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THE LEDGERS GAFFNEY, S. C., NOVEMBER 17, 1808 5 DIVINE DIRECTION. W70LLOW GOD’S GUIDANCE, SAYS THE REV. DR. TALMAGE. For th«* AakSns Ho Will Point Ont Your Sphere of UaefnlnraH—Do Koi Bother Ahont \\ hut Cannot Be Helped—A Cliild'n DeHtiny. ^Copyright, 1S1*8, by American Press Asso ciation.! Washington, Nov. 1R.—To all fhose who feel they have uo especial mis sion in the world, this sermon of Dr. Talmage will come as a cheering rev elation; text, John xviii, 37, “To this this end was I born.’’ After Pilate had suicided, tradition Pays that his body was thrown into the Tiber, and each storms ensued on and about that river that his body was tak en ont and thrown into the Rhone, and similar disturbances swept that river and its banks. Then the body was taken oat and moved to Lausanne, and put in a deeper pool, which immediately be came the center of similar atmospheric and aqneons disturbances. Though these are faucifnl and false traditions, they show the execration with which «tb8 world looked upon Pilate. It was be fore this man when he was in fall life and power that Christ was arraigned as In a court of oyer and terminer. Pilate •aid to his prisoner, “Art thon a king, then?” and Jesns answered, “To this end was I horn.” Sure enough, al though all earth and hell arose to keep him down, he is today empalaced, en throned and coroneted king of earth and king of heaven. That is what he came for, and that is what he accom plished. Ey tho time a child reaches ten years ago tho parents begin to discover that child’s destiny, but by the time ho or she reaches fifteen years of ago the question is on tho child’s lips: “What shall I do? What am I going to be? What was 1 made for?” It is a sensible and righteous question, and the >outh ought to keep asking it until it is so fully answered that the young man. or young woman, can say with as much truth ns its author, though on a less ex pansive scale, “To this end was 1 born.” There is too much divine skill shown in tho physical, mental and moral con stitution of tho ordinary human being to suppose that ho was constructed without any divine purpose. If you take mo out on some vast plain and show mo a pillared temple surmounted by a dome like St. Peter’s, and having a floor of precious stones and arches that must have taxed tho brain of the greatest draftsman to design and walls scrolled and niched and paneled and Wainscoted and painted, and I should ask you what this building was put up for, and you answered, “For nothing at all," how could I believe you? And it is impossible for mo to believe that any ordinary human being who has in his muscular, nervous and cerebral or ganization more wonders than Christo pher Wren lifted in St. Paul’s or Phidias ever chiseled on tho Acropolis and bnilt in such a way that it shall last long after St. Paul’s cathedral is as much a ruin as tho Parthenon—that such a bciug was constructed fur no purpose and to exeento uo mission and without any divine intention toward some end. Tho object of this sermon is to help you to find out what you are made for and help you find your sphere and assist you into that condition where you can say with certainty and em phasis and enthusiasm and triumph, “To this end was I born. ” SelectliiK an Occupation. First, I discharge you from all re sponsibility for most of your environ ments. You aro not responsible for your parentage or grandpareutage. Yon are not responsible for any of tho cranks that may have lived in your ancestral line and who 100 years before yon wero born may have lived a stylo of life that inoro or less affects you today. You are not responsible for the fact that your temperament is sanguine or melancholic or bilious or lymphatic or nervous. Neither are you responsible for tho place of your nativity, whether among tho granito hills of New England or the cotton plantations of Louisiana or on tho banks of tho Clydo or tho Dueiper or tho Shannon or tho Seine. Neither aro you responsible for the religion taught in your father’s house, or the irreligion. Do not bother yourself about what you cannot help or about circum stances that yon did not decree. Take things as they aro and decide tho question so that you shall bo able safely to say, “To this end was I born. ” How will you decide it? Ey direct ap plication to tho only Being in tho uni verse who is competent to tell yon—the Lord Almighty. Do yon know tho roa- son why ho is tho only one who can tell? Because ho can see everything between yonr cradle and your grave, though the grave bo 80 years off, and besides that be is tho only Being who can seo what has been happening in thelastfiOO years in yonr ancestral line, and for thou sands of years clear back to Adam, and (hero is not ono person in all that an cestral lino of 0,000 years but has some how affected your character, and even old Adam himself will sometimes turn up in your disposition. The only Being