The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-07-19
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER.

You will wish You had some day-yery
soon you will, perhaps tomorrow. Oh,
yes, While with 4 firm, hand You I'D
minister parental discipline also admin
lister it very gently, lest some day there
be little slab In the cemetery and ON
it chiseled, "Our Willie" or "Our
Charlie" and though you bow down
prone in the grave and seek a place Of
repentance and seek it carefully with
tears, you cannot find it.
There is another sin that I place in
the class IT irreveeable mistakes, and
that is lost opportunities OF getting
good never come to Saturday night
but can see during that week that /
have missed opportunities of getting
good. never come to my birthday but
l can see that have wasted many
chances of getting better. 1 newer GO
home ON Sabbath from the discussion OF
religious theme without feeling that
l might have done it in more success
ful way. How is it with your II you
take certain number Of bushels Of
wheat and scatter them over certain
number of acres of land, you expect 4
harvest in proportion to the amount of
seed scattered. And I ask you now,
Have the sheaves of moral and spiritual
harvest correspondent with the advan-
tages given? How has it been with your
You may make 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 the
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 meang II
means that if you iir6 going TO get any
advantage out of this Sabbath DAY YOU
will have to get it before the hand
wheels afojind on the clock to IL to-
night. 1t means that e'vtry moment of
our life has two wings, and that IL Does
hot fly like a hawk in circles, but in
straight line FROM eternity to eternity.
1t means that, though other shariots may
break down or drag heavily, this 6na
never drops the brake and never ceases
to run II means that while at other
feasts the cup may be passed to rs and
we may reject it, and yet after awhile
take it, the cupbearers to this feast
never give us but one chance at the
ehaliee, and rejecting that we shall
"find no place for repentance, though
We seek it carefully with tears"
Lost Opportunities.
There is one nors class Of sins that /
put in this category of irreyOcable sins
aud that is lost opportunities of useful;
pess. Your business partner is proud
man. III ordihdrs bircupstances say to
him, believe in Christ, and be will
say, lyon mind your business and III
mind mine" But there has been afflic-
ton in the household. His heart is ten
der, He is looking around for sympathy
and solace. Nov is your time. Speak,
speak; or forever hold your paacs. There
is Il time in farm life when you plant
the corn and When go1 SOW the seed.
Let that go by, and the farmer will
wiring his hands while other husband
men are gathering in the sheaves. You
are in religious meeting and there is
an opportunity for You to speak d 'vona
for Ghrist, You say, II must do it. "
Your cheek hushts with embarrassment
You rise half way, but you c6wer 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. Trt 70 get back
that opportunity! You cannot find Il
You might as well try to find the fleece
that Gideon watched, or take in your
bond The dew Chat came down on the
locks of the Bethlehem shepherds, or to
find the plume of the first Robin that
went across paradise. 1t is gone-it is
gone forever When an opportunity for
personal repentance or of doing good
passes away, yoa may hunt for it; you
cannot find it. You 1fta+ fish for it; it
will not take tlo 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 cur privi-
leges fly not in circles, but in straight
line, that the lightnings have not as
swift feet as our privileges when they
are gone, and let M opportunity of sal
walton go by us All inch---the one hun
1redth 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 come up
with it. The eterilal God himself can
not catch it.
stand before those who have glori
Gus birthright. Esau's was not SO rich
as yours. Sell it once, and you sell it
forever. l 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 a fog, and it
was found that the ship must 60 down..
Some of the passengers got off in the
lifeboats, some got off on RATS, but 800
went to the bottom. During all those
hours of calamity Stewart Holland stood
at the signal gun and it sounded across
the sea-boom, boom! 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 doomed over
the sea. Oh, my friends, tossed on the
rough seas of life, some have taken the
warning, have gone off in the lifeboat,
and they are safe, but others are not
making any attempt to escape. So |
stand at this signal gun of the gospel,
the alarm, beware, beware
NOW is the accepted time. Now is the
day of salvation. Hear it that your
soul may. live.
IA HAUTE BANQUE.