Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-05
EACUSE FOR LIVING.
That Is What Is Asked for by DR..
Talmage in His Sunday Sermon.
EARTHLY MISSIONS FOR EVERYONE
The Lord Alone PREPARED to Point Out the
Life Work of Man.
STRONG ADDRESS AT THE TABERNACLE
EARTHLY MISSIONS FOR EVERYONE
STRONG ADDRESS AT THE TABERNACLE
.srrCIAI TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

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 in
the adjoining rooms, rise and sing the Dox-
ology. This morning, in addition to the
congregational singing, Prof Henry Eyre
Browne rendered from the organ ''Theme
and Variations in A. by Kramer DR.
Talmage'S text was taken from John xviii,
81. "To 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 that river
thar 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 immediate
ly became the center of similar atmospheric
and aqueous disturbances. Though these
are fanciful and false traditions, they show
the cNecratiOn with which the world looked
upOu PLATE. 1t was before this man when
he was in full life and power that Christ was
arlaigned as in court of Oyer and Termtner.
Pilatc said to mis- prisoner: art Thou
King, them" and Jesus answered: "To this
end was [ born" Sure enough, although
all earth and hell arose to keep Him down.
He is to-day Cmpalaced enthroned ana
cOrOneted King of earth and King OF heaven.
"Tu this end Was | born" That is what
He came for and that was what He accom-
Dlished.
the physical. mental and moral constitution
of the ordinary human being to suppose
that he was constructed without any divine
purpose. II is impossible for me to believe
that any ordinary human being who has in
his muscular, nervous and cerebral organi-
ZatiOn more wonders than Christopher
Wren lifted in 81. Paurs, OF Phidias ever
III. LII 1,,,s slk
n way that it shall last long after st. Paul's
Cathedral is as much ruin as the Parthenon
that such being was constructed for no
purpose. and to execute no mission, and
without any divine intention toward some
ENG. The object of this sermon is to help
vou to 4ind 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; ''To this end was born"
YOUR PARENrAGE DOES NOT COUNT.
First. I discharge you from all RESPONSE
bility FOR most OF your environments. You
are not responsible for your parentage, or
grand-parentage. You are not responsible
for any of the cranks that may have lived in
your ancestral line, and who 100 wears be-
fore You were born may have lived style of
lie that more or less affects you today.
hOV are not responsible for the fact that
your temperament Is Sanguine. or melan-
Chollc. or bilious. orlymphatic, or nervous.
your nativity. whether among the granite
hills of New England, or the cotton planta-
tIous 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, or about circum-
stances that you did not decree. Take
things a. they are and decide the question
so that you slall he able safely to say: ITO
this end was l born How will you decide
a Il q. Rnin
in the universe who is competent to tell you
the Lord Almighty.
Lille Is so short we have no time to expert
mcnt 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 whim or fancy, decide for them
selves without any imploration of divine
guidance. So we have now in Dulpits men
making sermons who ought to be in black |
SlIth shops making plOwshareS, and we |
have in the law those who. instead of ruin |
ing the cases of their clients, ought to he |
pounding shoe lasts, and doctors who are the |
worst hindrances to their patients GONZALES
Ccnce, and artists trying to paint landscapes
WOO ought to be whtcwashing board fences,
while there are others making bricks who
ought to be remodeling constitutions, or
showing planes who ought to be transform
ing literatures. Ask God about what
worldly business you shall undertake until
vOu are 50 positive you can in earneStnesS
-mite your hand on your plow handle, or
Your carpenters bench, or your Blackstone's
Commentaries, or your medical diction-
alv. or vOur DR.. Dicks "Didactic Theology"
saving: "FOr this END was born" There |
are children who early develop natural affin- |
ities for certain styles of work. When the
father of the astronomer Forbes was going
to London he asked his children what pres
cnt he should bring each one of them. The |
hoy who was to be an astronomer cried out, |
Bring me telescopeH'
BORN WITH ESPECIAL FITNESS.
Then there are those born for some |
especial work, and their fitness does not de- |
vcIop until quite late. When Philip Dodd- |
ridge, whose sermons and books have har- |
vested uncounted souls for glory, began TO |
stacy the ministry, Dr CalamY, one of the |
wl>cst and best men, advised him to turn his |
thoughts to some other work. Isaac Barrow,
the eminent clergyman and Christian |
scientSt-hiS books standard now thongh /
lie has been dead over 200 years-waS the dis |
LeaTmCHt of his father who used to say
1 q: II il pleased God to take any of his chill |
Gren away he hoped it might be his son
Isaac So some of those who have been
characterized for their stupidity in boyhood
or girldhoOd, have turned out the mightiest |
bcn2factOrS or EcncfactreSSes of the human
race. IheSc THINGS being SO. am not right
IA saying that III many cases God only knows
" hat l. the most appropriate thing for YOU |
to do, and He is the one TO ask
But My subject now mounts into the mo-
mcnioUo. Let me say that you are made for
usefulness ana heaven. / judge this from |
the way YOU are built. Now, what has the
world "a right TO expect of you? What has
{ ID a right to demand OF YOU? God is the |
creates OF economists in the universe and
he makes nothing UscleSsly, and for what
purpose did he build your body, mind and
soul rs they are built2 There are only two
beings in the universe who can answer that
question. The angels do not know, The
schools do not know. Your kindred cannot
certainly know; A factory running at an
expense OF s5aOON year. and turning ont
goods worth 20 cents n year would not be
such an inccn=rruty as You, oh man, with
'rch semi-lniinite equipment doing nothing,
o. next tC nothing, IN the way of usefulness |
DO not wait lor extraordinary Qualifica-
lions. Philip the Cunqueror gained his
GREATEST victories seated on a mule and if
rOU wait for some caparisoned Bucephalus
tn ride into the conflict you will never get |
1to the worldwide fight at all. Samson
Jew the Lord enemies with the iawbone
ii the StUpiGGSt beast created. Shamuar |
,lew 500 of the Lords enemies with an OK
.uad- Under God, spttle cured the blind
INNS ewes in the New Testament story |
Lord, Here j. what L have, show ME the
ield and back me up by omnipotent power
Anywhere, anyhow, any time for God"
THE MINISTER'S WORK -IAPPED OUT.
Two men riding on horseback came to n
rough to water the horses. While the
lorscs were drinking, one of the men said
% the other few words about the value of
lie soul, ana then they rode away and in
opposite directions. But the words uttered
we're the salvation of the one to whom they
we're uttered. and lie became tile Rev. Mr..
hampton, one of the most distinguished
MISSIONARIES IN heather lands: Tor years
wondering who did for him the Christian
< IludneSs' and not finding out until in a bun
t!t 0i books sent him to Africa he found
me biography OF Braiuerd Taylor and
Alri0rc of him, and the missionary rec
'-hlZeu the face in that book as the man
no ar the Watering trough for horses, had
'aIt fse thing hat saved his soul
90 I.sV 4 !