who can take all things that pertain to you into consideration is God, and ho is the ono yon can ask. Life is so short wo have uo time to experiment with oc cupations and professions. Tho reason wo have so many dead failures is that parents decided for children what they shall do, or children themselves, wrought ou by some whim or fancy, de cide for themselves, without any im- ploratiou of diviue 'guidance. So we have now in pulpits men making 8er- aro others making bricks who ought to be remodeling constitutions or shoving planes who ought to bo transforming literatures Ask God about what world ly business you shall undertake until you an. so positive you cau in earnest ness smite your hand ou your plow han dle, or your carpenter’s bench, or your Blackstoue’s “Commentaries,” or your medical dictionary, or your Dr. Dick’s “Didactic Theology," saying, “For this end was I bom. ” There aro children who early develop natnral affinities for certain styles of work. When the father of tho astronomer Forbes was going to Louden, he asked bis children what present he should bring each one of them. The boy who was to be an astron omer cried out, “Bring mo a telescope!” Ask God’s Guidance. And there are children whom you find all by themaelves drawing on their slates, or on paper, ships, or houses, or birds, aud you know they are to bo draftsmen or architects of some kind. And you find others ciphering out diffi cult problems with rare interest and eucces!? aud yoa know they are to be mathematicians. Aud others making wheels and strange contrivances, aud yon know they are going to bo machin ists. And others are found experiment ing with hoe and plow and sickle, aud you know they will be farmers. Aud others aro always swapping jackknivea or balls or bats, and making something by tbe bargain, aud they are going to be merchants. When Abbe de Ranee had so advanced in studying Greek that he could translate Anacreon at 12 years of age, there was no doubt left that he was intended for a scholar. But iu al most every lad there comes a time when bo does not know what he was made for, and his parents do not know, aud it is a crisis that God only can de cide. Then there are those born for some especial work, and their fitness does not develop until quite late. When Philip Doddridge, whose sermons aud books have harvested uncounted Bonis for glory, began to study for the min istry, Dr. Calamy, one of the wisest aud best men, advised him to turn his thoughts to some other work. Isaac Barrow, the eminent clergyman and Christian scientist—his books standard now, though he has been dead over 2U0 years—was the diehcartenmeut of his father, who used to say that if it pleas ed God to take any of his children away ho hoped it might bo his sou Isaac. So some of those who have been character ized for their stupidity iu boyhood or girlhood have turned out the mightiest benefactors or benefactresses of the hu man race. These things being so am I not right in saying that iu many cases God only knows what is the most ap propriate thing for yon to do, and ho is the no to ask? Aud let all parents aud all bools and ail universities and all col ges recognize this, and a large number of those who spent their best years in stumbling about among busi nesses and occupations, now trying this and now trying that, and failing iu all, would be able to go ahead with a definite, decided and tremendous pur pose, saying, “To this end was I born.’ i’litb* of I'xcfiilni-Na. But my subject now mounts into the momentous. Lot mo say that you aro made for usefulness aud heaven. I judge this from the way you aro built You go into a shop where thero is only one wheel turning aud that by a work man’s foot on a treadle, aud you say to yourself, ‘‘Hero is something good be ing done, yet on a small scale, ” but if you go into a factory covering many acres aud you find thousands of bauds pulling ou thousands of wheels aud shuttles flying aud the whole scone be wildering with activities, driven by water or steam or electric power, you conclude that tho factory was put up to do great work and on a vast scalo. Now, I look at you, and if I should find that you had only one faculty of body, only one muscle, only one nerve, if you could see but not hear or could he..r and not seo, if you had tho use of only one foot or one hand, and, as to your higher nature, if you had only one mental faculty aud you had memory but uo judgment or judgment but uo will, and if you had a soul with only one capacity, I would say not much is expected of you. But staud up, O muu, aud let me look you squarely in the face! Eyes capable of seeing everything. Ears capable of hearing everything Hands capable of grasping everything Minds with more wheels than any fac tory ever turned, more power than any Corliss engine ever moved. A soul that will outlive all tho universe except heaven, and would outlive all heaveu if tho life of tho other immortals were a moment short of