The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-10-07

tOur DH' DitlA DlOtttc AnpvfVbIf say
Ing, "For this end was born" There
are children who early develop natural
afinities for 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 astronomer, cried out,
"bring me a telescope' And there are
children whom you find all by them
selves drawing on their states, or on
paper, ships or houses or birds, and you
know they are to be draughtsmen OF
artists of some kind. And you find
others ciphering out difficult problems
with rare interest and success, and you
know they are to be mathematicians.
And others making wheels and strange
contrivances, and you knew they are
going TO be machinists. And others are
found experimenting with hoe and plow
and sickle, and you know they will be
farmers And others are always swap
ping jackltnives or balls or bats and
making something by the bargain, and
they are going to be merchants. When
Able de Rance had SO advanced
in studying Greek that he could
translate Anacreon at twelve years OF
age, there was no doubt left that he
was intended for scholar. But In al
most every lad there comes time
when he does not know what he was
made for, and his parents do not know,
and It is crisis that God only can de-
eide. Then there are those born for
some especial work, and their fitness
does not develope until quite late
When Philip Doddridge, whose sermons
and books have harvested uncounted
souls for glory, began to study 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 books standard
now though he has been dead over two
hundred years-was the dishearten-
ment of his father, who used to say
that II it pleased God to take any of his
children away, he hoped 1t might be
his son Isaac. So some of those who
have been characterized for their
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 God only
knows what is the most appropriate
thing for you TO do, and He is the one
TO ask. And let all parents, and all
schools, and all universities, and all
colleges recognize this, aud large
lumber 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 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
made for usefulness and Heaven. Judge
this from the way you are built You
20 into shop where there is only one
wheel turning and that by workman's
foot on treadle, and you say to your
self: Here Is something good being
done, yet on small scale; but II you
go into factory covering many acres,
and you find thousands OF bands pulling
on thousands OF wheels, and shuttles
flying, and the whole scene bewilder.
ing with activities, driven by water, OF
steam, or electric power, you conclude
that the factory was put up to do great
work and on vast scale. Now, look
at you. and II should fud that you
had only one faculty of body, only one
muscle, only one nerve, II you couldsee
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 ghe'
nature, II you had only one mental facul
ty, and you had memory but no judg
ment, or Judgment but no will, and Il
you had a soul with only one capacity
| would say not much is expected o.
you But stand up, oh man, and let me
look you squarely In the face. Eyes
capable of seeing everything. Ears ca
pablo of hearing everything. Hands
capable of grasping everything. Mint
with more wheels than any factory
ever turned, more power than Corlisi
engine ever moved. A soul that will
outlive all the universe excep
Heaven, and would outlive Heaven II tn,
life Of other immortals were moment
short Of the eternal Now, what hai
the world right TO expect Of you
What has God right TO demand o.
your God is the greatest of economist
In the universe, and he makes nothing
uselessly, and for what purpose did HI
build your body, mind and soul as they
are built? There are only two being
In the universe who eau answer tha
question. The angels do not know
The schools do not know. You
kindred can not certainly know Coo
; knows, and You ought TO know. A
factory running at an expense Of $500,
0OOa year and turning out goods wortl
seventy cents year would not b
! such an incongrnity as you, oh man
!, with such seIniinfnite equipment do
! ing nothing, or next to nothing, In tn,
] way OF usefulness sNhat shall do?'
you ask. My brethren, my sisters, d,
Il not ask me. Ask God. There's som,
, path OF Christian usefulness open. /
} may be rough path, or II may be /
smooth path; long path OF shor
, path IL may be on mount OF conspic
; uoity, OF In valley unobserved, but 4
Is path on which you can start will
such faith and such satisfaction ant
: such certainty that you can cry out II
/ the face Of earth and hell and heaven
"To this end was bornr' Do not wal
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