"The Choice of a Calling," A Swing-out Talk, published in the Saturday Evening Post, May 26.

~T'm CHOIC2 OF A CALLIG.

One old question is ever new to each member of a graduating
class in the last hours of his Silege course. "ZWat pursuit
shall I follow in life?" The aia of this paper is to give
a few suggestions which may help one in finding the answer.
1. Some persons are by their very make and temperament
so pre-eMinently fitted for one pursuit that it never occurs
to them, or to any one else that there is any room for hesitation in deciding what shall be their callin. It is a
great fortune to a man to be so constituted that he falls to
his work in life as naturally and as easily as the young bird
takes to 'tor wings. For all his energies, his studies,
his experiences, work towards the real end of his life.
2. Wsat w4 call the providential circumstances Of some
men determine their calling so plainly that there can be no
doubt about the matter. A son, for instance, is left with
the care of a large patrimony, which he c^n best acinister.
His duty to mother, brothers and sisters my be paramount to
all other duties. Illustrations need not be 2ultiplied.
3. These cases &re simple. The really difZicult case
remains for consideration. It is that of the man who has
apparently equal aptitude for different pursuits, say for law,
for teaching and for journalism, and is shut up providentially
to no one of them to the exclusion of the others. Some
men are so versatile that they could do any one of two or three
things equally well. Gladstone, it has been said, was no