the eternal Now, what has tho world a right to expect of you? What has God a right to demand of yon? God is tho greatest of econo mists in the universe, and ho makes nothing uselessly, and for what purpose did he build your body, mind and soul as they built? There are only two beings iu the nuiverso who can answer that question. The angels do not know. Tho schools do not know. Your kindred cannot certainly know. God knows, aud you ought to know. A factory run ning at an expense of $500,000 a year and taming out goods worth 70 cents u year would uot be such an incongruity as you. O man, with such semi-infinite equipment doing nothing, or next to nothing, in the way of usefulness! “What shall I do?” yon ask. My breth ren, my sisters, do not ask me. Ask God. There’s some path of Christian usefulness open. It may Ire a rough path or it may be a smooth path, a loug path or a short path. It may bo ou a mount of couspicuity or in a valley un observed, but it is a path ou which you can start with such faith aud such satis- factiou and such certainty that you can cry out iu tho face of earth and bell mons who ought to be in blacksmith and we have auf * heaven, “To this end was I born shops making plowshares, iu the law those who instead of ruining the cases of their clients ought to be pounding shoe lasts, and doctors who aro the worst hindrances to their pa tients’ convalescence, aud artists trying m paint landscapes who ought to bo whitewashing board fences, while there Granp Opportunity. Do not wait for extraordinary qualifi cations Philip, the conqueror, gained his greatest victories seated on a mule, imd if you vt ait for some caparisoued Bucephalus to ride into the conflict you will uever get into tbe worldwide fight at all. Sam«on slew the Lord’s enemies with the jawbone of tho stupidest beast created. £huuignr slew <100 of the Lord’s enemies with an ox goad. Under God, spittle cured tho blind man’s eyes in the New Testament story. Take all tho laculty you have aud say: “O Lord! Here is what I have. Show mo the field aud back me up by omnipotent power. Anywhere, anyhow, any time for God.” Two men riding on horseback came to a trough to water tbo horses. While the horses were drinking one of the men said to the other a few words about the value of tho soul, then they rode away, and iu opposite directions, but tho words uttered wero the salvation of the one to whom they were uttered, and he became the Rev. Mr. Champion, one of the most distinguished missionaries in heathen lands, for years wondering who did fsr him the Christian kindness, aud not finding ont nntil in a bundle of books sent him to Africa ho found the biography of Brainerd Taylor and a pic ture of him, aud the missionary recog nized the face in that book as the man who, at the watering trough for horses, bad said tbe thing that saved his sonl. What opportunities you have had in the past! What opportunities you have now! What opportunities you will have iu the days to come! Put on your hat, oh. wo- mau, this afternoon aud go and comfort that young mother who lost her Labe last summer. Put on your hat, oh, man, and go over and see that merchant who was compelled yesterday to make an as signment and tell him of tho everlast ing riches remaining for all those who serve tho Lord. Cau yon sing? Go and sing for that man who cannot get well and you will help him into heaven. Let it be your brain, your tongue, your eyes, your ears, yonr beurt, your lungs, your hand, yonr feet, yonr body, yonr mind, yonr soul, yonr life, your time, your eternity for God, feeling iu your soul. “To this end was I born!” Divine Direction. It may bo helpful if I recite my own experience in this regard. I started for tho law without asking any diviue di- nection. I consulted my own tastes. 1 liked lawyers and courtrooms and judges and juries, and reveled in hear ing the Frelinghuyseus ami the Brad leys of tho New Jersey bar, and as as sistant of tho county clerk, at sixteen years of age, I searched titles, natural ized foreigners, recorded deeds, received the confession of judgments, swore wit ness aud juries and grand juries. But after awhile I felt a call to tho gospel ministry and entered it, and I felt some satisfaction in the work. But one sum mer, when I was resting at isharon Springs, and while seated in the park of that village, I said to myself, “If 1 have an especial work to do in tho world I ought to find it out now,” and with that determination I prayed as I had never before prayed, and got tho divine direction, aud wiote it down in my memorandum book, and I saw my life work then as plainly as I see it now. Oh, do uot bo satisfied with gen eral directions! Get specific directions. Do not shoot at random. Take aim ami fire. Concentrate. Napoleon’s success in battle came from his theory of break ing through tho enemy’s ranks at otn point, uot trying to meet the whole line of tho enemy’s force by a similar force Ono reason why he lost