LIFE'S CALLINGS. 3U 



mental stations ; for the preservation of the forests of our country ; 

 for the establishment of Boards of Agriculture in the States in 

 which they have not hitherto existed ; for the dissemination of 

 the knowledge requisite to secure our cultivated lands from the 

 ravages of noxious insects, must commend themselves to every 

 intelligent cultivator of the soil, promising, as they do, results the 

 most beneficent in the interests of agriculture. All of which is 

 respectfullj 7 submitted* 



S. L. GOODALE. 



M. C. Fernald. 



The Junior Class of the Maine State College of Agriculture and 

 the Mechanic Arts at Orono, gave a class exercise in The Elements 

 of Agriculture, designed to exhibit the character of the instruc- 

 tion given at this Institution, and acquitted themselves with much 

 credit. Hon. Charles J. Morris, then delivered the following 

 lecture on 



Life's Callings. 



There is perhaps no question of more importance, not one on 

 which more erroneous views are entertained, than that of life's 

 callings, and this arises from a misapprehension of what consti- 

 tutes a calling to the duties of life, and a misconception as to the 

 nature, comparative importance, and dignity of these duties. A 

 brief discussion of these several points, will constitute the first 

 division of our subject. 



The great masses have no just appreciation of such a call, or 

 of any special claim which it imposes upon them. In the minds 

 of many honest, conscientious men, it is associated with the more 

 spiritual duties of a religious life. Reverently accepting the 

 truths of revelation as their guide, it has never occurred to them 

 that the speci.-il call has a far wider and more comprehensive 

 meaning than they have usually accorded to it, that the revelation 

 in which they so implicitly trust teaches that there are diversity 

 of gifts, but the same spirit; and that in the wondrous gifts the 

 Creator has bestowed upon his creatures there is variety in kind 

 as well as degree. From the bias of our judgment by natural 

 tastes, early education and habitual associations, we are often led 

 to overestimate or undervalue the different callings in life ; forget- 

 ting that in this great whole there are many members but one 

 body; that the eye cannot say to the hand "I have no need of 

 thee," nor, again, the hand to the feet, "I have no need of you." 



