Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-08

born for some especial work, and their fit
ness does not develop until quite late.
When Philip Doddridge, whose sermons
and books have harvested uncounted 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 scientlst-hlS
books standard now, though he has been
dead over two hundred years-was the dis
heartenment of his father. who used to say
that if it pleased God to take any OF his
children away he hoDed it might be his son
Isaac. So some of those who have been
characterized for their 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 in many cases God only knows
what is the most appropriate thing Tor you
10 do, and he is the one to ask? And let all
parents. and all schools, and all universe
ties, and all colleges recognize this, and
large number of those who spent their best
years in stumbling about among businesses
and occupations now trying this and now
trying that, and falling in all, would be able
to go ahead with definite, decided and ire
mendous purpose, saying, ''to this end was
BORN
mentous. Let me say that you are made
for usefulness and heaven. 1 Judge this
from the way you are built. You go into a
shop where there IS only one wheel turn
ing, and that by a workman'S foot on a
treadle, and you say to yourself, "here Is
something good being done, yet on small
scale;;' but if you go into factory cover.
ing many acres, and you find thousands OF
bands pulling on thousands of wheels, and
shuttles flying, and the whole scene bewll-
dering with activities, driven by water, or
steam. or electric power, you conclude that
the factory was put up to do great work,
and on vast scale. Now, look at you,
and if should find that you had only one
faculty of body, only one muscle, only one
nerve, if 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 nature, if you had only one
mental faculty, and you had memory but no
Judgment, or Judgment but no will, and II
YOU had soul with only one capacity, l
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 everything. Hands
capable of grasping everything. Minds
with more wheels than any factory ever
turned, more power than any Corliss en-
CINE ever moved. A soul that will outlive
outliye all heaven If the life of other i'm
mortals were a moment short of the
eternal. Now, what has the world right
to expect of you? What has God right to
demand of you? God is the greatest Of
economists in 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 ques-
ton. The angels do not know. The schools
do not know. Your kindred cannot GER
taiuly know God knows, and you ought
to know. A factory running at an expense
OF $500. 600 a year, and turning out goods
worth seventy cents year would not be
such an incongruity as you, oh man, with
such semi-intinite equipment doing moth
ing, or next to nothing, in the way of use
fulness What shall do?'' you ask My
brethren, my sisters, do not ask me. Ask
God There's some path OF Christian use
fulness open. 1t may be a rough path, or
il may be smooth path, long path or a
short path. 1t may be on a mount OF con-
spicuity, or in 4 valley unobserved, out it
is path on which you can start with such
faith and such satisfaction and such GER
tainty that YOU can cry out IN the face OF
earth and nell and heaven: 'To this end
was born" Do not wait for extraordi-
nary qualifications. Philip, the cOnqueror,
gained his greatest victories seated on 4
mule, and if you wait for some compar-
isoned 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 sTUPIDEsT BEAST CREATED.
Shamgar slew 600 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 you have and
say: so Lord. Here is what have, show
me the field and back me up by omni-
potent power. Anywhere, anyhow, any
time for God" Two men riding on horse
back came to trough to water the horses.
While the horses We're drinking, one of the
men said to the other few words about
the value of the soul, then they rode away,
and in opposite directions. But the words
uttered were the salvation of the one to
whom they were uttered, and he became
the Rev. Mr.. Champion, one Of the most
distinguished missionaries in heather
lands; for years wondering who did for him
the Christian kindness, and not finding out
until in Il bundle of books sent him TO Africa
he found the biography of Bralnerd Taylor
and picture Of him. and the missionary
recognized the face in that book as the man
who, 1T the watering trough for horses,
had said the thing that saved his soul.
What opportunities you have had in the past.
What opportunities you have now! What
opportunities YOU will have in the days to
come! Put on your hat, oh woman, this
afternoon, and go aud comfort that young
mother who lost her babe last summer.
Put on your hat. oh man, and so over and
see that merchant who was compelled yes
terday to make an assignment, and tell him
of the everlasting riches remaining for all
those who serve the Lord. Can you singa
Go and sing for that man who cannot get
well, and you will
HELP HIM INTO HEAVEN.
Let it be your brain, your tongue, your
your hands, your feet. your body, your
mind. your soul, your life, your death, your
time, your eternity for God, feeling in your
soul: TO this end was ] BORN 1t may
be helpful to some if | recite my own eX-
perience in this regard. l started for the
law without asking any divine direction. l
consulted my own tastes. l liked lawyers
and court rooms and judges and juries, and
reveled in hearing the FrelinghuysenS and
the BradleyS of the New Jersey bar, and as
assistant of the county clerk, at sixteen
years of age, searched titles, naturalized
foreigners, recorded deeds, received the
confession OF judgments, swore witnesses
aud iuries and grand jurieS. But after
while felt call TO the gospel ministry
and entered it. and I felt some satisfaction
in the work. But one summer, when | was
resting at Sharon Springs, ana while
seated in the park of that village l said to
myself. If l have an especial work to do in
the world ought to find it out now,"- and
with that determination prayed as had
never before prayed, and got the divine di-
rection, and wrote it down in my memoran-
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