Milford chronicle., 1895-02-08

and he improved it.
~ This is one reason why am an enthu
siastio friend of all Young Mons Chris
tian associations. They get hold Of S,
many young men just arriving in the city
I'd and while they are very impressionable
r. and it is the best opportunity. Why, how
-, big the houses looked to us as we first en-
tered the great city, and so many people
1t seemed some meeting must have Just
81, closed to I'll the streets in that way, and
/. then the big placards announcing all styles
: Of amusements and so many of them on
u the same night and every night after our
d boyhood had been spent in regions whore
q only once or twice in whole year there
:. had been an entertainment in schoolhouse
Z or church. That is the opportunity Start
. that innocent young man in the right di-
rection. Six weeks after will be too late
4 Tell me what such a young man does
. with bis first six weeks in the great city,
and will tell you what he will be through
out his life on earth and where he will
spend the ages of eternity. OPPORTUNITY
Opportunities That Were Seized.
We all recognize that commercial and
literary and political successes depend
, upon taking advantage of opportunity
The great surgeons of England feared to
touch the tumor Of King George ". Sir
4AHlANg AAAItA ADokNAA uN IL anu ellQ TO inc
king, Il will cut your majesty as though
you were plowman. That was Sir
Astleys opportunity. Lord Give was his
fathers dismay climbing church steeples
and doing reckless things His father
sent him to Madras, India, as a clerk in
the service of an English officer Give
watched his time and when war broke out
came to be the chief of the host that saved
India for England. That was Lord Gives
opportunity. Pauline 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 be- |
gan tho 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 avenues Of success.
That was Lord Eldon' S opportunity.
William II. Seward was given by his ia
ther thousand dollars to get collegiate
education. That money soon gone, his ia
ther said, Now you must fight your own
way, and he did until gubernatorial
chair and United States senatorial chair
were his, with right to the presidential
chair, if the meanness of American poll
tics had not swindled him out of it. The
day when his father told him to fight his
own way was William II. Stewards oppor-
tunity. John Henry Newman, becalmed
a whole week in an orange boat in the
strait Of BonifaciO, wrote his immortal
hymn, Lead, Kindly Light" That was
John Henry Newmans opportunity. You
know Kirk Whites immortal hymn,
" When Marshaled on the Nightly Plain.
He wrote it in a boat by lantern on
stormy night as he was sailing along a
rocky coast. That was Kirk Whites op-
portunity.
The Right Time.
The Importance of making the most Of 4,
opportunities as they present themselves is 4
in all othor directions. Why =
not in the matter of usefulness? The diff =
ference of usefulness of good men and wom- i
en- is not so much the difference in brain :.
or social position or wealth, but in equip I,
ment of Christian common sense, to know n
just the time when TO say the right word a.
Or do the right thing. There are good peO-
pie who can always be depended on to say .,
the right thing at the wrong time. mer- h
3hant selling goods over the counter to 4,
willy customer who would like to get them :,
1t less than cost, railroad conductor n
while taking up the tickets from passen- .,
gers who want to work off a last years y,
rec pass or get through at half rate a -,
hild fully grown, a hOusekeeper trying to -,
get the table ready in time for guests, al ~
hough the oven has failed to do its work. 81
nd the grocer had neglected to fulfil the -
rider given him-those are not opportu- a.
iities for religious address. Do not rush ~
p to a man in the busiest part of the day, o-
nd when a half dozen people are waiting -
Or him, and ask, How is your soulf"
But there are plenty Of fit occasions. 1t is
to see the sportsman, gun in
and and pouch at side and accompanied
y the hounds yelping down the road, of
n hunting expedition, but the best hunt en-
rs in this world are those who hunt for ue
pportunities to do good, and the game is en-
1mething to gladden. earth and heaven. pc
will point out some of the opportunities sal
1hen a soul is in bereavement is the best an
me to talk of gospel consolation and WI
eavonly reunion. When man has lost ia
is property is the best time to talk to ~
i'm of heavenly inheritances that can iik
ever be levied on. When one is sick is ma
10 best time to talk to him about the su. ina
arnatural latitude in which unhealth is spi
] impossibility. When the Holy Spirit is ms
owing ON a community is the best time ei''
tell a man he ought to be saved. BY a VA
ord, by a smile, by look, by prayer, no mo-
10 work may be so thoroughly done that I'm
] eternity cannot undo it. As the harp yo'
as invented from hearing the twang pea
a bowstring, as the law Of gravitation
rs suggested by the fall Of an apple as ah'
. order il, India for the nse of a greaeeJ int
rtridgo started the mutiny Of 1857 /
hich appalled, the nations, so something Une
significant may open the door for great ss'l
suits BE on the watch. 1t may be vie
adness; it may be horror but it will lste
an opportunity. the
A city missionary in the lower parts Of iiie
g city found young woman in wretch '"i
ness and sin He said, why do you
t go homeY' She said, They would w
{ receive me at home. He said, What noi
your fathers name and where does he sslu s,l
e?' Having obtained the address and Una
itten to the father, the city missionary ~ -
reply on the outside of the letter W
, word Immediate underscored 1t
s the heartiest possible invitation for o- a,
wanderer to come home. That was ~ ~,
city missionarys opportunity And 4. 4
re are opportunities all about you, and 80 -
them written by the hand Of the God ~. VI,
% will bless you and bless those whom ~ ~
/ help, in capitals Of light, the word ,- S-,,S
IMMEDIATE. " ~
l military officer very profane in his -,
'its was going down into mine at s'1 3, ~
'nwall England, with a Christian dvir
ler, for many Of those miners are Chris pev,
Is. The officer used profane language sTh,
lie in the cage going down. As they shat
% coming up out of the mine the pro Shal
Q officer said, If it be so far down to the
Il work, how much farther would it be dvin
the bottomless pitt" The Christian
Ter responded, I do not know how far n,
Is down to that place, but if this rope snloi
uld break you would be there in a min hear
" 1t was the Christian miners oppor- trim
ity. Many years ago a clergyman was of n
siuop ON our huuson river, ana near thou
man ut'er blasphemy the clergy staff
saiu, iou nave ave spoken against my burd
IIlenu' JESUS Shrlsl' seven years have
be general assembly of the Presbyterian
rch at Philadelphia when young