REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. Bunrect: What Were Wa Made For! ent A————— ,Texv: “To this end was I born."—Johs After Pilate bad suicided, tradition sayy that his body was thrown into the Tiber and such storms ensued on and about that river that his boly was taken out and thrown into the Rhone, and similar dis turbances swept that river and its banks, Then the body was taken out and re moved to Lausanne and put into a deeper pool, which immediately became the centre of similar atmospheric and aqueous dis- turbances. Though thess are fanciful and false traditions, thev show the execration with which the world looked upon Pilate, It was before this man when he was in full life and power that Christ was arraigned as im a court of oyer and terminer, Pilate said fo his prisoner, “Art Thou a king, then and Jesus answered, “To this end was 1 born.” Sure enough, although all earth and Bell arose to keep Him down, He is to-day smpalaced, enthirone 1 and coronated king of parth and king of heaven, *'To this end was I born.” That is what He came for and that was what He accomplished, By the time a child reaches tem vears of age the parents begin to discover that child's destiny; but by the time he or she reaches Bfteen years of age the question is on the shild's lips: “What am 1 to be? What am I going to be? What was I made for” It i a sensible and righteous question, and the Fouth ought to keep on asking it until it is #0 fully answered that the young man or tha joung woman can say with as much truth &8 its author, though on a less expansive peale, **To this end was I born.” y There is too much divine skill shown in the physical, mental and moral constitution of ire ordinary human being to s ippose that ae was constructed without any divine 1 pose. If you take me out on some vast piain tnd show n illared » surmounted by t dome Peter's, and having a floor of precio . arc mxed the braun ur temy temp 8 that must have eatest draftsman to and niched and i and painted, and I his building was put red, *‘For nothing at voi? wr me to believe that ry auman being who has in his puscuiar, nervous and cerebral organization nore wonders than Christopher Wren lifted | St, Paul's, or Phidias ever chiseled on the Acropolis, and built in such a way that it all last long after St. Paul's cathedral is 8 much a ruin as the Parthenon —toat such s being was constructed for no purpose, and Ib execute no mission, and without any di. rine intention toward some end, The coject if this sermon is to help you to find out wnat fou are made for, and help you to find your fphere, and assist you in that con tition waers Jou cau say with certainty and emphasis and mtbusiasm and triumph, “To this end was | darn.” First, I discharge you from all responsi. sility for most of your environments. You wre not responsible for your parentage or grandparentage. You are not responsible ©r any of the cranks that may have lived B your ancestral and whoa hundred fears before y born may bave livel § style of life that mors lay. You are hat your tempersme nguine or meiag- hr or bilioy r lymphatic or as JET are youn He 1 the 0 we less affects you tos sible for the fact nervy pia Bis « MAE t five ban . i for and 3 rad : person io al t sand years bu 3 vo your character, and even oid tan timsalf will sometimes turn up in your dis pomtion. Th y being who can take all sings that pertain to you into consideration 8 God, and He is the one youcan ask. Life § 30 short we have no time to experiment vith ococcupation: and professions. The reason we have so many dead failures & that parents decide for children what they hall do, or children themselves, wrought on 3y some whim or fancy, decide for them. wives without any imploration of divine guidance. Bo we have now in pulpits men naking sermons who ought to be in black- anith shops making plowstiares, and wa have in the law those who instead of ruining the tases of their clients ought to be pounding shoe lasts, and doctors who are the worst tindrances to their patients’ convalescence, ind artists trying to paint landscapes who might to be whitewashing board fences. While there are others making bricks who sught to be remodeling constitutions, or thoving planes who ought to be transforme ng literatures, Ask God about what worldly business you shall undertake until you are 0 positive you can in earpestnsss smiles your sand on your plow handles, or your carpen- jer’s bench, or your Blackstone's "Commen- aries" or your medical dictionary, or your Dr. Dick's “Didactic Theology,” saying, “For thi as I born.” There are children who early devalop nat gral affinities for certain styles of work, When the father of the astronomer Forbes was going to London he asked his childreo what present he should bring each one of them. The boy who was to be an astron- yer called out, “Bring me a telescope!” And there ara children whom yon find all by themselves drawing on their slates, or on paper, ships or houses or birds,and you know