The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-29
REV. DR.. TALMACE.
THE EMINENT DIvINE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.


the Church and the world is More
stability-stop Gadding About.
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WASHINGTON, ID. C.--From an unusual
text Dr. Talmage in this discourse rebul;es
the spirit of unrest which characterizes
SO many people, and shows them the hap
pness and usefulness to be found in sta.
bility; text, Jeremiah ii, 80, "Why gaddest
thou about so much to change thy way"
Homely is the illustration by which this
prophet OF tears deplorcs 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
the prophet OF a man or woman who not sat.
islied with home life, goes from place to
place gadGing about, as we say, never set.
iled 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 1t 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 neiahbor.
hoods-and one OF the greatest wants OF
the church and the world is more stead.
iastncss and more fixedncss of purpose.
put 70 Jacoj and his sons when he asked,
What is your occupation" Gotung into
lhe rir't occupation not only decides yout
temporal welfare, but may decide your
eternal destiny. The reason SO many men
and women are dead failures is because
instead OF skiing God what they ought
to be or do they, through some vain am
pluon or whimscality, decide what they
ought to he. Let me say to all Young mon
guJ yompu in bnmnu -, ..L..t
or college, do not go gadding about among
occupations and professions to find what
rou are htted 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 phrenolouist
VIII tell you your mental procliyities. The
physiologlst will tell YOU your physical
temper nent. Your enemies will tell Won
your weaknesses. II you are. as we say,
nervous, ito not become n surgeon. Ii
You are cowardly do not become am en-.
gneer. II YOU are hoping for large and
permanent income do not seek a govern
nent position. If you are naturally quick
tempered, do not become n minister of
the .ospe, for while any one is disadvan-
tagged by ungovernable disposition there
Is hardly any one who enacts such an in
congruous part as n mad minister. Can
or house or face? BE an artist. DO YOU
lind yourself humming cadcnces, and do
the treble clcE and the musical bars drop
from your pen easily, and can You make
a tune thai charms those who hear il? BE
4 musician. Are you born with fondness
Tor argument! BE an attorney Are
You naturally good nurse and especially
interested in the relief OF pain? BE a
physician. Arc you interested in all dues-
lions OI fra flo and IN, hor
You apt to be successful on mall or
large scale! BE merchant. Do you pre-
fer country life, and do you like the plow,
and do you hear music in the hustle of
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. 1T you enjoy analyzing the natural
clements and 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 your
feet and the foliage over your head and
the tlowers which shake their incense on
the summer air are to you the bellies let
tres OF the field be botanist.
If You have no one faculty dominant and
''S'',i'b ~ lpui up Sttlnh W DOlUJ
to this or that occupation, shut yourself
up l. your own room, get down on your
knees and reyerently ask God what He
made on for and tell Him that YOU are
wiling to do anything He wishes YOU to
do. Before You leave that room you will
find out. For the sake of your usefulness
and hapl mess and your temporal and
eternal welfare do not join that crowd of
people who go gadding about among busi-
aud Al.
and now trying that and never accom-
pllshing anything.
There are many who exhibit this frail.
ty IN matters of religion. They are not
sure about anything that pertains to their
soul or their eternal destiny. Now they
are Untarians, and now they are Uni
Versallsts, and now they are Presbyteri-
ans, and now they are nothing at all. They
are not quite sure that the Bible was in
splred or ii 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 history, and the
month after they think it is an alleCorv.
At one time they think the book of job
describes what really occurred. but the
next time they speak of it they call it u
drama. Now they believe all the miracles,
but at your next interview they try TO
show how these scenes had nothing in
them supernatural. but can be accounted
Tor by natural causes. Gadding about
among religious theories and never salts
fed. All the evidence is put before them,
and why do they not render a verdict? Ii
they cannot make up their mind with all
the data put before them, they never will
There are all the archaeological conirma.
tions of the Bible brought to view by the
Palestine Exploration Society" There
are the bricks of Babylon, the letter "N'
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 ot
Pennsylvania, presents us tablets found
in the far East ratitying and explaining
Scriptural passages which We're before in
mystery. As the builders in Jerusalem to-
day dig for the foundation of new uses
they turn up with their pickaxes the ashes
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 hcfers and
pigeons. There is the history by Josephus
describing on uninspred page scenes
which the Bible depicts On the banks of
the Dead Sea there are pieces of the very
birthstone that fell in the sulphurous
storm that destroyed Sodom and Gomor-
rah Make up your mind whether the Bi-
BILE is glorious revelation OF God or the
worst imposition OF the centuries Why 20
gadding about among inhdels, atheists and