The Dickinson press., 1891-10-17
A MISSION FOR ALL.
What We're You Made for, Is the
Question Asked and Answered
by DR.. Talmage.
There Is Some Especial Work for
Each One Of the Many Millions
Of People.

OF feOple.
BROOKLYN ,-[special. "A most inn
pressive scene is that witnessed in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, when at the
opening of the morning service seven
thousand persons on the main floor,
IN the two galleries and the adjoining
rooms, rise and sing the doxology.
This morning in addition to the con-
gregational singing Prof. Henry Eyre
Browne rendered from the organ,
'"Theme and Variations in A." by
Kramer. DR.. Talmage's text was
taken from John xviii, 81, "To this
end was 1 born"
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 itsbanks. Then
the body was taken out and removed
to Lausanne, and put in q deeper
pool which Immediately became the
center OF similar atmospheric and
aqueous disturbances. Though these
are fanciful and false traditions they
show the e%xecration with which the
world looked upon plate. 1t was be-
fore this man when he was in full life
and power that Christ was %arraisned
Is in a court of Oyer and Terminer.
PLATE said to his prisoner: cart thou
. king, them" and Jesus answered:
ITO this end was l born" Sure
enough, although all earth and hell
arose to keep him down. He istoday
empalaced, enthroned and coroneted
king of earth and king OF heaven.
sTo THIS N WAS / BORN"
That is what he came for, and that
was what he accomplished.
By the time a childreaches 10 years
Of age the parents begin to discover
that child's destiny; but by the time
he or she reaches Is years of age, the
question is on the child's lips: "What
am I to be? What am [ going to do?
What was l made for?" 1t is a sen
sible and righteous question, and the
youth ought to keep on asking it UNI
til 1T is SO fully answered that the
young man, or the young woman can
say with as much truth as it's author,
though on q less expansive scale:
ITO this end was l born"
There is toomuch divineskill shown
In the physical, mental and moral
constitution of the ordinary human
being to suppose that he was con
structed without any divine purpose.
If you take me out on vast plain
and show me a pillared temple sur
mounted by a dome like St. Peters,
and having q floor OF precious stones,
and arches that must have taxed the
brain of the greatest draughtsman
to design, and walls scrolled andniched
and paneled and wainscotted and
painted, and l should ask you what
this building was put up for, and you
answered, "for nothing at ALL" how
could 1 believe you? And it is impos-
sible for me to believe that any ordin-
ary human being who has in his mus
cular, nervous and cerebral organiza-
ton more wonders than Christopher
Wren lifted in St. Paul's, or Phidias
ever chiseled on the Acropolis, and
built in such q way that it shall last
long after St. Paul's Cathedral is as
much q ruin as the Hathenon-that
such q being was constructed for no
purpose, and to execute no mission,
and without any divine intention to-
ward some end. The object of this
sermon is to help you to find out
WHAT v0TI APE NTAnN mop
and help you find your sphere, and
assist you into that condition where
you a say with certainty and
emphasis and enthusiasm and tri-
umph: "to this end l was born"
First, l discharge you from all re-
sp%onsibility for most of your environ
ments. You are not responsible for
your parertage, or grandparentage.
You are not responsible for any OF the
cranks that may have lived in your
ancestral line, and who a hundred
years before you We're born may have
lived a style OF life that more or less
affects you today. You are not
responsible for the fact that your
temperament is sanguine, or mclan-
choiic, or bilious, or Emphatic, or
nervous. Neither are you respon-
sible for the place of your nativity,
whether among the granite hills OF
New England, or the cotton planta-
tions of Louisiana, or on the banks
of the Clyde, or the Dnieper, OF the
Shannon, Or the Seine. Neither are
you responsible for the religion taught
In your father house, orthe i~rreligion.
Do not bother yourself about what
you cannot help, or about circum-
stances that you did notdecree. Take
things as they are and decide the
question so that you shall be able to
safely say "to this end I was born.'
How will you decide? By direct
application to the only Being in the
universe who is competent to tell you
the Lord Almighty. Do you know
the reason why he is the only one
who can tell you? Because he can
see everything between your cradle
and your grave, though the grave be
80 years off. And besides that,
HE Is THE ONLY BEING
who can see what has been happening
Tor the last 500 years in your ances.
tral line, and for thousands of years
clear back to Adam, and there is not
one person in all that ancestral line
of six thousand years but has some.
how affected your character, and even
old Adam himself will sometimes turn
Up in your disposition. The only
Being who a take all things that
pertain to you into consideration is
God, and he is the one you can ask
Life is so short wehave no time to ex
pertinent with occupations and pro
uessions. The reasons we have sc
many dead failures is that parent,
decide for children what they shall 30
or children themselves, wrought on b
some whim or fancy, decide for then
selves without any imploration {
divine guidance. So we have now i
the pulpits men making sermons VIII
ought to be in the blacksmith shot
making plowshares, and we have j
the law those who instead OF ruinir
the cases of their clients ought to |
pounding shoe lasts, and doctors VIII
are the worst ~hindrances, to the
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