Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-10

now In pulpits men making sermons
who ought TO be In blacksmith shops
making plowshares, aud We have those
In law, who instead OF running the cases
OF their clients ought tobe pounding shoe
lasts, and doctors who are the worst
hinderances to their patients conval-
escence, and artists trying 70 paint
landscapes who ought to DO whitewash-
ing board fences. While there are
others making bricks who ought to be
remodeling constitutions, or showing
planes who ought to be Transforming
literatures. Ask Sod about what
worldly business you shall undertake
until you are positive you can in ear
nestness smite your hand on your blow
handle. or your carpenters bench, or
| your Blackstone's Commentaries, u
your Doctor Dicks Didactic Theology,
saying: 'For this end was / born"
These things being so. am I not right
In saying that in many cases God only
knows what Is the most appropriate
thing for you TO do, and he Ia the one
TO ask. And let all parents and all
schools, and oil universities. and all
colleges recosnize this, and q large
number OF these 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 def
mite, decided and tremendous purpose,
saying: ITO this end was born"
But my subject now mounts into the
momentous. Let me say that you are
mad% for usefulness and heaven.
Judge this from the way you are built.
You go into Il 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 small scale" but II
YOU 60 into q factory covering many
acres, and you find thousands Of bands
pulling on thousands OF wheels, and
shuttles 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 q vast scale. Now,
look at you, and II l should find that
you had only one faculty of body, and
one muscle, only one nerve. II you could
see but could not hear, or could hear
and not sec, II you had the use
OF only one foot or hand,
and Us to your higher ma
ture, If you had only one mental faculty
and you had memory but no Judgement,
or Judgment but no will. and il you had
o soul with only one capacity. l would
say not much is expected OF you. But
s1cnd $50 n ,,oou ond laf ,roa l0oLr vnu
squarely in the face. Eyes capable OF
seeing everything. Ears capabl, OF
hearing everything. Hands capa lie. Of
grasping everything. Mind with more
wheels than any factory ever t.rned,
more power than Corliss engine eyer
moved. A soul that will outlive II the
universe except heaven. and wo id out
live all heaven If the life OF oth.r i'm
mortals were moment short OF the
eternal.
Now, what has the world o right to
expect Of you? What has God night
to demand of you? 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 built? 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
Goa knows, and you ought to know. A
factory running at an expense OF $500.
600 q year, and turning out goods worth
10 cents year would not be such an
incongruitY as you, o, man, with such
semi-in6nite equipment doing moth
ing, or next to nothing,
in the way OF usefulness.
What shall do?" you ask. Ny breth-
rem, my sisters, do not ask me. Ask
God. There's some path OF Christian
usefulness open. II may be rough
path or it may be smooth path, along
path or short path. It may be on
mount OF conspicuity, or in valley
unobserved, but 1t Is a path on which
you can start with such faith and such
satisfaction and such certainty that you
can cry out in the face Of earth and hell
and heaven: 'To:this end was born"
Do not wait for extraordinary qualif-
cations. Philip, the Conquerer. gained
his greatest victories seated on mule.
and If you wait for some caparisoned
Bucephalus to ride into the conflict you
will never get into the worldwide fight
at all. Samson slew the Lords enc
mics with the jawbone OF the stupidest
beast created. Shamgar slew 600 OF the
Lords enemies with an OK goad. Under
God, spittle cured the blind mans eyes
in the New Testament story. Take all
the faculty you have and say: "0h!
Lord! Here is what have; show me
the field and back me up by omnipotent
power. Anywhere, anyhow, any time
for God
BY the advancement of medical sci
ence and the wider acquaintance with
the laws OF health, and the fact that
people know better how to take care OF
themselves, human life is prolonged.
But do you realize what after all, is
the brevity Of our earthly state? In
the times when people lived 700 and
800 years, the patriarch Jacob said that
his years were few. Looking at the
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