Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-10

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And there are children whom you
find all by themselves drawing on their
states or on paper. ships and houses or
birds. and you know they are to be
craftsmen or artists OF some kind.
And you find others cipliering out diff
cult problems with rare interest and
success. and you know they are to be
niathelnaticians. And others making
wheels and strange contrivances. and
yon know they ;lre going to be macLin.
lists. And others are found experiment.
ing with hoe and pillow and sickle. and
yon know they will be farmers. And
others are always swapping jacAknives
or balls or bats and making something
by the bargain. and they are going to
be merchants. When Able de R;lnce
had so advanced in studying Greek that
he could translate Anacrcon at twelve
years of age. there was no doubt left
that he WAS intended for scholar.
But in almost every lad there comes a
time when lie does not know what lie
was made for. and his parents do not
know. and it is 81 crisis that God only
can decide.
Then there are those born for solne
especial work, and their fitness does
not develop until quite late. When
Philip Doddridge, whose sermons and
books have harvested uncounted souls
for glory. began to study the iAinistry,
Dr. Calany, 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-llis books standard now
though lie has been dead over two hun
bred yearS--was the DISAGREEMENT Of
his fatlier. who used to say that if it
pleased God to take amy Of his children
away lie hoped it would be his son
Isaac. So some OF those who have
been characterized for their stupidity
in boyllood or girlhood have turned
ont the lnghtiest bene[actorS or bene-
factrcsses of the human race.
These things being SO, am not right
i'll saying that in many cases God only
knows what is the most appropriate
thing for you to do, aud lie is the one
to ask. And let all parents and all
schools, and all universities, and all
colleges recognize this, and IL large
number of those 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
a definite. decided and tremendous
purpose. saying. ITO this end was I
born"
WHAT yoU WE'RE MADE FOR.
But my subject now mounts into the
momentous Let lne say that you are
made for usefulness and heaven. l
Judge this from the way you are built
You go into IL shop where there is only
one wheel turning. and that by a work
mans foot on a trcadle, and you say to
yourself. Here something gopl being
done, vet on n small scales" but if you
60 into factory covering many acres,
and you find thousands of bands pull
ing on thousands of wheels, and shut
ties 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 a vast scale.
Now, look at you, and if | should
find that you had only one faculty of
body. only one muscle, only one nerve,
if you could see but could not lear, or
could hear and not see, if you had the
use OF only one foot or one hand. and,
as to your higher nature, if you had
only one mental faculty, and yoil had
memory but no Judgment, or Judgment
but no will, and if you had a soul with
only one capacity, | would say not
much is expected of you.
But stand up, o man, and let lie
look you squarely in the face. Eyes
capable of seeing everything Ears
capable of hearing everything Hands
capable of grasping everything. Mind
with more wheels than any factory
ever turned. more power than Coriss'
engine ever moved. a soul that will
outlve all the universe except heaven,
and would outlive all; heaven if the life
of other imInortalso were a moment
short If the eternal Now, what has
the world right to expect OF your
What has God a right to demand Of
you2 God is the greatest of economists
in the universe, and he makes nothing
uselessly, and for what purpose did lie
build your body, mind and soul as they
are built2
There are only two beings in the uni
verse who can answer that question.
The angels do not know. The schools
do not know. Your kindred cannot
certainly know God knows and you
ought to know. A factory running at
an expense OF s5Oo,OS a year and
turning out goods worth seventy cents
year would not be such an incon-
gruity as you, Q man, with such semi
infinite equipment doing nothing or
next to nothing in the way of useful
ness. What shall l do2" you ask.
My brethren, my sisters, do not ask Tue.
Ask God. There's some patti of Chris
tan usefulness open. ltinay be arough
path or itmay boa-s,nooth path, a long
path or a short path. 1t may be on a