The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-02-16

your majesty rs though You were q
plowman." That was Sir Astley's op
portunity. Lord Give was his father,
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 AclSroyd VS.. Smithson was to be
tried, and his speech that day opened
all avenues of success. That was Lord
Eldon's opportunity. William ii. Sew
ard was given by his father thousand
dollars to get collegiate education.
That money soon gone his father said:
snow 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, II the meanness of
American politics had not swindled
him out of it, The day when his ia
ther told him to fight his own way was
William ii. Seward S opportunity.
A city missionary in the lower parts
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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 OBJ
tanned the address and written to the
father, the city missionary got a re-
ply, on the outside of the letter the
word Immediate" underscored. 1t
was the heartiest possible invitation
for the wanderer to come home.
That was the city missionary's
opportunity. And there are oppor-
tunities 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" A military officer very
profane is his habits was going down
into mine at Cornwall, England, with
a Christian miner--for many of those
miners are Christians. The officer
used profane language while in the
cage going down. AS they were COM
ing up out Of the mine the profane Of
ficcr said: IF it be so far down to
your work, how much farther would it
hn IN IN hot Nil hn Ch,ie
tian miner responded: II 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 Chris
tian miners opportunity. Many years
ago clergyman was on a sloop on our
Hudson river, and hearing man utter
blasphemy, the clergyman said:
'You have spoken against my best
friend, Jesus Christ" Seven years
later this same clergyman was on
his way to the General Assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian church
at Philadelphia, when young
minister addressed him and asked
him if he was not on a sloop on the
Hudson river seven years before? The
reply was in the affirmative. "Well,"|
said the young minister, II was the
man whom you corrected for uttering
the oath. 1t led me to think and re-
pent, and am trying to atone some
what for my early behavior. / am
preacher of the Gospel and n dele gate
to the general assembly," Seven years
before on that Hudson river sloop was
the clcrgyman's opportunity.
l stand this minute in the presence
of many heads of families. wonder
if they all realize that the opportunity
of influencing the household for Christ
and heaven is brief, and will soon be
gone? For while 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 il my head
would split with all this noise," And
things got broken and ruined, and it
is: where's my hat?" "Who took
my boolSs?" WHO has been busy
with my playthings?" And it is
a-rushing this way, and a-rushing that,
until father and mother are well-nigh |
beside themselves. 1t is astonishing
how much noise five or six children |
can make anu nOI ndlI Try. DuU |
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. Death takes some,
and marriage 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 for
ever rush into the room once more with |
the shout that was once thought too |
boisterous. That mother who was once
tried because 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 in her hands the most valuable |
wardrobe to cut as she pleases. Yes!
Yes! The house noisy now will soon be |
still enough, ! warrant you; and as
when you began housekeeping,
there were lust two again. Oh, |
the alarming brevity of infancy
and childhood! The opportunity
is glorious, but it soon passes.
Parents may say ut the close of life: