The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-05
TO THIS END WAS [ BORN
TALMAGE breaches ON CHRIsTS
ANSWER TO PLATE.


Every Human Being Constructed for
a Divine Purpose.
BROOKLYN, 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 main floor, in the two galleries and the
adjoining rooms, rise and sing the Dox-
ology. This morning in addition to tho
congregational singing Prof. Henry Eyrs
Browne rendered from the organ, Theme
and Variations in A." by Kramer. DIR.
Talmages text was taken from John xviii =.
81, ITO this end was born"
After Plate had suicided tradition says
that his body was thrown into the Tiber,
and such storms ensued on and about thai
river that his body was taken out and
thrown into the Rhone, and similar dis
| turbances swept that river and its banks.
Then the body was taken out and removed
TO Lausanne and put into a deeper pool.
which Immediately became the center
OF similar atmospheric and aqueous
disturbances. Though these are
Ianciiul and false traditions they show
the execrat1on with which the world
looked upon PLATE. 1t was before this man
when he was in full life and power that
Christ was arraigned as in a court of oyer
and termlner. Plate said to his prisoner:
art thou king, thenp and Jesus an
swered ITO this end was | bornn Sure
enough, although all earth aud hell arose to
keep him down, he is to-day empalaced,
enthroned and coroneted king of earth and
king Of heaven. ITO this end was born.n
That is what he came for, and that was
what he accomplished.
BY the time a 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 tle child's lips: What ana to bel
What am | going to dol What was made
| forP 1t is a sensible and righteous ques-
tion. and the youth ought TO keep on asking
1t 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 expansive scale: ITO this end was
| born"
There is too much divine skill shown In
| the physical mental and moral constitution
of the ordinary human being to supposs
that he was constructed without any divine
purpose. II you take me out on some vast
plain and show me a pillared temple sur
mounted by dome like st. Peters, and
having a floor of precious stones, and
arches that must have taxed the brain of
the greatest draughtsman to design, and
walls scrolled and niched and paneled and
wainscotted and painted, and should ask
you what this building was put up
| for, aud you answered, 'For moth.
you9 And it is is impossible for mo
to believe that any ordinary human being
| who has in his muscular, nervous aud
| cerebral orga liZation more wonders than
Christopher Wren lifted in ST. PauPs, or
Phldias ever chiseled on the AcropolIs, and
built ia such a way that it shall last long
after 81. Paups cathedral il as much a ruin
as the Parthenon-that such beng was
constructed for no purpose, aud to execute
no mission, and without any divine inten-
tioa toward ONE end. Toe object of this
sermon is to help you to find out what YOU
are made for, and help you fiud your
sphere, and assist you into that condition
where you can say with certainty and em-
phasis and enthusiasm aud triumph: ITO
this end was born.n
First. / discharge you from all RESPONSE
bility for most Of your environments You
are not responsible for your parentage, or
grand-parentage You are not respo 1sible
for any OF the cranks that may have lived
in yoEr ancestral line, and who hundred
years before you were born may have lived
a style Of life that more or less affects you
to-day. You are not responsible for the
fact that your temperament is sanguine, or
| mslancholic, or bilious, or lympnatie, OF
nervous. Neither are you responsible for
the place of your nativity, whether among
cotton plantations of Louisiana, or on the
banks Of the Clyde. or the
Dnieper, or the Shannon, or the
Seine. Neither are you responsible
for the religion taught in your fathers
house, or the irreligion. Do not bother
yourself about what you cannot help, on
about circumstances that you did not de-
cree. Take things as they are ard decide
the question so that you shall be able safely
to say: ITO this end was | born. .naHow will
you decide it. BY direct application to the
only being in the universe who is compe-
tent to tell you-the Lord Almighty Do
you know the reason why he is the only ons
who can teill Because he can see every
thing between your cradle and your
grave, though the grave be eighty
years Off. And besides that, he ia the
only being who can see what has been
happening for tho last Ave huadred. years
In your ancestral 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 somehow afFe.ted
your character, and even old Adam himself
will sometimes turn up in your disposition.
The only being who can take all things that
pertain to you into consideration is God.
and he Is the one you cac X. Life is SO
short we have no time to experiment with
occupations and professions. Ths
reason we have SO mauy dead
failures is that y parents decide
for children what they shall do, or children
themselves, wrought on by some whim or
fancy, decide for themselves without any
imploratlon of divine guidance. So ws
have now in pulpits men making sermons
who ought to be In blacksmith shops maxi
ing plowshnres, and we have in the law those
who instead Of running the cases Of their
clients ought to pounding shoe lasts, and
doctors who are the worst hlndrances 10
their patients' convalescence, and artists
trying to paint landscapes who ought to be
white washing board fences. While there
are others making bricks who ought to be
remodeling constitutions, or showing planes
who ought to be transforming literature
Ask God about what worldly bus.
iuess you shall undertake until you
are so positive you can ir
earnestness smite your hand on your plow
handle, or your carpenters bench. OF
your Blackstone's "Com aries, OF your
medical dictionary. or your Doctor Dicks
"Didactic theology saying: For this end
was | born.n There are children who early
develop natural afiinities for certain styles
OF work. When the father Of the Astrono-
mer Forbes was going to Lordon, he asked
his children what present he should bring
each one Of them Tho boy who was to be
an astronomer cried out: Bring me tale-
scopem And there are children whom you
find all by themselves drawing on their
states, or on paper, ships or housss or birds,
aud you know they ars 10 be draughtsmen
or artists OF some kind. And you fad Others
cipherinZ out difficult problems with rare