Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-09

OR. TALMAGE ASKS THE QUESTION.
WHAT WERE you MADE FORp

This End Was 1jorn"-An Able Dis
course Preceded by nm Impressive
Gaene.
GFooE1,yN, Oct A most impressive
scene is that witnessed in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, when at the opening of the
morning service seven thousand persons
on the raain floor, in the two galleries and
the adjoining rooms, Tiso 1ud sing the
Doxology This morning in addition to
the congregational singing Professor Henry
Eyre Browne rendered from the orEnp
"Theme and Variatiousin A" by Kramer
nr. Talmage's text was taken from John
xviii 81, "'no this end was l born"
After Plnte had sucided, tradition says
that bis body was thrown into the 1iber,
and such storms cnsucd On and about that
river that his body was taken out and
thrown int0 the Rhoue, aud similar dis
turhanccs swept that river and its bGnl,s.
Then the body WIS taken out and re-
moved TO Lausanne and put into deeper
pool, which Immediately became the center
of similar atmospheric aud aqueous dis
turbances Though these are fanciful and
falls traditions they show the eXecration
with which the world looked upon Plate.
1t was before this mnt when re WAS in full
life end power that ChYsu was arralgued AZ
in = court OF oyer AMI terIuiner. PLATE
said 20 his prisoner, art thou king,
them" and Jesus answered. 10 this end
was | Born" Sure enough, although all
earth and hell arose to keep him down, he
Is today eppaiaceQ, enuhroncd and cOro-
mated king of earth and king of heaven.
ITO this end Yves l born" That is what
he earns for and that was'what he accom-
piished.
BY the time a child reaches ten years of
a. l,.,k
child's destiny; but by the time he or she
reaches fifteen years OF age the question
is on the child's lips: "What an | to be2
What nm ! going to he2 What was |
made forP" II is sensible and righteous
Question, ara the youth ought TO keep on
asking it until st is so fully answered theu
the yonng man or the young woman can
say witch as much truth as its author
though on a ieae expansive scale, ITO this
end was born"
AN UNANRwER SBLE QUESTION.
There is too much divine skill shown in
the physical, mental and moral constitu-
ton of the ordinary human being to sup
pose that he was constructed without any
divine purpose. If you take me out on
some vast plain and show me pillareG
temple surmo@nted by a dome like st.
Petera, aud having floor of precious
stones and arches That mNst have taxed
4hn brata Of the ,-r.a1s,- Cifsftsnan to do.
sinr and ,rnI,s scroil+d an6 pichod and
r.,.Slrl o,,d ,,.oiracotnd and naiuted and
should sGk you what. this building was
pat np for, a,4d you answered, "for moth
irr 81 nj, j how coI.)d belioye vcu2
Arh ,t 10 i,onoasible for 1no m ,o1iove
+ho, orI, n-Atrar, hnnan h.iny who har
j., his rorer,l.,r norvors and rerahro, or
,l,,,,'g, ton ,,,nre wonders Than Christonhor
&, rrn Hf,ed IN 81 pnui,s O, Plidias aver
chi,oIod on Five Aoronolis or,d hrilt in snch
,,,,,.,har It .haH ltst long nleerSe Pa,j,a
I,I,,adrni is a,> ,uucb . min as the parthr.
nnr...thot srrh y heir,, was conetructol
r., ma ,,r,no,n' md tn ,yocuto no mission
.'d ,,,ithn',t INV divine Intention toward
rn,,,.ard Tive object op this serrno, H.. r.
haln ,-o,i RI find nur what Won ore ,nade
~nr o.G hahn ro,, fnd vour Sphere md as.
r,r, von irfn thar ,.ntd.t1on where Won car
s.v ,y{rh csrtair,tz and .rpl,,gj4 ana on.
tl,..ir.,,, and t,,Iin,nL ,1To tlis end vac
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