Waterloo was because he did uot work his usual the ory, and spread his force out over a wide range. O Christian man, O Christian woman, break through somewhere! Not a general engagement for God, but a particular engagement, aud made iu an swer to prayer. If thero are 1,(500,000,- 000 people iu tho world, then thero are 1,(500,000,000 different missions to ful fill, different styles of work to do, dif ferent orbits in which to revolve, and if you do not get tho divine direction there are at least 1,509,000,000 possi bilitics that you will make a mistake On your knees before God get tho mat ter settled so that you cau firmly say. “To this end was 1 born. ” Internal I.lfe. And now 1 come to the climacteric consideration. As near as 1 can tell, you wero built for a happy eternity, all tho disasters which have happened to your nature to be overcome by the blood of tho Lamb if you will heartily acce pt that Christly arrangement We are all rejoiced at thu increase in human lon gevity People live, as near as I cau ob serve, about ten years longer than they used to. Tho modern doctors do uot bleed their patients ou all occasions as did the former doctora In those times if a man had fever they bled him, if ho had consumption, they bled him, if ho had rheumatism, they bled him, and if they could uot make out exactly what was tho matter they bled him. Olden time phlebotomy was death’s coadjutor. All this has changed. From tho way 1 see people skipping about at 80 years of age I conclude that life insurance companies will have to change their ta ble of risks and charge a man uo more premium at 70 than they used to do when he was 60, and no more premium at 50 than when ho was 40. By the ad vancement of medical science aud the wider acquaintance with tho laws of health aud thu fact that tbo people know bettor how to take care of them selves, human life is prolonged. But do you realize what, after all, is the brevity of our earthly state? In tho times when people lived 700 and 800 years, the patriarch Jacob said that his years were few. Looking at tho life of the youngest person in this assembly and supposing that ho will live to bo a nonage uariau, how short tbo time aud soon gone, while banked up in front of ns is uu eternity so vast that arithmetic has uot figures enough to express its length or breadth or depth or height For a happy eternity you .vere born, unless you run yourself against tho diviue intentions. If, standing iu your presence, my eye should full upon the feeblest soul here as that soul will ap- j pear when tho world lets it up aud heav en entrances it, I suppose I would be so overpowered that I should drop down as one dead. Yon have examined the family Bible and explored the family records, and I yon may have seen daguerreotypes of some of the kiudred of previous genera tions, you have had photographs taken of what yon were in boyhood or girl hood, and what you were ten years later, nun it is very interesting to any one to bo able to look back upon pictures of what he was 10 or 20 or 30 years ago. But have you ever had a picture taken of what you may be and what you will be if you seek after God and feel tho spirit’s regenerating power? Where shall I plant the camera to take the pic ture? I plaut it on this platform. I di rect it toward you. Sit still or stand still while I take the picture. It shall be an instautaueous picture. Thero! I have it. It is done. You can seo tho picture in its imperfect state aud get some idea of what it will be when thor oughly developed. There is your resur rected body, so brilliant that the noon day son is a patch of midnight compar ed with it. There is your sonl, so pure that all the forces of diabolism could uot spot it with an imperfection. Thero is yonr being, so mighty and so swift that flight from heaven to Mercury or Marsor Jnpiter and back again to heav en would not weary yon, aud a world ou each shoulder would uot crush you. An eye that shall never shed a tear. An energy that shall never feel a fatigue. A brow that shall uever throb with pain. You are young again, though yon died of decrepitude. You are well again, though you coughed or shivered your self into the tomb. Your everyday asso ciates are the apostles and prophets and martyrs, aud most exalted souls, mas culine and feminine, of all tbe centu ries. The archangel to you no embar rassment. God himself your present and everlasting joy That is an instantane ous picture of what you may be aud what I am sure some of you will bo. Only n l.lttle While. If you realize that it is an imperfect picture, my apology is what tho apos tle John said, “It doth not yet appear what wo shall be. ” “To this end was I born.” If 1 did not think so I would bo overwhelmed with melancholy. The world does very well for a little while, 80 or 100 or 150 years, aud I think that human longevity may yet be improved up to that prolongation, for now thero is so little loom between our cradle and our grave