Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09
Tho Tabernacle Pulpit.

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 Lausanne and
into deeper pool, which Immediately
became the centerof similar atmospheric
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 was in full life and
power Christ was arraigned as in court
of oyer and terminer. PLATE said to mis-
prisoner, cart thou king, then?" and
Jesus answered, ITO this end was
born" Sure enough, although all earth
and hell arose to keep Him down, He is
to-day emplaced, enthroned, coronated
King of earth and King of Heaven. 'sro
this end was born.'' That is what He
came for and that was what He accom-
plished.
BY the time child reaches 10 years
of age the parents begin to discover that
child's destiny; but by the time he or she
reaches Is years of age the question is
on the child's lips: "What am I to be?
What am l going to be2 What was l
made for?' tbs 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 it's author,
though on less expensive 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 with
out any divine purpose If you take ire
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 wainscoted
and painted, and should ask you what
this building was put up for, and you an
swered, ''For nothing at ALL" how could
l 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 Chris
TOPPER Wren lifted in st. Paul's or
Phidias ever chiseled on the Acropolis,
and built in such way that it shall last
long after ST. Pauls Cathedral is as
much ruin as the Parthcnon-that
such a 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 find out what you are made
for, and help you find your sphere, and
assist you into that condition where you
can say with certainty and emphasis
and enthusiasm and triumph, sTo this
end was born"
First, l discharge you from all respon-
stbility for most of your environments.
You are not responsible for your parent
age or grandparentage. You are not re-
sponsible for any Of the cranks that may
have lived in your 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 melancholic
or bilious or Emphatic or nervous.
Neither are you responsible 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 Dniepcr,
or the S lannon, or the Seine. Neither
are you responsible for the religion
taught in your fathers house, nor the
irreligion. Do not bother yourself about
what you cannot help, or about circum-
stances that you did not decree.
Take things as they are and decide the
question so that you shall be able safely
to say. ITO this end was l born.'' How
will you decide it? BY direct application
to the only Being in the universe who is
competent to tell you - the Lord
Almighty, Do you know the reason
why He is the only one who can tcll9
Because He can see everything between
your cradle and your grave, though the
grave be eighty years off. And, besides
that, He is the only being who can see
what has been happening 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 line of 5000 years but has
somehow affected your character, and
even old Adam himself will sometimes
turn up in your disposition. The only
being who can take all things that per-
tain to you into consideration is God, and
He is the one you can ask. Life is short
we have no time to experiment with oc-
equations and professions.
The reason We have SO many dead
failures is that parents decide for. chill
dren what they shall do, or children
themselves, wrought on by some whin.
or fancy, decide for themselves without
any imploration of divine guidance SO
we have now in pulpits men making ser
mons who ought to be III blacksmith
shops making plowsharcs and we have
in the law those who instead of running
the cases of their clients ought to be
pounding shoe lasts, and doctors who are
the worst hindrances to their patients
convalescencc, and artists trying to paint
landscapes who ought to be whitcwasn
ing board fences. While there are 9TH
ers making bricks who ought to be re-
modling constitutions or showing planes
who ought to be transforming literature.
Ask God about what worldly business
you shall undertake until you are SO
positive you can in carncstncss smi,G
your hand on your plow handle, or your
! carpenters bench, or your Rlackstoncs
'Commcntarics." or your medical die
| tionarv, or your DR.. Dicks 'sDidacljc
Theology" saying, ''For this end was
born"
There are children who carly develop
natural attinitlcs for certain styles OF