The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-25
WHAT WE LIVE FOR.
DR.. Talmage breaches on What Our
Lives Should Be.
The object Of Our Existence po"H
20 the End should BE Aetio"
Paradise Is Oniy i"r
b workers.

M TaImape viii come as a cheering
,eyel,tiou: text, John Nyiii 31' 10
this end was I BORN
After plate has suicided, iraanon
saws that his body was thrown int 'ns
T.brr. and such storms ensuea on an"
,t,rr tbur river that his body was
,alen out and thrown into the Rhohe
and similar disturbances swept that
,iysr and ITS banks. Then the body was
/ ,,Esp ogf and moved 90 Lausanne. ana
nm into a deeper po0L which lmmeal
4 ately became the center OF similar a''
m,spberte and aqueous Disturbances
Tbongh these are iauciful aud false
traditions, they show tine ezecratioh
with which the world looked upon
plate II was before this man, when
he ygasf an ulllife and power, thatGhflst
was arraigncd as In the court OIL oyer
rud termiuer. plate said 10 his prison
err. art thou a king, them and
Tasps answered: 'Fro this end "as
Lorn" sure enough, although all earth
and he'll arose to keep him down, lac rs
tr-dgy empalaced, euthroned and eoro-
rctpd king of earth and king OF ile@'-
en-. That is what he came for and thar
is what he accomplished.
By the time a child reaches ten years
Of ace the parents begin to discover
tbat child's destiny, but by the time he
or she reaches Is years Of age, the cues
ton is on the child's iipsa What nan
90? What ann / going to be? what
/, vns | made for?' It is a sensible ana
. righteous question, aud the youth ought
s to keep asking It urtl it is 50 fully an
D swrred that the Young man OF young
woman can say with as much truth as
. It's author, though on a less expansive
scale: ITO this end was born
There is too much divine skill shown
ir the physical, mental and moral con-
g s|tftution Of the ordinary human oelng
, to suppose that he was leted
without any divine purpose. gel
! take me out on some vast pialn anQ
! thow me a p%illared tempie surnouHt ed
by a dome Ike st. Petela and having a
4 floor Of precious stones and arches mat
must have taxed the brains Of the great
al draughtsman to design, and walls
serolled and niched and peneled ano
Wpinscoted and painted, and should
ask you what this building was pat VI
It Tor and you answered For nothing a
IS eli, how could l believe you? Ana II l'
gmpossible for me totbelieve that any
ordinary human being EwhQ has ia hH
~ muscular. nervous and'eerebral organ
Or kzatidn more wonders than Ch~ristophe'
to Wreb lifted in St. Paul's, or Phidia
is cyerschiseled on the Acropolis, and bull
is In such a way that II shall last lon
m after 81. Pauls cathedral Is as m0ch
IL ruin as the Parthenon-that such q be
ny ing was constructed for no purpose an
Id 70 execute no mission, and without an
dfvineinteution toward some end, Tn
IN object Of this ermon is to help y'u
o. find out what you are made for and hel
NJ you find Your sphere and assist you int
ne that condition where you can say wit
OF certainty und emphasis and enthus
Wy asm and triumph: 'To this end was
ny born"
First. I discharge you from all r
rpousibility for most Of your env.ro'
H. ments. You are not responsible f
its your parentage or your g~randparen
va ace. You are not responsible for al
.hc Of the franks that may have lived
III YOUR ancestral line and who q hundr0
ith years before you were born may ha
Of lived a style of life that more or lie
effects you to-day You are not ]
in. sponsibIe for the fact that your temp,
sth ament is sauguine, or melanchol'c,
.ral bilious, or Emphatic, or nervo'
.on- Neither are you responsible for I
on, place Of your nativity, whether amo
the the granite hills of New England, or
owe cotton plantations of Louisiana, or
the banks Of the Clyde, or the Dneip
or the shannon. or the Seine. Neitl
tre YOU responsible for the rehgi
taught in your fathers house, or the
XXI religion. DO not bother yourself abb
what you cannot help or about circu
stances that you did not decree,
HIN Take things as they are and dec
the question so that you shall be a
9s5 safely to say. ITO this end ] y
ear. born" How win you decide it2
old. direct application to the only Be
the in the universe who is competent
rain tell you-the Lord Almighty Do
cart knew the reason why He is the o
used one who can tell? Because lie can
everything between your cradle
your grave, though the grave be
for. years oil. And besides that lie is
edes, only Being who cun see what has b
e to happening in the last 500 years in y
rage ancestral line, and for thousands
5 and years clear back to Adam, and Il
is not person in all that ances
Tia is line Of 5000 years but has somel
affected your character, and even
k5om bfgsalf win sometimes turn
ae1or in your disposition. The only b
were who can take al things that per