they are to be draftamen or artists of some kind. And you find others cyphering out difficult problems with rare interest and suo sess, and you know they are to be mathema- ticlans. And others making wheels and strange contrivances, and you know they are going to be machinists, And others are found experimenting with hoe and plow and sickle, and you know they will be farmers. And others are always swapping jackknives or balls or bats and making something by the bargain, and they are going to bs mer. thants. When Abbe de Rance had so advanced in studying Oresk that he could translate Anacreon al twelve years of age, there was po doubt left that was intended for a soholar. But in almost every lad there comes a times when hes does not know what he was made for, and his parents do not know, and it 18 a crisis that God only can decide. Then thers are thoss born for some pspecial work, and their fitness does not de velop until quits late. When Philip Dod dridge, whose sermons and books have har vested uncounted souls for glory, began te study the ministry, Dr. Calamy, one of the wisest and best men, advised bim to tarn hiv thoughts to some work Isasc Barrow, an wninent clergyman and Christian solen tist~-his books now, thought he had been dead over two handred the disheartenment of kis father, whe to say that if it pleased God to take any his children away he i be hh son Isase. Bo some of who characterized for thelr that a oas s Le “ — €s do, and He is the One to ask, And let all parents and all schools and all universities and all collezes recognize this, and a large number of those who spent their best years { In stumbling about among businesses and oocupations, now trying this and now trying | that, and falling in all, would be able to go aliead with a definite, deci led ant tremend. | ous purpose saying, ‘To this endl was J born.” But my subject now mounts into the momentous, Let me say that you are made for usefuiness and heaven. I judge this from the way you are built, You go into a shop where there is only ons wheal turning and that by a workman's foot on a treads, and say to yourself, “Hera is some thing gool being done, yet on a small saale:™ but if you go into a factory cover ag many acres, and yon find thousands of bands puling on thousands of tles flying, and the whole scene bewildering with activities, driven by water, or stea.n | or electric power, you conclude that the fac ory was put up to do great work and on a vast scale. Now, I look at you, ani if I should find that you had only one facu'ty of body, one muscie, only one nerva, if but could not hear, or could | ear and not ses if vou hai the ase of 'y mea foot or one hand, an, a8 to vouar aizher { aature, if you bad only ons mentai acuity, ind you had memory but no judement or udgment but no will, and if you had a soul | ®ith only one capacity, I would say nos | nuch is expected of you, But stand up, O man, 1 iquarely in the face! | ng everything. let me look yom Eves capable of ses i Ears capable of hearing | wwerything. Hands capaole of grasping werything. Mind with more wheasls than { ny factory ever turnsd, more power than | Jorliss engine ever moved, A soul taat will j ratlive all the universe, except heaven, and i would outlive all heaven if the life of otoer { mmortals were a moment short of the { ternal, Now, what has the world a right 0 expect from you? Waat has Go aright { © demand of you? God is the greatest of i wonomists in the fAniverse, and na ced | j3othing uselessly, and for what ourposs did le ouild your body, mind and soul as they we built? ie There are only two beings in the universe YOO can sp wer t in I'ne anzels lo not know The sci 0 not know, Your kindred cannot certainly know, God inows, and you ounzat to kr A factwy unning at an exoenss of EX 08 a year, ind turn at goo 's seventy cents i year woul 10 £0 moongruity @ you O a semi-infinite quipment doi next to noth. in the way o “What shail ou ask aren, my sisters, do ot ask me. Ask There's some pata of Christian usefulness pen. It may be a rough path, or it may be smooth pata, a ong pa bh or a short path, conspicuity or in a it is a path on hat Ww. a 1 nas, bret Og, 1 Cris alley unobserved, uvut uch satisfaction and such certainty that can ory out a tos face of born.” Do 1 ualificg tions, 108 wait for extraordinary Poilip tae Conqueror gainasd ne and Wl Will never get : at ail WAITS PROB with the jawbone» of Hoan ar slew nines with an scarsi tee bint Take is 8 hie stuoi lest beast arated, ix hundire! of the Lori'se x goad. Under Goi ante take care of themselves, human Ife Is pro» longed. But do you realizn what, after all, 1% the brevity of our earthly state?! In ths times when people lived seven an! eight hundred years, the patriarch Jacob said that iis years were few, Looking at the life of the youngest person in this assembly and supposing he lived to be a nonagenarian, how short the time and soon gone, while banked up in front of usin an eternity so vast that arithmetic has not figures enouzh to express its length or height, For a happy eternity you were born unless you ran yourself against the divine tions. IU standing in your pressnos my evs soul will appear when the world lets it up, and heaven entrances it, I sunposs I would a8 one dead, i axplored the family records, and yon of previous generations, have had pho. tographs taken of what yon wera in boyhood wr girthood, and what you ware ten inter, to anv vou and it is very interesting: mit have you ever had a picturs tagen of what yon may be an1 what you will be if | you seek after God an! fesl the Boirit's generating power? Whare shall I plant the | samera to take the picture? 