The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-08

ron into consideration h God, and be
Is the ono you can ask Life is 80 short
we have no tlrne 20 experiment. with
occupations and professions.
The reason we have 90 many dead
failures L. that parents decide for
children what they SHALL do. or chn-
dren themselves, wrought on By satne
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 cases Of
their clients ought 30 be pounding shoe
lasts, and doctors who are the worst
-hindrances 10 their patients' >auvales-
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 re,nod-
cling constitutions or showing planes
who ought TO be Transforming literar
turea
ASK GOD ABOUT 1T.
Ask God about what worldly husI.
ness you shall undertake until you are
30 positive you can In earnestness smite
your hand on your plow handle, or
your carpenters bench, or your Black
stones Commentaries, or your medi-
cal dictionary, or your DIR. Dicks
''Didatio Theology" saying, 'For this
\ -,
dren who early develop natural affini-
ties for certain styles of work. When
the father of the astronomer Forbes
was going to London he asked his chill
dren what present he should bring
each one Of them. The boy who was
to be an astronomer cried cut, Bring
me telescope"
And there are children whom you
find all by themselves drawing on their
states or on paper, ships and houses or
birds, and you know they arc 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 tIiey 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, and
| you know they will be farmers. And
Others are always swapping iackknives
or balls or bats and making something
by the bargain, and they are going to
be merchants. When Abbe Dc 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 a scholar.
But In almost every lad there comes q
time when he does not know what be
was made for, and his parents do moi
know, and it Is crisis that God only
| can decide.
Then there are those born for some
especial work, and their fitness doe:
not develop until quite late. Wher
Philip Doddridge, whose sermons and
for glory, began to study the ministry
DIR. Calamy, one of the wisest and bes
men, advised him 70 turn his thoughtl
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 o
his father, who used to say that IL il
pleased God to take any of his children
away he hoped 1t would be his SO,
Isaac. So some of those who hav,
been characterized for their stupidit,
In boyhood or girlhood have turnet
out the mightiest bensfactors or bene
factresses of the human race.
| These things being SO, am ! not righ
In saying that in many cases God onl
knows what is the most appropriat
thing for you to do, and he is the on
to ask. And let all parents, and al
schools, and all universities, and a
colleges recognize this. and a larg
number OF those who spent their bes
years in stumbling about among bus
nesses and occupations, now tryin
this and now trying that, and failin
, in all, would be able TO go ahead wit
! | definite, decided and tremendor
purpose. saying. ITO this end was
born"
, WHAT YOu WE'RE MADE FOR
But my subject now mounts into ii
Inomentous. Let me say that you a
made for usefulness and heaven.
, judge this from the way you are bull
You go into shop where there is on
:. one wheel turning, and that by a wor
mansf foot on treadle, and you say
: yourself, Here is something good beir
done, yet on a small scaie;" but If "
r go into a factory covering many acre
and you find thousands of bands pu
Z ing on thousands of wheels, and shr
n ties flying, and the whole scene b
: wildering with activities, driven
a water or steam or electric power, y
Z conclude that the factory was put ,
= to do great work and on vast scale.
I'll Now, look at you, and II | shou
II find that you had only one faculty
,r body, only one muscle, only one ner'
"a If you could see but could not hear,
A. could hear and not see, If you had t
p use of only one foot or one hand, ar
J. az to your higher nature, il You h
. only one mental faculty, and you b
"a memory but no Judgment, or judgme
,r but no viii, and If You had a soul vi
g only one capacity l would say
AZ much Is expected Of you.
n But stand up, o man, and let
;d look you squarely in the face. E.
capable Of seeing everything. z
,e capable of hearing everything. Har
Ie capable of grasping everything. Mi
~ with more wheels than any factt
D. ever turned. more power than Cori
h. engine ever moved. A soul that v
Il outaiye all the universe except heay'
"a and would outlive all heaven If the
m of other immortals were NONE
10 short of the eternal. Now, what