Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-05

we have no time 70 experiment WIN
occupations and professions
The reason we have 50 many dead
failures IL that parents decide for
children what they shall do OF chill
dren themselves. wrought on by some
whim or fancy. decide for themselves
without any imploration of divine
guidance So we have now in pull
pits men making sermons who ought
10 be IN blacksmith shops making plow-
shares and we have in the law those
who instead OF running the eases OF
their clients ought to be pounding shoe
lasts. and doctors who are the worst
hindrances to their patients conSales-
cence. and artists trying to paint land
scapes who ought to be whitewashing
board fences while there are Others
making bricks who ought to be remod
cling constitutions, or showing planes
who ought to be Transforming litera
lures.
ASK GOD ABOUT IT.
Ask God about what worldly busi
ness you shall undertake until you are
so positive you can in earnestness smite
your hand on your pillow handle, or
your carpenters bench. or your Black
stones Commentaries. " or your medi
cal dictionary, or your DR. Dicks
''Didatic Theology" saying For this
end | was born There are chill
dren who early develop natural afilni
ties for certain styles of work. When
the father of the astronomer Forbes
w1e going to London he asked his chill
lren what present he should bring
each one Of them The boy who was
! 10 be an astronomer cried out Bring
me telescoper
And there are children whom you
find all by themselves drawing on their
, states or on paper, ships and houses OF
: birds, and you know they are TO be
!. craftsmen or artists Of some kind.
And you find others ciphering out diff
cult problems with rare interest and
success, and you know they are to be
mathematicians And Others making
wheels and strange contrivances, and
you know they are going TO be machin
. lists And others are found experiment
+. ing with hoe and plow and sickle. anc
you know they will be farmers. And
others are always swapping jackknive'
u or balls or bats and making something
by the bargain, and they are going tC
" be merchants. When Able de Rance
> had so advanced in studying Greek tina
= he could translate Anacreon ut twelv'
years OF age, there was no doubt lef
that he was intended for scholar
u But in almost every lad there comes
u time when he does not know what h
y was made for, and his parents do nc
~ know. and 1t is crisis that God onl
~ can decide.
ID Then there are those born for som
"a especial work, and their fitness doe
g not develop until quite late. Whe
es Philip Doddridge, whose sermons ant
le books have harvested uncounted soul
q for glory, began to study the ministry
"a Dr. Calamy, one of the wisest and bes
! men, advised him to turn his thought
As to some other work. Isaac Barrow
or the eminent clergyman and Chris''al
ie scientist-his books standard nov
'e dred years was the disheartenment O
10 his father, who used to say that II |
o pleased God to take any of his children
N away he hoped It would be his Sol
rs Isaac SO some OF those who hav
s, been characterized for their stupidit
III in boyhood or girlhood have turne
is out the mightiest benefactors or benz
AZ factresses OF the human race
40 These things being so, anu not rigf
ID In saying that In many cases God onl
rd knows what is the most appropriat
IN thing for you to do, and he is the on
re TO ask. And let all parents, and "a
ur schools, and all universities, and a
IL colleges recognize this, and a larg
ty number of those who spent their be,
ld years In stumbling about among bus
nesses and occupations, now tryin
n this and now trying that, and failin
In all, would be able to go ahead wit
10 definite. decided and tremendou
IA purpose, saying, ITO this end was
o' born"
g. WHAT YOU wERR MADE FOR.
OF But my subject now mounts into II
III momentous Let me say that you al
Ih' made for usefulness and heaven.
I'm Judge this from the way You are bull
at You 40 into shop where there is on
on one wheel turning, and that 10y a worl
at mans foot on treadle, and you say
ell yourself, Here something good beir
or done, yet on a small scale;" but II SO
DO go into factory covering many acre
Ter and you find thousands of bands pul
ig- ing on thousands of wheels, and shu
,o' ties flying, and the whole scene b
ie' wildering with activities driven
no water or steam or electric power, "
Ior conclude that the factory was put Y
RS 10 do great work and ON vast scale
ier Now. look at You, and II shou
Y, find that you had only one faculty
iiu body, only one muscle, only one nery
II you could see but could not hear,
700 could hear and not see, II you had q
ois use OF only one foot or one hand, an
D. as 20 your higher nature, II YOU h'
aP' only one mental faculty, and You Ia
'h' memory but no judgment, or ludgne
4 but no viii, and II you had a soul wi
ia" only one capacity, ! would say n
AN much Is expected OF you.
ing Hut stand up. o man. and let .
We look You squarely Ia the face 10y
'n' capable OF seeing everything Ia