Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-09

| est and success, and You know they arc TO
| be mathematicians. And Others making
wheels and strange coutrivances and you
| know they are going to be machinsfs.
| And others are found experimenting with
| hoe and pillow and sickle, and you know
they will be farmers. And others N, ~
ways swapping iackknives or balls " Ga's
| and making something by the bargain, and
| tney are going To be merchants.
| GOD MUST DECIDE
When Able dc Rpnce had so advanced
in studying Greek that he could translate
! Anacreon at twelve years of age, there
was no doubt left TINT be was intended for
q scholar, But in almost every lad there
comes a time when he does not know what
he was made for. and hia parents do not
| know, and 1t is " crisis that God only can
decide. Then there are those born fui some
| especial work, and their fitness does not
| develop until quite late. When Philip
Do1drlue, whose sermons and books have
| harvested unUounted 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 scicntst--his books
| standard now, though lie has been dead
over two hundred yoars-was the dishcart-
eminent of his father, who used 50 say that
if it pleased God to take any Of his children
away he hoped it might be his son lsanc
So some Of those who have been character
lied for their stupidity in boyhood or girl
hood have turnad out the mighticst hene-
| factors or benefactresses of the human race
These things being SO, am not right in
saving that ia many cnses God only knows
what il the most appropriate thing for yol
| TO do. and he Is the one to ask. And let
all parents and all schools and oil unlver-
sites and all colleges recognize this, and n
large number of those who spent their best
years in stumbling about among bust
nesscs and occupations, now trying this
end now trying that, and failing in all.
would be able TO go ahead with a definite,
decided and tremendous purpose, saying,
80 this end was horn"
YOU ARE MADE For HEAVEN.
But my subject now mounts into the
momentous Let me say that you are
made for usefulness and heaven. iudye
this from the way you are buit. You 20
into shop where there is only one wheel
turning and that By a wor,nan's foot on
a treadle, and say to yourself, Here Is
something good being done, yet Oh a small
scale;' but if you 20 into IA factory cover
ing many acres, and you find thousands Of
shuttles dying, and the whole scene Devil
dcring 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 mt you,
and if | should find that You hsd only one
faculty of body, only one muscle only one
nerve, if YOU could see but could not hear
or cot.ld hear and not see, if you had the
use Of only one foot or one hand and, as e
your higher nature, if you had only one
mental faculty, and you had memory bU'
no Judgment, or judgment but no wilt. lrd
II you had soul with only one capacity,
would say not much is expected Of you.
But stand up, o man, and let rle lock
you SO barely in the facel Eyes capable OF
seeing everything. Ears capable of hear
ing everything. Hands capable of grasp
ing everything. Mind with more wheel.
than any factory ever turned, more powe
tuan Corliss engine ever moved. A sou
that will outliye all the universe, excep
heaven, and would outlive all heaven l.
the life Of other immortals were moneu
. short of the eternal. Now, what has til.
world ! right to expect from your What
has God rilht to demand of You: God /.
the greatest of economists in the universe
and he makes nothing useles5ly, and fc
and soul "a they are builtf
There ere only two beings in tho univers,
whocan answer that question. The angel
do not know. The schools do not know
Your kindred cannot certainly know Go,
knows, and you ought to know. y factor.
running at an expense of 500, 900 u year
and turning out goods worth seventy cents
: q year would not be such an inconQrut,
| as you, o man, with such semi nlinit
equipment doing nothing, or next 10 moth
ing, in the way of usefulness. "Wha
!; shall l dot' You ask. My brethren. III,
, sisters, do not ask ne. Ask God.
: There's some path Of Chr,tiap useful
ness open. 1t may be rough PATH or i
: may be a smooth path, a long path or
r short path. 1t may be on mount Of con
{ spicuty or III q valley uuobsoryed. bat j
t is q path on which you can start with suci
| faith and such satisfaction and such Ger
tainty that you can cry ont In the face o
2 earth and hell and heaven, "To this en-
} | was | born" DO not wait for extraorli
| nary qualifications. Philip the Conquero
2 gained his greatest victories seated on
= mule, and if you wait for some cuparsone,
} | Ducephalus to ride into the conflict YOU
Y will never get into the world wide fight n
z all. Samson slew the Lords enemies Wit.
r the jawbone of the stupidest beast crcat ID
5 Shamgar slew six hundred of the Lord
= enemies with an OK goad. Under Go'
: spittle cured the blind mans eyes In tn
= New Testament story. Take all Che lac
J ulty you have and say; 40 Lord, here /
G what have. thow me the field and bac
< me up by omulpotent power AnywhcIt
/ anyhow, any time for God D."
: Two men riding on horseback came to
! trough 10 water the horses. While Tia
! horses were drinking, one of tha men sal
! to the other few words about tn valu
:. OF the soul, ana tlen they rode away, an
i in opposite directions But the words nj
tered were the salvation Of the ono I
! whom they were uttered, and he bccam
n the Rev Mr.. Champion, one of the mos
4, distinguished missionaries in heathe
q lands, for years wondering who did for hin
II the Christian kindness, and not tndu
n out until, in Ii bundle of books sent him t
% Africa, he found the biography Of BrHlner
;. Taylor and a picture of him. and the nj,
d sionRry recognized the face IN that book &
1t the man who, at the watering trough fo
10 horses, had said the thiuX TINT saved h