Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-05

he WAS made for, and his parents do not
know, and il Is n crisiS that God only can
decide Then there are those born for some
especial work, and their fitness does not
develop until quite late When Philip
Doddridge, whose sermons and books have
harvested uncounted souls for glory, be-
gan 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 clergy
man and Christian scientist-his books
standard now, though he has been dead
over two hundred years-was the disheart-
eminent OF his father, who used so say that
If 1t pleased God to take any OF his children
away he hoped it might be his son Isaac
So some of those who have been character
lied for their stupidity in boyhood or girl
hood have turned out the mightiest bene-
factors 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 for you
to do, and he Is the one to ask. And let
all parents and all schools and all univer-
stiles and all colleges recognize this, and a
large number of those who spent their best
years in stumbling about among bust
nesses and occupations, now trying this
and now trying that, and failing in all,
would be able to go ahead with definite,
decided and tremendous purpose, saying
ITO this eud was born"
you ARE MADE FOR HEAVEN.
But my subject now mounts into the
momentous. 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 a workman's foot on
a treade, and 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 bewil
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 a vast scale Now, look at you,
and If should find that you had only one
faculty of body, only one muscle, only one
nerve, II you could see but could not hear,
or could hear and not see, II you had the
use of only one foot or one hand, and, as to
your higher nature, II you had only one
mental faculty, and you had memory but
no judgment, or judgment but no will, and
If you had a soul with only one capacity,
would say not much is expected of you.
But stand up, o man, and let me look
you squarely in the facet Eyes capable of
seeing everything Ears capable of hear
ing everything. Hands capable of grasp
ing everything. Mind with more wheels
than any factory ever turned, more power
than Corliss engine ever moved. A soul
that will outlive all the universe, except
heaven, and would outlive all heaven if
the life of other immortals were moment
short of the eternal Now, what has the
world a right to expect from you? What
has God right to demand of your 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 builtP
There are only two beings in the universe
who can answer that question. The angels
do not know. The schools do not know.
Your kindred cannot certainly know. God
knows, and you ought to know. A factory
running at an expense of 100000 year,
and turning out goods worth seventy cents
a year would not be such an incongruity
as you, o man, with such semi-infnite
equipment doing nothing, or next to moth
ing, in the way Of usefulness. What
shall dor" you ask. Ny brethren, my
sisters, do not ask me. Ask God.
There's some path Of Christian useful
ness open. 1t may be rough path, or it
may be smooth path, a long path or a
short path. 1t may be on a mount Of con.
spicuity or In valley unobserved, but it
is path on which you can start with such
faith and such satisfaction and such GER
tanty that you can cry out in the face Of
earth and hell and heaven, "To this end
was | born" Do not wait for extraordi-
nary qualifications. Philip the Conqueror
gained his greatest victories seated on
mule, and IL you wait for some capariSoned
Bucephalus to ride into the conflict you
will never get into the world wide fight at
all Samson slew the Lords enemies with
the jaw bone of the stupidest beast created
Shamgar slew six hundred of the Lords
enemies with an OK goad. Under God
spittle cured the blind mans eyes in the
New Testament story. Take all the fac
ulty you have and says 80 Lord, here is
what ! have. Show me the field and back
me up by omnipoteut power, Anywhere,
anyhow, any time for God"
Two men riding on horseback came to
trough to water the horses. While the
horses were drinking, one of the men said
to the other few words about the value
of the soul, and then they rode away, and
In opposite directions. But the words ut.
tered 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 bundle of books sent him to
Africa, he found the biography of Brainerd
Taylor and a picture of him, and the mis-
sionary recognized the face in that book as
the man who at 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 comel
CHANCES FOR USEFULNESS.
Put on your hat, oh, woman, this after
noon, and go in and comfort that young
mother who lost her abe last summer. Put
on your hat, oh, man, and go over and see
that merchant who was compelled yester
terday to make an assignment, and tell
him of the everlasting riches remaining for
all those who serve the Lord. Can you
singP Go and sing for that man who can
not get well, and you will help him into
heaven. Let it be your brain, your tongue,
youreyes, your ears, your heart your lungs,
your hands, your feet, your body, your
mind, your soul, your life, your death, your
time, your eternity for God, feeling in your
SOUL "Io this end was l born"
1t may be helpful to some If ] recite my
own experience in this regard. started
for the law without asking any divine di
rection. consulted my own tastes l
liked lawyers and courtrooms and judges
and juries, and | reveled in hearing the
Frelinghuysens and the Bradleys of the