Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-10-16
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DlNINE'S sun
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT: "WmAT WERE We MADE
For"

river that his DOlY was taken out ana
thrown into the Rhone, and similar dis
turbances swept that river and its banks.
Then the body was taken out and re-
moved to Lausanne and put into deeper
pool, which Immediately became the centre
Of similar atmospheric and aqueous dis
turbances Though these are fanciful and
false traditions, they show the execration
with which the world looked upon Plate. II
was before this man when he was in full life
and power that Christ was arraigned as
In q court Of oyer and termner. Plate said
TO his prisoner, art Thou king. them
and Jesus answered, "To this end was |
born" Sure enough, although all earth and
hell arose 10 keep Him down, He is to-day
empalaced, enthronet and coronated king OF
earth and king Of heaven "To this end was
born" That is what He came for and that
was what He accomplished.
BY the time IL child reaches ten years OF
age 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 / - bey What am
Going to be? What was | made forr' 1t
is sensible and righteous question, au1 the
youth ought to keep on asking 1t until 1t is
so fully answered that the young man or the
young woman can say with as much truth
as its author, though on a less expansive
scale, ITO this end was born"
physical, mental and moral constitution OF
the ordinary human being to suppose that
he was constructed without any divine pur-
pose IL YOU take me out on some vast PLAIN
and show me a pillared temple surmounted by
a dome like st. Peters, and having a floor
of precious stones, and arches that must have
taxed the brain Of the greatest craftsman 10
design, and walls scrolled and niched and
paneled and wainscoted and painted, and
/ apby hat This hnilIinu mi
up for. and you answered, For nothing at
| all" how could believe you,
And il is impossible for me to believe that
any ordinary human being who has in his
| muscular, nervous and ebral organization
more wonders than Christopher Wren lifted
! In ST Paul's, or Phidias ever chiseled on the
Acropolis, and built in such n way that 1t
shall last long after st PauiS cathedral Is
as much ruin as the Parthenon that such
a being was constructed for no purpose, and
to execute no mission, and without any di-
vine intention toward some end. The object
Of this sermon is to help you TO find out what
you are made for, and help you 10 find your
sphere, and assist you in that condition where
YOU eau say with certainty and emphasis and
enthusiasm and triumph, 10 this end was l
born
First, discharge you from all reSponsl'
bility for most OF your environments. on
grandparentage. You are not responsible
for any Of the cranks that may have lived
in YOUR ancestral line, and who hundred
years before you were born may have ilVel
a style OF life that more or less att scts you to-
day You are not resi- onsibe FOR the fact
that your temperament is sanguinc or melan
cholic or bilious or lymphatic or nervous
Neither are you responsible for the place o,
your nativity, among the granite nils OF
| Nayxy EYrlnnI prf fbp cotton nlnntatlOn3 Ol
Louisiana, or on the banks of the Clyde, ol
the Dnieper, or the shannon, or the Seine
Neither are YOU responsible for the religion
taught in your fathers house, nor tho irre
ligion. Do not bother yourself about wha
you cannot help, or about circumstance
that you did not decree.
Take things as they are and decide tn
question So that you shall be able Saleiy =
saw. 40 this end was | born" how WI
you decide it, By direct application to tn
only Being In the univ erso who Is competen
, 10 tell vou-the Lord Almighty. DO yo'
know the reason why He is the only one wh
can tell? Because He can see everything be
u tween your cradle and your grave, tholTl
r the grave be eighty years or. And, beside
4 that, He is the only Being who can see VIVA
n has I cen happening for the last nve nun
;, dred years III your ancestral line and 10
y thousands of years clear back to Adam, an
y there is not one person in all that ancestra
4 line Of six thousand years but has someho'
!. affected your character and even old Ada
4 himself will sometimes turn up IN your dl
position. The only ing who can take a
= things that pertain to vou into conSideratlo
Il Is God and He is the one you can ask. LII
Il is so short we have nc time TO experimen
? with occupations and professions.
:. The reason we have SO many dead failure
:, IL that parents decide for children what the
II shall do, or children themselves, wrought 9
J by some whim CT fancy, decide for then
/. selves without any imploration of divir
i guidance. So we have now in pulpits me
= making sermons who ought to be in blac
= smith shops making plowshares, and we hay
d in the law those who instead OF running u
< cases of their clients ought to be pounill
i shoe lasts, and doctors who are the wor
I hindrances to their patients conVaieScenc
=. and artists trying to paint landscapes WI
lc ought to be whitewashing board fence
II While there are others making bricSs WI
ought to be amodeling constitutions,
a. showing planes who ought to be transforl
:, ing literatures Ask God about what world
- business you shall undertake until you a
ie SO positive you cal i'll earnestness smlte yo
Up hand on your plov .andle, or your carpe
Q, ter's bench, or your Blackstone's "Comme
L. taries," or your nedical dictionary, or 20
!, DR.. Dicks "Didactic Theology" sayir
a. For this end was born"
X, There are children who early develop nj
lg ural affinities for certain styfes OF woi
nj When the father of the astronomer Fort
an was going to London he asked his childr
- what present he should bring each one
them The boy who was TO be an astr'
n. omer called out "Bring me telescop
Ie. And there are children whom you find
tie by themselves drawing on their states or
IA paper, ships or houses or birds, and you kn
they are to be craftsmen or artists OF 80
hB kind. And you find others cypherlng
NJ difficult problems with rare interest ana
IN. cess, ana you know they are to DO natheu
nj ticians. And others making wheels Z
he strange contrivances, and you know u
NC are going to be machiuists. And Others
're found experimenting with hoe aud piow
ne sickle, and you know they will be farml
re. And others are always swapping jackknl
,;s or balls or bats and making something
L the bargain, and they are going to be II
Ns chants.
ow When Ahbe de Rance had so advance
he studyine Greek that he could trans
ia. Anacreon at twelve years OK age, there
bo no doubt left that he was intended 10
ne scholar. But in almost every lad u
oV comes a times when he does not know
he was made for, and his parents 40
know, and 1t is Crisis tnat goa onIy
decide. Then there are those born Tor $
mn esnecial work. and their fitness does not
! 'P - velop until quite late When Philip
US bridge, whose sermons and books nave
Illy vested uucounted souls for glory, bega
liz. study the ministry, DR.. Calamy, one Oh
'A0' yy;sest and best men. advised him TO turr
y a thoughts to some other work. Isaac Bari
aud an eminent clergyman and Christian Sc
inf tist-his books standard now, thought
NV, had been dead over two hundred years
ard the disheartenment OF his father, who
or to say that IL it pleased God to take ar
his children away he hoped it might b
son Isaac So some of those who have
characterised for their stupidity In boy
ino or girlhood have turned out the Hhgh
lug benefactors or benefactresses of the hu
oVl race
nth These things being so. am l not rigl
saying that In many cases God only x
! what is the most appropriate thing FOL