So I suspect that I must visit all their parents in
order to get this information. Until I get this information I cannot
begin on my course of study. If their parents cannot tell me I
hardly know what I shall do, unless I have recourse to their maiden
aunts. They ought to know. But if they decline to tell I must begin
on a long series of guesses, unless, in the meantime, I am endowed
with omniscience.
This whole plan fascinates me; I dote upon it. It is so pliable, so
dreamy, and so opalescent that I can scarce restrain my enthusiasm.
But if I should fit one of my boys out with the equipment necessary
for a blacksmith, and then he should become a preacher, I'd find the
situation embarrassing. My reputation as a prophet would certainly
decline. If I could know that this boy is looking forward to the
ministry as his life-work, the matter would be simple. I'd proceed
to fit him out with a fire-proof suit of Greek, Hebrew, and theology
and have the thing done. But even then some of my colleagues might
protest on the assumption that Greek and Hebrew are not vocational
studies.
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