The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-06-13
HAS GOD APLAN
FOR EVERY LIFE?
ssERwoN THE sU5JEcT or REV.
EGUGENE r. PENDLEToN AT
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
SUNDAY MORNING.

SUNDAY MORNING.
Rev. Eugene r. Pendleton had as
his subject Sunday morning, HAS God
a Plan for Every L4fe?" and spoke as
follows:
Text: I'VE are Gods workmanship"
Eph. 2:10 Ccp: Heb. S:4; Psa- 10o;S;
i in. 3:2.)
In the taglsd web OF human Life
there there is plan, a design by
which every soul may shape his life?
How can one know what Is that plan
30 that he may make the best OF his
one lifetime? There are many things
one can do for himself to insure sue
cess, and avoid failure. A few years
ago one of the college presidents made
a careful investigation Of the names
published in who's Who In America,
for the purpose of finding the pro-
portion OF the uneducated, the common
lege bred in the list Of the "d1stfn-
s11ished men and women on our
country. He found the fourthings;
First, that an uneducated child has
one chance In 15o,0 900 of atta4ntng dis
t1nctfon-
Second. that a common school edu-
cation increases his chances nearly
four times.
Thtrd. that high school training IN
creases the chances of the common
school child twenty-three times, Civ
ing him eighty seven times the chance
of the uneducated
Fourth. that a college education in
creases the chances of the high school
graduate nine times. giving him 21S
times the chance Of the common
school child. and more than 800 times
Of the unframed.
This analysts is corroborated by the
fact which has been tabulated by the
colleges after careful observation,
namely, that ninety per cent Of the
college bred men make failure, and
only 10 per cent make a success In life
work; whereas, among college bred.
ten per cent fail while ninety per cent
make good In their various occupa-
tons
win such facts as these before him
q young boy or girl might think that
he would find the schools the key to
unlock the golden chamber OF success,
but we must bear In mind these fig
ures deal only with the outward dife.
The mere material and social phases.
Within the breast Of some Of those
four hundred may be as much gloom,
and great remorse, and dire anxiety
as ever fell with blightfng shadow
over a human heart and If he or she
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would be a failure, failure" whilst
many who never can get into any
earthly list of Who's who" may be
none the less written in the book OF
the saints in the new Jerusalem, and
may enjoy the pleasures of Gods right
hand forever more.
In a certain deep and true sense 1T
is not within the man to direct his
steps" God is pictured to us in the
text and in various other ways as a
great master builder engaged in con-
structing a temple, the blocks OF which
are human hearts, and human charac-
ters, which he takes out Of the devils
quarry of sin as an artist might take
a rough block and make an angel out
of it. It is God who picks him up
and 1t is God who puts faith In him,
and aspiration and impulses by which
he may climb.
Gods Skill Shown In Selecting the
Blocks for His Temple.
He sees not as man seeth. God
, looks upon the discordant life and sees
\the possibilities for beautiful harmon
les. In the rough lump he sees a
diaInand. Responsibility and world
ly perfection do not furnish him the
best material. Sometimes the finest
instincts are concealed beneath rags
and what is stranger still to us, deep
est reverence is sometimes. for all we
know, concealed beneath debauched
and prof1igate life, some of the court
lest gentlemen have been given to
drink. and fine feelings are sometimes
hidden In one who must daily fight
against fnpurfty. Genius is often
coupled in a life with great weakness
es, and often with poverty and utter
worldly failure. There Is much folly
IN all of us, and we disappoant the ex-
pectations OF friends by our short
contngs, and they lose patience with
us. But God in Christ Is come not
TO destroy but to save human, life
The bruised and broken reeds are his
Instruments for sweetest music. In
sinful Mary he sees Madonna, in
Ieprous Simon he sees saint. He
has taken those least expected for his
disciples. He has taken the CENTRES
rough blocks dead in sin and idol
vine grace. He took the Anglo Saxon
race, warlIlke and rude, and made 1t q
power Of redeeming love. This he
does that the power may be of God
that no flesh should boast. When Pag-
anini the great Violinist was In Anneri-
ca he was advertised before great
summer assembly to plssy on violin
Five Thousand people sat IN breathless
expectancy to hear that violin. He
came out and began to play, softly
then the music rose and fell. and the
audience was enraptured and untaeI
the spell Of 1t, until a string suddenly
snapped. Quick as a flash the play
er litter the violin on high and brought
II down on chair with a blow which
smashed 1t into fragments. Great con-
sternation at once appeared in the
crowd but the music director stepped
out and waved them down, saying
There is no harm done. The profess
sor has just broken a sixty eight cent
violin He wanted to show you II was
In the man and not the instrument