The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-25

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we have iu the law those who instead
III mining the cases Of their clients
ought 10 be pounding shoe lasts ana
doctors who are the worst hindrances
10 their patients conyalescence, ana
artists irving TO paint landscapes who
ought to be whitewashing board fences
while there are others making bricks
who ought 10 be remodeling constltu-
lions or showing planes who ought 70
be transforming Hteratures. ASK GOD
about Nhat worldly business yon SHAH
undertake until you are so positive you
can ia earpestness smite your hand ON
your pillow handle or your carpenters
bench. or your Blackstone's Tom
mentarics, or your medical dtction'
ary. or your DIR. Dicks "Didactic The
Glory" saving; "For this end was
born There are children who early
develop natural ahinities for certain
4 STYLES Of work. When the father OF the
Astronomer Forbes was going to Lon
I don he asked his children what present
he should bring each one of them. inc
bow who was to be an astronomer cried
out: Bring me a telescope
And there are children whom you
find abby themselves drawing on their
states or on paper ships or houses Or
birds and YOU know they are TO be
draurhtsmen or architects OF ON
kind. And you find others ciphering
out difficult problems with rare inter
est and success, and you know they
are to be mnthematicians And others
making wheels and strange contriy-
ances, and you know they are going
to be macbinists. And others are
found experimenting with hoe and
plow and sickle. and you know they
will be farmers. And others are nj
WAYS swapping jnckknives or balls or
/. bats and making something by the
bargain. and they are going TO be mer-
e chants. when Able de Rance had SO
5 advanced in studying Greek that he
= could translate Anacreon at ~ years
of are. there wal no doubt left that
4, he was intended for a scholar. But
! in almost every lad there comes a time
, when he does not know what he was
made gof. ard his parents 90 not know
ahde ft & q crisis Tat Gad anly ear
4 decide. Theu there are those born aol
4 Hsome Isl Gill orlS md their dtnes'
A does not develop until quite late
+ When Philip Doddridge, whose sermons
4 and books have harvested |uncounteC
souls for glory, began TO study for tn
d ministry, Dr. Calamy, Of the wises
d and best men, advised him to turn hi
nj thoughts to some other work. lsaa
4 Barrow, the eminent clergyman an
Christian scientist-his books ar
standard now, thougbAhe has been dea
/ over 200 yeafs-was tile dishearter
j. ment Of his father, who used to sa
ar that if it pleased God to take any {
Is his children way he hoped it migf
H. be his son Isaac. So some Of those VIII
10 have been characterized for their ST.
4 pidity in hoyhood or girihood, hay
,e- turned out the mightiest benetactol
or b~enefactresses of the human rae
nv These things being so, am not rigl
Ne IN saving that in many cases God on.
to knows what is the most a%ppropria
In thing for you to do, and lis is theol
to to ask? And let all parents anu
til schools and all universities and all G
ST. leges recognize this and a large nun
81 her of those who spent their best yea
in stumbling about among business
re- and occupations, now trying TINS q
IN now trying that and failing IN 9
for would be able to 60 ahead with q q
MT mite, decided and tremendous PurPo
nv saying; ITO this end was 7
in But my subject now mounts into
red momentous, Let me say that you
ave made for usefulness and Heaven
ess Judge this from the way you are ou
re- You 60 into a shop where there
,er- only one wheel turning and that b
or wcrkman's foot on a treadle, and
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