Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-12-06
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE By THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: Spirit of Unrest - It Is the
Cause of Much Unhnppiness-Need of
the Church and the World is More
Stability-Stop Gadding About.

Subject: Spirit of Unrest - It is tho
! Cause of Much Unhnppiness-Need of
| the Church and the World il More
stability-Stop Gadding About.
Copyright 1901
| WASHINGTON, D. C.-From an unusual
text DR.. Talmagc in this discourse rebukes
the spirit of unrest which characterizes
so many people, and shows them the hap
| plness and usefulness to be found in sta
bility; text, Jeremiah ii, 36 "Why gaddest
thou about 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
the prophet OF a man or woman who, not sat
isfed with home life, goes from place to
| place gaddlng about, as we say, never set
tied anywhere 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 1 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 JACOB and his sons when he asked
What is your occupation?" Getting into
the rig''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 asking God what they ought
to be or do they, through some vain am
biton or whimsicality, decide what they
| ought Let mo To all
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 a lifetime sphere examine
/ your own temperament. The phrenologist
will tell YOU your mental proclvities. The
psychologist will tell you your physical
temper nent. Your enemies will tell YOU
your weaknesses. If you are, as we say.
nervous, do not become a surgeon. If
You arc cowardly, do not become an en-
gineer. If you are hoping for "a large and
permanent income, do not seek a govern
ment position. If you are naturally quick
tempered, do not become minister Of
the gospel, for while any one is disadvan
tagged by ungovernable disposition there
is hardly any one who enacts such an in
congruous part as mad minister. Can
you make fine sketch of a ship or rock
! or house OF face? Be an artist. Do you
| find yourself humming cadences, and do
the treble clef and the musical bars drop
from your pen easily, and can you make
! tune that charms those who hear it? Be
musician. Are you born with fondness
for argument! Be an attorney. Are
! you naturally good nurse and especially
interested in the relief of pain? Be a
physician. Are you interested in all ques
IF tro4 4,p 49,.
you apt to be successful on a small 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
i harvest field! BE farmer. Are you fond
OF machinery, and are turning wheels to
you a fascination, and can you follow with
| absorbing interest new kind of thrash.
ing machine hour after hour? Be me-
chanic. If you enjoy analyzing the natural
clements and laboratory could entertain
you all day and all night, be a chemist
Ii 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 flowers which shake their incense on
the summer air are to you the bellies let
tres OF the field, be a botanist
IL 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 YOU for and tell Him that. YOU are
willing to do anything He wishes you to
do. Before you leave that room you will
lind out. For the sake of your usefulness
| and happiness 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 not
sure about anything that pertains to their
| 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 alegory.
AT one time they think the book of job
describes what really occurred, but the
next time they speak of it they call it
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
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 verdict Ii
they cannot make up their mind with all
the data put before them, they never will
There are all the archaeological confirma.
tons oil the Bible brought to view by the
Palestine Exploration Society" There
are the bricks OF Babylon the letter IN"
impressed upon them-"N' for Nebuchad.
nezzar, showing that he was not myth
and the farther the shovel of the anti
quaran goes down the more is revealed
OF that most wonderful city OF all time
Professor lleilprecht, OF the University OF
Pennsylvania, presents us tablets found
IN the lar East ratifying and explaining
Seriptgral passages which were before in
mystery, As the builders in Jerusalem to-
day dig for the foundation OF new uses
they turn up with their pckaxes 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