The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-11-06
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
You Should Ask God About Your
Worldly Business.
no the Right Thing at tho Right Time and
Co About re In the Right Way,
aud All Will BE Well.

After plate had suicidcd tradition saws
that his body was thrown into the Tiber,
and such storms ensucd on and about
that river that his body was taken out
and thrown into the Rhone, and similar
disturbances swept that river and its
hanks Then the body was taken out
and removed to Lausanne and put in a
deepcr pool, which Immediately became
the center of similar atmospheric and
aqueous disturbances. Though these
ore fancful and false traditions they
show the eXccration with which the
world looked upon PLATE. 1t was be-
fore this man, when he was in full life
and power, that Christ was arraigned
MS in Court of Oyer and Tcrmincr
PLATE said to his prisoner: Art Thou
n King, thcn?" and Jesus answered.:
.ro this end was born" Sure enough,
although allearth and hell arose to keep
Him down, He is to-day empalaced, en-
throncd and coronated King of earth
and King OF Heaven. ITO this end was
/ born That is what he came for, and
that was what He accomplished
Bv the time child reaches ten years
of age the parents begin to discover
that child's destiny, but 10y the time he
or she reaches fifteen years of age the
question is on the childs lips: "What
am to be? What am / going to do?
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
Young woman can say with as much
truth as its author though on a 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 n pillared temple sur
mounted by dome like St Peter, and
having floor of precious stones, and
arches that must have taxed the brain
of the greatest draughtsman to design,
and walls scrolled and niched and pan
clcd and wainscotted and painted, and
] should ask you what this building
was put up for, and you answered, for
nothing at all" how could l believe
you? And it is impossible for me to
believe that any ordinary human be-
ing who has in his muscular, nervous
and cerebral organization more won
ders than Christopher Wren lifted IN
ST. Paul, or Phidias ever chiscled on
the Acropolis, and built in such way
that Il shall last long after St Paul
Cathedral is as much n ruin as the Par
thcuon--that such being was con-
structcd for no purpose, and to execute
no mission, and without any Divine in
tention 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 assist you
into that condition where you can say
with certainty and emphasis and enthu-
siasm ana triumph: ITO this end was
born"
First, I discharge you from all re-
sponsibility for most of your environ
ments. You are not responsible for
your parentage, or grandparcntage.
You are not responsible for any OF the
cranks that may have lived in your an
cestral 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 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 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 arc you respon-
sible for the religion taught in your IA
Tiers house, or the irrelgion. Do not
bother yourself about what you can not
help, or about circumstances that
you did not decree. Take things as
they are and decide the question so
that you shall be able safely to say:
ITO this end was born" How Will
you decide il? by direct application to
the only being in the universe who is
competent to tell you-the Lord Al
mighty. Do you know the reason why
He is the only one who can tell? Be-
caused lie can see every thing between
your cradle and your grave, though
your grave be eighty years oil And
besides that, lie is the only being who
can see what has been happening for
the last five hundred years in your
ancestral line, and for thousands OF
years clear back to Adam, and there
Is not one person in all that ancestral
line of six thowand years but
has somehow affected your char
,ter and even old Adam himself
will sometimes turn up in your dispo-
sltion. The only being who can take
all things that pertain TO you into con-
slderation is God. and He is the one you
can nSk Iifa Ia 40 short we have no