Seizing Opportunities

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 17, 1910

Seizing Opportunities

A LADY once writing to a young man in the navy, who was almost a stranger, thought, “Shall I close this as anybody would, or shall I say a word for my Master?” and, lifting up her heart for a moment, she wrote, telling him that his constant change of scene and place was an apt illustration of the words, “Here we have no continuing city,” and asked if he could say, “I seek one to come.” Tremblingly she folded it, and sent it off. Back came the answer, “Thank you so much for those kind words. I am an orphan, and no one has spoken to me like that since my mother died, long years ago.” The arrow, shot at venture, hit home, and the young man shortly after rejoiced in the fulness of the gospel of peace. How often do we as Christians close a letter to those who have no hope, “as anybody would,” when we might say a word for Jesus! Shall we not improve each such opportunity in the future?—The Word of Life.