The free press., 1895-02-14

cIark in the service of an English officer.
| Give watched his time, and when war proke
out came to be tho chief of the host that
saved India for England: That was Lord
Gives opportunity. Pauline Lucca; the
| almost matchless singer; was but little recog-
niaed until in the absence of the soloist in
The German choir she took her place and be-
| gan the enchantment of the world. That day
| 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 versus Smithson was to be
| tried, and his speech that day opened all ave-
| nues OF success. That was Lord Eldon's op-
portunitv.
William II. Seward was given by his father
$1,000 TO get q collegiate education. That
money soon gone, his father said, Now you
must fight your own way" and he did, un-
til gubernatorial chair and United States
Senatorial chair were his, with right to tho
Presidential chair II the meanness OF Ameri.
can politics had not swindled him out OF it.
The day when his father told him to fight his
own way was William ii. Scward's oppor-
tunity. John Henry Newman, becalmed n
whole week in an orange boat in the Strait OF
Bonifacio wrote his immortal hymn. Lead,
Kindly Light" That was John Henry New
mans opportunity. You know Kirk Whites
immortal hymn, "When Marshaled on tho
Nightly Plain" He wrote it in boat by
lantern on stormy night as he was sailing
along a rocky coast. That was Kirk Whites
opportunity.
The importance of making the most of op-
portunities as they present themselves is ac-
knowledged in all tsother directions Why
not in the matter of usefuless? The differ
ence of usefulness of good men and women
Is not so much the difference in brain or So
cial position or wealth, but i'll equipment of
Christian common sense-to know just the
time when 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 at the wrong time, A merchant selling
goods over the couner TO WHY customer
who would like to get them at less than cost,
the railroad conductor while taking up the
tickets from passengers VINO want 70 WORK OH
last year iree pass or get through at nan
rate child fully grown, housekeeper try
ing to get the table ready IN time tor guests,
although the oven has neglected to fulilil the
order given him--those are not opportunl-
tles lor rei.gious address. 70 20, nov r.lsh up 10
man IN the puslest part OF the Gay anu "ne1
a nan dozen people are 1o, waiting lor MN ana
put there are plenty OF ilt occasions. III rs
interesting to see the sportsman, gun IN
manu- ana pouch at slde ana accolhptnieu NY
the mounds yelplng down the road, OH on
nun nuntlng e1peoltion, out the pes' nuh.efs a.
thls world are those VINO nunt ior oppol-
tumtles 70 90 GOOD, ana .he game Is SolleI me-
thlhS TO giadden earth ana heaven. & VIII
point out some OF the opportunities when
. sc SOU Is III pereaveneHt Is tne pest tll,ie W
TAX Oh g0spel consolation ah9 heaVenly re-
union. Mheh man mas ios' ms property ls
tne pest tiihe 10 taik 10 MN Oh nsaven1y y. I'D,
herltance that can never De ieVied on. "heh
one Is SICK Is the oest tline 70 taik 70 nun
aooui tne supernatural iatitu4e III wllicI uh-
neaith Is an !nposslplilty. WheD tne Holy
time TO tell man he ought TO be saved. by
WORD, by smile, by a LOOK, by prayer,
the work may be thoroughly done that All
eternity cannot undo 1t. AS the harp was
Invented from nearing the twang OF DOW
string, as the law OF gravitation was sug-
gested by the fail OF an apple, as the order
In India Tor the use OF creased cartridge
started the mutiny OF 1857, which appalled,
the Nations, so something Insignificant may
open the door for great results. BE on the
watch. 1t may be gladness, 1t may be
horror, but 1t Will be an opportunity.
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, "Ihey would not receive
me at home" He said, what is your
fathers name, and where does he hve?''
Having obtained the address and written to
the father the city missionary got reply,
on the outside OF the letter the word ''lmme-
uate underScoreu. II was tne neartleSt
possible invitation for the wanderer to come
home. That was the city missionarys op--
portunity. 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"
military officer very profane in his hab-
its was going down into mine at Cornwall,
England, with Christian miner, for many
of those miners are Christians. The officer
used profane language while in the cage go
ing down. AS they were coming up out of
the mine the profane officer said, ''1f 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 a
minute" 1t was the Christian miners op-
portunity. Many years ago clergyman was
on sloop on our Hudson River, and hearing
man utter blasphemy the clergyman said,
''You have spoken against my best friend.
Jesus Christ" Seven years after this same
clergyman was on MS way TO the general as
semDly OF the presbyterian Cnurch at fmia,
uelphla, wnen a young minister addressed
him ana asked MN II ne was not on a sioop
on on the hudson hiver seven years oeloreI
Inc reply was IN the atlrnatiVe. wen,