Connecticut western news., 1898-11-17
DIVINE VINE DIRECTION.
Fokkow ooo's GUIDANCE, SAYS THE
 REV. DR. TALMAGE.


 DseAst7 About What Cannot Re
 aslDSA-A Chnd's Destiny.
 rcOpyrisht. 1898. by American Press Asso-
 WAsHMoToN, Nov. 18.-To all those who feel they have no especial mis- don In the world, this sermon of Dr. TAlmaes will come as a cheering rev slak3on; text. John xviii. 37. "To this this end was born"
 Alter Pilate had shielded, tradition sAys that his body was thrown into the Tber, and such storms ensued on and ahppt that river that his body was talk en out and thrown into the Rhone, and amila1 disturbances swept that river and its banks. Then the body was taken out and moved to Lausanne, and put in . Adeeper pool, which immediately be- caine tho oenter of similar atmospheric azid hqueous distur banoes. Though thess arc fanciful and false traditions, they show ths execration with which the world looked upon Pilate. It was be- fore this man when he was in full life and power that Christ was arraigned as ina court of oyer and terminer. Pilats sAid to hia prisoner, 'Art thou king, thelr' and Jesus answered, "To this cd was born" Sure enough, al- SoQgh all earth and he'll arose to keep him, down, he Is today empalaoed, en- tk16hsd and ooroneted king of earth AHd king o1 heaven That is what he c6ms foe. and that is what he accom- pliahed
 By tho time . child reaches ten years oks age the parents begin to discover that child's destiny, but by the time he oesshs reaches fifteen years of age the question is on the child's lips: "What shall dol What am going to be? What was I made for?" It is sensible and righteous question, and the youth o3fhftoF keep aaking 1t until it is so f( answseed that the young man. or y6an( woman, can say with as much truth as its author, though on less ex- pAlaive scale "To this end was l bn."
 gThere is too much divine skill shown tnsths physical, mental and moral con s1afqtion of the ordinary human being to suppode yhat he was constructed witkout any divine purpose. If you takss mo out on some vast plain and show mo pillared temple surmounted by . deme like St Peter's, and having aado6t of precious stones and arches that must have taxed the brain of the grsatest drsftsman to design and walls scrol1ed and niched and paneled and Wainsooeed and painted, and l should aak yoa what this building was put up for, and you answered, ''For nothing asall," how could believe you2 And itie impossible for me to believe that nvfordinary human being who has in htG muscular. nervous and cerebral or eSnisation more wonders than Christo- p6se Wren liftsd in St Paul's CT Pkldias ever chiseled on the Acropolis anA built in such a way that it shall lSstlong after St sPaul's cathedral is ssmuch ruin as the Parthenon-that suGh . being was constructed for no pIrbose and to execute no mission and W1fhout any divine intention toward 0olIe end The object of this sermon is t68Slp you to find out what you are malAs for and help you find your sphere ddassist you into that condition where yoE can cay with certainty and em- ph6 and enthusiaam and triumph. s:kAis end Was born g
 { Selecting an Occupation.
 N14fSt, T discharge you from all re. possibility for most of your environ me9ta You are not responEble for your paEentage or grandparentage. You are n6ts responsible for any of the oranks ttat may have lived in your ancestral hns and who 100 years before you were boA nay haye lived a style of life that nhfS 6e fess affects you today. You arc not ;responsible for the fact that your tsmperament is saneuine or melancholic 0 htlious or 1ymphatio or nervous. Neither are you responsible for the place of your nativity, whether among 1ks granite hills of New England or the cotton plantations of Louisiana or on tho hanks of the Clyde or the Dneiper oeyAe Shannon or the Seine. Neither aze you responsible for the religion Sanght in your fathers house, or the 1xseligion. Do not bother yourself about What you cannot help or about circun- s1&0es that you did not decree
 EAke things as they are and decide thAqusstion co that you shall be able s6Sely to cay, ITO this end was born. How will you decide it2 By direct ap piicaAion to the only Being in the uni verse who is competent to tell you-the Lord Almighty. Do you know the req sM why he is the only one who can tell? Bs6ause he can see everything between your cradle and your grave, though the gxave be 30 years of, and besides that hs is tho only Being who can see what hos been happening in the last 800 years in your ancestral line, and for thou sAnds of years clear back to Adam, and cselxal line of 6. 900 years but has some bow affected your character. and even old Adam himsef will sometimes turn ID in your disposition. The only Being who can take all things that pertain to you into consideration is God, and he is aho one you can ask. Life is so short Wo have no time to experiment with oc- ugwgtions and professions. The reason We have 60 many dead failures is that paraats decided for children what they 2Sll do, or children themselves, wrought on by some whim or fancy, de- oade for themselves, without any inn ploeation of divine guidance. So we have now in pulpits men making ser mons who ought to be in blacksmith shops making plowshares, and we have in tho law those who instead of running the cases of their clients ought to be pounding shoe lasts, and doctors who nr0 the worst hindrances to their pa tisnts' oonvalesoence, and artists trying to paint landscapes who ought to be whitswashing board fences, while there axe others making bricks who ought to be remodeling constitutions or showing planes who ought to be transforming 1itexnkurea. Ask God about what world ly badness you shall undertake until Jou are so positive you can in earnest ness smits your hand on your blow han. dc. or your carpenter's bench, or your Blackstone's Commentaries, or your Mod8cal dictionary, or your Dr. Dick E