Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
DEPLORES PREVAILING SPIRIT
OF UNREST.


course reDukeS the spirit OF unrest
which characterizes SO many people
and shows them the happiness and
usefulness to be found in stability;
text, jeremiah H.. sc. why gaddest
thou about so much to change thy
way?"
Homely is the illustration by which
this prophet Of tears deplores the va
cillation 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 a man or woman who,
not satisfied with home life, goes from
place to place gadding about. as we
say. never settled anywhere or in any
thing, and he cries out to them. why
gaddest thou about so much to change
the way?
Well, the world has now as many
gad-abouts as 1t mad in Bible times.
more numerous now than 1t ever was
Gad-abouts among occupations. among
religious theories, among churches,
among neighborhoods, and one Of the
greatest wants Of the church and the
world is more steadfastness and more
fixedness of purpose.
Examine Your Temperament.
While seeking divine guidance in
your selection of lifetime sphere ex-
anime your own temperament. The
phrenologist will tell you your mental
proclivities. The psychologist will tell
you your physical temperament. Your
enemies will tell you your weaknesses.
II you are, as we say, nervous, do not
become surgeon. II you are coward
ly do not become an engineer. II you
are hoping for large and permanent
income, do not seek q governmental
position. II you are naturally quick
tempered, do not become a minister Of
the gospel. for while any one is disad-
vantaged by ungovernable disposition
there is hardly any one who enacts
such an incongruous part as mad
minister. Can you make a fine sketch
Of a ship. or a rock or house or
face? Be an artist Do you find
yourself humming cadences. and
do the treble clef and the
musical bars drop from your pen
easily. and can you make a tune that
charms those that hear it? Be a
musician. Are you born with fond
ness for argument? Be an attorney.
Are you naturally good nurse and
especially interested in the relief Of
pain? Be physician. Are you in
terested in all questions of traffic and
in bargain making? Are you apt to be
successful on small or large scale?
Be merchant Do you prefer country
life, and do you like the pillow, and do
you hear music in the rustic of har-
vest field? Be a farmer. Are you
fond of machinery. and are turning
wheels to you a fascination, and can
you follow with absorbing interest
new kind OF thrashing machine hour
after hour? Be mechanic. II you
enjoy analysing the natural elements
and a laboratory could entertain you
all day and all night, be a chemist.
II you are inquisitive about other
worlds and interested In all instru-
ments that would bring them nearer
for inspection. be an astronomer. II
the grass under your feet and the
foliage over your head and the flowers
which shake their incense on the sum-
mer air are to you the bellies lettres of
the field, be a botanist.
Following Gods Cain
Last summer a man of great genius
died. He had the talents of twenty
men In surgical directions. but he did
not like surgery. and he wanted to be
a preacher. He could not preach. l
told him SO. He tried 1t on both sides
Of the sea. but he failed, because he
turned his back on that magnificent
profession of surgery, which has in
our time made such wonderful achieve
ment that 1t now heals broken neck
and by the X ray explores the temple
Of the human body as IL 1t were
lighted room. For forty years he was
gadding about among the professions.
Do not initiate him. Ask God what
you ought to be, and he will tell you.
It may not be as elegant a style OF
work as you would prefer 1t may cal
lous and begrime your hands and put
you In suffocating atmosphere and
stand you shoulder to shoulder with
the unrefined and may leave your
overalls the opposite of aromatic, but
remember that IL God calls you to do
one thing you will never be happy in
doing something else.
All the great successes have been
gained through opposition and strug-
gle. Charles Goodyear, the inventor,
whose name is now a synonym all
the world over for fortune added to
fortune. waded many years chin deep
through the worlds scorn and was
thrust in debtors prison and came
with his family to the verge of starva-
ton, but continued his experiments
with vulcanized rubber until he added
more than can be estimated to the
worlds health and comfort, as we'll as
to his own advantage. Columbus and
John Fitch and Stephenson and Rob-
ert Bruce and Cyrus w. Field and 500
others were illustrations of what ten
acity and pluck can do. Hard pound
Ing" said Wellington at Waterloo,
hard pounding, gentlemen, but we
will see who can pound the longest"
Yes, my friends, that is the secret, not
flight from obstacles in the way, but
"who can pound the longest" The
child had 1t right when attempting to
carry ton of coal, shoyelful at
time, from the sidewalk to the cellar.
and some one asked her. "Do you ever
axpaof 60 oot al that nna1 L. NTH