Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-24

n. Talmage win come a. q cheering
reyelsaion; text, John xviii, 81: Ito
Mis- end was born"
Alter PLATE has suicided, tradition
OAys that his body was thrown into the
ahout that river that his body was
taken out and thrown into the Rhons
and similar disturbances swept that
river and it banks. Then the body was
taken out and moved to Lausanne, and
put into a deeper pool, which immeda-
1tely became the center Of similar at
mospheric and aqueous disturbances.
Though these are fancitul and false
traditions. they show the execration
with which the world looked upon
PLATE. II was before this man, when
he was in full life and power, that Christ
was arraigned as in the court OF oyer
and terminer. PLATE said to his prison
er: art thou king, then" and
Jesus answered: ITO this end was
horn" Sure enough. although all earth
and he'll arose to keep him down. he 10
to-day empalaced, enthroned and coro-
Reted king Of earth and king of Heav-
iswhat he accomplished.
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 is years Of age, the ques-
ton 10 on the child's lips: What shall
do? VIVA, am | going to be? What
was | made for?" 1t is u sensible and
righteous question and the youth ought
10 keep asking Il until it Is SO fully an
woman can say with as much truth 40
its autbor. though on less expansive
scale: ITO this end was born"
There IL too much divine skill shown
IL the physical, mental and moral con-
stitution of the ordinary humanfbeing
10 suppose that he was constructed
without any divine purpose. II you
take me out on some vast plain and
show me Il pillared temple surmounted
by dome like ST. Peters andhav'ng
floor Of precious stones and arches that
must have taxed the brains Of the great
est draughtsman 10 design. and walls
scroled and niched and paneled and
wairscoted and painted. and should
ksk YOU what this building was pat up
for and you answered For nothing at
al. how could believe you? And 1t 10
impossible for me to believe that any
Ordinary human being who has IN his
muscular. nervous and cerebral or2ani-
Ent on more wonders than Christopher
Wren lifted in St. Paul's, or Phidias
ever chiseled on the Acropolis. and built
In sIch q way that il shall last long
after ST. Paul's cathedral Is as mach
ruiz a. the partbenon-that such be-
ing WAS constructed for no purpose and
10 execute no mission, and withou, any
d. ne intention toward some end. The
oLytti OF this sermon is to help yNu 10
find pat what YOU are made for and hel
YOU tind your sphere and assist you into
that condition where you can say with
certainty and emphasis and enthusi-
Lsm and triumph $40 this end was
born
First. | discharge you from al. re-
sponsibiiity for most OF your ENVIRON
ments. You are not responsible for
your parentage or your grandparents
age. You are not responsible for any
your ancestral line and who hundred
years before you were born may have
Fved q style Of life that more or less
effects you to-day. You are not re-
eponsible for the fact that your temper
ainent is sanguint, 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 Dneiper,
OF the Shannon, or the Seine. Neither
are you responsible for the religion
taught in your fathers house, or the ir-
religion. DO not bother yourself about
what you cannot help or about circum-
stances that you did not decree.
Take things as they are and decide
the question SO that you shall be able
safely 10 say: ITO this end was
born How will you decide it2 BY
direct application TO the only Being
In the universe who Is competent to
tell you--the Lord Almighty. Do you
knew the reason Why He is the only
one who can tello Because He can see
everything between your cradle and
your grave, though the grave be go
years off. And besides that He Is the
only Being who can see what has been
happening in the last 500 wears in your
ancestral line. and for thousands of
wears clear back to Adam, and there
Il not one person in all that ancestral
lire of G,0oo years but has somehow
affected your character. and even old
Adam himself will sometimes turn up
In your disposition. The only Being
who can take all things that pertain
TO you into consideration Is God, and
He is the one you can ask. Life is SO
short we have no time to experiment
with occupations and professions. The
reason we have SO many dead failures
is that parents decide for children
what they shall do or children them
selves. wrought on by some within or
fancy, decide for themselves. without