Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-10-08

His Text Taken nom John Ayiii. 81. ITO
This End Was I Born"-An Able Dis
course Preceded by AN Impressive
Scene.
BROOKLYN, Oct "A most impressive
scene is that witnessed in the Brooklyn
4 Tabernacle, when al 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
Doxology This morning in addition TO
the congregational singing Professor Henry
Eyre Browne rendered from the organ.
Theme and Variations in A" By Kramer
DR. Talmage's text was taken from John
xviii, 81. ITO this end was born"
After PLATE had sucided, 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 dis
turbances swept that river and its banks
| Then the body WAS taken out and re-
moved TO Lausanne and put into deeper
pool, which Immediately became the center
of similar atmospheric and aqueous dis
turbances. Though these are fanciful and
false traditions they show the execration
with which the world looked upon PLATE
II WAS before this man when he WAS in full
life and power that Christ was arraigned as
in a court OF oyer and terminer. PLATE
said to his prisoner, art thou a king,
them" and Jesus answered. ITO this end
was born" Sure enough, although all
earth and hell arose to keep him down, he
Is today empalaced, enthroned and coro
mated king OF earth and king of heaven.
ITO this end was ! born That is what
ne came for and that was what he accom-
plished.
BY the time child reaches ten years OF
age the parents begin TO discover that
ehild's destiny, bur 10y the time he or she
reaches fifteen years Of age the question
is on the child's lips: what am | TO Der
What am going TO bef What was
made forY 1t is sensible and righteous
question, and the youth ought to keep on
asking IL until il is so fully answered that
the young man or the Young woman can
say with as much truth as its author,
though on less expansive scale. ITO this
end was born"
AN TRANSFERABLE QUESTION.
There is TOO much divine skill shown in
the physical. mental and moral constitu
tion of the ordinary human being to sup
pose that he was constructed without any
divine purpose II you take me out on
some 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 craftsman to de-
sign, and walls scrolled and niched and
paneed and wainscoted and painted. and
should ask you what this building was
put up for, and you answered. For moth
ing at ALL" how could | believe your
And it is impossible for me TO believe
that any ordinary human being who has
in his muscular. nervous and cerebral or.
ganization more wonders than Christopher
Wren lifted in ST. Paul's. or Phidias ever
chiseled on the Acropolis. and built in such
a way that it shall last long after st. Pauls
cathedral is as much ruin as the Parthe-
non-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 IL TO
help You TO find ont what you are made
for. and help you~find your sphere, and as
sist you into that condition where you can
say with certainty and emphasis and en-
thusiasm and triumph. ITO this end was |
born
THINGS You ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR.
First, discharge you from all response
bility for most of your environments. You
are not responsible for your parentage or
grandparentage You are not responsible
for any OF the cranks that may have lived
in your ancestral line. and who a hundred
years before you were born may have lived
a style of life that more or less affects you
today. Yon are not responsible for the
fact that your temperament Is sanguine
or melancholic or bilious OF 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 Dnieper. or the
Shannon, or the Seine. Neither are you re-
sponsible for the religion taught in your
fathers house, nor the irreligion. Do not
bother yourself about what you cannot
help. or about circumstances that you did
not decree.
Take things as they are aud decide the |
question so that you shall be able safely to |
say. ITO this end was born. How will |
you decide itl BY direct application to the |
only Being in the universe who is compe- |
tent to tell you--the Lord Almighty. Do |
one who can tellf Because he can see |
between your cradle and your 1
grave, though the grave be eighty years
off And besides that he is the only be-
ing who can see what has been happening
Tor the last Eve hundred years Ia your an
cestral 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 affected
gour character. and even old Adam him
self will sometimes turn up In your dispo-
sition. The only being who can take all
.hings that pertain to you into considera-
ion is God. and he is the one you can ask 1
Life Is SO short we have no time TO expert
nent with occupations and professions
The reason we have SO many dead fail
Tres is that parents decide for children
What they shall do. OF children themselves,
wrought on by some whim or fancy. decide
or themselves without any imploration
II divine guidance So we have now IN
,ulpits men making sermons who ought TO
De in blacksmith shops making plowshares,
md we have in the law those who instead
If running the cases of their clients ought