Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-05
DUTY OF LIFE.
DR. TALNlGES REGULAR SUNDAY MORNING
DISCUSSION.
80 This md Was Born." Learned and In
t;r,saDg Disposition on that Very In
pTsai QussfOn-BdVica and Comfort
Spsoinl rsleornm 10 As Rsaistsr.

preSSive scene is that witnessed In the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, when at the open
Of the morning service seven thousand
persons Oh the main floor, in the two
galleries and the adjoining rooms, rise
aud sing the DoxOlogy. This morning
in addition to the congregational sing
ing Prof. Henry Eyre Browne rendered
from the organ, "Theme aud Variations
in A" by Kramar' DR.. Talmage'e text
was taken from John 1897, $40 the
end was bOrn."
After PLATE had committed suicide,
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 its banks. Then the
BODY was taken out and removed to
Dausanne, and put in a deeper pool
which Immediately became the center
OF similar atmospheric and aqueous
disturbances. Though these are fanci-
ful and false traditions, they show the
execratiOn with which the world looked
upon plate. IL was before this man,
when he was in full life and power, that
Christ was arraigned as in court Of
Over and Terminer Plate said TO his
prisoner: 'Art Thou a King, then?"
and Jesus answered.: ''IO this end was
] born" Sure enough, although all
earth and hell arose to keep him down.
lie is to-day empalaced; enthrOned and
coronated king Of earth and king Of
heaven. "To this end was l born"
That is what he came for, and that way
was what He accomplished.
WHAT AN To BE?
BY the time a child reaches ten years
of age the parents begin to discover
that child's destiny; but by the timo he
or she reaches fifteen, years OF age, the
question is on the child'S lips: what
am I to be? What am / going to do?
What was made fore" lt is a sensible
and righteous question, and the youth
ought to keep on asking it until II is so
.fully answered that the young man, or
the young woman can say with as much
truth as les author, though on less ex-
panslve scale: ITO this end was l born"
There is too much divine skill shown
in the physical, mental and moral con-
stitution OF the ordinary human TO sup
nose that he was constructed without
any divine purpose. If you take me
ont on som vast plain and show me a
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 draughtsman to
desiged, and walls ScrOlled and
niched and paneled and wainscotted and
painted, and 1 should ask you what
this building was put up for, and you
answered: "iOr nothing at all, how
could l believe you? And it Is impOsSi-
bic for me to believe that any ordinary
human being who has in his muscular,
nervous and cerebral organization
more wonders than Christopher Wren
lifted In st. Pauls, or Phidias ever
chiseled on the AcrOpOllS, and built in
such a way that It shall last long after
st. Pauls Cathedral is aS much a ruin
as the ParthenOn-that such being
was constructed for no purpose, and to
execute no mission, and without any
divine intention toward some end. The
object Of this sermon is to help you TO
find out what you are made for, and
help you find your sphere, and assist
you into that condition whore you can
say with certainty and emphasis and
enthusiasm and triumph; "tO this end
was / born.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES.
First, 1 discharge you from all re-
SponSibility for most of your environ
mentS. You are not responsible for
your parentage, or grand-paTentage.
You are not responsible for any OF the
cranks that may have lived in your an
ceStral line, and who a hundred years
before you were born may have lived
style of life that more or less affects
you to-day. You are not responsible
for the fact that your temperament is
sanguine, or melancholiC, or bilious, or
Emphatic, or nervous.
The only Being who can take all
things that pertain to you into cOnSid-
Grafton is God, and he is the one you
can ask. Life is so short we have no
time 70 experiment with occupations
and professions. The reason we have
so many dead failures is that parents
decide for children what they shall do,
or children themselves wrought on by
some within or fancy, decide for them
selves without any implOratiOn OF d.
vine guidance.
MEN OUT OF PLACE.
So we have now in pupitS men making
sermons who ought to be in blacksmith
shops making plOughShares, and we
have in the law those who instead OF
running cases Of their clients ought TO
be pounding shoe last, and doctors who
are the worst hindrances 10 their pa
tients' conyaleScence, and artists trying
TO paint landscapes who ought to be
withdrawing board fences. While
there are others making bricks who
ought 20 be remOdeling constitutions,
or showing planes who ought to be
Transforming literatureS. Ask God
about what worldly business you shall
undertake until you are so positive you
can in earneStneSs smite your hand on
your plough handle, or your carpen-
ter's bench, or your BlackstOne'S Com
RcRtIriCS, or your medical dictionary,
or YOUR Doctor Dicks Dldactic theology
saying: "fOr this end was / born.
There are childrep who early develop
natural al6nities for certain styles OF
work. When the father OF the aStron-
Omer Forbes was going to London he
asked his children what present he
should bring each one Of them. The
boy who was to be an astronomer cried
out, ''bring me a telescope" And there
are children whom you ind all by them
selves drawing on their states, or on
paper, ships or houses or birds, and you
know they are to be draughtsmen or
artists OF some kind.
But in almost every lad there comes q
time when he does not know what he
was made for, and his parents do not
know, and IL is q crisis that God only
can decide. Then there are those born