The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-02-15

anu now Will you feel when you cor
front those two imnortals in the las
Judgment, and they tell you Of tina
unfortunate talk of yours that fun
them over the precipice? Oh, man o
ohe world, why did you not say in tina
noon spell of conversation: Good!
am glad that man has got religion.
wish ! had it myself. Let us all go to
night. Come on; l will meet you a
the church door at eight o'clock" Yor
| see, you would have taken them all tx
Heaven, and you would have got there
yourself. Opportunity missed forever
We all recognize that commercial
and literary and political successes de-
pend upon taking advantage of oppor
tunity. The great surgeons of En-
gland feared to touch the tumor OF
George Nv. Sir Ashley Cooper looked
at it and said to the king: II will cut
your majesty as though you were a
plowman." That was Sir Astley's OPP
portunity. Lord Give was his fathers
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 the war
broke out came to the chief of the host
that saved India for England. That
was Lord Gives opportunity. Pau
line Lucca, the almost matchless
singer, was but little recognized
until in the absence of the soloist
in the German choir she took her place
and began the enchantment of the
world. That was Lucca's opportunity.
John Scott, who afterward became
Lord Eldon, had stumbled his way
along in the practice of law until the
case of Ackroyd VS.. Smithson was to be
tried, and his speech that day opened
all avenues of success. That was Lord
Eldon's opportunity. William H. Sew
ard was given by his father thousand
dollars to get a collegiate education.
That money soon gone his father said:
"Now you must fight your own way"
and he did, until gubernatorial chair
and United States senatorial chair
were his, with a right to the
chair, if the meanness of
American politics had not swindled
him out of it. The day when his IA
Their told him to fight his own way was
H. Stewards opportunity.
l stand this minute in the presence
If many heads of families. l wonder
f they all realize that the opportunity
If influencing the household for Christ |
ind heaven is brief, and will soon be |
rome? For while the house is full of |
he voices and footsteps of children.
You sometimes feel that you can
lardly stand the racket. You say:
Do be quiet! 1t seems as if my head
would split with all this noise" And
Kings got broken and ruined. and it
5: where's my hat?" "Who took
ny books?" who has been busy
With my playthings?" And it is
this way, and a-rushing that,
ntil father and mother are well-nigh
eside themselves. 1t is astonishing
ow much noise five or six children
an make and not half try. But
ne years glide swiftly away. After
while the voices are not so many,
nd those which stay are more
sdate. First this room gets quiet, and
zen that room. Death takes some,
nd marriage takes others, until after
while the house is awfully still. That
ian yonder would give all he is worth
, have that boy who is gone away for
yer rush into the room once more with
lie shout that was once thought too
oiste rous. That mother who was once
led because her little girl, now gone
rever, with careless scissors, cut up
really valuable, would like
have the child come back, willing
put in her hands the most valuable
to cut as she pleases. Yes!
es! The house noisy now will soon be
i'll enough, warrant you; and as
hen you began housekeeping,
lere were lust two again. Oh,
e alarming brevity of infancy
I'd childhood The opportunity
glorious, but it soon passes.
lrents may say at the close of life:
What pity we did not do more for
e religious welfare of our children
lille we had them with us!'' But the
will be of no avail. The
had wings and it van
he'd. When your child gets out of
e cradle let it climb into the out
retched arms of the beautiful Christ.
)ome thou and all thy house into the
k"
But there is one opportunity so much
lighter than any other; SO much more
viting, and so superior to all others
of thara are innumerahla finUerS |
,inting to it, and it is haloed with a
DRY all its own. 1t is yours! 1t is
inc! 1t is the present hour! 1t is ,,
e now. We shall never have it
ain. While 1 speak and you
ten the opportunity is restless
if to be gone. You can not
ain it down. You can not imprison