The Gavelyte, October 1908

1:12 'I'HE GAVELYTE, her troops. Austria-Hungary announces that she is about to change the dnal monarchy to a triple ane, hy admitting 8o:4nia nnd Herzegovina, two 'l'nrki8h provinces that were put under Austrian protection thirty years ago hy the Rerlin conference. It looks as if the Turk must go. Choosing a Life-work. REV. PROF. W. R. ~f'CHESNEY. 1'hfl fir::;t cor:sideration in the choice of a life-work i:4 what one is fitted to do anrl be. Such a consideration will necessarily include a study of self. Most callings require a strong and healthy body. If one iR possesserl of a good sound physique, he has the material qualification for almost, if not eve!,"y, pursuit. They, who are not so fortunate, need not despair; for, what with exerciseR adapted to physical development and labor sufficient to increase the brawn and strengthen the muscle, some of the weakfst bodies can develope amazing force and vitality. One shou ld see to it that his hody is trained to bf' a skilful and faithful servant of bis spiritual powers. While the body has no little part in determining the nature of our life-work, our psychical powers have by far the greater part. Intellect with its µowers of perception, memory, imagination, phantasy and thought; emotions with their moving influences of joy and sorrow, love and hate, sympathy and misanthropy; the will with its ability to choose and execute free of any or all c:onsiderations; and conscience discerning the right and the wrong of every moral problem, and guided hy prudence, or a desire to attain the ideal or do what is morally good or evil; all these powers must be sturlied not only in their relation to each other but as well to their subordinate manifestations and their bearing sei,arately and m, a whol e upon life. A life-work should be chor,en commensurate to our phy:;ical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual powers ever with the purpose in view to make the wlrnle of life measure up to the standard of virtue as found in the rnle of rP,ctitude, or doing right always for right\; sakl'. Our own powers inark out our possibilities in life. But, the second consideration is to investigate our environments and find whether they are f!uch as will best develope our powers and are most worthy for us to spend time and effort upon. If they are - well and good. If not, thrn we shonl<i either create nrw rnvironments, change the old, or