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
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of a burglar who had been
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lawyer asked: “Have you
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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),
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