The Wahpeton times., 1891-10-15

S'..s~Oe Ss~e>S
you can in earnestness smite your
hand on your plow handle or your
carpenters bench, or your Black
stones Commentaries, or your medi-
cal dictionary, or your Doctor Dicks
Didactic Theology, saying: "For this
end was born" There are children
who early develop natural affinities
for certain styles of work. Then there
are those
BORN FOR SOME ESPECIAL WORK,
and their fitness does not develop un.
til quite late. When Philip Doddridge,
whose sermons and books have har-
vested uncounted souls for glory, be-
gan to study the ministry, DR.. Calamy,
one OF the wisest and best men, ad-
vised him to turn his thoughts to
other work, Isaac Barrow, the emf
nent clergyman and Christian scien-
tist-his books standard now though
hehas been dead oyer two hundred
years-was the disheartenment of his
father who used to say that ifit pleas
ed God to take any of his children
away he hoped it might be his son
Isaac. So some Of those who have
been characterized for stupidity in
boyhood or girlhood, have turned
out the mightiest benefactors or
benefactresses of the human race.
These things being so am not right
in saying that in many cases G cd
only knows what is the most appro-
pirate thing for you to do, and he Is
the one to ask. And let all parents,
and all schools and universities, and
all colleges recognize this, and large
number OF those who spent their best
years in stumbling about and among
businesses and occupations, now try
ing this and now trying that, and fail
ing in ALL would be able to go ahead
with q definite, decided and tremen-
dous purpose, saying, "to this end was
[ born"
But my subject now mounts into
the momentous. Let me say that
you are made for usefulness and
heaven. judge this from the way YOU
are built. You go into shop where
there is only one wheel turning and
that by q workman's foot on
treadle, and you say to yourself:
"here is something good being done,
yet on small scale;" but il yon 20 in
to a factory covering many acres, and
you find thousands OF bands pulling
on thousands OF wheels, and shuttles
flying, and the whole scene
BEwILDERING WITH ACTIVITIES,
driven by water, or steam, or electric
power, you conclude that the factory
was put up to do great work on a
vast scale. Now, look at you, and
il l should find that you had but one
faculty OF body, one MUSCLE only one
nerve, if you could see but could not
hear, or could hear and not see, if you
had the use of only one foot or hand,
and as to your hig CHER nature, if you
had but one mental faculty, and you
had memory but no judgment, or
Judgment but no will, and you had a
soul with only one capacity, l would
say not much is expected of you. But
stand up, oh man and let me look you
squarely in the face. Eyes capable OF
seeing everything. Ears capable of
hearing everything. Hands capable
OF grasplng everything. Mind With
more wheels than any factory ever
turned, more power than any Corliss
engine ever moved. A soul that will
outlive all the universe except heaven,
and would outlive all heaven if the
lives OF other immortals were mo-
ment short OF the eternal. Now, what
has the world right to expect ofyou?
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. God knows, and you
ought to know. "What shall l do?"
you ask. My brethren, my sisters, do
not ask me. Ask God. There's some
path Of Christian usefulness open. 1t
may be rough path, OF it may be
smooth path, a long path or short
path. 1t may be on a mount of con-
spicuity, or in q valley unobserved,
but it is a path on which you can
start with such faith and such salts
faction 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 QUALIFICATIONS.
Philip the conqueror gained his great
est victories seated on a mule, and if
you wait for some comparisoned
Bucephalus to ride into the conflict
you will never get into the world wide
fight ut all. Samson slew the Lords
enemies with the jawbone of the
stupldest beast created. Siiamgar
slew six hundred of the Lords enemies
with an ox-goad. Under God, spittle
cured the blind mans eyes in the New
Testament story. Take all the faculty
you have and say: 80 Lord! Here is
what have, show me the field and
back me up by the omnipotent power.
Anywhere, anyhow, anytime for God"
Napoleon's success in battle came
from his theory OF breaking through
the enemies ranks at one point, not
trying to meet the whole line OF the
enemy's force by similar force. One
reason why he lost Waterloo was be-
cause he did not work his usual theo-
ry, and spread his force out over a
wide range. Oh Christian man, oh
Christian woman, break through
somewhere. Not a general engage
ment for God but particular
engagement, and made in answer to
prayer. Ii there are sixteen hundred
million people in the world then there
are sixteen hundred million different
missions to fulfil, different styles of
work to do, different orbits in which
to reyOlye, and if YOU do not get the