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SERMON ON OPPORTUNITY BY REV. DR. TALMAGE IN NEW YORK.

Things That Do Not Last—The Lesson In the Farm Wagon—Opportunities That Sr-

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NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Rev. Dr. Taltnage again found himself facing a vast audience at the Academy of Musio this afternoon, while thousands 6urged around the entrances unable to gain admission. Tho Acadcmy was crowded shortly after 3 o'clock, and the preliminary service of song was participated in by the throngs that filled the corridors and by many of those at the doors on both Irving place and Fourteenth street as well. The distinguished divine took for his subject "Opportunity," the text selected being Galatians vi, 10, "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good.

At Denver years ago .an audicnco had assembled for divino worship. The pastor of the church for whom I was to preach that night, interested in the reating of the people, stood in tho pulpit looking from side to side, and when no more people could bo crowded within the walls he turned to me and said, with startling emphasis, "What an opportunity!" Immediately that word began to enlarge, and while a hymn was being sung at every stanza the word "opportunity" swiftly and mightily unfolded, and whilo the opening prayer was being made tho word piled up into Alps and Himalayas of meaning and spread out into other latitudes and longitudes of significance until it became hemispheric, and it still grew in altitude and circumference until it encircled other words and swept out and on and around until it was as big as eternity. Never since have I read or heard that word without being thrilled •with its magnitude and momentum. Opportunity! Although in the text to some it may seem a mild and quiet note, in the great gospel harmony it is a staccato passage. It is one of the loveliest and awfulest words in our language of more than 100,000 words of English vocabulary. "As we have opportunity, let us do good."

Opportunity Defined.

What is an opportunity? The lexicographer would coolly tell you it is a conjunction of favorable circumstanccs for accomplishing a purpose, but words cannot tell what it is. Take 1,000 years to manufacture a definition, and you could not successfully describe it. Opportunity! The measuring rod with which tho angel of the Apocalypse measured heaven could not measure this pivotal word of my test. Stand on the edge of tho precipice of all time and let down tho fathoming line hand under hand and lower down and lower down and for aquintillion of years let it sink, and tho load will not strike bottom. Opportunity! But while I do not attempt to measure or define the word I will, God helping me, take tho responsibility of telling you something about opportunity.

First, it is very swift in its motions. Sometimes within one minute it starts from the throne of God, sweeps around the earth and reascends the throne from which it started. Within less than 60 seconds it fulfilled its mission.

In the second place, opportunity never comes back. Perhaps an opportunity very much like it may arrive, but that one never. Naturalists tell us of insects which are born, fulfill their mission and expire in an hour, but many opportunities die so soon after they are born that their brevity of life is incalculable. What most amazes me is that opportunities do such overshadowing, far reaching and tremendous work in such short earthly allowance. You area business man of large experience. The past 18 months have been hard on business men. A young merchant at his wits' end came into your office or your house, and you said: "Times are hard now, but better days will come. I have seen things as bad or worse, but we got out, and we will get out of this. The brightest days that this country ever saw are yet to come." The young man to whom you said that was ready for suicide or something worse—namely, a fraudulent turn to get oat of his despairful position. Your hopefulness inspired him for all time, and 30 years after you are dead he will be reaping the advantage of your optimism. Your -opportunity to do that one thing for that young man was not half as long as the time I have taken to rehearse it

Little Things That Decide Destiny.

In yonder third gallery you sit, a man of the world, but you wish everybody well. While the clerks are standing round in your store, or the men in your factory are taking their noon spell, some one says, "Have you heard that one of our men has been converted at the rovi val meeting in the Methodist church While it is being talked over you say: "Well, I do not believe in revivals. Those things do not la6t. People get & excited and join the church and are no better than they were before. I wish our men would keep away from those /I' Vmeetings." Do you know, O man, i'-swhat you did in that minute of depre•fl' :-ciation? There were two young men in -$:^?:tbat group who that night would have "vgone to those meetings and been saved for this world and the next, but you decided them not to go. They are social features. They already drink more than is good for them and are disposed to bd

Iwild. From the time they heard you say that they accelerated their steps on the downward road. In ten years they yrill be through with their dissipations and pass into the great beyond. That little talk of yours decided their destiny for this world and the next You had an opportunity that you misimproved, and how will yoo feel when you confront those two immortals in the last judgment and they tell you of that unfortunate talk of yonrs that flung them over the precipice? O man of

tho world, why did you not say in that noon spell of conversation: "Good! I am glad that man has got religion. I wish I had it myself. Let us all go tonight. Come on. I will meet you at the church door at 8 o'clock?" You see, you would have taken them all to heaven, and you would have got there yourself. Opportunity lost!

