The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-10-13

ebOu oloeSos VI ou pdpeT, oilipS OT HOUSES
or birds, and YOU know they are to be
draughtamen or artists Of some kind.
And YOU lind Others ciphcriny out diill-
cult problems with rare interest and sue
cess, aud you know they are to be math-
smattians. Aud others making wheels
and strange contrlyances, and you know
they are going 70 be machiuists. And
others are founhkxperimentiDg with hoe
and plough aud sickle, aud YOU kn w
| they will be farmers. Aud others are
always swapping jack-knives or balls or
bats, and making something by the bar
gain, and they are going to be mer-
chauts. When Able dc Psncs had 80
advanced in studying Greek that he
could translate Anacreon at twelve
years of aye, there was no doubt left
that he was intended for scholar. But
in almost every lad there comes II time
when he does not know what he was
made for, and his parents do not kn0 e /,
and 1t ls q crisis that God alone can de-
eide. Then there are those born for
some especial work, and their fitness
does not develop until quite late. When
Phllip D"ddr;dye, whose sermons and
books have harvested uncounted souls
Tor glory, began to study the ministry.
| Or. Caiamy, one Ot Tie wis, st aud bust
men, advised him to turn his thoughts
to some other work. Isaac Barrow the
eminent clergyman and Christian scien.
tist-his books standard now though he
has been dead over 200 years-was the
disheartenment of his father, who used
To say that it it pleased God to take any
OF his children away he hoped 1t might
be his son Isaac. So some OF those who
have been characterized for thelr stupidl-
ty in boyhood or girlhood, have turned
out the mightiest benefactors or bene-
factresses of the human race. These
things being 30, am not right in say
ing that in many cases God only knows
what ls the most appropriate thing for
you to do, and He Is the one to ask. {.
And let all parents. and all schools, aud
all universities, and all colleges reco1-
nize this, and large number of those
who spent their best years in stumbling
about among businesses and occupa-
tions, now trying this and now trying
that, and failing in all, would be able to
80 ahead with definite, decided and
tremendous purpose, saying, Ito this
end was l born"
But my subject now mounts into the
momcntous. Let me say that you are
made for usefulness and heaven. Judge
This from the way you are built. You
go into shop where there is only one
wheel turning and that by workman's
loot on trcadle, and you saw to your
sell: 'here is some thing god being
done, yet Oh small scale;" but if YOU
go Into factory covering many acres,
and you find thousands of bands pulling
on thousands OF wheels, and shuttles
iiyln5, aud the whole scene bewilderiny
with activities, driven by water. or
steam, or electric power, you conclude
That tLe factory was put up to do great
work and on vast scale. Now, look
at you, a. d if L should find that you had
only one faculty of body, only one mus
Gle, only one nerve, ii you could see but
could not hear. or could hear and not
see, if you had the use of only one foot
or one hand, and, as to your higher ma :.
ture, If you had only one mental faculty,
and you had memory but no judyn. mt,
or judgment but no will, aud II you had
soul with only one capacity, | would
say not much is expected of YOU. But
stand up, oh man, and let me look YOU
squarely In the face. Eyes capable of
seeing everything. Ears capable of
hearing every thing. Hands capable of
grasping everything. Mind with more
wheels than any factory ever turned.
more power than Corlss engine ever
moved. A soul that will outlive all the
universe except heaven. and would out
1--we all heaven |. the life OF other imnlor-
tais were a moment short of the eternal.
Now, what has the world Z right to ex.
pect OF you? What has God right To
demand OF you? God Is the greatest
OF economists III the universe, and He
makes nothing uselessly, and for what
purpose did He build your body, mind
and soul as they are built. There are
only two beings IN the universe who can
answer that question. The angels do
not know. The schools hO not know.
Your kl dre.! cauuoL certainly know.
God knows, and you ought to know.
~ factory running 1T an expense of
S5OO,O 900 year, and turning out goods
worth ~ cents n Year would not be such
an lncOngruitY rs you. OH man, with such
scmi-lnlinte equipment doing holhny.
or next to nothing. In the way Of use
Iulness. What shall do!' YOU ash .
My brethren, my sisters, do not ask me.
| ASK God. There's some path of Chris.
tlan usefulness open. II may be a rOuyt,
path, or it may be smooth path. a long
path or short path. IL may be on q
mount OF conspicuity. or In a valley un-
observed, but 1t is II path on which you
can start with such lallll aud such salts.
| lactlon and such certainty that you can
cry out III the face OF earth and hell and
heaven: ITO this end wa, | bOrn.n Do
not wait tor extraordinary qualifications.
l'hllip the Conqueror gained his great
csL ctorles seated un Il mule. aud il YOU
wait Tor SOME caparlsUned Bu:ephalus
TO ride into the conflict you will he er
get into the worldwide hyht ut all.
Samson sew the LUd's enemies with
The jawbone Oi the "tupidest beast .rcat.
td. Sliamgar slew Nix hundred of the
Lords enemies with an ox-xoud. Uu.
der God, spiLLle cured the blind mans
eyes in the New Testament story.
Take all The faculty you have aud say
20 Lord here is what have, show ne
t"e field aud back mo up by omnipotcnt
power. Any where, anyhow. any time
for God" Two men riding on horse
back came to trough 70 water tho
horses. While The horses were drink
ing one OF the men said 10 the other a
few words about the value OF the soul,
and then they rode away, and in oppO-
site directions. But th-~.words uttered
were The salvation of The one to whom
they were uttered, aud he became the
Rev. MIR. Champion. one of the most