The Grenada sentinel., 1898-11-19

who ought to be remodeling congtitu-
tions or showing planes who ought to
he transforming literatures. Ask God
aba1t what worldly business you shall
ul take until you are so positive you
ca fRnnestQess smite your hand on
yodl.M so3 handle or your carpenters
bench. or your Blackstone's Com
mentaries." or your medical diction-
ary, or your DR.. Dicks "Didactic The
ology." saying: For this end was |
born" There are children who early
develop natural af1inities for certain
styles of work. When the father of the
Astronomer Forbes was going 10 Lon
don 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 telescope!'
But my subject now mounts into the
momentous. Let me say that you are
Judge this from the way you are built.
You go into a shop where there is
only one wheel turning and that by
wcrkman's foot on treadle, and you
say to yourself: "Here is something
good being done. yet on small SCALE
Lut if you 60 into a factory covering
many acres and you find thousands of
lands pulling on thousands of wheels
and shuttles flying and the whole
scene bewildering with activities.
Il h.,, s&o ,%v.,,,
power, you conclude that the factory
was put up to do great work and on a
vast scale. Now, look at you, and if
J should find that you had only one
faculty of body. only one muscle. only
| one nerve, if you could see but not
hear, 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
YOU had memory but no Judgment, or
judgment but no will. and if you had
e. soul with only one capacity, l should
say not much is expected of you. But
| stand up, oh. man, and let me look you
s1uarely in the face. Eyes capable of
seeing everything. Ears capable of
bearing everything. Hands capable OF
grasping everything. Minds with more
wheels than any factory ever turned.
more power than any Corliss engine
ever moved. 4 soul that will cutlivc
all the universe except heaven, and
would outHvc all heaven if the life of
the other immortals were a moment
short of the eternal. Now. what has
tie world a right to expect of YOU?
What has God right to demand OF
nists in the universe, and lie makes
nothing uselcssly. and for what pur-
rose did lie build your body. mind and
soul as they are built? There are only
two beings in the universe who can
answer that question. The angels do
net know The schools do not know.
Your kindred cannot certainly know.
God knows, and you ought to know.
\ factory running at an expense Of
100000 year and turning out goods
worth 70 cents year would not be
such an incongrui1y as you. 0 man,
with such semi-intinite equipment do
ing nothing. or next to nothing, in the
way of usefulness. 'W hat shall do
YOU ask. My brethren, my sisters, Go
not ask me. Ask God. There's some
path of Christian usefulness open. It
may be rough path or 1t may be d
smooth path, long path or short
path. 1t may be on the mount Of con-
spicuty or in the valley unobserved.
but it is Il path on which you can start
with such faith and such satisfaction
and such certainty that YOU can cry
out III the face of earth and he'll and
heaven: "To this end was born"
Do not wait for extraordinary quail
fcations. Philip. the conqueror. gained
his greatest victories seated on mule.
and if you wait for some caparisoned
Buct phalus to ride into the conflict you
will never get into the worldwide fight
at all. Samson slew the Lords en-
emies with the iawbone of the stupid
est beast created. Shamgar slew 600
of the Lords enemies with an OK goad
Under God spittle cured the blind
mans eyes in the New Testament story
Take ell the faculty you have and say:
80 Lord, here is what | have. Show
me the field. and back me up by omnipo-
ten, power. Anywhere, anyhow, any
! tine for God"
1t may be helpful if recite my own
experience in this regard. | started
for the law without asking any divine
direction. l consulted my own tastes.
l liked lawyers and courtrooms and
judges and juries, andreveled in hearing
the Frelinghuysens and the Bradleys
of the New Jersey bar. and as assistant
OF the county clerk, at 16 years of age.
| l searched titles. naturaliZed foreign
ers, recorded deeds. received the con-
fession of judgments, swore witnesses
and juries and grand juries, but after
| awhile felt a call to the gospel minis
try and entered it. and felt some salts
faction in the work; but one summer.
| when I was resting at Sharon Springs
and while seated in the park of that vii
| lage, I said to myself: ''lf | have an es-
| pecial work to do in the world. ought
| to find it out now" and with that de-
termination prayed as had never be-
fore prayed, and got the divine direc-
tiOn nd wrote it down in nv memOran-