Connecticut western news., 1891-10-08

shares, and we have in the law those who instead of ruining the cases of their clients ought to be pounding shoe lasts, and doctors who are the worst hindrances to their patients convales- 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 TT.
 Ask God about what worldly busi ness you shall undertake until you are so positive you can in earnestness smite your hand on your blow 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 I was born" There are chil dren who early develop natural affini ties for certain styles of work When the father of the astronomer Forbes was going.to LondolShe asked his ohil dren what present he should bring each one of them. The boy who was to be an astronomer cried out, Bring me telescopel'
 And there are children whom you find all by themselves drawing on their slates or on paper, ships and houses or birds, and you know they are to be d drof icfc of And you find others ciphering out difh- 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 fists. And others are found experiment. ing with hoe and blow and sickle, and you know they will be farmers. And others are always swapping jackknives or balls or bats and making something by the bargain. and they are going to be merchants When Abbe de Rance had so advanced in studying Greek that he could translate Anacreon at twelve years of age, there was no doubt left that he was intended for scholar But in almost every lad there comes a 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 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, 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 two hun dred years was the disheartenment of his father, who used to say that if it pleased God to take any of his children away he hoped it would be his son been characterized for their stupidity in boyhood or girlhood have turned out the mightiest benefactors or bene- factresses of the human race.
 These things being so, am 1 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 universities. and all colleges recognize this. and large number of those who spent their best years in stumbling about among busi 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. To this end was I born"
 WHAT YOU wERE MADE FOR
 But my subject now mounts into the momentous. Let me say that you are judge this from the way you are built You go into shop where there is only one wheel turning, and that by work mans 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 covering many acres and you find thousands of bands pull ing on thousands of wheels, and shut ties flying, and the whole scene be wildering 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, 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 if you had 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 face Eye> capable of seeing everything Ears capable of hearing everything. Hands capable of grasping everything. Mind with more wheels than any factory ever turned, more power than Corliss engine ever moved. A soul that vii, outlive all the universe except heaven. and would outlive all heaven if the life of other imlnortals were moment short of the eternal Now, what has the world a right to expect of you What has God right to demand 0! you2 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 theN are built7
 There are only two beings in the un: verse who can answer that question The angels do not know The school, do not know Your kindred cannot