Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-02-04
/ half dozen people are waiting for him
and ask, GLOW is your soul:'
re ON the Watch.

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and ask, Glow is your soul:
Re on the Watch.
But th,,se are plenty Of fit occasions
1t is interesting to see the sportsman,
gun in hand and pouch at side and &C
companieil by the hounds yelping down
the road, OFF on hunting expedition, but
the best hunters in this world are those
who hunt for opportunities to do good,
and the game is something to gladden.
earth and heaven. Twill point out some
of the opportunities When 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 be levied on
When one is sick is the best time to
talk to him about the supernatural lati-
tude in which unhealth is an impossi-
bility. When the Holy Spirit is moving
on a community is the best time to tell
a man he ought to be saved. By word,
by smile, by look, by a prayer, the
work may be SO thoroughly done that
all eternity cannot undo 1T. AS the harp
was invented from hearing the twang
of bowstring. as the law of gravita
ton was suggested by the fall of an ap-
pie, as the order in India for the use of
a creased cSSsridge started the mutiny
of 1857, which appalled, the nations, SO
something insignificant may open the
door for great results. Be on the watch
It may be a gladness, it may be hor-
ror, but it will be an opportunity.
A city missionary in the lower parts
of the city found young woman in
wretchedness and sin. He said, ''Why
do you not go homer" She said, ''They
would not receive ME at home'' He
said, "What is your fathers name, and
where does he live?'' Having obtained
the address and written to the father,
the city missionary got a reply, on the
outside of the letter the word Gimme
date UNDERSIGNED. 1t was the heart
lest possible invitation for the wanderer
to come home. That was the city mis-
sionary's opportunity. And there are
opportunities all about you, and on
them, written by the hand of the God
who will bless you and bless those
whom you help, in capitals of light the
word Immediate.
Behind Time.
A military officer very profane in his
habits was going down into mine at
Cornwall, England, with Christian
miner, for many of those miners are
Christians. The officer used proSlne lam
guage while in the cage going down.
AS they were coming up out of the mine
the profane officer said, eff it be SO far
down to your work, how much farther
would it be to the bottomless pit?'' The
Christian miner responded 81 do not
know how far it is down to that place,
but if this rope should break you would
be there in minute. 1t was the
Christian miners opportunity. Many
years ago clergyman was on sloop
on our Hudson river, and hearing a man
utter blasphemy the clergyman said,
"You have spoken against my best
friend, Jesus Christ. " Seven years after
this same clergyman was on his Vay to
the general assembly of the Presbyterian
church at Philadelphia, when a young
minister addressed him and asked him
if he was not on a slOOp on the Hudson
river Eeven years before? The reply was
in the affirmative. "Well, said the
young minister, II was the man whom
you corrected for uttering that oath. 1t
led me TO think and repent and | am
trying to atone somewhat for my early
behavior. / am preacher of the gospel
and a delegate to the general assembly.
Seven years before on that Hudson river
sloop was the clergyman opportunity.
/ stand this minute in the presence Of
many heads of families. l wonder if
they all realize that the opportunity for
influencing the household for Christ and
heaven is very brief and will soon be
gone? For awhile the house is full Of
the voices and footsteps of children. You
sometimes feel that you can hardly stand
the racket. You say: do be quiet! 1t
seems as if my head would split with all
this noise. And things get broken and
ruined, and it is, SWhere's my hat!'
"Who took my books?'' ''Who has beer
busy with my playthings?" And it is
a-rushing this way, and a rushing that,
until father and mother are we'll nigh
beside themselves.
1t is astonishing how much noise fvo
or six children can make and not half
try. But the years glide swiftly away.
After awhile the voices are not so many,
and those which stay are more sedate.
First this room gets quiet, and then
that room. Deat'1 takes some, and mar
riage takes others, until after awhile
the house is awfully still That man
yonder would give all he is worth to
have that boy who is gone away forever
rush into the room once more with the
shout that was once thought too bolster
GUS
That mother who was once tried be-
cause her little girl, now gone forever,
with careless scissors cut up something
really valuable would like to have the
child come back, willing to put IL her
hands the most valuable wardrobe to cut
as she pleases. Yes, yes. The house noisy