The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-11-19

Who can take al ;Ainsz that pertain
to you into consideration is Cod, and
lie Is the one you can ask. Life IL 50
short we have no time 10 experiment
with occupations and protessiuna The
reason we have 50 many dead failures
Is that parents decide for children
what they shall do or children them
selves. wrought on By some whfn or
fancy. decide for themselves. without
any i~mploration Of Divine guidance.
So we have now In pulpl,s men max
Ing sermons who ought 10 he in black
smith shops making plowsharcs. and
We have In the law those who instead
Of running the cases OF their clients
ought 10 be pounding shoe lasts and
doctors who arc the worst hlndrances
TO their patients couvalesccncc. rni
artists trying TO paint LANDSCAPES who
ought TO be whi,ewashinF hcsri 'raers.
while there are others mahirr tr'-ts
who ought TO be remodeling eonstim-
tons or showing planes who ought TO
be Transforming ~hteratures. Ask God
about what worldly business you shall
undertake until you II so positive you
can In e~arneStness smite your hand on
your pillow handle or your carpenters
bench, or your Rlackstonc's Com
mentaries," or your medical diction-
AIRY, or your DIR. Dicks "Didactic The
ology." saying: -For this end was l
born" There are children who early
develop natural afiinities for certain
styles Of work. When the father Of the
Astronomer Forbes was going to 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 a t~eIescopel-
But my subject now mounts into the
momentous- Let me say that YOU are
made for usefulness and Heaven. /
iadge this from the way you are built.
You go into 4 shop where there is
only n wheel turning and that by a
workman's foot on a treadle. aud you
say 10 yourself; "IIere is something
good being done. yet On a small scale"
Lut II you go into q factory covering
many acres aud you find thousands OF
lands pulling on thousands Of wheels
and shuttles flying and the whole
scene h%ewiidering with activities.
driven by water OF steam or electric
power, you conclude that the factory
was put up TO do great work and on a
vast scale. Now, | look at you, and il
J should find that you had only one
faculty Of body. only one muscle, only
one nerve, II you could see bot not
lear, or could hear and not sec, IL you
had the use of only one foot or one
hand, and, as 10 your higher nature. IL
you had only one mental faculty and
you had memory but no Judgment. or
judgment but no will, and IL you had
E soul with only one capacity, / should
sey 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. A soul that will outlive
all the universe except heaven, and
would outlvc all heaven n the life OF
the other immortals were q moment
short Of the eternal Now. what has
the world a right to expect OF you?
What has God a right 10 demand OF
you? God is the greatest Of econo-
miStS 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
not know. The schools do not know.
Your kindred cannot certainly know.
God knows, and you ought TO know.
A factory running at an expense OF
100000 q year and turning out goods
worth 20 cents a year would not be
such an incongruity as you, o man,
with Enah eamLiu Alt ravtrr.. -