Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
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flIsl ulscnarEt NO rom ILL., re-
spons;bility for most os our cne'r ron
ments. You are lot responsible for
your parentage or youf> grandparents
age. You are not responsible for any
of the cranks thai may have lived in
!our ancestral line and who - hundred
Years before you were born may have
l'ved a style Of life that more or less
affects YOU to-day. You are rot re-
sponsibe for the fact that your temper
ament is sanguile, or melanchol;c. or
bilious, or Emphatic. or nervous.
Neither are you responsible foI the
place of your nativity. whether among
the granite hills of New England. or the
cotton plantations of Louisiana. OF on
the banks of the Clyde. or the Dneiper.
or the Shannon. or the Seine. Neither
Are you responsible for the religion
taught in your fathers house, or the ir-
religion. DO not bother yourself about
what you cannot help or about circum-
stances that you did not decree.
Take things rs they are ana decide
the question so that you shall he able
safely TO say: ITO this end ] was
born" How will you decide it? BY
direct application 20 the only Being
in the universe who is competent to
tell you-the Lord Almighty. Do you
knew the reason why He is the only
one who can tell? Because He can see
everything between your cradle and
your grave, though the grave be so
years off. And besides that lie is the
only Being who can see what has been
happening in the last 500 years in your
ancestral line, and for thousands of
years clear back to Adam, and there
Is not one person in all that ancestral
line of 6.GC0 years but has somehow
affected your character. and even old
Adam himself will sometimes turn up
In your disposition. The only Being
who can take all things that pertain
to you into consideration is God. and
lie is the one you can ask. Life is so
short we have 10 time to experiment
with occupations and professions. The
reason we have SO many dead failures
is that parents decide for children
what they shall do or children them
selves, wrought on by some within or
fancy. decide for themselves, without
any implcration of Divine guidance
So we have now in pulpits men max
ing sermons who ought to be in black
smith shops making plowsharcs, and
we have in the Laws those who instead
of running the cases of their clients
ought to be pounding shoe lasts, and
doctors who are the worst hindrances
to their patients conyalescencc, and
artists trying to paint landscapes who
ought TO be embarrassing board fences,
while there are others making bricks
who ought TO be remodeIing constitu-
tions or showing planes who ought to
be Transforming litcratures. Ask God
about what worldly business you shall
| undertake until you are so positive you
can in earnestness smite your hand on
your pillow handle or your carpenters
bench, or your Blackstone's Com
mentaries," or your medical diction-
airy, or your DR.. Dicks "Didactic The
ology." saying: "For this end was
born" There are children who early
develop natural affipties for certain
styles Of work. When the ssther of the
Astronomer Forbes was going TO Lon
don he asked his childreSSvhat present
he should bring each one of them. The
boy who was to be an astronomer cried
out: Bring me telescope"
And there are children whom You
find all by themselves drawing on their
states or on paper ships or houses or
birds, and you know they are to be
draughtsmen or architects of some
kind. md you find others ciphering
! out difficult problems with rare inter
/ est and success, and you know they
are to be mathemnticians. And others
Making wheels and strange contr'v.
s.ces. and you know they IRE going
70 10 machlnI't" And others ars