Year: 1874

laureate the graduating class at Princeton, NJ
j. last evening The preachers topic was Living for


High End" and his text was taken from Cor' X Si


Whether therefore, yc eat or drink or you
do, do all to the glory OF God"


What am 1 sent here iorl was his opening question.
What is the end Of my exstcnce We conceive that
this OF the first inquiries made by Adam as he
awOke to consciousness IN the bowers OF Elem AS he
surveyed with mingled feelings OF wonder. awe and de-
light the arch OF above, and the lovely scenes
around him, when the earth was province OF heaven
visited by God and angels and paradise Its Garden as
he contemplated his powers Of body and facnties OF
mind formed after the image OF God-we can beiieve
his first inquiry to have been Who IS the author OF oil
this order and beauty and the second to be like unto IT,
For what purpose hath the Creator given me life and
being and furnished with such gifts and endow
mentsl


l. What IL the end of mans existence The investiga
ton worthy of being prosecuted Suppose that you
wished to the end for which Ingenious machine
was constructed. you might go to two quarters ior
information. You might examine tho machine Itself, or
you might inquire Of tho maker. In order to discover
tho end for which man is made we may look first to the
nature of man, and then TO the revelation Of God
l. Let us look at mans nature. We hear individuals
often speaking of the dignity OF man. ana do not oo'
ject the language provided be properly understood
The truth s man is singular compound or greatness
and lttleness. OF dignity and meanness He has some
properties which assimatc him to angels ana 10 Goa





creation.


O. Looking the Word find that man ia represented
as composed OF two essential parts body and soul
As to his body 1t represented formed OF the dust OF
the ground Tne Lord God formed man OF tho dust OF
the ground breahed into his nostrs the breath OF
life" his soul it Is clearly revealed that II
Is made in image Of God. Let make man In our
likeness" $50 God created man IN his own Image, In
the image OF God created he him. Bat 1t announces as
emphaticay that has fallen from his first estate
and has had that deaced though retaining prints
OF il W hch be eGacei Every faculty Is goof
IN itself but NAV be turned TO evil purposes. The
desires which should to Heaven may now be CEN
tered on earth. We make what ought to he supreme
ends ubor such the love OF pleasure the
love OF gain the love OF fame. We forget God when we
sond cherish the remembrance OF HIM. and II often
ends in this that "Goi is not IN all our thoughts
Whatever other sins may be free from, we are all
guilty Of the Of ingratuie the sin of unsodliness
Aud IL is a fact that each falls daily into nnumer-
able actual sins OF PRIDE vanity or selfishness or
| sefrghteousness, or lust, or malignity. or deceit


H. Let US contemplate the Christian learning to fulfill
the end OF his existence Tho psamist says OF himself
"I have set the Lord always before me-" and again,
"Mne eyes are ever towards the Lord" Moses Is rep
resented as acting seeing Him who is invisible" We
are exnorted to pray always to continue instant In
| prayer" We are commanded, "whether We eat or
drink whatsoever do to do all the glory OF Cod


But Is it possible 1t asked to live TO such stand
ard3 Have not other work TO Dol other duties 10
discharged Have not to procure the means OF ve
hood how Is possible then to have our eyes ever to-
wards the Lordi Have not to pay regard to imme-
date and pressing wants; how then we act as see


ing Is INVISIBLE Have S we not the business is of
look to interests and the interests OF
who near and dear TO US now then can we DO
| doing all 10 the glory OF GOff


In answering this question let It be observed that it
supposed TO and drink but then we are To
and drink to the glory OF God In order TO under
stand how this be let us look to the men OF the world
..tp iIl.U llliI In
whose heart is set wealth; he may not be think
ing OF it every moment but he Is OFTEN thinking OF IT,
thinking OF 1t more frequently than OF anything else
aud when ne is not precisely thinking OF IT, he may
be taking steps In order TO add to It, OR take the case OF
one who bent pleasure; he Is ever nquring after
OF excitement and revclry. Or the man whose
the sound ringing and setting forth deeds
| which may swell the sound louder and louder Now
change the object which the heart is set let 1t no
longer money! pleasure. reputation; but let it
be the love OF God which Is the highest principle which
prepared whether he eats drinks, whatsoever he
| does to do all to the glory OF God. ,,,,


III Let look at the Christian performing the orii
bnugs sinners to the knowledge OF the truth and OF the
from the earth. He may keep tenn here for time for
their good and the good Of others Ana Ia as S Long as
duties of life just they did before and as their
% business aae as they We're Won't Parents have still
duties to discharge to their children ana children 10
performing these acts. He would not, though he
could He feel himself at liberty to retire from





Bnt while in this world he is not of the world lie per.
forms the acts OF life under the Influence OF
higher motives Let US view the Christian under such


Me partakes Of the bouutes of Providence in new
sprit special reference is made to this whether
ye eat or drink whatsoever ye do" When living at
distance from God he may have partaken OF Gods gifts
what TO him without inquring whence IL came he
entitled to complain the comfort had been denied him.
but he called on 10 be grateful because IL has been
to%ed to it that he feels as il he had right to it, and
he makes inquiry about it, II is TO refer the whole to
the laws OF nature the course OF things When some
peculiar favor is bestowed there may be evaneseent


feeling Of gratitude but there Is no sense OF the Gift or
under Which be is laid by to love and the Lord
But now that he has had bis eyes opened TO discover his
@ 70 e divine mercy and ali his blessings
With merits and suerings OF his Redeemer Blessed
the God Of my salvation lie feels as 70 owed that
food to the hunger endured by Lord that water to
The thirst 10 which He exposed this
and sleep to His tolls, these social comforts His
desertion this honor to His gnon!ny and this very life
" lie engages IN the business Of life in spirit.
The Young convert In the first outflow OF his newborn
feelings may be tempted to look on the ordinary bus-
ness of life earthly and secular In the highest degree
| and feel unwillingness to engage In IT, He would


may be- doubod whether on The superstition that it
were lawful for him TO retire from the business OF life
he would thereby reach higher spiritual state. Posi-
biz dleness might have as many temptations as even
worldly occupations ana his pety might not attain to
state of monasc secusion as In the fresh air OF active
duty And In regard 10 the great body OF Cnrisans IL
| woy,d not DO lawful for them TO retire from their
worIdy ayocatioDs. No doubt they must take
10 themselves too deeply with earthly profits and
Losses But within due limits, and AS God In his provi
dence may require. they not to shrink from the
duties life. But whe they do SO 1t Is to be FROM new
and spiritual motives.


| Tbese truths admit OF an application 10 the members
n, the college. We a high aim before those no
Instructed here We not to be satisfied when they
do their work dull. periunctory manner, with eye
service" We seek elevate the taste, to refine the
sensbjties We would effect this by awakening relish
for higher forms OF literature ancient and modern