Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-11-17

or on paper ships or houses or birds. and
you know they are to be craftsmen or
architects of some kind. And you find
others ciphcring out difficult problems
with rare interest and success, and you
know they are to be mathematicians. And
others making wheels and strange con-
srivanccs, and you know they are going to
be machinists And others arc found OK
with hoo and pillow and sickle,
and you know they will be farmers And
others are always swapping jackknives or
balls or bats and making something by
tho bargain, and they arc going to be mer-
chants. When Abbo dc Rance had so I'D
vanced In studying Greek that he could
translate Anacreon at 12 years OF ago,
there was no doubt left that he was IN
tended for a scholar. But in almost every
lad there comes time when he does not
know what he wns made for, and his par-
ents do not know, and 1t Is u crisis that
God only can decide. Thon there are
those born for some especial work and
their fitness does not develop until quite
lato. When Philip Doddridge whose ser.
mons and books have harvested uncounted
souls for glory, began to study for the
ministry, DR. Calamy, one OF the wisest
and best men, advised him to turn his
thoughts to some other work. Isaac Bar
row, the eminent Clergyman and Christian
scientist-his books standard now, though
he has been dead over 900 years-was the
disbursement of his father, who used to
say that IL it pleased God to take any of
his children away no hoped 1t might DO
his son Isaac So some OF those who have
been characterized for their stupidity in
boyhood or girlhood, have turned out the
mi9htiest 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
tho one to askY And let all parents and
NIL schools and all universities and all col
leges recognize this and large number OF
those who spent their best years In stun.
bling about among businesses and occupa-
tons. now trying this and now trying
that and failing in ALL would DO ablo to
go ahead with u definite, decided and tire
mendous purpose saying. ITO this end
was l BORN"
Whnt Shall I Do.
But my subject now mounts into the
momcntous, Let me say that you are
made for usefulness and heaven judge
tillS tic way ypu uic hOu ~
into "A shop where there is only one wheel
turning and that by workman's foot on
trcadlc, and you say to yourself "Here
is something good being done, yet on a
small scale" but II you go into factory
covering many acres and you find thou
sands of bands pulling on thousands of
wheels and shuttles flying and the whole
scene bowildering with activities, driven
l,-, o1octri,
conclude that tho factory was put up to
do great work and on vast scale. Now
look at you, and II l should find that
you had only one faculty of body, only one
muscle, only one nerve, il you could see
but not hear, or could hear and not see, II
you had the uso of only ono foot or one
hand, and, as to our higher nature, if you
had only ono mental faculty and you had
memory hut no Judgment, or Judgment
but no will, and II you had soul with
only one capacity, would say not much
is expected OF you. But stand up, oh,
man. and let mo look you squarely in the
face Eyes capable of seeing everything
Ears capable OF hearing everything Hands
capable of grasping everything Minds
| with more wheels than any factory ever
turned, more power than any Corliss on
ginc over moved A soul that will outlivt
| all tho universe except heaven, and woult
outliyc all heaven IL the lifc of the otheI
| immortals were moment short Of the
eternal Now, whnt has the world RICH,
TO expect of your What has God righ
to demand Of your God is tho greatest o.
economists in the universe, and ne make,
| nothing uselcssly, and for what purpos,
! did he build your body mind and soul q,
they are builtg There are only two beings
| In the universe who can answer that ques
ton The angels do not know. The schools
do not know Your kindred cannot Ger
tainly know God knows, and you ough
to know A factory running at an ex
pense of $500, 600 q year and turning on
goods worth 40 cents year would not b.
such an incongruity as you, o man, will
such scmi-iniinitc equipment doing moth
ing, or next to nothing In the way of use
fulness. What shall doy' you ask NJ,
brethren, my sisters, do not ask mo Asl
God There's some path of Christian use
fulncss open. 1t may be a rough path O
| 1t may be smooth path, long path or
| short path 1t may be on mount of con
spicuity or in valley unobserved, but |
is a path on which you can start with sucl
faith and such satisfaction and such Ger
tainty that you can cry out In the face O
| earth and hell and heaven, ITO this en-,
was born.
Act Mt Once.
no not wait for extraordinary ouaIif,co
| tions Philin the conoucror rnired hi
prcntcst victories seated on n mul, and
Won wait for some caparisoned Bucept
nlus IN ride into the conflict Won wi
never yet into tho worldwide fight at MI
samson slew The Lords enemies with Nh