The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-08
A Powerful Sermon.
PREACHED BY DIR, TAI
MAGE ON SUNDAY OC-
TOBE.R 4.
What Were You Made For?--An
Important Question Asked
and Answered.
"TO THIS END WAS BORN
JOHN XVIII, 81, THE
TEXT.


TEXT.
BRooKLYN, Oct. "A most impress
Eive scene is that witnessed In the
Brooklyn Tabernacle. when at the open
Ing of the morning service seven thou
sand persons on the main floor, In the
two galleries and the adjoining rooms rise
and sing the Doxology. This morning,
In addition to the congregational sing
ing, Professor Henry Eyre Browne rem
dered from the organ, Theme and Va
riations, in A." by Kramer. DR.. Tai
IMAGES text was taken from John xviii,
81, ''To this end was born"
After Plate had suicided, tradition
Gays 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,
ana similar disturbances swept that
river and It's banks. Then the body
was taken out and removed to Lau-
same, and put In q deeper pool, which
Immediately became the center of sim
liar atmospheric and aqueous disturb
>apces. Though these are fanciful and
false traditions, they show the execra-
ton with which the world looked upon
Plate. It was before this man, when
he was in full life and power, that
Christ was arraigned as in a court of
oyer and terminer. PLATE said to his
prisoner, art thou a king, then2" and
Jesus answered, ITO this end was
born" Sure enough, although all
earth and hel! arose to keep him down.
He Is today eGnpalaced, enthroned and
coronated king OF earth and king Of
heaven. 'To this end was I%borh. +"
That is what he came for, and that was
what he accomplished.
By the time 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 to be2 What am going to be2
What was made fort" 1t is q sensible
and righteous question, and the youth
| ought to keep on asking it until it is 30
| 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
| 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 any divine purpose. If you
| take ne out on some vast plain and
show me pillared temple surmounted
by dome like st. Peters, and having
floor of precious stones and arches
that must have taxed the brain of the
greatest craftsman to design, and
walls scrolled and niched and paneled
and wainseoted and painted, md
should ask you what this building wa
put up for, and you answered, ''Fo,
nothing at ALL" how could / believt
you.
And it is impossible for me to believ<
that any ordinary human being, whe
has In his muscular, nervous and cere
bral organization more wonders thar
ChristophertWre lifted In st. Paul,
or rPhidiasever chiseled on the Acropolis
and built in such a way that 1t shall
last long after st. Paurs cathedral 1
as much ruin as the Parthenon-tha,
such being was constructed for M
purpose and to execute no mission ant
without any divine intention tewart
some end The object of this sermon
| Is tc help you to find out what you ar
made for, and help you find you
+ sphere, and assist you into that condi
! ton where you can say with certaint
and emphasis and enthusiasm ant
triumph, .'To this end was born"
WHAT xoU WILL NOT HAVE TO An
| :. sWKR FOR.
I First, I discharge you from all re
]! spoasibIlity for. most Of your environ
ments. You are not responsible fo
your parentage or grandparentags
You are not responsible for any {
the cranks that may have lived
, your ancestral line. and who a hui
, dred years before you were Dor
may have lived a styls Of life ths
} more or less affects you today. 70
! are not responsible for the fact ths
: yoar temperament L. sanga1ine or me
anclouc or bilious or iymphatic-
nervous Neither are you responsib
for the place Of your nativity. wheth
!. among the granite bills Of New En-
! land, or the cotton plantations Of Lo
, isiana, or on the banks of the Clyd
, or the Dnieper, or the Shannon, or Il
Seine. Neither are you responsible +
the religion taught In your father
!lhouse or the irreligion. Do not both
Ii yourself about what you cannot bel
s or about circumstances that you d
not decree.
8 Take things as they are and decit
8 the question so that you shall be ah
safely to say, ITO this end was born
: How viii you decide itf BY direct a
: plieation to the only Being in-the al
: verse who Is competent to tell you
the Lord Almighty. Do you know {
reason why he is the only ono who C
te1l7 Because he can see eyerythi
between your cradle and your gray
: !, though the grave be eighty years o
: And besides that he is the only bel
:. who can see what has been happeni
i for the last Eve hundred years in 20
. ancestral line, and for thousands
= I years clear back to Adam, and the
is not one person in all that ancestl
line Of six thousand years but has son
!, how affected your character, and ev
old Adam himself viii sometimes To
up il your disposition- The only. BEL