The Red Cloud chief., 1891-10-16

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cranks that may nave lived in your
ancestral line, aud who n hundred
years before you were born may have
lived a style of life that more or less
affects Won to-day. You are mot re-
sponsible for " fact that your EN-
permanent is sanguine, or ~mclancholic,
~ billions, or Emphatic or nervous.
are you responsible for the
place of your nativity. Neither are
you responsible for the religion taught
in your fathers house. or the i~rreligion.
DO not bother yourself about what
you cannot help, or about circum-
stances you did not decree. Take
things as they are and decide the Qucs-
tion SO that you shall be able safely TO
say: ITO this end was | born" How
will you decide Il? by direct applica-
ton to the only being In the universe
who is competent To tell you-the Lord
Almighty. DO you know the reason
why he Is the only one who a tell?
Because he can see everything between
your cradle and your grave. though
the grave be eighty years off.
The only Being who car take all
things that pertain to you into con-
sideraiion is God. and lie is the one
you can ask. Life is SO short We have
40 time to experiment with occupations
and professions. The reason we have
so many dead failures is that parents
decide for children what they shall do,
or children themselves, wrought on by
some within Or fancy. decide for them
selves without any imploration of
divine guidance. So we have nov in
Pulpits men making who
ought to be in blacksmith shops max
ing plowshares, and we have in the law
those who instead of running the cases
# their clients ought to bc pounding
shoe lasts and doctors who are the
worst hindrances Ia then patients con.
valescence, and artists trying to paint
landscapes who ought Ia be white
washing board fences While there are
oihcrS making bricks who ought TO be
remodeling constitutions, or showing
planes who ought to be transforming
iiteratures. Ask God about what
worldly business you shall undertake
untll you are positive you a in
earnestncss smite your hand on your
pillow handle, or your carpenters bench,
IT your Blackstone's Commentaries or
your medical dictionary, or your
Doctor Dicks Didactic Theology, say
ing: For this end was | born"
There are children who early develop
natural affinities for certain styles of
work. When the father of the astron-
omer Forbes was going to London he
asked his children what present he
should bring eac one of them. The
hoy who was to be an astronomer cried
out; Bring me 4 telescope" And
there are children whom you find all
Icy themselves drawing on their states,
N on paper, ships, or houses, or birds.
and you know they are to be draughts-
men or artists of some kind. And you
find others ciphering out difficult prob
lens with rare interest and success.
and You know they are to be mathema-
ticians And others making wheels
and strange contrivances, and you know
they are going TO be machinists And
others are found experimenting with
- SDScplow and sickle, and you know
c2 he farmers And others are
avs swapping jaek-knives or balls
and bats and making something by the
bargain. and they are going to be mer-
chants.
But in almost every lad there m
a time when he does not know what
he was made for, and his parents do
not know. and it is a crisis that God
lean decide. Then there arc those
6,lfor some especial work, and their
les does not develop until quite
~ When Philip Doddridge, whose
and books have harvested I'M
counted souls for glory, began to study
for the ministry, DIR. Calamy, one of
the wisest and best men. advised him
TO turn his thoughts to some other
work. Isaac Barrow, the eminent
clergyman and Christian scientist-his
looks standard now though he has
been dead over 200 years-was the dis
~hearteninent of his father who used to
say that if it pleased God t, take any
If his children away he hoped il might
be his son Isaac. So some Of those
who have been characterized for th.ir
stupidity in boyhood al ~gir,hroA. hare
turned out the mig5:ies' ~tcnrfa ;rr/
d benefactrcs-eS al the :-sint, T"-/
These things being SO, ALA a-.p