The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-11-19
" HAT WE LIVE FOR.
Dr. Talmage breaches on What Our
Lives Should Be.
TIE Object OF Our Existence Down
20 the End should De Action
Paradise IL 0nly for
the Workers.

Washington. Nov. 10. - To all those
who feel that they have no esp, cial
mission in the world. this sermon OF
DIR. Talmage win come as a cheering
revelation; text, John xviii. 81: "To
this END was I born"
After PLATE has shielded tradition
saws that his BODY was thrown into the
Iiber. aud such storms ensued on and
about that river that his body was
taken out and thrown into the Rhone
and similar disturbances swept that
river and Is banks. Then the body was
taken out and moved TO Lausanne and
Put Into a deeper pool. which lmmedi.
stely became The center Of similar at
mospheric aud aqueous d~lsturbaLces.
Though these are fanciful and false
traditions, they show the ~execrstlon
with which the world looked upon
PLATE. II was before this man. when
he wssin fgfflife and power, thatCh.A
WIS arrsigi -e5 as In dEseour<rd
tnd te%rnintr. fnSIe said ohfs pfis ~.
er; "An thou a king, them" and
Jesus answered: TO this end was I
horn" Sure enough, although all earth
and he'll arose 10 keen him down. Leis
.c-Gsy empaiaced, enthroned and coro-
ueted king Of earth and king Of Heay.
en-. That is what he came for and that
Is what be accomplished.
BIZ the tine a child reaches ten wears
Of age the parents begin to discover
that child's destiny, hut BY the time he
or she reaches Is years Of age. the oues-
tion IL on the child's Inns: "What shall
] do? What am | cclag 10 be? What
was l made for?" 1t is a sensible and
righteous question, andthe youth ought
to keep asking 1t until tits so fully an.
swered that the Young man or Young
woman can SAY with a. much truth a.
its author. though on a les. exnansiye
scale: ITO this end was 7 horn"
There is too much divine skill shown
ST. the physical, mental and moral con-
6titution Of the ordinary huusnrbeipp
10 suppose that he was eonstruct.d
without any divine purpos.. II a
take me out on some vast plain and
show me a pilIared temple surmounted
by a dome like 81. Peters ~apdNhav,pe a
floor Of precious stones and arches that
mast have taVed h br,tr.o,,Ln--.a.
est draughtsman TO design. and wall,
scrolled and niehed and pane,ed and
wainscoted and painted and / should
Ekk you what this building was put M
for and you answered eFor nothing a.
ell" how could I believe vouo AnSitis
Impossible for IN. TO b~ej,ey. that snv
ordinary human being who has m bis
muscuiar. nervous and cerebral or,arj-
zation more wonder. than Cbdstonher
Wren lifted in 81. Paulis. or Pbid1as
ever chiseled on the AcropoIIs. and buIIt
In such q way that II shall last long
after 81. Paul's cathedral is ss mocb a
ruin As the ParthenoD-that such n be.
ing was constructed for No purposs and
10 execute no mission. and vitbop. anv
divine intention toward some eus The
object Of this sermon IA 40 helm y,n 4.
find out what Won m made for aud helm
you find your sphere and assist Won info
that condition where Won can sav Win
Certainty and emphasi. and en.busl,
ism and TRIUMPH: "To ,bis end rssU
born.o
First. I discharge you from ALI 70.
4pons!bility for most of your env.ron-
menta. You are not responsible Cor
your pareptaee or your grapdpsrep,.
age. You are not responsible Tor any
Of the cracks that may have lived In
your ancestral line and WIN a hundred
wears before YOU were born msy baxe
lived q style Of life that more or lee.
effects you to-day. You are rot ne.
sponslble for the fact that your ,emne-.
ninept Is sauguine, or melapcbolic or
bilious. or iymphatic. or nervous
Neither are You responsible far ,he
place Of your nativity, whether snono
the granite hills ofNew England ar ne
cotton plantations Of Louisiana. or ON
fbe banks Of the Clyde, or the DneIner
or The Shannon, or the Seine. Neither
ere you responsible for the religion