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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 6, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 23.

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OPPORTUNITY.

Broom-corn first grew in India. From there it was carried to Europe. Dr. Benjamin Franklin was once examining a whisk-broom that had been brought over from England in the days before we had any broom-corn of our own. He found a single seed on the broom, picked it off, planted it, and raised a stock of corn, from which is descended all the broom-corn of the United States. Franklin was one of the men whose eyes were always alert for possible opportunities to enrich his time and the world. The people of the observing eye and the alert mind and heart are those to whom opportunities do not come in vain.—Homiletic Review.