The Iola register., 1891-10-16
Dir. TALMAGE'S SERMON,
All Human Beings Constructed
for Good Uses.
Opportunities for Doing Good Always at
INSTRUMENTATION of Ener-
gies Needed-Preparing
for the Glorles of the
Hereafter.


divine took for his text John xviii-27,
''To . is end was born" He said:
Arer Plate had suicided tradition
sa 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,
and put in a deeper pool, which i'm
mediately became the center of atnos'
pheric and aqueous disturbances.
Though these are fanciful and false
traditions. they show the eXecration
with which the world looked upon
PLATE. 1t was before this man when
he WIS full OF life and power that Christ
was arraigned as in court OF oyer and
terriner. PLATE said to his prisoner:
Art thou king then?" AM; Jesus
answered: ''To this end was | born. =
Sure enough. although all earth and
hell arose to keep him down. He is to,
dav empalaced, enthroned and coro.
neted king of earth and king of heaven.
"To this end was born" That is what
ho came for, aud that is what he accom-.
piished.
BY the time child reaches ten years
OF age the parents begin to discover tina;
child's destiny; but by the time he or
she reaches fifteen years OF age, the
question is on tho child's lips: what
an to be? What am | going to do:
What was made for?" 1t is a sensible
and righteous question, and the youth
ought to keep on asking it until it 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
expensive scale: ITO this end was |
born"
There is too much divine skill shown
in the physical, menta! and moral con-
stitGtion OF the ordinary human being
10 sappose that he was constructed
without divine purpose. If you take
me out on some vast plain and snow me
a apillared temple surmounted by adome
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 scrolied SnG
niched and psucied 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
for me to believe that any ordinary
human being who has in his muscular.
nervous and cerebral organization more
wonders than Christopher Wren lifteG
in St. PaUl's. or Phidias ever chiseled
on the Acr0pOlis. and built in such a
way that 1t will last long after ST. Paul'S
cathedral is as much a ruin as the
Parthen0n-thztS such a being was con
syructed for No purpose. and to execute
no mission, and without any divine ia
teution 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: To this end was l
born"
First. l discharge You from all re-
sDonsibility for most of yeur environ
menta. You are net responsible for
your pareRtage or grandparenta@e.
You are not responsible fec any Of the
cranks that may have lived in your an
castral line. and who a hundred wears
before you were born may have lived 4
style of life that more or 4eSS affects you
to-day. You are not responsible for the
fact that your temperament is sanguine.
or melanchOlic. or billions lymphatic
or nervous. Neither are you responsi-
bic 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 irreIigion.
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 he able safely to say:
ITO this end was born" How will
you decide it? BY direct application
TO the only Being in the sniverse who
is competent to tell yoa-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 ana your grave, though the
grave be eighty years of. And be-
sides that. he is the only Being who
can see what has been haspening for
the last 500 years in your ancestral line.
and for thousands of years clear back
to Adam, and there Is not one
person in all that ancestral Iine of 5000
years but has somehow affected your
character. and even old Adam himself
will sometimes turn up in yonr dispo-
siuon. 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 Is so short we have no
time to experiment with occupations
and professions. The reason We NAV
have so many dead failures is that pa
rents decide for children what they
shall do, or children themselves,
wrought on BY some whim or fancy. de-
eide for themselves without any impier-
alton OF divine guidance. So we have
now in pulpits men making sermons
who ought to be in blacksmith shops
making plowshares, aud we have those
in law, who instead of running the cases
of their clients ought tobe pounding shoe
lasts, and doctors who are the worst
hinderances TO their patients conval-
escence, and artists trying to paint
landscapes who ought to be whitewash-
ing board fences. While there are
others making bricks who ought to be
remodeling constitutions, or showing
planes who ought to be Transforming
literatures. Ask God about what
worldly business you shall undertake
until you are positive you can in ear
nestness smite your hand on your plow
handle, or your carpenters bench, or
your Blackstone's Commentaries. or