Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-08
Seven Thousand People in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle.
ITO THIS END WAS I BORN"
Was the Text from Which the Eloquent Divine
Discoursed Yesterday,
The Object of Which Sermon Was, He
Stated, 20 Help You Find Out What
You Were Made for and to Help
You Find Your Sphere.
WHAT WERE YOU MADE FOR?

service 700 persons on Jne lHaln Hoor, III
the two galleries and the adjoining rooms
rise and sing the Doxolcgy. This morning,
In addition to the congregational singing
Professor Henry Eyre Brown rendered
from the organ, Theme and Variations IN
A" by kra ner. DIR. Talmaee's text was
taken from John 1887, ''To this End Was
Bora"
After PLATE had suiclded. tradition says
that his body was thrown into the 1loer,
and such storms enSued on and about that
river that his body was taken out and
thrown into the Rhone, and similar dlStur-
Dances swept that river and its banks.
Then the body was taken out and moved TO
Lausanne, and put in deeper pool Whlch
Immediately became the center OF similar
atmospheric and aqueous disturbances
Though these are fanciful and false tradl-
lions they show the execration with which
The world looked upon Plate. II was be-
fore this man when he was in full HE ana
power that Christ was arralgned as IN
court of Oyer and Terminer. Plate SAD 10
his prisoner: art thou king, then!" anG
Jesus answered: ITO this end was | born. y
Sure enough, although all earth and he'll
arose TO keep him down. He Is to-day en-
palaced, enthroned and coroneted king OF
earth and king of heaven.
ITO THIS END WAS 1 BORN"
That is what he came for, and that Is
what he accomplished.
BY the time child reaches ten years OF
age the parents begin to discover that
cbild's destiny. but by the time he or she
,eaches fifteen wears of age the question is
on the child,s Inns; sFWhat shall l be?
What am going to be? What was made
FORE, II Is a sensible and righteous ques-
ton. and the youth ought to keep asking 1t
until il is SO fully answered that the young
man. or Young woman. can say with as
much truth as its author though OH Il less
eXpansiye scale; To this end was
horn ;,
There is TOO much divine skill shown in
the 1hvsical. mental and moral constitution
nf the ordinary human being to suppose
that he was constructed without any divine
purpose. If YOU take me out on some vast
nlain and show me a pillared temple sur
mounted nv a dome like St Peters and hay
ing a floor of precious stones and arches
that must have taxed the brain of the great
est drlugbtsman TO design, and walls
scrolled aud niched and paneled and vain
scottcd ard painted and [ should ask you
what this building was put up for, and you
answered. For nothing at ALL how
could believe YOU! And it is impossible
for me to believe that any ordinary human
being who has in his muscular nervous
and ,,erchraI organization more wonders
Christonher Wren lifted IN St. Paul's, or
Pbid.as ever chiseled on the Acropolis,
and built in such a way that it shall last
long after 81 Paul's cathedral is as much
a rtir rs the Partheuou-that such being
was constructed FOR no purpose. and to eX-
ecute no mission, and without any divine
Intention toward some end The object of
his sermon is to help YOU to find out
WU,rYoU ARE MADE FOR,
spd helm Won fird y0ur sphere. and assist
ron INFO that condition where YOU can saw
with certainty and emphasis and enthusi-
ssr and triumph. 40 this end | was
porn
First. l discharge you from all response
hiIitv For most of yoIlr environments. You
are no, rpsro,sibIe for your pareutaee or
grand narentare, You are not responsi bic
Ton. AMI. of the rranks that may have lived
In vou,. ancestral line and who a hundred
Years hefora Won were horn NAV have lived
st,,ia of life that more or less affects Won
TO-DAY Sou ora NOT responsible for the
Fact that your teTnneramenr is sauguiue. or
rnelanchoiic or biIious on. lymphatic. or
n..vnl,e Naithar are Won reSnonsible for
tho ,,I1,.a of [,o,n. nstivifv whether amony
tba eropi+a hills of Naw EnrIand or the
,,nt.on ,,ian,atious of Inuisians o. ON the
hanks If The CIyd,, or the Dneiper or the
sSbsnnon or tSe seine Neither ara Won
,asnnnsibIe for. the ,,oITg;on TAUGHT in vour
tatber,s house or the irrelipion Do not
botba, ,ToTrSnIF ahont What Won cannot
III or chnI,, ,.;rcurnstanras that You did
,no, d..roa Tal5o +hiurc ac they are and
Ssc;io ~ question 50 th,t Won shall bc
pbI, saFaIv 10 saw 80 this end WAS
hoy.n = How viii Won decide itt BY direct
.nnI;ca,ion to tho only hainp in the mi
rarsa who * counateut 10 tell you-the
/ ord aImipbtv DO Won know the reason
s,h,. he is In, only one VINO can teil2 Be
r.,Icn no on, seq avarvthino between vnur.
rr.,dle and vour grave though the grave he
,i.-h+, yaars OF And besides that he is
rtn onlt heinz who can see what has been
L,,na,t,p,, i, ,t., l.s+ soo ,-aars in vOur an
rst,rsj Inc and for thousands of wears
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and ,ha,,s ;s not one larson in all that an
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arncfIld ,'o,T rhara,,ts,. and eynn old Adam
i,i,S,ssIf iii snnet;rnee tl,rn ny, in vo,,r
Gisnositfor The onIv feimr, Who can }slte
All fhings that pertain TO YOU into considera-
+iar &c cod and he is the one Won can ask
Life is so short we have no time to expert
nent with occupations and professions.
The reason we have SO many dead failures
IS that parents decide Tor chlldren what
they SHAH 10, or cnlGren themselves,
wrought on oy some Willm or fancy declue
Tor themselves WilAoul any lllpIotal ION OF
dlN!Le guoauce- 30 we nave now IN pull
pits men making sermons VINO ought 10 oe
H. blacksmith shops making pioWslares,
snc we nave III TIE law those VINO instead
nj running tue cases OF thelr cIehts ought
20 pe u"Andlng shoe lasts, ana DOCTORS VINO
gre the worst hlncrances 10 thelr patients
convaieSceAre. ana drtlsls tfNLhS 20 paint
landscapes who ougnt TO De whiteWaShlllS
board fences. Nhiie there are otilefS max
ing bricks who ought 10 be relnodellng
constitutions. or showing planes VINO ought
10 De Transforming ltetattrtsS- ASK 3ool
ABOUT what wurIu-y business you Shd1l
undertake until ton are so posluEe you can
81 earnestneSs snlte your hand on your