| your majesty ns though you were a plow { man." SUNDAY’S SERMON IN THE NIOW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Subject. “Opportunity.” the church for might, interes ple, stood in t side, and when crowded within walls he turr and said, with s 1% emphasis, opportunity!” Immediately tha tword bega to enlarge, and while a hymn was being sur at overy stanza the word opportunity gwiltly and mightily unfolded, opening prayer was being made the w iled up into Alps and Himalayas of n ug and spread out into other latitude longitudes of rnifloance until it became * hemispheric, and it still grew in altitude eircumference until it encircled other word and swept out and on and around until it was as big as eternity, Never since have 1 read or heard that word without bei thrilled with its magnitude and mentun Opportunity! Although in the text to & ft may seem a mild and quiet note, great gospel harmony it is a staccato pa Bage. It is one of the lovelest and awful words in our langurge of more than 100,000 vords of English vocabulary. ‘As we ha opportunity, let us do good.” What is an oprfortunity? The lexicographer would eoolly tell you it is a conjunction favorable oiroumstances for ace mplishing a mrpose, but words cannot tell what it is. k ke 1000 years to manufacture a definition, and you could not yf Opportunity! The measuring r the angel of the Apocalypse: could not text. Stand on all time and | hand under han 1 wn &nd f 1d the lead ty! I What -— sis successfully deser « with whi asured heave measu 1 word wer down and quintillion of ZH 2 ede 1 SAA Om lo Baal NSE. £. -~ ' SAVE # &¢ One ol men t the revival meeting Methodist Church?” While # is OYEr Vou Sat RT y ; vivals, et excites AS df Bl: Rel: -. ty nate talk precipice? n ft SAY av “Good! evervthing der taking your part whet r larger | ind when y pplication Zz sometin os t wo mnch lensant to take, and then t go out to stand between vy and the world, gives one a choking sensati at the throat and a home stokness before von have got three miles away from the old folks There was on the day I spoke of a silence for a long while, and then my father began t tell how good the Lord had been to him in plekness and in health, and when times of aardship eame how Providence had rovided the means of livelihood arge household, and he wound up by say Ing, “De Witt, I have always found it safe to | trust the Lord.” My father has been dead thirty years, but in all the crises of mv life and ti have been many of them-—1 have felt the mighty boost of that in the farm wagon, ‘De Witt, I have always found It safe to trust the Lord.” The fact was my father saw that was his opportunity, and he mproved it, This is one reg tie friend of al pociations y men J are very in portunity ae lesson why I am an enthuslas Men's Christian A id of #0 many y Ww o city and while able, and it is the be big the houses 0 us as we «d the great city many people nd some meoting have just closed to All the streets in that v and then the big placards ant #tyles of amusements and so many of them on the same night and every night, after our bos hood had been spent in regions where onl ones or twiee In a whole year there had be an entertainment in schoolhouse or chur That is the opportunity. Start that innocent young man in the right direction, Six weeks after will be too late, Tell me what such n Young man does with his first six weeks in the i Rreat city, and I will tell you what he will be throughout his life on earth and wheres he will spend the ages of eternity, Oppor tunity! Wa all recognize that commereial and liter. Ary and political successes depend upon tak- ing advantage of opportunity, The great surgeons of England feared to toush the tumor of King George IV, Bir Astley Cooper Booked at it and said to the king, “I will cut | [rem Why let ¢ It or and while the | always | for the | {| Aare more sedate, | the house hint was Bir rd Clive was opportunit Hmhing his father's dismay, © 1 pl and doing reckls i! Madras, Indi wrlish Nn slo n wir pla an n f the world. Lucena rtanity, John afterward | L his way al OAs ( tried, nués of ni h speech that « ortunity Willian y A m gone, his f aid, “Now fight your own way," aud did, {i United vith a righ lential oh Presic That was J t) You kn Nightly Plain.” "antern on a along a rocky « ortunity. me at hon father's name, a id heaven {8 very be 6? Forawhilethe h tata f tateps of *hild re n hardly star 1t seer that, until father and beside themselves, It is astonishing how mu children can make and not years glide swiftly away. Voioes are not so 1 five or six jut the isn half try. any, and those which stay First this room gets quiet, Death takes intil after awhile ily That man yonder he | rth to have that b ne away forover rush into the room 0 we with the wut that was once thought too bolstero That mother who wa nee her little girl, n cissors cut up = would like to have the willing to put in her hands rdrobe to and then that roc and marriage take some in awl would give all who is g tried with t really hild been ae Ww gone rover Care valuable ann and childhood | but it soon passes f lite, “What n religious had them with n will be of no avall, pity we did 1 t do m rt welfare of our children while we 1!" But the lamentati he opportunity had wings, and it vanished When your child gota out of th cradle, lot it Hmb Into the outstretehed arms of the beau tiful Christ, “Come thou and all thy house into the ark.” But there is one opportunity brighter than any other, #5 much are innumerable fingers poloting to it, and it is haloed with a glory all its own, It I= yours! It is mine! It is the present hour, It is the now. We shall never have It again. While I speak and you listen the opportunity is rest. less ag if to be gone. You cannot chain it down. You cannctimprison it, You cannot After awhile the | The | #0 much more invites | ing, and so superior to all others that there | ita eanno make it stay. All with a haste that trolled, It is the wn are throbbing a hindred of Invitation ur part, The wide and Or eons now and “Do you believe that Christ 1s a saved t { wtod battl t vi ment wher nity ! On the ran into Late that night f the “musk : loses ry elootn gras achm ey wna threo h ure thr Xin and gained remedy in this ASE Was the physician attending Dr id in the hog of The nb nt wa Pro spasms strength rapidly f ito it Pladnfie ters life, wards saving the Amputated His Foot Himself, YOAars ir, diana ( hay and injure uniy i has cause i { iNering ever since, and the fami has long in diated that un les putated the raith rmtion ajuars "ian Ws an farmer wttlor tubl nld neve refu (in miy med, ne pert norning re i ter went into his ro | “Della,” said he, | foot Is amputated On the bad hia the other side was a razor bad amputated his own foot and had done it aint Although he is seventy-six voars old, Farm. er Galbraith is not even suffecing from sh lk from his self-amputating operation, and the doctor says he could not have taken the foot | oft more neatly himself The side lay the foot I'he old with neatly, too by On armor rasor, wmkio hin at the 4 A Year of Fire In Baltimore | The nggregate damage by fire in Dalti- | more, Md., in 1804, as compiled by the Fire | Department, was $542,185.20, The Jeparte | ment responded to 831 alarms, | the study of { from the taken be CO b Tie | | great Good Roads and the Geologleal Survey, ! 1 Lie of highways ombr COR the materials into their construction It proble imnieal construction of oe ology ent ring di tinct engineerin mee) nn snbject that is up by the Lave { not intends sUry question » do wit] manipulations of ma hn sho rock, which nro and peri Nee of fl nd bil vin | smitable Tiny not 101 ling. when used alone, A Combined Land and Water Garden, with wise us to give is well known that expense ha other materials in i nee, so Ars Rgo, ; ntendent H, T. 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