1 | this platform. I direct it toward you. { still or stand still while I take the picture, {t shall be an instantaneous picture, Thers! [ bave it. It is done. You can see the pio. tare in {ts imperfect state and get some idea io what it will be when thoroughly de- | veloped, | There is your resurrected body, so bril- { §ant that t ne noonday sun is a patch of mid. | aight compared with it. There is your soul, { 0 pure that all the foroes of diabolism could {aot spot it with an imperfetion. There is your being, mighty and so swift that Right from iven to Mercury or Mars or Tupiter and back aga nu to heaven would not weary you, and a world on each shoulder would not crusn you. An eve that shall jaevarshed a tear, An energy that shall joever feel a faticne. A u. ow that shall | sever with pain. You are voung { rain, h you died of decrenitude, | You are well again, though you coughed or thiverad yourself? into th» toms. Your associates are the apostles and andl martyrs, and exalted wuls, mascaline or feminine, 1 The Archangsl ome. God Hi everiasting wo he mic of all thee to ms lf ant § that it is an imperfec pic is what the ancostls John APPAR “To this ond was [ born.” think s0 I would be nelancholy, The worid does very well for a little while, dghty, or a hun irad or a hundret and fifty rears, and 1 think that human longevity nay yet be imorove:l uo to that prooaga- doa, for now thers is so little room Detwesn mar eravile and our grave ws cannot acon ne plisn much, but woo would want to dwell n this world for all etorn ty! Home think iis earth will flaally be turnel into a maven, Perhaps it may, but it wonld mve to undergo ra lioal repairs aad through diminations and evolutions ani revolutions ind transfor nations: in 'inite, to makes it de drable for eteraal res! soos All the east winds wou 4d have to besoms wert winds and ail wintsr: chansgei 0 and the vo.canoss extinguished e beds and i: the zo ure, sald, what wa shall oe” If 1 did not overwhelmed with ti ao 4 : i ai sing? tn who cannot get wall him into heaven. lot it be Our brain, your onus, YOUr eves, your ars, your hb pour lungs, your hands ‘our feet, your body, your miad, yoar soul ‘our life, your death, your time, your eter. ! ity for God, tesling in your soul, “To this ad was I born.’ It may be helpful to some if I recite my wn experience in thisregard. I started for bo law without asking any divine direction. consulted my own tastes, I like! lawyers and reveled in hearing the Frelioghaysens an the New Jersey bar, and as ssistamt of the county clerk, at sixtesn roars of age, | searched titles, naturalized oreigners, recorded deeds, received the con eswion of judgments, swore witnesses and uries and grand juries. But after awhile 1 wit a call to the Gospel ministry and entered summer, when I was resting at tharon Springs and while seated in the park if that village, I said to myself, “If I have o find it out now.” and with that determin. tion I prayed az I had never before prayed, direction, and wrots it lown in my memorandum book, and I saw Oh, do not be satisfied with general direc. Get specific directions. Do not shoot Take aim and fire, Conon rate. Napoleon's sucoms in battle came rom his theory of breaking through the not trying to One reason why he lost Waterloo was because he did not work his ual theory, and spread his foros ous over a wide range. Oh, Christian man, oh, Chris ian woman, break through somewhere. Sot a general engagement for God, bus a mriicular engagement, and made in answer prayer. If there ars sixtesn handred nillion ple in the world, then thers are dxtean hundred million different missions to nlfll, differant styles of work to do, differ. mt orbits in which to revolve, and if you do wt got the divine direction there are at least Afteen handred and ninety-nine million pos. dbilities that you will make a mistake. On rour kneos befors God get the matter esttied wo that Jou can firmly say, "To this end was As near as 1 can tell, you were built for a haypy eternity, all the disasters which have happenad to your nature to be overcome by the blood of the Lamb if voa will heartily accept that Christly arrange ment. Weare ail rejoiosd at the inorsase of human longevity, People Hva 8 6% near as ANcCY. rds and shied si an is to an ME army the rescue opt RGR ani taat day, Earops, was savel, yo soni