The day I left our country home to look after myself we rode across the country, and my father was driving. Of course I said nothing that implied how I felt. But there are hundreds of men here who from their own experience know how I felt. At such a time a young man may be hopeful and even impatient to get into the battle of life for himself, but to leave the homestead where everything has been done for you, your father or older brothers taking your part when you were imposed on by larger boys, and your mother always around when you got the cold with mustard applications for tho chest or herb tea to make you sweat off the fever and sweet mixtures in the cup by tho bed to .stop the cough, talcing sometimes too much of it because it was pleasant to take, and then to go out, with no one to stand between you and the world, gives one choking sensation at the throat and a home sickness before you have got three miles away from tho old folks. There was on the day I spoke of a silence for along while, and then my father began t£,£ell how good tho Lord had been to him in sickness and in health, and when times of hardship came how Providence had always provided the means of livelihood for the largo household, and he wound up by saying, "De Witt, I have always found it safe to trust tho Lord." My father has been dead 30 years, but in all the crises of my life—and there have been many of them—I have felt the mighty boost of that lesson 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 improved it.

This is one resaon why I am an enthusiastic friend of all Young Men's Christian associations. They get hold of so many young men just arriving in tho city and whilo they are very impressionable, and it is the best opportunity. Why, how big the houses looked to us as we first entered the great city, and so 'many people! It seemed some meeting must have just closed to fill the streets in that way, and then the big placards announcing all styles of amusements and so many of them on the same night and every night, after our boyhood had been spent in regions where only once or twice in a whole year there had been an entertainment in schoolhouse or church. That is the opportunity. Start that innocent young man in the right direction. Six weeks after will bo too late. Tell me what such a young man does with his first six weeks in the great city, and I will tell you what ho will be thri^.ghout his life on earth and where ho will spend tho ages of eternity. Opportunity!

Great Opportunities.

We all recognize that commercial and literary and political successes depend upon taking advantage of opportunity. The great surgeons of England feared to touch tho tumor of King George IV. Sir Astley Cooper looked at it and said to the king, "I will cut your majesty as though you were a plowman." That was Sir Astley's opportunity. Lord Clive was his father's 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. Clive watched his time, and when war broke out came to be the chief of tho host that saved India for England. That was Lord Clive's 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 began 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 avenues of success. That was Lord Eldon's opportunity.

William H. Seward was given by his father $1,000 to get a collegiate education. That money soon gone, his father said, "Now you must fight your own way," and'he did, until gubernatorial chair and United States senatorial chair were his, with a right to the presidential chair if the meanness of American politics had not swindled him out of it The day when his father told him to fight his own way was William H. Seward's opportunity. John Henry Newman, becalmed a whole week in an orange boat in tho strait of Bonifacio, wrote his immortal hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light." That was John Henry Newman's opportunity. You know Kirk White's immortal hymn, "When Marshaled on the Nightly Plain." He wrote it in a boat by a lantern on a stormy night as he was sailing along a rocky coast. That was Kirk White's opportunity.

The importance of making the most of opportunities as they present themselves is acknowledged in all other directiona Why not in the matter of usefulness? The difference of usefulness of good men and women is not so much tho difference in brain or social position or wealth, but in 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 counter to a wily customer who would like to get them at less than cost, the railroad conductor while taking up the tickets from passengers who want to work off last year's free pass or get through at half rate a child fully grown, a housekeeper trying to get the table ready in time for guests, although the oven has failed to do its work and the grocer has neglected to fulfill the order given him —those are not opportunities for religious addresa Do not rush up to a man in the busiest part of the day and when

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a half dozen people are waiting for him and ask, "How is your soul?" Be on the Watch.

But there are plenty of fit occasions. It is interesting to see the sportsman, gun in hand and pouch at side and accompanied by the hounds yelping down the road, off on hunting expedition, but the best hunters in this world are those who hunt for opportunities to do good, and the game is something to gladden earth and heaven. I will point out some of the opportunities. When a soul is in bereavement is the best time to talk of gospel consolation and heavenly reunion. When a man has lost his property is the best time to talk to him of heavenly inheritances that can never be levied on. When ono is sick is the best time to talk to him about the supernatural latitudo in which unhealth is an impossibility. When the Holy Spirit is moving on a community is tho best time to tell a man he ought to be saved. By a word, by a smile, by a look, by a prayer, the work may bo so thoroughly done that all eternity cannot undo it. As the harp was invented from hearing tho twang of a bowstring, as the law of gravitation was suggested by the fall of an apple, as the order in India for tho use of a greased cartridge started the mutiny of 1857, which appalled the nations, so something insignificant may open the door for great results. Boon the watch. It may be a gladness, it may be a horror, but it will be an opportunity.

