The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-07-28
Something to
Think Ab0uf
pu r WI
IN YOUR HOUSE.
By F. II. WALKER

hat all the miracles which it details
are in the New Testament, but if you
will turn to the fourth chapter of
II Kings you may read an enter
tanning story of one Of the remarkable
things performed by Elisha in the
multiplication of the pot of oil.
Elisha performed many miracles,
but of them all this one is perhaps
the most interesting.
A widow, one of the wives of the
sons of the prophets, tells Elisha that
her creditors have come to take her
two sons as bondmen in settlement of
what she yves.
Elisha asks her what she has in
the house which might be available
to settle the debt. Her reply is that
her only possession is a pot Of oil.
At his direction the woman sends
her sons to gather all the empty re-
ceptacles in the neighborhood and
when they have been brought she
obeys the command of Elisha that
she shall pour from the pot of oil into
the empty vessels and this she con-
tinues to do until all are filled and
then she sells enough of the store of
oil to pay her debts and there is suffi-
Client left to supply her and her n
What have YOU in YOUR house?
The trouble with most of us is that
we never value very highly the posi-
bilities of what we have.
The apple on the high branch al
ways looks bigger and fairer to us
than the one in our hand.
The job that the other fellow has
always seems easier and more salts
factory than our employment.
The other mans lot always seems
pleasanter thar ours n his pros
poets and chances brighter and more
attractive.
The trouble is we do not properly
examine and truly estimate and wise
ly use what we have Gin OUR house,
Success is made up entirely of what
we have and how we use it.
No man was ever born who did not
have the possibility of success.
No man ever lived who did not
have plenty of opportunity to sue
coed.
The man who says II never had a
chance" is just lying to himself as
an excuse for his failure.
Lord Bacon said, "A wise mar will
make more opportunities than he
finds" and that is much truer than
the famous poem Senator Ingalls,
wrote that pictured opportunity as
knocking only once at a mans door
or the picture which Radicals drew
lock of hair on her forehead but with
the back of her head completely
bald; meaning that Opportunity must
be grasped as it comes toward you
for once it has passed there is
nothing to seize.
Every day has it's opportunity.
Most of us think that these every
day opportunities are not big enough
to bother with and we wait and wait,
thinking that something tremendous
will come along and ask us to ac-
cept 1t.
If the widow had decided, despite
the directions Of Elisha, that the pot
Of oil had no possibilities of solving
her financial difficulties, she would
have lost her sons to her creditors
the whole plan of the restoration
Of herself and her family to happi-
ness and comfort would have mis-
1t is well to know accurately just
what our are. We should
znow just what we are capable of
accomplishing and then be sure that
he accomplishment itself is 100 per
,ent Of our possibilities.
Look through your mental house
md your physical house and you
even take a hurried glance al
our moral house.
See what is there Of which you
re not making the fullest and most
Profitable use.
See, too, what is there that should
JOT be there, that is hindering in Z
tead of helping you, and get rid q
+ it. -
Maybe you have a lot Of Oil quite :.
g valuable as was the widows and =
re laboring as she was under the -
IMPRESSION that you are without re- -
ources. The old-time miracle can be 9
in YOUR case, II you go g
bout 1t in the right way. q
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