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WHAT IS A CALL TO THE MINISTRY? IN LETTERS TO ONE INQUIRING ON THE SUBJECT. BY REV. JAMES D. KNOWLES.

PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, 150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW YORK.

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LORD CHANCELLOR KING, of England, was a grocer at that period of life which is commonly spent in academical study by those destined for the profession of law. Chief Justice Pratt, of New York, having been brought up a carpenter, was led, by a severe cut from an axe, which unfitted him for work, to turn his attention to the law. Franklin, who seemed equally to excel in the conduct of the business of life, in the subliniest studies of philosophy, and in the management of the most difficult state affairs, was bred a printer. Claude, the unrivalled landscape painter, was a dull youth. Robert, of Sicily, though distinguished for learning and genius, was so torpid when a boy, that he was with difficulty taught the rudiments of grammar. Dryden gave no public testimony of his talents before he was twenty-seven. Cowper did not become an author till he was fifty. Saunderson, an illustrious mathematician, and a successor of Sir Isaac Newton, when only two years old was deprived by small-pox, not only of his sight, but of his eyes themselves, which were destroyed by abscess; yet he obtained an accurate knowledge of several languages, and published a Commentary on Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia. The celebrated German metaphysical philosopher, Kant, was the son of a harness-maker, who lived in the suburbs of his native city, Konigsberg. Chief Justice Logan, of Pennsylvania, was apprenticed to a linen-draper. He afterwards acquired a knowledge of six languages. Samuel Lee, Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge, England, was seventeen years of age before he conceived the idea of learning a foreign language. Out of the scanty pittance of his weekly earnings as a carpenter, he purchased at a bookstall a volume, which, when read, was exchanged for anothor.

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