Connecticut western news., 1900-11-29
SPIRIT OF UNREST.
DR. TALMAGE SAYS IT IS THE CAUSE OF MUCH uNHAPPiNESS.

| More Stabfltty-Adviaes Young Men and Women to Stick to One Pur-
 pose-stop Gadding About.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-From an un- usual text Dr. Talmage in this dis course rebukes the spirit of unrest which characterizes so many people md shows them the happiness and use fitness to be found in stability; text, Jeremiah il, 36, "Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way%
 Homely Is the Illustration by which this prophet of tears deplores the vacil- lation of the nation to whom he wrote. Now they wanted alliance with Egypt and now with Assyria and now with Babylon, and now they did not know what they wanted, and the behavior of the nation reminded the prophet of man or woman who, not satisfied with home life, goes from place to place gad- ding about, as we say, never settled anywhere or In anything, and he cries out to them, "Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy wayY
 l Well, the world has now as many Radabouts as 1t had in Bible times, and 1 think that that race of people Is more numerous now than 1t ever was-gad- abouts among occupations, among relt- gious theories, among churches, among neighborhoods-and one of the greatest wants of the church and the world Is more steadfastness and more fxedness of purpose.
 | It was no small question that Phara- oh put to Jacob and his sons when he asked, What Is your occupationT Getting into the right occupation not only decides your temporal welfare, but may decide your eternal destiny. The reason so many men and women are dead failures is because instead of asking God what they ought to be or do they, through some vain ambition or Iwhimsicality, decide what they ought to be. Let me say to all young men and young women in homes or in school or college, do not go gadding about among occupations and professions to find what you are fitted for, but make hum- ble and direct appeal to God for direc- tion.
 Divine Guidance.
 While seeking divine guidance in your selection of lifetime sphere ex- anime your own temperament. The phrenologist will tell you your mental proclivities. The physiologist will tell you your physical temperament. Your enemies will tell you your weaknesses. If you are. as we say, nervous, do not become a surgeon. If you are coward 1y, do not become an engineer. If you are hoping for large and permanent hncome, do not seek governmental position. If you are naturally quick tempered, do not become minister of the gospel, for while any one is disad- Wantaged by ungovernable disposition there is hardly any one who enacts such an incongruous part as a mad minister. Can you make fine sketch of ship or rock or house or face? Be an artist. Do you find yourself hum ming cadences, and do the treble clef and the musical bars drop from your pen easily, and can you make tune fhat charms those who hear it? Be a musician. Are you, born with fond ness for argument? Be an attorney. Are you naturally a good nurse and es- pecially interested in the relief of pain? Be physician. Are you interested In all questions of traffic and in bargain making, are you apt to be successful on Ia small or large scale? Be merchant. DO you prefer country life, and do you like the blow, and do you hear music in the rustic of a harvest field? Be farmer. Are you fond of machinery, and are turning wheels to you fasci- nation, and can you follow with ab- eorbing interest new kind of thrash ing machine hour after hour? Be mechanic. If you enjoy analysing the natural clements and a laboratory could entertain you all day and all night, be chemist. If you are inquis- Iitive about other worlds and interested fin all instruments that would bring them nearer for inspection, be an as- fronomer. If the grass under your feet and the foliage over your head and the flowers which shake their incense on the summer air are to you the bellies lettres of the field, be botanist.
 ! If you have no one faculty dominant and nothing in your make up seems to point to this or that occupation, shut yourself up in your own room, get down on your knees and reverently ask God what he made you for and tell him that you are willing to do anything he wish les you to do. Before you leave that room you will find out. For the sake pf your usefulness and happiness and your temporal and eternal welfare do not join that crowd of people who go gadding about among businesses and occupations, now trying this and now trying that and never accomplishing anything.
 Weak Religious Theories.
 There are many who exhibit this frailty in matters of religion. They are not sure about anything that per fains to their soul or their eternal des- tiny. Now they are Unitarians, and now they are Universalists, and now they are Presbyterians, and now they are nothing at all. They are not quite sure that the Bible was inspired or if Anspired whether the words or the ideas were inspired or whether only part of the book was inspired. They think at one time that the story in Genesis about the garden of Eden is history, and the month after they think 1t Is an Allegory. At one time they think the book of Job describes what really oc- cured, but the next time they speak of 1t they call 1t drama Now they believe all the miracles, but at your next interview they try to show how these scenes had nothing in them SUI pernatural, but can be accounted for by natural causes. Gadding about among religious theories and never sat isfied. All the evidence Is put before chem, and why do they not render a l.&2 l. Ak~ A.