Telegram-herald., 1891-10-05
THE TABERNACLEPULp
or. rsLMAoE ASKS The QUESTION
s'w,Ar WERE YOU MADE Foar

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BEc0xLYs. Oct "A most impressive
rene is thzs witnessed 10 the BROOKLYN
Tabsxnaeis. when az the opening Of ths
morning ssrylcs seyen thousand persons
On the main roor IA the two galleries and
the adjoining rooms. risa and sing the
Doxelogy This morning IN addition TO
the congregational = n ging Professor HeErT
Eyre Browne readersd from the organ,
srhsms aud Variations In A." by Kramer.
DR.. Iaimage's text was taken from John
xviii. 81. ITO this snd was horas
After PilAe had suieided, tradition says
that his body vas thrown into the Tiber.
and sucn storms sasned on aud about that
river that lis body was taken OCT and
thrown into the Rhons, and similar dis
tarbances swept that river and its bankA
Thea the body was taken out and re-
moved 10 Lausanne and put into a deeper
pool. which itnmscisresy became the center
Of similar atmospheric aud aqueous dis
taroanceA Though these are fanciful and
false traditions they show the execration
"@~- '@f-s@ ~-D W0@A- @CoActt upon A41tr.
Is vas before this man when he was la full
Efs and power that Christ was arraignei az
IN court OF oyer and terminer Plate
said 20 his prisoner. Art thou q king,
thenf" and Jesus answered. '@To this end
Vas | born" Sure enough, although all
earth and hell arose TO keep him down, he
b today smpalaeed. enthroned aud coro-
mated king OF earth and king OF heaven.
"'ro this end WAS born" That Is what
be came for and that was what he accom-
piished
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
h on the child's lips: What am 10 bep
What am | going To bes What was I
made forf" IL Is a sensible and righteous
question. and the youth ought To keep on
asking IL until it Is SO fully answered that
the young man or the young woman can
say with as much truth as its author.
though on a less ex pansive scale. ITO this
end was born"
Az usASswERABLE QUESTION
There Is too much divine skill shown in
the physical. mental and moral constitu-
tion OF the ordinary human being to sup
pose that he was constructed without any
divine purpose. Ii you take me out on
some vast plain and show me q pillared
temple surmounted by a dome like St.
Peters. and having a floor Of precious
stones. and arches that must have taxed
the brain OF the greatest craftsman to de-
sign, and walls scrolled and niched and
pansled and wainscoted and painted. and /
should ask you what this building was
put up for, and you answered. "For moth
Ing at all" how could believe your
And IL Is impossible for me to believe
that any ordinary human being who has
IN his muscular nervous and cerebral or
ganization moro wonders than Christopher
Wren lifted In St Paufs. or Phidias ever
chlselcd on the Acropolis. and built in such
n way that 1t shall last long after St Pauls
cathedral Is As much . ruin as the Parthe-
ncn-thas such being was constructed
for no purpose. aud 10 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 your sphere. and as
sist you into that condition where you can
SAY with certainty and emphasis and en-
thusiasm and triumph, ITO this end was
born"
THINGS YoU AER NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR.
First, discharge you from all response
bility for most OF your environments. You
are not responsible for your parentage or
grandparentagcL You are not responsible
for any OF the cranks that may have lived
fn your ancestral line. and who a hundred
years before you were born may have lived
q style OF life that moro or less affects you
today. You are not responsible for the
fact that your temperament Is sanguins
or me!ancholic or bilious or lymphatic or
nervous Neither are You responsible for
the place Of yonr nativity. whether among
the granite hills OF New England, or the
rotton plantations Of Louisiana. or on the
banks OF the Clyde. or the Duieper, or the
Shannon, or the Seine. Neither are you re-
sponsible for tie religion taught in your
fathers house, nor 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 80 that you shall be able safely to
say, ITO this end Was I born" How will
you decide itt By direct application TO the
only Being In the universe who Is compe-
tent 10 tell you--the Lord Almighty. Do
you know the reason why he Is the only
one who can tell, Because be can see
everything between your cradle and your
grave. though the grave be eighty years
or. And. besides that. ne ia the only bs
ing who can see what has been happening
for the last i've hundred years In Jour an
cestral line and for thousands OF years
clear back TO Adam, and there IL not ono
person in all that ancestral line OF six
thousand years but has ssnehosw affected
.1ur character, and evsa ED Adam him
elf will sometimes turn ap In your dispo-
sitioa. The only being who can take all
things that pertain TO you into sonsidesa-
tion is God. and be Is the one you can ask
Life ia 40 short we have no time to experi.
ment wSh occupations and professions.
The reason we have 80 many dead fail.
ures is that parents decide for ctilirea
what they shall do. or children themselves,
wrought on By some wi1irn or fancy decide
for themselves without any innpiorattou
Of divine guidance. So we have nov in
prlpits men making sermons who ought to
be in blacksmith shops making plowshares,
and we have in the law those Re Instead
Of running the cases OF their clients ought
70 De poundizx shoe Lasts. and doctors who
are ths worst hindrances TO their patients
eouvslescence, and artists trying 10 paint
Landscapes who ought 70 be whitewashing Z
board fences While there are others max
ting bricks who ought 90 be remodelin z
constitutions. or showing planes who ought
Go be Transforming liters,ares. Ask God
about what worldly business you shall un-
dertass untii you sss % positive you can
fn ssrnestness sn1ite veur hand on your
plow handle. or your carpenters bench, or
your Blscksfoue's Commentaries" or
your medical dictionary. or your DR.
Dicks "f,idscssc Theology" saying. "Eor