bes szel 105 RIA And sea you oa, with sin and sorrow, that lizht breaks n, the swords and the shells and 4 heimnets of divine rescues bathel in the dsing sun of heavenly deliverance Ist werything eise go ratasr than let heaven go. YOY Oe, wif bora to an sarthiy crown, but you have won born for a throae on which you may reign after the last monarch of all the earth hall have gone to dust, 1 invite you to start mow for your own oronation, to come io and take the title leads to your everwmsting inheritance, snd all of its raptares. What a poor farthin # ail that this world can offer you oot with pardon here and life immortal bey the stars, unless this side of them there be s place large enougo and beantiful enough wd grand enough for all ths ransomed. Wherever it be, in what world, whetoer near 3y or iar away, ia this or some other coa- steliation, hail home of light and love a blessadness! Through the atoning mercy of shrist, may we all get there Safety in Rapid Ocean Tavel. The recent fine performances of somes of the Atlantic liners has raised again the question of the safety of ocean racing. It is now clearly established that the risks incurred by ocean travelers are lessened rather than increased by the conditions of racing. When a vessel is being pushed to her utmost limit the spirit of rivalry becomes infectuous, and every one on board, from the captain to the stoker, is apt te be eagerly interested in the re. sult. Every one is workiag at high tea. sion and the work is full of susp. Every ilance is exercised in every department, Fires are carefully tended and the bear ings of the machinery are watched with unususl care to guard against overheat ing under the tremendous friction to which they are beiag subjected. This redoubled vigilance ungnestionably les- sens the danger of accideats in the en. gineer's department, but taere is still the Liability to collision to be considered. This danger is never absent from the mariner's caloulations, but ts & well known fact thats vessel going at a high rate of speed is more perfectly uader the pontrol of her helm than one steaming at a lower rate. ln this respect rooklessness is otten the height of dence, Navy oaptaios have often Henry Hudson landed prior i 1 THE LAND OF THE AFTERNOON I know a wonderous land of pearl And pink and golden gleam, Above whose battlements of cloud Broad erimson banners stream, Beyond the azure depths of noon, Far down the west it lies, | Its gate, the setting sun, 1s cleft | Through the saffron-colored skies. Its seas are floods of amb Where stats ly cloud. And violet mists its sil And palace w | fo} | er light, ips wall, | ery domes nyel. Athwart the de Forever eastwar i i wy shadows, that ¥ icreep, Th 1 0 The long-winged swallows, silently In mazy circles sweep, It is the realm of finished To weary hands a boen And twixt the day and twilight les This Land of the After {rood msn SCIENTIFIC, LE noon, {ousekeeping. A wood-carving machine I8 success- ul, ———— Terrorite is more powerful than dyn amite, memieciiinesm— A full moon reflects 1-3000th part of the sun's Light. —- + Ape— A pound of phosphorus is & pit 1,000,000 matches, uffi isnt to —— Cherra Poonges, in the Assam, Asi hills has a rain fall of over 500 per annus, — - dn Mr. Holmes, of N Engl ve of Ii riand, bh hting trains, an sven tfma— A Swedish cava.ry officer has ted a horseshoe on which the clips are changeab'e. sm eens A street railroad to be motor run by feel ofl will oparation near Prague, operats ad soon be by in A standard of color has become ne- cessary, and is being sought by the London Society of Arts, sana mofhe A fly lays 320 eges during a summer, The progeav of a single fly may from June 1 to September 50 exceed two mil- Hons, —— . It is sald that men with cases of Bright's disease lives for years a milk. the prolong on diet of * Toaaq Rail ne that iI scraping th 3 of Lhe track to 00 men ir a umped a edges of the fill, 0 OLuIgRIGe Sm A A spring bas been discovered in Greenville, N, H,, which contains an almost phenomenal amount of lithium, even more, it is said, than the famous ss In Spanish countries brickdust is sand, the compound being an excellent Watch crystals are made by blow- A device has been Invented by whick An engine may be stopped on any floor of a building by simply pressing a button, thus making an electrical | connection with the governor of the en. nl MII The we'll that 1s being bored at Wheel. ing, W. Va., in the Interests of solence has reached the depth of thre~fourths | of a mile. Progress is belnz made at the | rate of about ten feet a day I p— Winter forcing of tomatoes is very profitable, especially near large cities, and great care in the growing are all | that is required to produce good re- | sults, | those persons engaged In cleaning out | the apparatus used in refining petro- resembling | AWee pers. Ss— op ——— A tollet bruh is made of two halves | which are hinged and are detachable, | gne half being the brush and the other balf the mirror, while