The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-10-15

snail Undertake until you are SO
positive you can in earnestncss smitc
your hand on your plough handle, or
your carpcCter's bench or your Black
stoneS Commcntarit 8, or your medica
dictionary, Or your Doctor Dicks Didac-
~ Theology, saying: ''lOr this end was
born" There are children who early
develop natural alliniL,es tor certain
styles OF work. When the father
OF The astronomer Forbes was going TO
London, he asked his children what
present he should bring each one of
them. The boy who was to be an as
lrohomer, cried out, 'brInW me a teles-
Cope" Ana there arc children wnOm
you ma all BY themselves drawing on
lhclf states. or on paper, ships or hou sc 8
or D'ros, and rou knOv they are To be
uraughtsmcn or artists OF some kind.
ana YOU md others ciphcriny out dtli-
cult problems with rare interest and s,l.-
cess, aud you know they are to be math-
eiilaClt lans. And others making wheels
ana strange cOntrlvanccs, and YOU know
thcy are golny to be machiuists. And
olhcrS are lOund experimenting with hoe
ana plough and sickle. and \Cu kn wv
IlleY w'll be farmers. Aud others are
always swapping .jack-knives or balls or
bals. ana making something bv the bar
gam, and they arc going to be mer-
chants. when Able de Rance had SO
advanced i'll studyin" Greek that he
could translate Anacrcon at twelve
years OF aye, there was no doubt left
That he was intended for u scholar. But
III almost every lad there comes a time
Whcn he does not know what he was
made Tor, and his parents DO not know.
ana 1t IS crisis that God alone can de-
cldc. IhIn there are those born for
some especial work, and their fitness
does not develop until quite late. When
Philip Doddr:dye, whose sermons and
books have harvested uncounted souls
ior glory, began to study the ministry.
DR.. CaIamy, one or the wlscst and best
men, advised him to turn his thouohls
1" some Other work. Isaac Barrow the
eminent clergyman and Christian srier
| tl&t-his books standard now tbou,b he
has been dead over eco ycars-wos ,bo
dlshcdrtenment of his father. who used
10 say lhat II it pleased God TO take anv
OF his children away he horcd # miUht
nc his son Isaac. So some OF those wi q
have Ecen characterized fortncr st,,nid,.
tA III DoNhood, or girlhOod, have turned
| q.
iactresscs ui the human race. These
things being so, am | not right in saw
mo mat III many cases God only knows
"lat Is thc most appropriate thing for
you 10 90, and He is the one TO ask
And let all parents. and all schools. and
all universities, and all COLLEGES reco =
niZe this, and large number of those
VINO spent their best Years in STUMBLING
| Inn
tions, now trying this and now 1rviuo
lhat, and falling in all, would be able TO
90 ahead with definite, decided and
'leiiehuouS purpose, saying, Ito this
end was | born"
But my subject now mounts into the
lhomcntous. let me say that you are
mace lor usefulness and heaven. | Judge
th's from the way you are built. You
go nto shop where there is only one
wheel turning and that by a workman's
1901 on a rcadle, and you saw to your.
sen: 'hcle Is some thing z ,od being
done, yet on small SCALE" but if YOU
80 INTO a factory covering many aces,
ana you lind thousands Of bands pulling
on thousands OF wheels, and shutllcs
llylnS, and the whole scene bewildcriuo
with activities, driven by water, or
steam, or electric power, YOU conclude
InaC The factory WIS put Up to do great
work and on vast scale. Now. look
at you, at d if [ should find that YOU had
only one faculty Of body, only one mus
Gle, only one nerve, if you could see but
could not hear. or could hear and not
see, II you had the use Of only one foot
or one hand, and, as to your higher ma .
turc, II you had only one mental faculty.
and you had memory but no judcm, ut,
or Judgment but no will, and # YOU had
Il SOUL with only one capacity, | would
say not much is expected of you. But
stand up, on man. and let me look YOU
>u"arciY III the face. Eyes capable of
seeing every thing. Ears capable of
nearing every thing. Hands capable Of
SraSplng everything. Mind with more
wheels than any factory ever turned,
more power thln CUriss engine ever
moved. n soul that will Outllvc all the
| universe except heaven. aud would out
i.y" all heaven i. the life OF other immor-
lhl* were Il moment short OF the eternal
Now, what has the world q right to cX.
lcct Ol You: What has God q RIGHT 10
demand ul you? God Is The yrratest
"l economists IN the universe, and lie
makes nothing usclcssly, and for what
purpose did He build your BODY, mind
ana soul as they are built? There are
only wv" Drin2s III the universe who can
answer tha' question. The ANGELS do
not know. The schoDls do not know.
. our III dIcA cannot certainly know.
! h"H knuWS, and AOu ought to know.
y factory running at an expense of
""OO.uoO il year. and turning out goods
worth 30 cents Year would not be such
an lncOhgruit\ as ynu. OH man, with such
Srmi-InllnItc equipment doing nothing,
or next tD nothing. in the way of use
lulncsS. "What shall do?" YOU ask
My brethren, my sisters, do not ask me.
ASK God. There's some path of Chris
Ilan usefulness orcn. 1t may be rough
path, or it may be smooth path, a long
PAIN or short path. 1t may ,)e OH a
mount OF conspcuity, or in a valley un-
observed, but il is path on which you
can start with such faith and such salts
'actlon and such certainty that you can
cry out In the face of earth and hell and
| ncayCn: ITO this end woc T l,or, - no