Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-10
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
All Human Beings Constructed
for Good Uses.
Opportunities for Doing Good Always nj
-Ooncentration OF Ener-
giles Needed-Prcparing
for the GlOries Of the
Hereafter.

Witt Talmage to-day. The eminent
divine took for his text John xv.ii-2I,
ITO this end was born" He said:
After PLATE had suicided tradition
says that his body was thrown into the
Tiber, and such storms ensued on and
about that river that his body was taken
out and thrown into the Rhone, and
similar disturbances swept that river
and its banks. Then the body was
taken out and removed to Lausanne,
land put in deeper pool, which i'm
imediately became the center Of atmos-
pheric and aqueous disturbances.
Though these are fanciful and false
traditions, they show the execration
with which the world looked upon
PLATE. It was before this man when
he was full OF life and power that Christ
was arraigned as in court OF oyer and
terminer. Plate said to his prisoner:
"Art thou king, then?" AM: Jesus
answered: ITO this end was BORN"
Sure enough, although all earth and
hell arose to keep him down. He is to-
day empalaced, enthroned and coro-
neted king OF earth and king Of heaven.
ITO this end was l born" That is what
no came for, aud that is what he accom-
plished.
BY the time child reaches ten years
OF are the parents begin to discover that
child's destiny; but by the time he or
she reaches fifteen years OF age. the
question is on the child's lips: What
am 70 be? What am going to do?
What was | made for?" It is a sensible
and righteous question, and the youth
ought to keep on asking it until 1t Is so
fully answered that the young man, or
the young woman can say with as much
truth rs It's author. though on less
expensive scale: ITO this end was |
born"
There is too much divine skill shown
in the physical, mental and moral con.
stitution OF the ordinary human being
TO suppose that he was constructed
without divine purpose. II you take
me out on some vast plain and show me
a pillared temple surmounted by dome
like st. Peters, having floor OF pre-
cious stones and arches that must have
taxed the brain OF the greatest draughts-
man to design, and walls scrolled and
,niched and paneled and wainscoted and
painted, and should ask you what this
building was put up for, and you an
|swered, 'for nothing at all" how could
] believe you? And it is impossible
flor me to believe that any ordinary
human being who has in his muscular,
nervous and cerebral organization more
wonders than Christopher Wren lifted
lin St. Paul's, or Phidias ever chiseled
ION the Acropolis, and built in such a
way that it will last long after st. Paul's
cathedral is as much q ruin as the
Partheuon-thats such being was con-
structed for no purpose, and to execute
no mission, and without any divine in
tentiOn toward some end. The object
OF this sermon is to help you to find out
what you are made for. and helU you
find your sphere, and assist you into
that condition where you can say with
certainty and emphasis and enthusiasm
and triumph ITO this end was /
born"
First, discharge you from all re-
sponsibility for most OF your environ
ments. You are not responsible for
your parentage or grandparentage.
You are not responsible for any OF the
cranks that may have lived in your an
cestral line, and who hundred years
before you were born may have lived a
style OF life that more or less affects you
to-day. You are not responsible for the
fact that your temperament Is sanguine,
or melancholic. or bilious: Emphatic
or nervous. Neither are you RESPONSE
BILE for the place Of your nativity,
whether among the granite hills OF
New England, or the cotton plantations
OF Louisiana, or on the banks Of the
Clyde, or the Dneiper, or the Shannon,
or the Seine. Neither are you respon-
sible for the religion taught in your
fathers house, or the irreligion.
Do not bother yourself about what
you cannot help, or about circumstances
that you did moi decree. Take things
as they are and decide the question so
that you shall be able safely TO say:
ITO this end was l born" How will
you decide it? by direct application
to the only Being in the universe who
is competent to tell you-the Lord Al
mighty. Do you know the reason why
he Is the only one who can tell? Be
cause he can see everything between
your cradle and your grave, though the
grave be eighty years on. And be-
sides that, he Is the only Being who
can see what has been happening for
the last 800 years in your ancestral line,
and for thousands OF years clear back
to Adam, and there Is not one
person in all that ancestral zine OF 6, 900
years but has somehow affected your
character, and even old Adam himself
win sometimes turn up In your dispo-
sition. The only Being who can take
all things that pertain to you into con-
.sideration Is God, and he Is the one you
can ask. Life II 90 short we have no
tire to experiment with occupations
and professions. The reason We may