in the space be | tween is a comb, a tooth brush and » , button-hook. A The Munich Poeller Pnymeal and Op- | tieal Institute have constructed for the | Chicago Exhibition an enormous mic- | rose manipulated by the ald of | electricity. It has a magnifying power of 11 000 linear prespective and cost $4760, Inventors would find scope for thelr talents in devising **s car ventilating sys- "tem which would draw out the hot air su ply fresh alr, exclude dust and at the sare time be SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1931. ip wd Christ Comforting his Disciples, he Sy LESSON TEX] Memory verses S8ON PLAN JUARTER: (i001 Fath {um pen Texr: I will 1viel Jie forter, that le may abide John 14 : jray shall give er, YOGH Tio ior « f. Th in 81008 House my Father's | 3 We shall be satisfied with of thy house (Psa. 60 : 4, 3 Father's house John 2 : 16 with hands i my of merchandise muse not made wire it Cts 2 fi IAG Spirit (Acts The Holy Ghost Cor, 6: 19), fe. He shall teach you all things Teaching 26). truth (John 16 : 13). the Holy Ghost (2 Pet. 1 : 21 His anointing teacheth you concerning all things (1 John 2: 27. Il. THE PRESENT CHRIST, I. Returning I come unto you (18), They shall see the Son of man coming { Matt, 24 Jesus shall so come in like manner (Acts l : 11). The Lord himself shall descend heaven Thess, 4: 10). Manifesting Ye behold me myself (19-21). Sha. from il. Jd. ...will manifest (16: 16). I manifested thy name unto the men (John 17: 6). was manifested unto John 1 : 2). itl. Abiding: We will us (1 .make our abode with him He went in to abide with them (Lake 24 : 20: Abide in me, and I in you (John 15 : 43, Christ liveth in me (Gal. 2 : 20). THE ABIDING PEACE. from Christ: Peace 1 leave with yon (27). He shall never saffer the righteous to be moved (Psa. 22), Iw » oy J wT In me peace. In the world ulation (John 16 Verpa 1, “Tet not your heart be troubled.” (1) The troubles of human- ity; (2) The consolations of Christ, 13 L'rouble felt; (2; Trouble banished. Vorse 2 “In my Father's house many mansions,” (1 Ay trib 00) . are The Son's mes The appointed i . y BRgE, Vather bo tie py many mansions; (4; The ocelipants, \’ Yond , wiil you n nyself.’’ i The f ihe Bain, Bnd receive impros reception. glve Com; trinmphal y (5 ing: (2) Vy OrKe nnG ¥ = sat irter I anther ing. X V ors ive wise.” gh 3 3 shared by the Lord: shared by han ianity. x . “He it is fost of of love Ve 1; 1 2) 1 1 ree 21. he Lord’ i JOTG 8 to himself: hime ed reward of love to acher, The ave with you.” y; (2) The Peacock i E80 Dwel fmpart begets Loy Begets Thess. 1 : 6 Fdifies the 16 : 13, 14 Convicts the i Wi ria! ‘ —— LESSON SURROUNDINGS. The last les- un’s narrative, betrayer, which I'he disciples beckons to Lord is ocording Ii WAR the same time; a 80} t “] Our Lord Judas having gone ont, EXTE, «The with an implied referenc ceding prediction, whi amazed the lisciples. how they can *““.ollo thither is shown, 1 reply to Thomas, and a remark of Philby leads to an assertion of our Lord's nun- ity with the Father, and a promise of power to the believer that the Father may be glorified in the Son, Loving Christ, they will obey Christ, and he Father for another Com- {arter, who shall abide wih them. A future vision of Chris: is promised, and Judas (not Iscariot) inquires about thie The apswer makes it dependent on loving Christ and keep- ing his words, which are those of the Father. The Holy Spirit is again promised to bring these words to their remembrance, and his own peace is pledged to them to guard against tron- ble sud fear. There is no parallel passage. FRO E © ha hey are shown afterwards,” & begins the pre- i 1 donb less w —g_—- ve Wouldn't Take the Case Gey yh t of CR of An ns 118 had his for the survived ihe win raorance of law was retained - of a burglar who had been alter a desperate not in custody. his tha HCO conanitation with client lawyer asked: “Have you neither has been fo defend me but one two, hired have taken, 1 This the lawyer, me against conviction.” answer deeply impressed (Eph, 2: 14), Grace to you and peace Christ (Rev. 1 : 4, 5), Paace in Believers: My peace I give nato you (27). Ye shall find rest unto your souls ( Matt, 11 : 20). On earth peace among men (Luke 2: i) The peace of God. . shall gnard your honrte (Phil. 4 : 7). 11, Peace Amid Troubles: Lot not your hearts be troubled (27). He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle (Psa. 55:18 , Thou wilt keep lim in perfect (Isa. 20: 8), lar had scoumulated no money in his profession, he threw up tl He CASS Intelligent WL rprise Ly pographic lie eratiire Lhe 18 Of Wilder nla tient readers have learned sf the most ex. can follow, in 3 pod raphy. DE WENRO PE that composition is ons and a physical organization capable of Standing at the case woikling's effort, and no delionte or impairesd physique ean stand the strain erected on the Atlantic Highlands of New ‘ I Jersey, sad dedicated September § next,
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