Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-10-29
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
Or. TAlMACE ON THE MiSSiON
OF CHRIST.
rhe Text Taken from John 10: 81
ITO tbls End WAS Born
fh.user rom thc Great freacher's
Everyday Life.

RRookLyS. Y. V. Oct 4. l,!l'-A
rost impreSsiye scene is that witnessed
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. when a.
the opeuinr OF the morning service
:. 900 persons on the main floor, IN the
two galleries. and the adjoining
rooms rise and sing the DoNology. ms
morning in addition to the congrcga-
rional singing, Prof. Henry Eyre
}rowne rendered from the organ,
..Theme and Variations in A., by |
Kramer. DIR. Talmage's text was
taken from John 1897, 80 this END
was born"
After PLATE had suicided, trauitlon
saws that his body was thrown INTO
the Tiber. and such storms ensued on
and about that river that his body was
taken out aud thrown into the Rhone,
and similar disturbances swept that
river and its banks. Then the body
was taken ont and removed TO Lau-
same. aud put in q deeper pool, when
Immediately became the center OF
similar atmospheric and aqueous dis.
turbances Though these are fanclful
and false traditions, they show
the execration with which the world
looked upon Plate. 1t was before TINS
man when he was in full life and pow
er tina, Christ was arraigned a. in IL
court of Oyer and Terminer. Plate
said to his prisoner: Art thou King,
thenY ana Jesus answered.; Ito this
end was l born Sure enough. al
though all earth and hell arose TO
keep him down. He is to-day empai-
aced. enthroned and coroneted king OF
earth and king of Heaven. ITO this
end was 1 born" That is what he
came for, and that was what he &C
complished.
BY the time the child reaches ten
wears of age the parents begin to dis
cover that chiid's destiny; but by the
time he or She reaches fifteen years of
age. the question is on the childs lips:
What am to be? What am I going
to be? What was made for?' 1t is
sensible and righteous question, and
the youth ought to keep on asking it
until it is SO fully answered that the
young man, or the young woman. can
| say with as much truth rs its author,
, though on 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 a pillared temple surmounted
by a dome like st. Peters, and having
floor of precious stones, and arches
that must have taxed the brain of
he greatest draughtsman to de-
sign, and walls scrolled and
niched and paneled and wainscottet!
and painted, and should ask you what
/ &
answered: ''For nothing at all, how
sible for me to believe that any ordi-
nary human being who has in his mus
cular, nervous and cerebral organiza-
ton more wonders than Christopher
Wren lifted in St. Pauls, or Phidias
ever chiseled on. the Acropolis, and
built in such way that it shall las,
long after ST. Paurs Cathedral is n
much ruin as the Parthcnon-tha'
such being was constructed for n,
purpose. and to execute no mission
and without any divine intention to
wrrd some end. The object Of thi
sermon is to help you to find out wha
you are made for, ana help you fint
your sphere. and assist you into tina
condition where you can say with Ger
tainty and emphasis aud enthusiasm
and triumph:''To this end was born.
First. l discharge you from all re
sponsibility for most OF your environ
ments. You are not responsible TO
your parentage, or grand-parcntage
You are not responsible for any of tn
cranks that may have lived in you
ancestral line, and who q hundred
years before you were born, may hav
lived style of life tina
more or less affects you to-day
You are not responsible 70
, the fact that your Temperament
is sanguine. or melancholic, or bil,oul
or lymphatic, or nervous. Neither ar
you responsible for the place of YOU
nativity, whether among the grant,
! hills Of New England, or the cotto
. plantations of Louisiana. or ON tn
banks Of the Clyde, or the Dnieper, {
the shannon, or the Seine. Neitha
are you responsible for the reli9io
! taught in your fathers house, or the i
= religion. Do not bother yourso
about what you cannot help. or abo,
! circumstances that you did not d
: cree. Take things as they are and d.
, eide the question SO that YOU shall /
able safely to say: ITO this end was
born" How will you decide it? h
direct application to the only Beiu
> in the universe who is competent
, tell you-the Lord Almighty. Do yc
: know the reason why He is the on
one who can tell? Because He can s,
, everything between your cradle ar
! your grave, though the grave be eigh,
/ years off. And besides that, II
is the only Being who can $,
what has been happening +,
the last Eve hundred wears
< your ancestral line, and for thousan,
Y of years clear back to Adam. and the
l is not one person in all that ancestr
limo of six thousand years but hi
: somehow affected your character, a,
even old Adam himself will sometim
Q turn mp in your disposition. The on
S Being who can take ill things that ne
! tain to You into consideration is 30
. and he is the one you can ask. Life
u SO short that we have NO time to e
+ pertinent with occupations and proft
: sions. The reason we have SO mai
dead failures il that parents deci
a for children what they shall co,
children themselves. wrought on |
Q some within or fancy, decide for the,
r selves without any importation of ,
l. vine guidance. So we have now