Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-12-05
SERMON
Rev. Or. Calmae<
Subject: Spirit Of Unrest - It Il the
Cause Of Much Unhappiness-Need Of
the Church and the World is AOrj
Stability-StoP Gadding About.

Subject: Spirit Of Unrest - It Il the
Cause OF Much Unhappiness-Need Of
the Church and the World is AOrj
Stability-stoP Gadding About.
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WASHINGTON, d. C.-From an unusual
text DR.. Talmage in this discourse rebukes
the spirit of unrest which characterizes
30 many people, and shows them the hap
piness and usefulness to be found in sta
bility; text, jeremiah ii, 50, "Why gaddest
thou about so much to change thy way?
Homely is the illustration by which this
prophet of tears deplores the vacillation
of the nation to whom he wrote. Now
they wanted alliance with Egypt and now
with Assyria and now with Babylon, and
now they did not know what they wanted,
and the behavior of the nation reminded
he prophet OF a man or woman who, not sat
isfied with home life, goes from place to
place gadGing about, as we say, never set
tied anywhere or in anything, and he
cries out to them, Why gaddest thou
about SO much to cnange thy way!
Well, the world has now as many gada-
bouts as it had, in Bible times, and think
that that race of people is more numer-
Gus now than it ever was-gadabOuts
among occupations, among religious theo-
ries, among churches, among neighbor-
hoods-and one of the greatest wants of
the church and the world is more stead
fastness and more fxedness of purpose.
1t wa no small question that Pharaoh
put to Jaco and his sons when he asked,
"What is your occupation?" Getrlng into
the ri-''t occupation not only decides your
temporal welfare, but may decide your
eternal destiny. The reason SO many men
and women are dead failures is because
instead of nsking God what they ought
to be or do they, through some vain am
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ought to be. Let me say to all young men
and Young women in homes or in school
or college, do not go gadding about among
occupations and professions to find what
you are fitted for, but make humbl. and
direct appeal to God for direction.
While seeking divine guidance in your
| selection of lifetime sphere examine
your own temperament The phrenologist
will tell you your mental proclivities. The
temper nent. Your enemies will tell you
your weaknesses. If you are, as we say,
nervous, do not become a surgeon. If
you are cowardly, do not become an en-
gineer. If you are hoping for large and
permanent income, do not seek a govern
ment position. If you are naturally quick
| tempered, do not become a minister of
| the ospel, for while any one is disadvan-
| tagged by ungovernable disposition there
| is hardly any one who enacts such an in
f, congruous part as a mad minister. Can
you make a fine sketch of a ship or rock
| or house or facey Be an artist. Do you
| find yourself humming cadences, and do
the treble cles and the musical bars drop
| from your pen easily, and can you make
q tune that charms those who hear it? Be
a musician. Are you born with fondness
| for argument. Be an attorney. Are
you naturally a good nurse and especially
interested in the relief of pain? Be a
physician. Are you interested in all ques-
| tions OF traffic and in bargain making, are
you apt to be successful on a mall or
large scale? BE a merchant Do you pre-
fer country life, and do you like the plow,
and do you hear music in the hustle of a
harvest field? Be farmer. Are you fond
of machinery, and are turning wheels to
you fascination, and can you follow with
absorbing interest a new kind of thrash
ing machine hour after hour? Be me-
chanic. If you enjoy analyzing the natural
clements md laboratory could entertain
you all day and all night, be a chemist.
If you are inquisitive about other worlds
and interested in all instruments that
would bring them nearer for inspection,
be an astronomer. If the grass under yoTr
feet and the foliage over your head and
the summer air are to you the bellies let
tres of the field, be a botanist.
If you have no one faculty dominant and
| nothing in your make up seems to point
to this or that occupation, shut yourself
up il your own room, get down on your
knees and reverently ask God what He
made on for and tell Him that you are
willing to do anything He wishes you to
do. Before you leave that room you will
find out. For the sake of your usefulness
and hapI mess and your temporal and
eternal welfare do not join that crowd OF
people who go gadding about among bust
nesses and occupations, now trying this
and now trying that and never accom-
plishing anything.
There are many who exhibit this frail
ty in matters of religion. They are moi
soul or their eternal destiny. Now they
are Unitarians, and now they are Uni
versalists, and now they are Presbyteri
ans, and now they are nothing at all. They
are not quite sure that the Bible was in
spired or if inspired whether the words
or the ideas were inspired or whether only
part of the book was inspired. They think
at one time that the story in Genesis about
the garden of Eden is a history, and the
month after they think it is an allegory
At one time they think the book of job
describes what really occurred, but the
next time they speak of it they call it a
drama. Now they believe all the miracles
but at your next interview they try tc
show how these scenes had nothing in
them supernatural, but can be accounted
for by natural causes. Gadding about
among religious theories and never salts
fled. All the evidence is put before them
and why do they not render a verdict? Il
they cannot make up their mind with al
the data put before them, they never will
There are all the archaeological confrma
tions of the Bible brought to view by the
Palestine Exploration Society" There
are the bricks of Babylon, the letter M
impressed upon them-"N" for Nebuchad
nezzar, showing that he was not myth
and the farther the shovel of the anti
quarian goes down the more is revealed
of that most wonderful city of all time
Professor Heilprecht, of the University o
Pennsylvania, presents tablets found
in the far East ratifying and explaining
Scriptural passages which were before II
mystery. As the builders in Jerusalem to
day dig for the foundation of new J use,
they turn up with their pickaxes the ashe'
of the animals that were used for burned
offerings in the temple ages ago, demon
strating the truth of the Bible story about
the sacrifices of lambs and heifers ant
pigeons There is the history by Josephu,
describing on uninspired page scene.
which the Bible depicts. On the banks o.
the Dead Sea there are pieces of the very
/
storm that destroyed Sodom and Gomor
rah Make up your mind whether the Bi
BILE is a glorious revelation of God or thu
worst imposition of the centuries. Why e
gadding about among infidels, atheists and
deists asking questions and surmising ant
guessing about the authority and value o
| book which involves the infnities? 1t i
either a good book or bad book. If il
be a bad book, you do not want it in YOU
/ house nor have your children contaminat
ed with its teachings. If it is a good book
your eternal happiness depends upon th'
adoption of its teachings. Once and for
ever make up your mind whether it i
the book of God or the book of villainou
pretenders.
So, alas, there are those who gad abou
among particular churches. No Dasta
can depend ON them for a single servie'
| At some time when he has prepared
sermon after all praye and all research
putting nerve and muscle and brain an
] soul into its very paragraph, these inte
I 4ittsnt attendants are not there to hea