A city missionary in the lower parts of tho city found a young woman in wretchedness and sin. He said, "Why do you not go home?" She said, "They would not receive me at home." Ho Kaid, "What is your father's name, and where does he live?" Having obtained the address and written to the father, the city missionary got a reply, on the outside of the letter tho word "immediate" underscored. It was the heartiest possible invitation for the wanderer to come home. That was the city missionary's opportunity. 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 tho word "Immediate."

Behind Time.

A military officer very profane in his habits was going down into a 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 coming up out of the mine the profane officer said, "If it be so far down to your work, how much farther would it be to the bottomless pit?" The Christian miner responded, "I do not know how far it is down to that place, but if this rope should break you would be there in a minute." It was the Christian miner's opportunity. Many years ago a clergyman was on a sloop on our Hudson river, and hearing a man utter a blasphemy the clergyman said, "You have spoken against my best friend, Jesus Christ. Seven years after this same clergyman was on his way to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church at Philadelphia, when a 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, "I was the man whom you corrected for uttering that oath. It led me to think and repent, and I am trying to atone somewhat for my early behavior. I am a preacher of the gospel and a delegate to the general assembly." Seven years beforo on that Hudson river sloop was the clergyman's opportunity.

I stand this minute in the presence of many heads of families. I wonder if they all realize that the opportunity for influencing the household for Christ and heaVen is very brief and will soon be gone? For awhile 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! It seems as if my head would split with all this noise. And things get broken and ruined, and it is, "Where's my hat!" "Who took my books?" "Who has been busy with my playthings?" And: it is a-rushing this way, and a-rnshing that, until father and mother are well nigh beside themselves.

It is astonishing how much noise five or six children can make and not half try. But 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 bouse is awfully still. That man yonder would give all fie is worth to have that boy who is gone away forever 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 out 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, I warrant you, and as when you began housekeeping there were just two of you, there will be just two again. Oh, the alarming brevity of infancy and childhood The opportunity is glorious, but it soon passes. Parents may say at tho close of life, "What a pity we did not do more for the religious welfare of our children while we had them with us!" But the lamentation will be of no avail. The opportunity had wings, and it vanished. When your child gets out of the cradle, let it climb into the outstretched arms of the beautiful Christ "Gome thou and all thy house into the ark."

The Great Chance.

But there is one opportunity so much brighter than any other, so much more inviting, and so superior to all others that there are innumerable fingers pointing to it, and it is haloed with a glory all its own. It is yours I 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 restless as if to be gone. You cannot obain il down. You oanncf imnrisou 11 Too

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cannot make it stay. All its pulses are throbbing with a haste that cannot be hindered or controlled. It is the opportunity of invitation on my part and acceptance on your part The door of the palace of*God's mercy is wide open. Go in. Sit down and be kings and queens unto God forever. "Well," you say, "I am not ready." You are ready. "Are you a sinner?" "Yes. "Do you want to be saved now and forever?" "Yes." "Do you believe that Christ is able and willing to do the work?" "Yes." Then you are saved. You are inside the palace door of God's mercy already. You look changed. You are changed. "Halleluiah, 'tis done!" Did you ever see anything done so quickly? Invitation offered and accepted in less than a minute by my watch or that clock. Sir Edward Creasy wrote a book called, "The Fif teen Decisive Battles of the World, From Marathon to Waterloo." But the most decisive battle that you will ever fight, and tho greatset victory you will ever gain, is this moment when you conquer first yourself and then all the hindering myrmidons of perdition by saying, "Lord Jesus, here I am, undone and helpless, to be saved by thee and thee alone." That makes a panic in hell. That makes celebration in heaven. Opportunity!

On the 11th of January, 1S66, a collier brig ran into the rocks near Walmer beach, England. Simon Pritchard, standing on the beach, threw off his coat and said, "Who will help mo save that crew?" Twenty men shouted,

A Scotch shepherd was dying and had the pastor called in. The dying shepherd said to his wife, "Mary, please to go into tho next room, for I want to see the minister alone." When the two were alone, the dying shepherd said, "I have known the Bible all my life, but I am going, and I am 'afeered to dee.' Then the pastor quoted the psalm: "The Lord is my Shepherd. I shall not want." "Yes, mon," said the shepherd, "I was familiar with that before you were born, but I am a-goin, and I am afeered to dee." Then said the pastor, "You know that the psalm says, 'Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." "Yes," said the dying shepherd, "I knew that before you were born, but it does not help me. Then said the pastor, "Don't you know that sometimes when you were driving the sheep down through the valleys and ravines there would be shadows all about you, while there was plenty of sunshine on the hills above? You are in the shadows now, but it is sunshine higher up." Then said the dying shepherd: "Ah!—that is good. I never saw it that way before. All is welL 'Though I pass through the valley of the shadow of death, thou art with maShadows here, but sunshine above." So the dying shepherd got peace. Living and dying, may we have the same peace!

