The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-10-14

their states. or On paper ships or hous IS
or birds, aud YoU know they are 70 be
dcsug ghtsmen or artists OF some kind.
And YOU ind others cipherIng out diff
cult problems with rare interest and sac
cess, and you know they are to be Hatl-
smaticians. Aud others making wheels
aud strange coutrlvances, and you know
they are going to be machiuists. And
others are found experimenting with hoe
and plough and sickle, and YOU kn W
they will be farmers. Aud others are
always swapping jack-kniVes or balls or
bats, and making something By the bar
gain, and the? are going to be mer-
chants. When Able dc Rance had 80
advanced in studying Greek that he
could translate Anacreon at twelve
years Of age, there wac no doubt leh
that he was intended for scholar. Bat
in almost every lad there comes a time
when he does not know what he was
made for, and his parents Go not know,
and it Is crisis that God alone cas de-
eide. Then there are those bora for
some especial work, and their fitness
does not develop until quite late. When
Philip Doddr:dse, whose sermons and
books have harvested uncounted souls
for glory, began to stud! the ministry.
DR.. GALAXY, one OF the w:srst and best
men, advised him 10 turn his thoughts
to some other work. Isaa: Barrow the
eminent clergyman and Christian scien-
tist-his books standard now though he
has been dead over 200 Ycars-was the
dishesrtennent OF his father, who used
to say that if 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 stapidi-
ty in boyhood or girlhood, have turned
out the mightiest benelactors OF bene-
factres.es of tho human race. These
things being 50, am not right in say
ing that il many cases GoG 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, aud
| all universities, and all colleges -eco&-
nize this, and a large number of those
who spent their best years in stumbling
about among businesses and occupa-
tons, now trying this and now trying
that, and failing in all, would be able to
go ahead with q definite, decided and
tremendous purpose, saying, Ito this
end WAS / born.''
But my subject now mounts into the
monentous. Let ne say that you are
made for usefulness and heaven. I Ijudye
this from tue way you are built. You
60 into shop where there is only one
wheel turning and that BY 4 workman's
foot on treadle, and you say to your
sell: "here is some thing god being
done, yet on small scale;;" but II you
go into a factory covering many acres,
and you find thousands of bands pulling
on thousands of wheels, and shuttles
flying, aud 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 aud on vast scale. Now, look
at you, az d if l should find that you had
only one faculty of body. only ols mus
Gle, only one nerve, If you could see but
could not hear. or could hear and aot
see, ifyou had, the use ef-only,one foot
or one hands and. as to Jour higher IA.
ture, If you had only one mental faculty,
and you had memory but no judgment,
or judgment but no will, aud If 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 10 the tace. Eyes capable Of
seeing everything. Ears capable Of
hearing every ythins. Hand. capable Of
grasping everything. Mind with more
wheels than any factory ever turned,
more power than Corliss engine ever
moved. A soul that will outlive all the
universe except heaven. and would out
1--we all heaven + the life OF other inElor-
tals were monentshor OF the eternal.
Now, what has the world right to eX-
pect of you2 What has God a right TO
demand of you: God Is the greatest
Of economists N the universe, and He
makes nothing uselessiy, and for what
purpose did lie build your body, mind
and soul as they are bu;;;? There are
only TWO beings 10 the universe who can
answer that QuestiuH. The angels do
aot know. The schools do not know.
Your kl; drel cannot certaiuly know.
God knows. and you ougat to know.
a factory running at all expense of
$500, 600 year, and turning out goods
worth 20 cents year would not be sucI,
an incongrultg asy yeu. Oh mau, with Such
semi-iutiuIte equipment doing hothing.
OF next to nothing, in the way OF USE
iulness. ''fS hat shall I do:" you ask.
My brethren, my sisters, do not ask me.
Ask God. There's some path Of Chris
Jlan usefulness open. 1t may be a rough
path, or IL may be smnotn path. 8 long
path or a short path. II may 5s Oh u
mount OF consplcuity, CT L. a valley uu-
observed, tut 1t is path on which you
can start with such ia::h aud such satls-
faction and such certainty that you can
CRY out in the face OF earth aud hell and
heaven: no this end mas born" Do
DOT wait tor extraordinary qualifications.
Philip the Copqueror gained his great
est victories seated on Il mule. aud if you
wait for SONS carari.oEed Bu:ephalus
10 ride into The conflict you will never
gel into the Worldwide ayht at al.
Samson slew The Lords eaem!es with
the jawbone OF the stu pideat beast Great
ed. Shamgar slew six hundred OF ths
Lords enemics with au ox-yoad. In
der God, spiLtle cured the blind mans
eyes in the New Testament story.
Take ell the faculty you have and say:
20 Lord here is what l have, show ne
the field and back me up by omnlpotent
power. Anywhere, anyhow, any time
for God" Two men riding on horse
back came to trough TO water the
horses. While the horses were orink-
my one of the msn said to the other a
lev words about the value Of the soul,
end then they rode away, and in oppo-
site directions. Bat the words uttered
were :he salvation Of the one 10 whom
they were uttered, and he became the
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