship must go down. Some of the passengers got off in the | hfeboats, some got off on rafts, but 300 went to the bottom. During all those hours of calamity Stewart Holland stood at the signal gun and it sounded across the sea-boom, boomi The helmsman forsook his place; the engineer was gone, and some tainted, and some pray ed, and some blasphemed, and the pow der was gone, and they could no more set off the signal gun. The lad broke in the magazine and brought out more powder, and again the gun boomed over the sea- Oh, my friends, tossed on the rough seas of life, some have taken the warning, have gone off in the hfeboat, and they are safe, but others are not | making any attempt to escape. So | stand at this signal gun of the gospel, sounding the alarm, beware, beware
 "Now is the accepted time. Now is the | day of salvation" Hear it that your
 soul may live,
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