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gan to study the ministry, DR.. Calamy,

father who used to say That hit pleas
ed God to take any of his children
away he hoped it might be his son
Isaac. So some Of those who have
been characterized for stupidity in
boyhood or girlhood, have turned
out the mightiest benefactors or
benefactresses OF the human race.
These things being so am not right
in saying that i'll many cases God
only knows what is the most appro-
pirate thing for you to do, and he IS
the one to ask. And let all parents,
and all schools and universities, and
all colleges recognize this, and a large
number of those who spent their best
years in stumbling about and among
businesses and occupations, now try
ing this and now trying that, and fail
ing in all, would be able to go ahead
with a definite, decided and tremen-
dous purpose, saying, ito this end was
l born"
But my subject now mounts into
the momentous. Let me say that
you are made for usefulness and
heaven. l judge this from the wayyou
Ire built. You go into q shop where
there is only one wheel turning and
that by a workman's foot on q
treadle, and you say to yourself:
"here is something good being done,
yet on a small SCALE" but ii yon go in
to a factory covering many acres, and
you find thousands of bands pulling
on thousands of wheels, and shuttles
flying, and the whole scene
BEWILDERING WITH ACTIVITIES,
driven by water, or steam, or electric
power, you conclude that the factory
was put up to do q great work on a
vast scale. Now, look at you, and
if should find that you had but one
faculty OF body, one muscle, only one
nerve, if you could see but could not
hear, or could hear andnot see, if you
had the use OF only one foot or hand,
and as to your higher nature, if you
had but one mental faculty, and you
had memory but no Judgment, or
judgment but no will, and you had q
soul with only M capacity, | would
say not much is expected OF you. But
stand up, oh nan and let melook you
squarely in the face. Eyes capable Of
seeing everything. Ears capable Of
hearing everything. Hands capable
OF grasplng everything. Mind with
more wheels than any factory ever
turned, more power than any Corliss
engine ever moved. A soul that will
outlive all the universe exceptheaven,
and would outlive all heaven if the
lives OF other immortals were q mo-
ment short OF the eternal. Now, what
has the world a right to expect ofyou?
God is the greatest of economists in
the universe, and he makes nothing
uselessly, and for what purpose didhe
build your body, mind and soul as
they are built? There are only two
beings in the universe who can answer
that question. God knows, and you
ought to know. what shall l do?"
you ask. My brethren, my sisters, do
not ask me. Ask God. There's some
path OF Christian usefulness open. 1t
may be a rough path, OF it may be a
smooth path, a long path or a short
path. 1T may be on q mount of con-
spicuity, or in q valley unobserved,
but it is q path on which you con
start with such faith and such salts
faction and such certainty that you
can cry out in the face of earth and
hell and heaven: "To this end was /
born" Do not wait
GoS SOaA1lE IVA 4oN0s
Philip the conqueror gained his great
est victories seated on a mule, and if
you wait for some comparisoned
Bucephalus to ride into the conflict
you will never get into the worldwide
fight at all. Samson slew the Lords
enemies with the jawbone OF the
stupldest beast created. Silamgar
slew SIX hundred OF the Lords enemies
with an ox-goad. Under God, spittle
cured the blind mans eyes in the New
Testament story. Take all the faculty
youhavea and say: go Lord! Here is
what / have, show me the field and
back me up by the omnipotent power.
Anywhere, anyhow, anytimefor God"
Napoleon's success in battle came
from his theory OF breaking through
the enemies ranks at one point, not
trying to meet the whole line OF the
enemy's force by O similar force. One
reason why he lost Waterloo was be-
cause he did not work his usual theo-
ry, and spread his force out over q
wide range. Oh Christian man, oh
Christian woman, break through
somewhere. Not q general engage
ment for God but q particular
engagement, and made in answer to
prayer. Ii there are sixteen hundred
million people in the world then there
are sixteen hundred million different
missions to fulfil, different styles OF
work to do, different orbits in which
to revolve, and if you do not get the
divine direction there are at least
1, 599, 900, 900, 600 possibilities that
you will make a mistake.
O YOU NEE BEFORE GOD.
get the matter settled so that you can
firmly say: ITO this end was l born"
And now | come to the climacterio
consideration. AS near as | can tell,
you were built for q happy eternity,
all the disasters which have happen
ed to your nature to be overcome by
the blood of the Lamb if you will
heartily accept that Christly arrange
ment. We are all rejoiced in the in
crease in human longevity. People
live, at near as l can observe, about
10 years longer than they used to.
The modern doctors do not bleed their
patients on all occasions as did the
former doctors. In those times if q
man had fever, they bled him, if he
had consumption they bled him, if he
had rheumatism they bled him, and il
they could not make out exactly what
wasthe matter they bled him. Olden
time phlebotomy was deaths coadju-
tor. All this has changed. From the
way see people skipping about at
80 years OF age, Iconclude that life in
surance companies will have to change
their table OF risk and charge a man
no o premium at 70 than they
used to do when hewas 60, and nc
more premium at so than when he
was 40. By the advancement ofmed.
ical science and the wider acquaint.
ance with the laws OF health and the
tact that people know better how to
!. take care OF themselves, human life is
I prolonged. But do you realize what,
u after all, is the brevity of our earthly
0 state? Inthe time when people lived
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