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194 Our Views of Mission Work.CoUege and in the seminary, ihere was but one which lack words for Christian thought, the piovoiceamong sagacious educators as to ihe reason neers, defenders, teachers, and fathers ot Chrisofhis creation. But the need of American pro- tian civUization among nations which make godsfessors of elocution among the Arabs is not over- of their heathen ancestry. Who is sufficient forwhelming. these things ? A young man may be very use-Only once in my life have I ventured to ad- ful as the pope of a mountain town, in Newvise a young man to sacrifice a remarkable natuval England—yes, he may grace one of our metrogeniusfor mechanical invention to a study for politan pulpits—who could not be trusted tothe ministry. Unfortunately he foUowed my master the TamU language, debate in it withcounsel. His glib tongue led me to trust that erudite Brahmins, and bnUd the foundations of^he had been " made upright." 'But he ".sought Christianized .society in Ceylon.out many inventions." One of them was of such Y''et another reduction of the list is made byastounding originality for a country parson, that the misfortune of a few young men in havingit has raised him to the distinction of being the been born to luxury and wealth—their misfortuneonly one of ihe more than three thousand stu- noi their fault. ^Vith rare exceptions, so raredents of Andover seminary whose services the that they always excite commendatory remark,commonwealth has found it expedient for its own those are restricted in tbeir range of place and sersafetyto employ in the State prison. "AU is vice, who have been reared amidst the refinevanityand vexation of spirit."ments and delicacies of an affluent metropolitanCertain natural tastes and gifts are God's home. They cannot " endure hardness." Thehints of revelation. They cannot be safely cost of the endurance, beyond the brief stimuluscrossed. Mischief comes of it. Yet they divert of an emergency, is very apt to be the destriicsomemen from foreign missions, and ought io tion of health.withhold some men from the ministry altogether. In the firstyear of tbe civU war, when a regiThe best work done in this world is joyous work, ment from Lowell encamped near Washington byAnd joyous work must command a man's whole the side of the New Y'ork Seventh, famed for itsbeing, free from the friction of misplaced powers enlistments from the wealthiest famiUes oftheand ihe gasping of stifled tastes.metropolis, the factory operatives and farmers'StiU another small section, but an appreciable sons volunteered to the work of the trenches, orone, must be omitted for want of adequate natur- something simUar, saying to the metropolitans,al force for the foreign work. Time was, when, of " you are not made for such work." It was tniean inferior preacher, the proverb ran, " He may and no crime of theirs : they were not made fordo for a missionary." We are wiser ihan that it. AVith mutual and rare generosity eachnow. Foreign missions demand our ablest men. supplemented the other, every man doing what heThey must stand before kings. They must con- was made for.found learned and adroit sophists, demolish So in the allotments of ministerial service, withancient systems of phUosophy, uproot reUgious just exceptions enough to pvove the vule, the sonswhich have stood a thousand years. They are of luxury and wealth can not be depended nponto be constructors of new institutions, the foun- for rough work. Generally speaking we do aiotders of churches, of colleges, of professional look to them for recruits fov foveign missionai'yschools, of national school systems, the creators service. Other service ihey cau do, and have doneof written languages from their very alphabet, nobly. AU honor to the young man, who, likethe originators of a Christian literature in tongues the late Dr. Codman, of Dorchester, with no