The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-10-14
THE TABEkNACLE PULPIT.
DR.. 7ALMAGE ASKS TIE QUESTION,
"MHAT WERE YOU mAOE FOR?"

This Ead Was Eorn"-Aa Able Dis
course Preceded ID, An lmpressivx
Scene.
BRooLLyN, Oct. A most impress
sive sceoe is that witnessed in the Brook
lYn Tabernacle, when al the OF ening OF
the morning service 7.000 persons on the
main floor, IN two galleries and the
adjoining rooms. rise and sing the Dox-
ology. ibis morning il addition to the
congregational singing Prot. Henry
Eyre Browne rendered from the organ,
Theme and Variations in A." by
Cramer. Dr.. Talnase's text was taken
from John 1887, ITO this end was l
born
Afler Plate had suici6eG. tradltion
says that his body was thrown iuto the
Tiber, and such storms ensu-d on and
about that river that this 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 rse,oyed To Lausanne
and put in deeper poo:, which imnledi-
ately became the c:uter OF similar at
mospheric and aqueous disturbances.
Though these are laucitul and false tra-
ditions they show the eXecration with
which the world looked upon Plate. 1t
was before this man when he was in full
life and power that Christ was arraisned
asin court OF oyer and terminer. Plate
said TO his prisoner: ''art thou king.
them" md Jesus answered: Ito this end
was I born.'' Sure enough, although
all earth and hell arose to keep him
down. He is today empslaced, enthrona
and tcr"neted kin. OF earth and king of
heaven. TO this end was ,born.''
.Tha: is what lie came for, and that is
what be accomplished.
BY the time child reaches ten wears
Of age the parents begin to discover that
child's destiny, but by the time he or she
reaches fifteen Years of age, the question
is on tie child's lips: What am I to be-
What am I going 70 do: What was
made tor:" II ia sensihle and right
eous question, and the youth ought to
keep n asking it until 1t is 80 fully
answered that the young man, OR the
woman can say with as much truth as
its author, though 90 less expensive
scale: "to this end was l born"
There ls too much divine skill show u
In the physical, mental and moral con.
stitution Of the ordinary human being to
suppose that ne vas constructed Without
any divine purpose. Ifyou take me out
on some VAST PLAIN and show NE pill
Jared temple surmousted by q dome
like St. Peters, and having 8 floor of pre-
cious stones, and arches that must have
taxed tbs BRAIN Of greatest draughts-
man TO design, and walls scrolled and
nlched and pane:e q and wainscotted and
painted, snd should ask what this luilr-
ing Was put Up for, and you answered:
''toc Lothingas all" how could believe
you? And il is impossible for me to be-
lieve that any ordinary human being
who has In his muscular, nervous and
cerebral organization mere wonders than
Christoper Wren lift; d in St. Paul's, or
Phidias ever chi>eled On the Acropolis,
and built in such way that it shall last
long after st. Pauls cathedral is as much
= ruin az the .Par,henon-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
to tnd out what you are made for, and
help you ind you sphere, and assist You
into that condition where you can say
with certainty and emphasis and enthu-
slasm and triumph: ITO this end was
born"
First, discharge you from all respon-
sibilitY Tor most OF your environments.
You are Dot responsible for your parent
age or gran6-parentage. You are not
responsible for any ofthe cranks that may
have lived in your ancestral line. and
whe hundred years before you were
born may have lived :. style Of life that
h.o,e or less affects YOU today. u ou are
not responsible tor the fact that your
Temperament is sanYGir.e. or melapchol!c
or bilious, or lNmphalic, or nervous.
Neither are you responsible for the
place OF Your nativity, whether among
Tie granite hills OF New England, or tile
cotton plantations of Louisiana, or Oh
the banks OF The Clyde, or tie Dnieltr,
or the Shannon, or The Seine. Neither
are You responsible for the religion
taught 10 your ia,ner's house or the ire
ligion. DO 20: bother yourself about
what you carno: help, or about circum-
stak ces that you did pot decree. Take
things as they are and decide the ques-
lion so thai ynu sball be abe safel, TO
to say: Ito tits eud was I born.' How
will you decide il? By direct application
20 the only being in the universe who is
competent to tell you-the Lord Al
mighty. Do you know the reason why
he Is the only one who can tell. Because
he can see everything between your craze
die and your grave, though the grave bs
eighty years oti. And besides THAI, lie
the only LeiDg who can see what has
BEEN happening ior the last 500 losrs
in your aucesuat lile, and for thousands
OF years clear back to Adam, and there
is not one person il all that sn.esi al
lire OF 5000 Years but has somehow
affected your character, and even old
Adam himself w!llsomeiimes turu up III
Your disposition. The only being That
csn take all things that pertain to you
into consideration is God, and he Is the
one YOU can ask. Lie is 80 short we
have no tire to experiment with oc-
cupatioDs and proie sions. The reason
ne have SO u.nI dead failures Is that
parents decide ior ceildren what they
shall DO, orchildren themselves, wrousA:
on by some whin OR fancy, decide io1
themselves without any !naploration
Of divine guiGances. So We Lave now
in pulpits men making sermons who
ought 10 be i'll blacksmith shops making
plousshares, and We have in the Law
those wko instead Of running the cases
OF their clients ought 10 be pounding shoe
lasts, and doctors who are the worst him
ORANGES 10 their patients convalesceuce,
orS orfjSts trv,pp ia paiDt lapSe ro y,as