Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-11-19

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WASHINGTON, Nov 13.-To all those
who feel they have no especial mis-
sion in the world, this sermon of DR.
Talmage will come as cheering rev.
citation; text, John xviii. 81, "To this
this end was I born. y
! After Pilate had suicided, tradition
says that his body was thrown into the
Tiber, and such storms ensued on and
about TINT river that his body was TAX
Ell out and thrown into the Rhone, and
similar disturbances swept that river
and it's banks Then the body was taken
out aud moved to Lausanne, and put in
deeper pool, which Immediately be-
came tho center of similar atmospheric
and aqueous disturbances. Though these
are fanciful and false traditions they
show the execration 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 as
in court of oyer and terminer PLATE
said to his prisoner, "Art thou king,
them" and Jesus answered, ITO this
end was ! born /" Sure enough, al
though all earth and hell arose to keep
| him down, he is today empalaced, en-
throned and coroneted king Of earth
and king Of heaven. That is what he
came for. and that is what he accom-
plished.
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 fifteen years Of age the
question is Oh the child's lips: What
shall do? What am | going to be?
What was made fur?'' II is sensible
and righteous question. End the youth
ought to keep asking ii nriil it is SO
fully answered that The ynnag mau. or
Young worlun, can sly wiih is much
truth as its author, lhcugh - u less cx'
pansive scale, ''To this ,na was ]
born y
There is too much di":rr skill showL
in the physical. mental ;'!ti moral con
stitution CT tho ordinary Human being
to suppose that ho was ccnstructed
without any divine purpose If you
take me out on Aouc vast plain and
show me pillared temple surmounted
by dome like ST Peters, and having
floor of precious stones and arches
that must have taxed the brain OF the
greatest craftsman to design and walls
scrolled ard niched and paneled and
wainscoted and painted, and l should
ask you what this building was put up
for, and you answered, For nothing
at all, " how could believe you? And
it Is impossible for ne TO believe that
ANY ordinary human being who has in
Ishis muscular, nervous and cerebral or
fpanization mere wonders than Christie
!. pher Wren lifted in st Panls or
Phidias ever chiseled on the Acropolls
and built in such way that it shall
last long after ST. Paul's cathedral is
as much ruin as the Parthenon-that
such being was constructed for no
purpose and to execute no mission and
without any divine intention toward
somo 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 cay with certainty and en-
phasis and enthusiasm and triumph.
ITO this end was born. "
Selecting nm Occupation.
First, l discharge you from all re-
sponsibility for most of your environ
ments You are not responsible for your
parentage or grandparentage. You are
not responsible for any Of the cranks
that may have lived in your ancestral
line and who 100 years before you were
born may have lived style of life that
more or less affects you today You are
not responsible for the fact that your
temperament issanguine or melancholic
or bilious or lymphatio 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
or the Shannon or the Seine. Neither
are you responsible for the religion
taught in your fathers house, or the
irreligion. 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 to say. ITO this end wasI born. }"
How will you decide it? By direct ap-
plicatiop to the only Being in the uni
verse who is competent to tell you-the
Lord Almighty Do you know the rea-
son why he is the only one who can tell?
Because he can see everything between
your cradle and your grave, though the
grave be so years off, and besides that
he is the only Being who can see what
has been happening in the last 500 years
in your ancestral line, and for thou
sands OF years clear back to Adam. and
there is not one person in all that an
cestral line of 5000 years but has some
how 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 luGO 10 OOot oHNA ~ 49,
the one you can ask. Life is so short
we have no time to experiment with CO.
equations and professions The reason
we have so many dead failures is that
parents decided for children what they
shall do, or children themselves.
wrought on by some whim or fancy, de
eide for themselves. without any I'M
ploration of divine guidance. SO ne
have now in pulpits men making ser
mons who ought TO be in blacksmith
shops making plowshares, and we have
in the law those who instead OF running
the cases of their clients ought to be
pounding shoe lasts, and doctors who
ere the wolst hindrances to their pa
tents ccnvalescence. and artists trying
to paint landscapes who ought to be
whitewashiug board fences. while t@ere