The Gospel Call.

Opportunity! Under the arch of that splendid word let this multitude of my hearers pass into the pardon and hope and triumph ef the gospel. Go by companies of a hundred each. Go by regiments of a thousand each, the aged leaning on the staff, the middle aged throwing off their burdens as they pass and the young to have their present joys augmented by more glorious satisfactions. Forward into the kingdom! As soon as you pass the dividing line there will be shouting all up and down the heavens. The crowned immortals will look down and cheer. Jesus of the many soars will rejoice at the result of his earthly sacrifices. Departed saints will be gladdened that their prayers are answered. An order will be given for the spreading of a banquet at which you will be the honored guest From the imperial gardens the wreaths will be twisted for your brow, and from the balls of eternal musio the harpers will bring their harps and the trumpeters their trumpets, and all up and down the amethystine stairways of the castles and in all the rooms of the house of many mansions it will be talked over with holy glee that this day, while one plain man stood on the platform of this vast building, giving the gospel call, an assemblage made up from all parts of the earth and piled up in these galleries chose Christ as their portion and started for heaven as their everlasting home. Bing all the bells of heaven at the tidings 1 Strike all the oymbals at the joy I Wave all the palm branches at the triumph I Victory! Victory!

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Let the world go. It has abused you enough, and cheated you enough, and slandered you enough, and damaged you enough. Even those from whom you expected better things turned out your assailants, as when Napoleon in his last will and testament left 5,000 francs to the man who shot at Wellington in the streets of Paris. Oh, it is a mean world! Take the glorious Lord for your companionship. I like what the good man said to the one who had everything but religion. The affluent man boasted of what he owned and of his splendors of surroundings, putting into insignificance, as he thought, the Christian's possessions. "Ah," said the Christian, "man, I have something you have not" "What is that?" said the worldling. The answer was, "Peace!" And you may all have it—peace with God, peace with the past, peace with the future, a peace that all the assaults of tho world and all the bombardments satanic cannot interfere with.

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TIIE FLUTED OI{ GODKT SKIRT WITH FIVB PIECES. bottom and 18 at tho top. There is one dart in tho front part. Tho two XX's show where it joins the front. The back gores are cut from tho full width of inch material, with the front side against the selvage, with the thread straight by the line. The back is slightly gored. These gores measure 2 yards, so that the skirt measures 158 inches around the bottom. The top of each back breadth is 20 inches. The material, if of thick wool, should havo been sponged and shrunken before cutting. Sewing scams up and carefully pressing apart are done in this skirt only after tho back portions have been lined with horsehair cloth and faced up with mohair and velutina facing, the latter 4 inches wide and tho former 15. The front parts should bo also interfaced around tho bottom with horsehair cloth to the depth of ten inches. The seams should be taken in very accurately and pressed until it looks as if the skirt had grown together. The placket may be on the side or in the back. The seam along the bottom must be sewed very exactly, so that when turned and pressed it may present a straight lino all around. This skirt, liko the three piece, should bo exactly the same length all around if for walking. If for home, it may be graduated to tho desired length.

VVhon all scams are sewed and the resfc of the skirt linished, those dreadful plaits are to be laid in. This must be done on a frame exactly adjusted to the sizo of the wearer. The front breadths are fitted to the figure by gathers, which are sewed on tho belt, allowing that portion to fit liko a sheath over the hips, clear to within two inches of the center of the back. Then all that superfluous fullness is to be gathered into no more than live plaits. Some of the dressmakers arrange these plaits at the top in what they call burnoose style, which is really tho easiest way of disposing of thom. Tho method is shown in the diagram. As the folds take shape toward the bottom the tops should be cautiously and carefully fastened to tapes to preserve the round effoctof the folds. This can be done with pins, but they must be stoutly sewed later.

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FLUTED SKIHT WITH FIVE PIECES. be net on, with tho points upward. A row or two of castle hercules braid, or a narrow passementerie would bo suitable. But whatever is put on must look as if it had grown there. When the skirt is quite lln~ ished, it should have a final pressing witb hot irons unless it is velvet.

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