Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-05
A POWERFUL SERMON.
PREACHED BY Or. TALMAeE ON
SUNDAY, OCT. 4.


ITO This End was Born"-John srii'
81. the Text
lsRooKLYE. Oct. 4. "A most irnprr
eve scene Is that witnessed IN
brooklyn Tabernacle, when at the o.
ing of the morning service seven tiiD4
sand persons on the main ioor. IN
two galleries eadjoiningroOin.
and sing the Doxology This moriia-
IN addition 20 the congregational @a:
ing. Professor Henry Eyre Browne r9n
dered from the organ, Theme and Va
riations in A." by Kramer Dr. Ia'
IMAGES text was taken from John xviii
81. ITO this end was born"
After plate had suicided, tradition
says that his body was thrown into the
Tiber. and such storms ensued on aud
about that river that his body wa
taken ont and thrown into the Rbone.
and similar disturbances swept that
river and It's banks Then the body
was taken out and removed to Lau
same. and put in deeper pool. which
immediately became the center OF sim
liar atmospheric and aqueous disturb
ances Though these are fancifnl and
false traditions, they show the execra'
ton 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 court OF
over and terrniner plate said TO his
prisoner, art thou a king. thenr and
Jesus answered. TO this end was !
born" Sure enough. although all
earth and hell arose to keep him down.
He is today empalaced, enthroned and
coronated king Of earth and king ol
heaven. ITO this end was ] born.
That Is what he came for, and that wa
what he accomplished.
BY the time a child reaches ten year
OF age the parents begin to discover
that chlld's destiny; but by the time h'
or she reaches fifteen years of age the
question Is ON the child's lips; What
am | TO BET What am going 20 be
What was made fort" II is n sensible
and righteous question, and the you'll
ought to keep on asking IL until it is 81
fully answered that the young man o.
the young woman can say with a
much truth as It's author, though on I
less expansive scale, ITO this end was
born"
There Is too much divine skill show
In the physical, mental and moral cor
stitution of the ordinary human beln
TO suppose that he was constructe
without any divine purpose. II yo
take me out on some vast plain an
show me pillared temple surnounte
by dome like st. Peters, and havin
floor OF precious stones, and archie
that must have taxed the brain OF tn
greatest craftsman TO design, an
walls scrolled and niched and panele
and wainscoted and painted, and
should ask you what this building wa
put up for, and you answered, "Fo
nothing at all. !" how could believ
you
And II Is impossible for me to believ
that any ordinary human being, VIII
has IN his muscular, nervous and cer'
bral organization more wonders tina
Christopher Wren lifted in st. Paul
orPhidias everchiseled on the Acropolii
and built in such n way that II sha
last long after st. Paul's cathedral
as much a ruin as the Parthenon ths
such being was constructed for n
purpose and to execute no mission an
without any divine intention towar
some end. The object OF this serno
Is 20 help you TO dnd out what you al
made for. aud help you find yol
sphere, and assist you into that cond
tion where you can say with certaini
and emphasis and enthusiasm an
triumph. TO this end was born. J."
WHAT yoU Will NOT HAvK no Al
swlsR FOR,
First, discharge yon from all r
sponsibility for most of your enviro
ments. You are not responsible 4
your parentage or grandparentag
You are not responsible for any
the cranks that may have lived
your ancestral line. and who "A hu
dred years before you were boz
may have lived style OF life tn
more or less affects You today, fC
are not responsible for the fact th
your temperament Is sanguine or m'
aneholie or bilious or Emphatic
nervous Neither are you responsib
for the place OF your nativity, wheth
among the granite hills Of New En-
land. or the cotton plantations OF Lo
islana, or on the banks Of the Clyd
or the Dnieper, or the Shannon, or d
Seine. Neither are you responsible
the religion taught In your fathe
horse or the lrrellglon, DO not both
yourself about what you cannot hel
or about circumstances that you
not decree.
Take things as they are and deei
the question 30 that you shall be al
safely 10 say, "To this end was ] borr
How viii you decide iti by direct
pllcation 10 the only Being la the "a
verse who Is competent 20 tell you
the Lord Almighty. DO YOU know
reason why he "a the only one who 6
falI.~ because he can see everythl
between your cradle and your gra'
4llough the grave be eighty years 9
And besides fllat lac Is the only bel
WHO can see what has been happenl
for tho last five hundred years IN -
ancestral line. aud for thousands
years clear back 10 Adam. aud th'