The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-05

Rev. J. W. Rogan on Choosing an &C.
cupation and Selecting Wife.

Rev. J. W. Rogan's sermon in the First
Presbyterian church yesterday morning.
His text was: "In all thy ways acknowl-
edg, him."
In the selecting Of an occupation, the
preacher said: l see before me boys and
young men who are rapidly coming 20 the
point where they will have TO make choice
Of life vocation. Already tney have been
turning over and over in their minds the
question: "Whst shall | dor Ii is no unim-
portant question. IL demands serious con-
| sideration, and should have prayer. Ask it
| of God. There Is niche in this world
| intended for each one and happy is he who
finds the one that was intended for him.
But instead of all finding their trae places,
| we notice a great many insists" The
majority kind Of slip into the place that
happens to be the easiest for them to get
| into. Some are Influenced in their selection
| of life work by the fast that their fathers
| followed the same occupation before tbom.
| Many follow their inclinations without any
regard to their fitness for the particular
| work. Others ask no other question
than: Where can l make the most
/ moneyH Owing to tbis haphazard
| way we find men teaching in school and in
| the sacred desk, and thus trying to develop
mind and heart who are better fitted for
| developing the resources of the soil, law
yers proposing to plead law who would
make far better mechanics, and physicians
proposing to treat mems bodily ailments
who would have made much greater success
| at the cobbler's last or the tailoT's table.
MANY THINGS TO BE CONSIDERED.
In choosing a calling a number of things
| is to be taken into consideration, as the needs
of the field, one's proclivities for it. suitable
talents, opportunities OF preparing for and
getting into il. If one makes a mistake in
| the choice be will either correct it or his
| life will be comparative failure. AS you
look out, then, On the world, take up the
question of the converted Saul of Tarsus,
| and applying it to your life work ask with
| him, Lord. what wilt thou have me to
| do!n
Religion does not consist, the preacher
| said, in making public profession of faith
| in the Lord Jesus Christ, and attaching
oneself to some branch of his church. It
| does not consist in attending on the APP
pointed ordinances of the sanctuary on the
| Sabbath, aud the prayer meeting in the
week; nor in the observance OF a little pri-
vate devotion morning and evenings in our
| homes. lG does no. consist in the perform
| ance, now and then, of some work of char
| ity. These are all we'll, SO far as they go,
and If performed in the right spirit are a
| part of relig:on-a part, not the whole of il.
The true idea of religion is not q garment to
ter that is inseparable from us-a life
steady, constant, lasting.
RELIGION IN BUSINESS.
That religion which we cannot carry with
us into the business world is not worth
much. knew of a man who had failed in
business, and having been dunned several
times for an account is said to have written
| back that he had ceased to think of worldly
affairs, that his mind was set on heavenly
things. God would have been much
better pleased with him if he
had tried to pay his honest
the Bible is not of the kind to unfit men for
the spheres Of life in which they are called
upon to live here. but TO better fit them for
those spheres, as well as the life to come.
The merchant can acknowledge God in the
prosecution of his business; the student, in
| the solution of his mathematical problem,
| or in the derivation of a Latin or Greek
| word; a lawyer, in the preparation of
brief, and the pleading Of a cause; a physi-
clan, in the diagnosis of his case and in the
attendance Of his patients; the mechanic, in
tho welding of the hammer and the driving
of the plane, and the housewife. in the
handling of a broom and the use of the
buster.
There is an age at which the boy and the
girl-especially the boy-feeling that he
knows more than his parents is unwilling
to go to them for guidance. In the same
| way many children of the great father try
tn direct their ways without asking advice,
Yet there are times when men feel their
inability to go Alright of themselves. Hence
they resortsd to tho oracles of old, as to the
Delphic oracle, which could give only am
biguous answers. None but God knows
anything about the future. He does not
propose TO answer us by audible voice or
visible sign, but he will guide us if we go to
him, and we should thus acknowledge him
in all our ways. We should do this IN the
great steps of lifen
THE CHOOSING OF WIFE.
Another important step in life, said Mr..
Rogau, is the selection of wife Look at
the thousands of divorces which are an
nually being granted. Look at the tens of
thousands of couples who would get a
divorce if they were not restrained from it
by their respect to the law of God, or their
regard for the opinion Of their fellow men,
Why the great number of unhappy mar
risges? Because people rush heedlessly into
this most solemn of all earthly relations.
So many seem to look upon it as joke or O
pleasing romance. SO many marry for
money. There are those who put
themselves up in the market to
go to the highest bidder. The man or wo-
man VINO sells the hand where the heart
does not accompany, though they may gain
the fortune of a Rothschild or q Wander
hilt, will find, when 1t is too late, that they
have made dear bargain There are many
unhappy marriages because, though there
may be love, or what is termed love at the
first it is founded on something that is I'M
enduring, as beauty of face or symmetry of
form, instead OF being founded on unity of
faith, similarity of taste, congeniality of
temperament, of graces of heart-those
things which abide
A HAPPY MARRIAGE PARADISE, BUT
There is no step you can take in life, con-
cluded the speaker save that of attending
to the salvation of your souO, that is half as
important as this. Remember, you enter
this union for time and eternity. Ramem-
Der, there is nothing that will so tell on
your every relation in life aud so tell on
your destiny as this. If happily married,
the world will be to you as paradise; if
unhappily married, you need not be sur
prised if you find it veritable purgatory.
Do not, then, marry for a fortune or
home. Do not marry for beauty, or
a mere sentiment. Marry for nothing but
love founded on true worth. Young mau,
be careful not to marry society young
lady-one who will do nothing to make
your home attractive, but who win keep
your nose to the grindstone all the while to
| keen her bills paid, Young lady do not