Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
DR.. TALMAGE ASKS THE QUESTION,
WHAT WERE YOU MADE FoRP

his Text Taken from John xviii, 81. ITO
This End Was 1 HOrn"-An Able Dis
course Preceded by an Impressive
Scene.
BROOKLYN, Oct "A most impressive
scene Is that witnessed in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, when at the opening of the
morning service seven thousand persons
on the main floor, In the two galleries and
the adjoining rooms, rise and sing the
Ooxology. This morning In addition to
the congregational singing Professor Henry
Eyre Browne rendered from the organ,
Theme and Variations In A, by Kramer.
Dr. Talmages 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 and about that
river that his body was taken out and
thrown into the Rhone and similar dis
turbances swept that FLYER and its banks.
Then the body VIVA taken out and re-
moved to Lausanne and put into deeper
pool, which Immediately became the center
OF similar atmospheric and aqueous dis
turbances. Though these are fanciful and
false traditions they show the execration
with which the world looked upon Pilate.
1t was before this man when he was In full
life and power that Christ was arraigned as
I'm court OF oyer and terminer. PLATE
said to his prisoner, "Art thou a king,
thenW and Jesus answered, "To this end
was ! born" Sure enough, although all
earth and hell arose to keep him down, he
II today empalaced enthroned and coro-
mated king OF earth and king OF heaven.
'"ro this end was | born" That is what
he came for and that was what he accom-
plished
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
Ia on the child's lips; What am l to beS
What am | going to be2 What was |
made forT 1t 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 a. much truth rs it's author,
though on less expansive scale, ITO this
end was born"
AN UEANSwERABLE QUESTION.
There is too much divine skill shown in
the physical mental and moral consttu
tion of the ordinary human being to sup
pose that he was constructed without any
divine purpose. Ii you take me ont on
some vast plain and show me a pillared
temple surmounted by dome like st.
Peters, and having a floor of precious
stones, and ar hes that must have taxed
the brain of tine greatest craftsman to de-
sign, and walls scrolled and niched and
pRneled 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 1t Is impossible for me to believe
that any ordinary human being who has
In his muscular, nervous and cerebral or
ganization more wonders than Christopher
Wren lifted in St. PHul's or Phidias ever
chiseled on the Acropolis. and built in such
way that IL shall last long after st. Pauls
cathedral Is as much a ruin as the Parthe-
non-that such II 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 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 l
born"
THINGS YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR.
First, discharge you from all response
are not responsible for your parentage or
grandparentage. You are not responsible
for any Of the cranks that may have lived
In your ancestral line, and who a hundred
years before you were born may have lived
a style OF life that more or less affects you
today You are not responsible for the
fact that your temperament Is sanguine
or melancholic or bilious or Emphatic or
nervous Neither are you responsible for
the place of your nativity, whether among
the granite hills of New England, or the
cotton plantations of Louisiana, or on the
banks Of the Clyde, or the Dnieper, or the
Shannon, or the Seine. Neither are you re-
sponsible for the 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 ~ they are and decide the
question so that you shall be able safely to
say, ITO this end was | born" How will
you decide itP by direct application to the
only Being in the universe who is compe-
tent to tell you-the Lord Almighty. Do
you know the reason why he is the only
one who can telli Because he can see
everything between your cradle ard your
grave, though the grave be eighty years
off And, besides that, he is the only be-
ing who can see what has been happening
for the last five hundred years in your an
cestral line and for thousands Of years
clear back to Adam, and there Is not one
person in all that ancestral line of six
thousand years but has somehow affected
your character, and even old Adam him
self will sometimes turn up In your dispo-
sition. The only being who can take all
things that pertain to You into considera-
ton Is God and he is the one you can ask.
Life IL so snort we have no time to expert
ment with occupations and professions.
The reason we have 50 many dead fail
ures is that parents decide for children
what they shall do, or children themselves,
wrought on by some within or fancy, decide
for themselves without any imploration
Of divine guidance. So we have now in
pulpits men making sermons who ought to
be in blacksmith shops making plowshares,
and we have in the law those who instead
of running the cases of their clients ought
TO be pounding shoe lasts, and doctors who
are the worst hindrances to their patients
convalescence, and artists trying to paint
landscapes who ought to be whitewashing
board fences While there are Others max.
ing bricks who ought to be remodeling
seonstitutions, or showing planes who ought
70 be transforming literatures. Ask God
about what worldly business you shall I'M
tlertake until you are so positive you can
4 In earnestness smite your hand on your
plow handle, or your carpenters bench, or
YOUR Backstone's Commentaries" or
your medical dictionary, or your DR..
Dicks "Didactic Theology" saying, For
HhIa and was | horn +"