Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-11-26
T SPIRIT OF UNREST.
DIR. TALMAGE SAYS 1T IS THE CAUSE
OF MUCH UNHAPPINESS.


and Women to Stick 90 One Pur-
pOse-Stop Gadding About.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-From an IN
usual text DR.. Talmage in this dis
course rebukes the spirit of unrest
which characterizes so many people
and shows them the happiness and use
fulness to be found in stability; text,
Jeremiah ii, sc, ''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 a
man or woman who, not satisfied with
home life. goes from place to place CAD
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 way%
Well the world has now as many
gadaboutS as it had in Bible times, and
L think that that race of people is more
numerous now than it ever was-gad-
abOuts among occupations. among reli-
giouS 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.
1t was no small question that Phara-
oh put to Jacob and his sons when he
asked. What is your occupation?'
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
whinlsicality, 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
BILE and direct appeal to God for direc-
ton
Divine Guidance.
While seeking divine guidance in
your selection of lifetime sphere ex-
anime your OWE temperament The
phrenologist will tell you your mental
proclivities- The psychologist will tell
you your physical temperament. Your
enemies viii tell you your weaknesses.
If you are. as we say. nervous. DO not
become surgeon. If you are coward
ly, do not become an engineer If you
are hoping for a large and permanent
income, do not seek a governmental
position. If you are naturally quick
tempered. do not become minister of
the gospel. for while any one is disad-
vantaged by ungOyernable disposition
there is hardly any one who enacts
such an homogeneous part as a mad
minister. Can you make a fine sketch
of q 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 a tune
that charms those who hear it? Be q
HuS4SACit4 al SOO Will Il
ness for argument? Be an attorney
Are you naturally good nurse and es-
pecfally 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
a small or large scale? Be a merchant
Do you prefer country life. and do you
like the plow, and do you hear music
in the rustic of a harvest field? Be a
farmer. Are you fond of machinery,
and are turning wheels to you g fasci-
nation. and can you follow with alb
sorbing interest new kind of thrash
ing machine hour after hour? Be a
mechanic. If you enjoy analysing the
natural elements and laboratory
could entertain you all day and all
night, be chemist. If you are inquis-
tive about other worlds and interested
in all instruments that would bring
them nearer for inspection, be an as
tronomer. 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
aettres 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
-eS you to do. Before you leave that
room you win find out. For the sake
OF your usefulness and happiness and
your temporal and eternal welfare do
not join that crowd of people who go
gadding about among businesses and