Suspected Duties

We suppose tbat when Mr. Moody was preacking in the Hippodrorne there were huidreds whö suspected that they ought to imítate his life and labor. . haps some of thein ought to do so ; and : tUe chances ave that such of them as ought to do so will do so, They will be moved to it ilfesistibly, because the powers in them, corresponding to his, will clamor for their natural expression. But a man ■who is not moved to this is not eonvicted of being a poorsr Christian than Mr. Moody by that faot. Mr. Moody has a gift for preaching- a gift for approaching men personally, and directing them wisely - a gif t.that has been greatly improved by use, of oaurso, but still a gift, without which he could never have begun his mission. Mostmen have no gift for public speech, and therefore public speech is no part of their duty. They need not suspect themselveson this account, or Mame themselves or in any way make themselves unhappy over it. There are a great many kinds of work t) be done in the woild, and jast as many varieties of men who are made to do it. No one man can do the work of another. The business of each is to find exactly, or as nearly as he can, the work he is best fitted "to do, and to do it with all his might. This entire, overshadowi:3g burden of suspected duties ought to be lifted, and the great world of dissatisfaction and self-condemnation that lies under it optned to the sunlightof peace. Our social and our religious teachers, especiilly the latter, have a duty in this matter toward their disciples wbich they need not suspect for a moment. They have no right to set a man to doing that which be can never do with profit to himself or others, or instill the feeling among those who listen to their instructions that their duty lies in lint s outside of their conscious or proved nbüities. The man who does his duty where lie stands, with such impltments as God has given him, has a right to the enjoymcnt of peace and satisl'action ; and to make him suspect that he ought to do something mo;o and something else, is to do bim a long injury and a great wrong. It is f o make a pitiful slave of one who has a right to bè f ree. - Dr. J. O. Holland ; Scribncr for October.