The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-10-21

saying: ''For this end was l 5orn.y
There are children who early develop
natural affinitics for certain styles of
work
When the father of the astronomer
Forbes was going to London, he asked
his children what present he should
bring each one of them. The boy who
was to be an astronomer cried out:
Bring me telescope!" And there are
children whom you find all by them
selves drawing on their states, or on pa
per, ships ct houses o. birds, and you
know they are to be draughtsmen or
artists of some kind. And you find 9TH
ers ciphering out difficult problems with
rare interest and success, and you know
they are to be mathematicians And
others making wheels and strange con-
trivances, and you know they are GO
| ing to be 1nachinists. And others are
found experimenting with hoe and
plow and sickle, and You know they
will be farmers. And others are a.
ways swapping jack-knives or balls or
bats and making something by the
bargain, and they are going to be mer-
chants. When Able de Renee had so add
vanced in studying Greek that he coulf
translate Anacreon at twelve yeas
of age there was no doubt left that he
was intended for scholar. But in al
most every lad there comes time
when he does not know what he was
made for, and his parents do not know.
and it is crisis that God only can de-
eide. Then there are those born for
some especial work, and their fitness
does not develop until quite late.
When Philip Doddridge, whose ser
mons and books have harvested I'M!
counted souls for glory, began to study
the ministry, DR.. Calamy, one of the
wisest and best men, advised him to
turn his thoughts to some other work.
Isaac Barrow. the eminent clergyman
and Christian scientist-his books
standard now, though he has been dead
over 200 years-was the DISAGREEMENT
of his father, who used to say that if it
pleased 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 their stupidity in boy
hood or girlhood have turned out the
mightiest benefactors or benefactresses
of the human race. These things be-
ing so, am not right in saying that in
many cases God only knows what is
the most appropriate thing for you to
do, and he is the one to ask? And let
all parents, and all schools, and all uni
versities, and all colleges recognize
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 60 ahead with definite, decided
and tremendous purpose, saying, &c
this end was born"
But my subject now mounts into the
momentous. Let me say that you arr
made for usefulness and Heaven.
judge this from the way you are built
You go into shop where there is on3.
one wheel turning and that by work
mans foot on treadle, and you say tt
yourself: Here is something good be
ing done, yet on small scale;"~ but Y
you go into factory covering many
acres, and you find thousands of bands
pulling on thousands of wheels, an(
shuttles flying, and the whole scene be
wildering activities, driven by water
or stream, or electric power, you con
clude that the factory was put up to d,
great work and on a. vast scale. Now
look at you, and if should find tina
you had only one faculty of the body
only one muscle only one nerve, if yol
could see but could not hear, o.
could hear and not see, if 20,
had the use Of only one foot O
one hand, and, asto your higher nature
if YOU had only one mental faculty
and you had memory but no Judgment
or Judgment, but no will, and if you hat
soul with only one capacity, I woul'
say not muchis expected of you. Blu
stand UP. oh man, and let me look yo1
!, squarely in the, face. Eyes capable o
seeing every thing. Ears capa BILE o
hearing every thing. Hands capable o
grasping every thing. Mind with NOR
wheels than any factory ever turned
more power than Corliss engine eve
moved A soul that will outlive all tn
universe except Heaven, and woul
outlive all Heaven if the life of othe
!, immortals were moment short of tn
: eternal. Now, what has the worl
a right to expect of you? What ha
, God a right to demand of you
; God is the greatest of economist
in the universe, and He makes moth
, ing uselessly, or for what purpose di
He build your body, mind and sou
, as they are built? There are only tw
, beings in the universe who can answe
4 that question. The angels do not know
n The schools do not know. Your XIII
r dred can not certainly know. Go
r knows and you ought to know. A fa'
f tory running at an expense of $500, oC
@ a year, and turning out goods wort
/ seventy cents year would not be sue
t an incongruity as you, oh man, wit
= such semi-infinite equipment dom
{ nothing, or next to nothing, in the wa
y of usefulness. What shall do?" yo
g ask. My brethren, my sisters, do NJ
= ask me. Ask God. There's some pat
II of Christian usefulness open. 1t ma
q be rough path, or it may be smoot
IS path, long path, or short path.
q may be on a mount of conspicuity, {
Is in valley unobserved, but it is pat
v on which you can start with such fail
!. and such satisfaction and such certaint
?. that you can cry out in the face of cart
4 and hell and Heaven: ITO this end W,
q l born" Hs