The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-11-06

atV TIC WORST nlnurnnceS TO their pa
TENTS convalcscence, aud artists trying
to paint landscapes who ought To- be
whitewashing board fences. While
there are others making bricks who
ought to be remodeling constitutions,
or showing planes who ought TO be
transforming lteratures. Ask God
about what worldly business you shall
undertake until you are so positive you
can in earncstncss smite your hand on
your pillow handle, or your carpenters
bench, or your Blackstone's Com
mentarcs," or your medical dictionary,
or your DR. Dicks "Didnctic Theology"
saying: Tor this end was I born"
There are children who early develop
natural aflinitics for certain styles of
work
When the father OF the astronomer
Forbes was going To London, he asked
his childrcn what present he should
bring cacn one of them. The boy who
was To be- an astronomer cried OUT
Bring me- telescope!" And there are
children whom you find all by Them
selves drawing on their states, or ON pa
per, ships or houses or birds. and you
know they are to be draughtsmen or
artists of some kind. And you find 9th.
crs cipherng out difficult problems with
rare interest and success, and you know
they are TO be mathcmaticians. And
others making wheels and strange con.
trivances, and you know they are GO
ing to be machinists. And others are
found experimenting with hoe and
plow and sickle, and you know they
will be farmers. And others are al
ways swapping jack-knives or balls or
bats and making something by the
bargain, and they are going to be mer-
chants. When Able de Renee had so adj
vanccd 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 al
most 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 de-
eide. Then there are those born for
some especial work, and their fitness
does not develop until quite late.
When Philip Doddridgc, whose SER
mons and books have harvested un-
counted souls for glory, began TO study
the ministry, DR.. Calamv. one OF the
wisest and best men. advised him TO
turn his thoughts to some other work.
Isaac Barrow, the eminent clergyman
and Christian ScicntiSt-his books,
standard now, though he has been dead
over 900 vears--was the disheartenment
of his father, who used to say that if it
,,ln ES,I 60 oly ~ hi oh
away he hoped it might be his son
Isaac SO some of those who have been
characterized for their stupidity in boy
hood or girlhood have turned ont the
mightiest benefactors or bcnefactresses
of the human race. These things be-
ing 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 uni
versities, and all colleges recognize
this and large number of those who
spent their best years in stumbling
about among businesses and occupa-
tions, 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 end was born"
But my subject now mounts into the
momcntous. Let me say that you are
made for usefulness and Heaven.
Judge this from the way you are built
You 90 into n shop where there is only
one wheel turning and that by work
mans foot on treadle, and you say TO
yourself Here is something good be-
ing done, yet on n small scale;" but II
you go into factory covering many
acres, and you find thousands of bands
pulling on thousands of wheels, and
shuttles flying, and the whole scene be-
wildering activities, driven by water,
or sire am, or electric power, you con-
clude that the factory was put up to DO
great work and on a vast scale. Now,
| look at You, and il j should find that
you had only one faculty of the body,
only one muscle, only one nerve, IL you
could see but could not hear. or
could hear and not see il you
had the use of only one foot or
one hand, and. as to- your higher nature
IL YOU had only one mental faculty
and yop had memory but no Judgment,
or Judgment, but no will, and II you had
n soul with only one capacity, l would
saw not much is expected of you. But
stand up oh man, and let me look you
souarely in the face. Eyes capable OF
seeing every thing. Ears capable OF
hearing every thing. Hands capable OF
grasping every thing. 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 IL the life OF other
,mmortals were a moment short of the