Year: 1870

guages. The latter, from observations made while toiling with chsel and crowbar, laid the foundation of his wonderful attainments, one shelf of rock being worth to him more than the hundred shelves of acollege library.

 Some men get into m occupation below that Ior which they are intended. They have their " seventy four" in the millpond. They do not get along as well in that position as somebody with less brains. An elephant would make awful work if you setit to hatch out goose-eggs, but no more wretched than man of great sttainmens appointing himself to some insignificant office.

 Men are often in position a little above that for which they were intended. Now the old scow is out on the ocean. The weights of a clock said; "Come come this is dull work down here. l want to be the pendulum" But the pendulum shouted upward :-"rm tired of this work It does not seem that l make any progress going backward and forward 0hl that I were the hands," Under this excitement, the old clock which had been going ever since the Revolutionary War, stopped st0ck-siill

 "Whst is the matter now, my old friend ln says the grayhaired patriarch. For very shame, not word was said, until the old man set it agong. Then the striking bell spoke up and said; "Nothing; only the weights wanted to be the pendulum; and the pendulum wanted to be the bands v swell! well!" said grandfather, "this is great work !" and the old man, losing his pa tience, gave the clock gentle slap in the face, and told the pendulum hereafter to hold it's tongue, and said to the weights, "You be hanged !"

 But how may we know if we are in our right place--not an inch above and not an inch bslowl If you can perform your part easily, without being cramped or exhausted, that is the right place. The man is in hor- rible condition who is ever making prodigious efforts to do more than he can do. It is just as easy for star to swing in it's orbit ss for a mote to float in a sunbeam. Nature never sweats. The great law of grayitation holds the universe on its back as a miller swings over his shoulder bag of Genessee wheat. The winds never run themselves out of breath. The rivers do not weary in their course. The Mississippi and the Amazon are no more tired than the meadow brook. Himalaya is not dizzy.

 Poets talk about the waters of Niagara be- | ing in an agony, but l think they like it. How they irolic and clap their hands miles above, as they come skipping on towards the great somersault, singing, "0ver we go! | When the universe goes at such tremendous speed, and the least impediment might break one of the great wheels, is it not a wonder that we do not hear a prodgious crack, or thunderous bang, loud enough to make the worlds knees knock together2 Yet a mill ion worlds in their flight do not make as much noise as A honey-bee coquetting among the clover tops. Everything in nature is just as easy. Now, if the position you occupy re- quires unnatural exertion, your only way ou, IS to take step higher or a step further down. Providence does not demand that you should break your back, or put your arm out of joint, or sprain your ance Ii you can only find out just what you are tc do, you can do it perfectly easy. Let the young be sure to begin right. Not once in q thousand times does a man successfully change occupations. The sea of life is so rough that you cannot cross over from one vessel to an. other except at great peril of falling between Many have fallen down to nothing between the Mason's trowel and the Carpenters saw between the lawyers brief and the author. pen; between the medicine chest and the pulpit. It is no easy matter to switch of or another track on this laundering expres: train of life. daffodil and buttercup re- solved to change places with each other, but I m crossing over from stem to stem. they fei at the feet of hearts ease. "Just as cx pected! Y" said the Hearts ease You nigh have better stad in your placesl"

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