Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-10
z olFERF { { SERMON.
PREACHED BY DR: TALMAGE ON
SUNDAY, OCT.

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SUNDAY, OCT.
what Were Ton 5aiado For2---An sImpor-
stant Question Asiseel and Answered.
.To This End Was 1 Isorn',==-John XVIII.
1.-the Text.
RooKLYN, Oct IA most impress
saiiye scplp is that Witnessed in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle wllenattlle open.
ing 0f-stlit. morning Service seven thou
sand persons sti,esIliail, iltnr. in the
99galleries and tl,ea,lioillinSroolns rise
andssingltI,p Dnxclogsy THIS morning.
in adj iti0n TO the ngreggatiolial: sing.
ling. Professor Henry Eyre browne. rem.
dered ffreinirlie ,rgslri. nliene rlrl Va
ri;ltioris Siin Il lrainrr.S aIlall-
stext3 was t:tkcn- from j oliif: xviii:
end vas born
SAfter,P illteSllad shielded tradition
says;tslatsl1s bod was tilrownginto5the
1Sber and sileilsst orlns enstlesl on and
ABOUT that river that Ills bodyli:iyssis;
Rhcne.s
ard similar disturbances swept that
FLYER and its banks Then the body
lwasstalken ont and removed to bau..
slnne, and pun ina deeper pool. which
lisstlnInediately became tile center OF sim
zilar atmospheric and aqueous disturb
sanct.s Though these are l;inciful and
false traditions. they show the execra-
Elton with which tile worIll looked upon
PLATE II was before This man. when
Ii lie was in full life and power, that
Christ WAS arrlgned as IN n court Of
10yer and terlnIner Pilate said to his
prisoner, art thou II 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 elnpalaced, entlronpd and
scoronated king Of eartlI and king Of
heaven TO this end was | born"
Tint is what lie came for. and that was
what he accomplished.
10y llIc llllle d ClillG iGslCsICN lSsll y Cli'
Iof age the parents begin to discover
that clliId's destiny; but by tile time he
or she reaches fifteen years OF age the
question is Oh, the cllild's lips: What
anl to be2 What am going to bes
What was made for2" 1t is n sensible
and righteous question, and the youth
ought to keep On asking it until it is so
fully answered that the young man or
tile young woman can' shy with as
Iulch truth as it's author, though on
less expansive scale. To 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 constrnctcrs
without any divine purpose. If you
take lne ont on some vast plain and
show me pilared temple surlnounted
by dome like St. Peters, aud having
floor OF precious stones, and arches
that must have taxed tile brain OF the
greatest craftsman to design, and
walls scroIled and niclled and paneled
and wainscoted and painted, and |
should ask you what this building WINS
put up for, and you answered. For
nothing at all. how could | believe
yon.
And it is impossible forrne to believe
that any ordinary human being, who
has in his muscular. nervous and cere-
bral organization more wonders than
Christopher Wren lifted in st. Paul's
or Phdias ever chiseled on the Acropolis,
and built in such a way that it shall
last long after ST. Paul's cathedral is
as much t, ruin as the Parthenon-that
such a being was constructed for no
purpose and to execute no mission and
without any divine intention toward
some end. The objecSof this sermon
is to help you to find out what you are
made for, and help you find your
sphere. and assist you into that condi-
ton where yon can. say with certainty
and emphasis and enthusiasm and
triumph, ITO this end was born.
WHAT You WILL NOT HAVE TO AN.
swER FoR
First, discharge you from all re-
sponsibility for most Of your environ
Inents. 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 hun
dred years before you were born
may have lived a style of life that
more or less affects you today. You
are not responsible for the fact that
your temperament is sanguine or mel
ancholic or bilious or lymphatic or
nervous. Neither are you responsible
for the place OF your nativity, whether
among the granite hills OF New Eng
land. or the cotton plantations of Lou
isiana, 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 circumstances 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 born. !"
How will you decide it? BY direct ap-
plication to the only Being in the uni
verse who is competent to tell you
the Lord Almighty. DO you know the
reason why .he is the only one who can
tells Because. he can see everything
between your cradle and your grave,
though tie grave be eighty years of
And besides that lie is the only being
who CAN see what has been happening
for the last five hundred years i'll your
ancestral line, and for thousands OF
years clear back to Adam, and there