Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — Opportunities. [ARTICLE]

Opportunities.

In one of the old Greek cities there stood, long ago, a statue. Every trace of It has vanished now, as Is the case with most of those old masterpieces of genius, but there is still in esistene* an epigram which gives us an excellent description of it, and as we read the words we can surely discover the lesson which those wise old Greeks meant that the statue should teach to every passer-by. The epigram Is in tlie form of a conversation between a traveler and tlio statue. “What is thy name, O statue?” “I am called Opportunity.” “Who made thee ?” “Lysippus.” “Why art thou standing on thy toes?” “To show that .I stay but fior a moment." “Why hast thou wings on thy feet?” “To show how quickly I pass by.” “But why is thy hair so long on thy forehead ?” “That men may seize me when they meet me.” “Why is thy head so bald behind?” “To show that when I have once passed, I cannot be caught” We do not see statues standing on the highways to remind us of our opportnnitles for doing good and being of service to others, but we know that they come to us. They are ours hut for a moment. If we let them pass, they are gone forever.