Connecticut western news., 1891-10-08
A POWERFUL SERMON,
PREACHED BY DR. TALMAGE ON
 SUNDAY, OCT. 4.

SUNDAY, OCT A.
 What Were You Made For7-An Impor- tant Question Asked and Answered. 'To This End Was I Born'-John xviii. 37. the Text.
 BRooKLYN, Oct. IA most impress
 sive scene is that witnessed in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. when at the open, ing of the morning service seven thou sand persons on the main floor, in the two galleries and the adj djoining rooms rise and sing the Doxology. This morning.
 in addition to the congregational sing
 ing, Professor Henry Eyre Browne ren dered from the organ. Theme and Va riations in A." by Kramer. Dr. Tal mage's text was taken from John xviii S7, ''ro this end was borNr
 After Pnate had shielded, tradition says that his body was thrown into the Fiber, and such storms ensued on and about that river that his body was taken out and thrown into the Rhone, and similar disturbances swept that river and it's banks. Then the body same, and put n a deeper pool. which immediately became the center of sim liar atmospheric and aqueous disturb ances. Though these are fanciful and false traditions, they show the execra- hon with which the world looked upon Pilate. It was before this man, when he was in full life and power. that Christ was aSraigned as in court of oyer and terlniner. Pilate said to his prisoner, Art thou king, then2' and Jesus answered, '"To this end Was l 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 of heaven '"To this end was l born !" That is what he came for. and that was what he accomplished.
 By the time child reaches ten years 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 the child's lips What am to beY What am going to bel What was l made for2' It is sensible and righteous question. and the youth ought to keep on asking 1t until it is so fully answered that the young man or the young woman can say with as much truth as it's author, though on a less expansive scale. ITO 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 constructed without any divine purpose. If you take me out on some vast plain and show me pillared temple surnounted
 by dome like St. Peters, and having a floor of precious stones, and arches
 that must have taxed the brain of the greatest draftsman to design, and
 walls scrolled and niched and paneled and wainscoted and painted, and should ask you what this building was put up for, and you answered. For nothing at all. :" how could I believe you,
 And it is impossible for me 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 Phidias ever chiseled on the Acropolis,
 and built in such way that it shall last long after St. Paul's cathedral is as much 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 object of this sermon
 is to help you to find out what you are
 made for, and help you find you,
 sphere, and assist you into that condi tion where you can say with certainty
 and emphasis and enthusiasm and ! triumph, ITO this end was I born" WHAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO AN sWER FOR
 First, l discharge you from all re
 sponsibility for most of your environ l ments You are not responsible for your percentage or grandparentage.
 You are not responsible for any of the cranks that may have lived in your ancestral line. and who hun dred years before you were born may have lived style of life that 1 more or less affects you today. You
 are not responsible for the fact that your temperament is sanguine or mel l anchoic or bilious or lymphatic or l 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 Loh l isiana, or on the banks of the Clyde. 1 or the Dnieper, or the Shannon, or the l Seine. Neither are you responsible for ] the religion taught in your fathers house or the irreligion Do not bother i yourself about what you cannot help, 1 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, TO this end was born. "
 How will you decide it2 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
 teu7 Because he can see everything
 between your cradle and your grave,
 though the grave be eighty years of. And besides that he is the only being
 who can see what has been happening
 for the last five hundred years in your
 ancestral line, and for thousands of l years clear back to Adam and there | is not one person in all that ancestral
 line of six thousand years but has some
 how affected your character, and even
 old Adam himself will sometimes turn
 up in your disposition. The only Being
 who can take all things that pertain to