When found, it is worth more to us than a vein of gold.
"_I_ do not forbid you to preach," said a Bishop to a young clergyman, "but nature does." Lowell said: "It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes, and lives left in the rough." You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing; not until you are so enthusiastic in it that you take it to bed with you.
You may be forced to drudge at uncongenial toil for a time, but emancipate yourself as soon as possible.

Carey, the "Consecrated Cobbler," before he went as a missionary said: "My business is to preach the gospel.

I cobble shoes to pay expenses." If your vocation be only a humble one, elevate it with more manhood than others put into it.

Put into it brains and heart and energy and economy.

Broaden it by originality of methods.