Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-03-31

tus v. was born on the low ground,
and was q swineherd; God called him
up to wave a scepter. Ferguson spent
his early days in looking after sheep;
God called him up to look after stars,
and be shepherd watching the hocks
of light on the hillsides of Heaven.
Hogarth began by engraving pewter
pots; God raised him to stand in the en-.
chanted realm OF painter The shoe
makers bench held Bloomfield for a
little while: but God raised him to sit
in the chair of philosopher and Chris
tian scholar. The soap boiler OF Lon.
don could not keep his son In that bust
ness. for God had decided that lIawley
was to be one OF the greatest astrono-
mers of England.
On the other hand we may be born
in n sphere little higher than that
for which God intends us. We may be
born in castle, and play in costly
conservatory, and feed high-bred point
ers, and angle for goldfish in artificial
ponds, and be familiar with princes;
yet God may better have fitted us for II
carpenter shop, or dentists forceps, or
weaver's shuttle, or blacksmith's
forge. The great thing is to find
just the sphere for which God
intended us, and then to occupy
that sphere, and occupy it for
ever. Here is "a man God fash
Toned to make plow. There is a man
God fashioned to make constitution.
The man who makes the plow is just
rs honorable as the man who makes
the constitution. There is a woman
who was made to fashion robe, and
yonder Is one intended to be n queen
and wear II. II seems to me that In
the ono case as in the other, God APP
points the sphere, and the needle is just
as respectable In His sight as the scep-
ter. l do not know but that the world
would long ago have been saved II
some OF the men out Of the ministry
were in 1t, and some of those who are
In 1t were out of 1t. / really
think that one-half OF the world may
be divided into two quarters those who
have not found their sphere and those
who, having found it, are not willing
to stay there. How many are strug-
Cling for position little higher than
that for which God intended them.
The bondswoman wants to be mistress.
Hagar keeps crowding Sarah. The
small wheel of watch which beauti
fully went trcading It's golden pathway
wants to be the balance wheel, and the
sparrow, with chagrin drops into the
brook because 1t can not, like the
egle put circle under the sun.
In the Lords army we all want to be
brigadier generalsl The sloop says:
"More mast, more tonnage, more can
vas. Oh, that were n topsail schooner,
or n full-rigged brig, or Cunard
steamer" And so tho world is filled
with cries Of discomfort, because we are
not willing to stay in the place where
God put US and intended US to he. My
friends, be not too proud to do any
thing God tells you to do; for the lack
Of IA right disposition in this respect the
world Is strewn with wandering
Hugars and Ismaels. God has given
each one of us u work to do. You
carry scuttle OF coal up that dark
alley. You distribute that Christian
tract. You give 81 0,0Oo to the mission.
AIRY cause. You for is years sit with
chronic rheumatism. displaying the
beauty OF Christian submission.
Whatever God calls you to whether
II win Kissing or huzza
whether to walk under triumphal
arch or lift the sot out of the ditch;
whether IL is to preach on pentecost
or tell some wanderer of the street OF
the mercy of the Christ of Mary Magda.
lene; whether 1t be to weave IL garland
TO laughing child on spring morn.
ing and call her II May queen, or to
comb out the tangled locks OF II wait
of the street, and cut mp one of your
old dresses to lit her out for the sane.
tuary--do 1t, and do it right away.
Whether 1t be u crown or II yoke, do
not tidget. Everlasting honors upon
those who do their work, and do their
whole work, and nre eontented in the
sphere In which God has put them;
while There Is wandering, and exile,
and dcsolation, and Wilderness for dis
contcuted llngar and lshmael.
Again, find in this oriental scene
u l'Si'oH VI oyHpulhy WIN vivian
when she goes forth trudging In the
dessert, What great change 1t was
for this llagnr! There was the tent,
and all the surroundings of Abraham's
house, beautiful and luxurious, no
doubt, Now SHE is going out into the
hot sands of the desert. Oh, whut u
change it was! And in our day we
often see the wheel of fortuue turn.
Here is some ono who lived in tho very
bright home of her father. She had
everything possible to administer to
her happiness plenty ut the table,
music IN the drawing-room, well
come Mt the door. She is led
forth into life by some one who can M
appreciate her, A dissipated soul
comes and takes her out in the desert.
Crncties blot out all the lights of that
home circle. Harsh words wear out
her spirits. The high hope that shone
out over tho marriage altar while the
ring was being set and the vows given,
and the hcnrdtction pronounced, have
uli faded with the orange blossoms.
and there she is to-day broken hearted +,