The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-10-13
THE TABERNACLE PULPIT.
DR.. TALMAGe ASKS THE QUESTION,
"WHAT WERE YOU MADE FORr


course Prscrneh nv Mn Impressive
Scene.
BROoLLYN, Oct. IA most impres.
sive scene is hat wiiness cd IN the Brook
lyn Tabernacle, wien at tho Oh ening of
the morning service 1000 persons on the
main floor. in two galleries and the
adjoining rooms, risc aud sing the Dox-
OloSy. This morning in addition to the
congregational singing Prof. Henry
Eyre Browne rendered from the organ,
''Themc and Variations in A." by
Cramer. DR.. rulmage's text was taken
from John 1887. ITO this end was
born
After Plate had sucidrd. tradition
says that his body VAS thrown into the
Tibtr, and such storms cnslied on and
about thai llver TIA, this body Was taken
out and thrown INTO the RhOne, and
similar disturbances swept that river
and its banks. Then Tic body Was
taktE out and rruuvrd t. Lausanne
and pu in deeper pool, which immedi-
ateIS becane thc center OF similar at.
mOspheric und aqueous dslul bancts.
Though these are ianciiul aud false tru-
diLicns ;lcl show the eXccration with
which the world looked upon PLATE. 1t
was ltIoio Tins man when he was in full
lie and lav cr that Christ was arraiened
as in a L. INT "i oyer and termincr. Plate
said To hs llisUncl: ''art thou a king.
them" and Jesus answered: ITO this end
was | bup." Sure enough, although
ali cath aud hell arose to keep him
down. He is today empalactd Il, enthrone
and 'oi, h.trd king OF earth and king of
lcaNN. 10 this md was l boln."
That ~ What lie came for, and that is
what l., acc' MI lishod.
by The time child reaches ten wears
OF age ll!c laitIis begin to discover that
child'> tit stn.y, but bs the time he or she
tacl:'s fifteen Years of age, the question
is un he ,hild', hps: What am | to be?
Villa, am | going to do? What was |
made Iur:" II is Il sensible and right
eous question. and the youth ought to
keep II askin. it until It is 80 fully
answered that the young rian, or the
woman can say with as mach truth as
scale: ITO this end was l born.''
There Is too much divine skill shown
III the physical, mental and moral con
stitution OF the o:dinaly human being to
suppose that he was constructed without
y
on some vasL plain and show me pil-
Jared temple surmounted by a dome
like ST. Peters, aud having floor OF pre-
c.Ous stones, and arches that must have
taxed tbs blan Of greatest draughts-
man to design, and walls scrolled and
nlChed and l,anC.t Il and wainscotted and
painted, and should ask what this l,uiln-
ing was Tut up ior, and you answered:
''lOr .othing II all, )" how could L believe
you? And il is impossible for me to be-
llevc that any ordinary human being
who has III his muscular, nervous and
cerebral orga nza ton more wonders than
ChrlsLoptr Wren lift, Il in st. Paul's, or
I'hiClas ever cliSeltd on the AcropOlis.
and built in such n way that il shall last
long alter ST. Paul's cathedral il as much
aluln as TIC 1'nrtlenOn-that such a
being was constructed for no purpose,
and 10 execute no mission, and without
any divine jNtentlon toward some end.
The object OF this sermon is to !.elp YOU
TO Eiid ont what you are made for, and
help y On find you sphere, and assist YOU
INTO that condition where Nou can say
with certainty and emphasis and enthu-
siasm and triumph: ITO this end was
bornn
First, discharge you from all respon.
sibiity ior most OF your environments.
You ale not responsible for your pare Mt
age or Srand-parentage. You are not
responsible iOrany oflke cranks that may
have lived in JCur ancestral line, and
who IL hundred years before YOU were
born may have lived style of lilc that
h'otc or less affects YOU today. You are
Lot responsible ior the fact thai Your
temperament is sang inc, or mclauclulc
or bilious. or !ymrha,ic, or nervous.
NelllIer are JCu responsible Tor the
place oi your nativity, whether among
The granite hills OF New England, or the
cotton plantations oi louisiana. or on
the hanks ot ll!c Clyde. or the Dniemr,
rr lhe Shannon. or The Seine. NciLhcr
are you rcslo sible iur the religion
taught IN your la ,er's house or the lrrt =
l'Shn. do lot bother yourself about
What 4tu cahnot help. or about circum-
sial ces that You did not decree. Take
things as they are and decide the uues-
tlCn 50 ilal ynu .hall be able safely to
10 say: 40 tins end was born.n How
will S.u dtcice ii? by directalplicnlion
10 Tie only being in The universe who is
competent TO tell yOu-the Lord AL
mighty. DO you know the reason why
lie rs the only one who can tell? Because
ho Call SEE everything between your craze
die and A.m &la,c, llOu9h III. grave h.
eighty Stais II. And besides that. he /
the tDly betn% "hO can see r " lat las
Etn haipthilg lUr the last 500 Years
III your Ancestral hhe, and Tor thousands
ut Years clear back to Adam, and Tn, re
Is not one lcIsUn iii all that ancestral
line ol 5000 J,ala hut has somehow
affected Jour character, and even old
Adam himself Hillsumolirnes turu up in
Your disposition. The only being lhat
can lake all things that pertain 10 YOU
into consideration is God, and he Is tie
one YOU can ask. Lite is so short we
Lave no tine TO experiment. with oc-
culatlOns ard prDic siUns. The reason
We Lave SO many dead failures Is that
parents decide iur teildren what the,
shall do, or children themselves, wrought
ON by some whm or fancy, decide iur
themselves without any imploration
of divine gudancts. So we have now
III pulplts men making sermons who
ought 10 &c III blacksmith shops making
uiOugshares, ana We have ia the luh
those who instead OF running lie case 8
OF Their clients ought to he pounding shoe
lasts, and ooctois who are the worst bin-
ORANGES TO ihcr patients 'cOnvalescence,
ana aftlsts trying 10 paint landscapes
I.r Ia 4.