Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-10-08
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
DR.. TALMAGE ON THE MISSION
OF CHRIST.
ITO this End was Born''-A
Chapter from the Great Preachers
Everyday Life.

IN the brooklyn ldDcrudClc, WITCH
the opening or the morning service
1000 persons on the main floor, in the
two galleries and the adjoining
rooms rise and sing the DoXobgy. This
morning in addition to the congrega-
tional singing, Prof Henry Eyre
Browne rendered from the organ,
Theme and Variations in A." by
Kramer. DR.. Talmage's text was
taken from John 1857, ITO this end
was born"
After rilatc 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 disturbances swept that
river and its banks. Then the body
was taken out and removed to Lau-
same, and put in u deeper pool, which
Immediately became the center of
similar atmospheric and aqueous dis
turbances Though these are fauciful
and false traditions, they show
the eXecration with which the world
looked upon Plate. 1t was before this
man when he was in full life and pow
err that Christ was arraigned as in Il
court of Oyer and Tcrmincr. Plate
said to his prisoner: Art thou KING,
them and Jesus answered.; $40 this
end was | born Sure enough, al
though all earth and hell arose to
keep him down. He is to day empal-
aced, enthroned and coroncted king of
earth and king of Heaven. TO this
end was | born" That is what he
came for, and that was what he ac-
cOmpliShed
by the time the child reaches ten
years of age the parents begin to dis
cover that child's destiny; but by the
time he or she reaches fifteen years of
age, the question is on the child lips:
"What am to be? What am | going
to be? What was | made for?' 1t is a
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 as It's author,
though on less expansive scale: ITO
this end was born"
There Is too mu III 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 dome like st. letters, and having
floor of precious stones, and arches
that must have taxed the brain of
The greatest draughtsman to de-
sign, and walls scrOlled and
niched and panclcd and wainscotted
and 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 impos-
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 Paul's, or PhIdias
ever chiseled on the Acropolis, and
built in such way that it shall last
long after ST. Pauls 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 to
ward some end. The object of this
sermon is to he p you to find ont what
you are made for, ana help you find
| your sphere, and assist you into that
| condition where you can say with GER
| tainty and emphasis and enthusiasm
and trium ph:"To this end was born
First, / discharge you from all re-
spOnsibility for most of your environ.
mcnts You are not responsible for
your parentagc, or grand-parentagc,
You are not responsible for any of the
cranks that may have lived in your
ancestral line, and who hundred
years before you were born, may have
lived style of life that
more or less affects you to-day
You are not responsible for
the ia t that your Temperament,
is sanguine. or melanchOlic, or bilious
or Emphatic, or nervous Neither ar.
you responsible for the place of you
nativity, whether among the grant,
hills of New England, or the cotton
plantations of Louisiana, or on TIL,
banks Of the Clyde, or the Dnieper, o
the Shannon, or the Seine. Neithe
are you responsible for the religion
taught in your fathers house, or the ir
religion. Do not bother yoursel
about what you cannot help, or abou
circumstances that you did not de
cree. Take things as they are and de
eide the question so that YOU shall b.
abe safely to say: TO this end was
b m" How will you decide it? b,
direct application to the only Bcin!
in the universe who is competent t.
tell you-the Lord Almighty. Do yo,
know the reason why lie is the onl,
one who can tell? Because He can Sc
everything between your cradle an
your grave, though the grave be eight
years off And besides that, ii,
is the only icing who can Sc
.. what has been happening TO
the last FIVE hundred years il
Your ancestral line, and for thousand
al 1,
is not one person in all that ancestra
line of six thousand years but ha
somehow affected your chara eter. an
even old Adam himself will sometime
turn mp in your disposition. The onl
: Bcllg who can take ell things that pei
, tain to you into consideration is Goo
and he is the one you can ask. Life
e so short that we have no time to e2
\ pertinent with occupations and profe'
! sions. The reason we have so man
= dead failures is that parents decid
4 for children what they shall do, c
children themselves, wrought on b
some within or fancy, decide for then
selves without any imploratiou of d
vine guidance. So we have now
: pulpils men making sermons " hoougl
A to be in blacksmith shops maxim
y ploughshares, and we have in the la
$ those who instead of running the cast
= of their clients Ought to be poundin
L. shoe lasts, and doctors who are IL
worst h ndrances to their patient
4 convalescence, and artists tr,
s ing to paint landscapes wi
ought to be whitewashing boar
- fences. While there are others NAL
& ing bricks who ought TO be remodeliu
y constitutions, or showing planes WI
ought TO be Transforming literature
II Ask God about what worldly busine
10 You shall undertake until you are {
- positive you can in earnestness smi
4 your hand on your p ough-handle, ,
I. your carpenters bench, or your BlacI
- stones Commentaries, or your medic
r. dictionary, or your DIR. Dicks Didact
- Theology, saying: For this end WI
born" There are children wi
early develop natural afiinlties f
certain styles of work. When h
father of the astronomer Forbes w
going to London, he asked his childr,
what presents he should bring ca,
one of them. The boy who was to
an astronomer cried out, Bring me