wo cannot accomplish much; but who would want to dwell iu this world for all eternity? Some think this earth will finally be turned into a heav en. Perhaps it may, but it would have to undergo radical repairs and thorough eliminations and evolutions and revolu tions and transformations infinite to make it desirable for eternal residence. All tho east winds would have to be come west winds, and all tho winters changed to springtides, mid all the vol canoes extinguished, and tho oceans chained to their beds, aud the epidem ics forbidden entrance, and the world so fixed up that I think it would take more to lepair this old world than to make an entirely new ono But I must say I do uot care where heaven is if we can only get there; whether a gar- denized America or an emparadised Eu rope or a world central to the whole universe. “To this end was I born.” If each ono cf ns could say that wo would go with faces shining and hopes exhilaruut amid earth’s worst misfor tunes aud trials. Only a little while, and then the rapture. Only a little while, and then tho reunion. Only a little while, and then tho truusfigura tion. In the seventeenth century all Eu rope was threatened with u wave of Asiatic barbarism aud Vienna was espe cially besieged. Tho king aud his court had fled aud nothing could save the city from being overwhelmed unless the king of Poland, John Sobieski, to when) they had sent for help, should with his army come down for the relief, aud from every roof and tower tho inhabitants of Vienna watched and waited aud hoped until on the morning of Sept. 11 thu rising snu threw an unusual and un paralleled brilliancy. It was the reflec tion of the sun on the swords aud shields aud helmets of John Sobieski and hi.l army coming down over tho hills to the rescue, and that day uot only Vienna, but Europe, was saved. Aud seo you not, O ye souls besieged with sin and sorrow, that light breaks in, the swords and the shields and tho helmets of di viue rescue bathed in the rising sun of heavenly deliverance? Lot every tiling else go rather than let heaven go. What a strange thing it mnst bo to feel cueself born to an earthly crown, but you have been born for a throne on which you may reign after the last monarch of all the earth shall have gone to dust. I invite you to start now for your own coronation, to come iu and take tbo title deeds to your everlasting iuberitauco. Through an impassioned prayer, take heaven and all of its rap tares. What u poor farthing is all that this world cau offer you compared with par don hero and life immortal beyond the stars unless this side of them there be a place large enough and beautiful enough and grand enough for all thu ransomed! Wherever it be, in what world, whether near by or far away, iu this or some other constellation, hail, home of light, and love and blessedness! Through the atoning mercy of Christ, may we all get there! GAMBLER AND GENTLEMAN. A Drnm«tl« Story of Corwin an* a MlNMlsalttpl UIvcr Game. “I am a believer,” sold tho colonel, tilting his chair and resting his perfect ly polished boots on ono of its mugs, “in man’s natural goodness. I had the pleasure once of knowing an honest gambler. “Corwin, when I met him, was a Mississippi river gambler. He traveled —in fact, lived—ou the big river steam boats. He never attempted to conceal tho truth about bimself. It was simply: ’Gentlemen, I am a gambler by occupa- tiou, and a good one. If yon care to have me play with you, it will give me great pleasure. If you don’t, it doesn’t make a particle of difference.’ “There was a cool, matter of fact way ahont him which froze the ardor of every one else except a yonug man about 25 years old. This player was in ill luck, but with flushed face and fe verish eye ho made his bets furiously, only to lose every time. It soon became evident that he was playing beyond his means. Corwin mnst have noticed it, for ho ceased to bet heavily against the younger man. This angered tho other. “There was a pot of $300 once, aud every one had dropped out except the young man. Corwin had been playing his hand like a wonderful automaton, passionless hut sure. No man except his opponent perhaps conld doubt that he held the winning hand. Suddenly, when bis rival bet $50, Corwin laid down his hand, saying: *1 have nothing. You played that well.’ Tho young man reached out feverishly for the pile of money, and then his hand laid on the table. ‘That is not true,’ he said. ‘You have a good hand, aud you are afraid to play it against ma ’ Corwin shot a hot glance across tbe table past him, aud two red spots flashed into his cheeks. ‘1 lay down my hand, ’ he said slowly, but with a slight tremor in his voice. ‘And I say, ’ added the other in a low tone, ‘that you aro a gambler, aud therefore a coward!’ “ ‘Hush,’ I said, laying my hand on tho young man’s sleeve. ‘You do not know what you are saying. Ho is uot a coward by any manner of means. ’ The yonug man shook off my hand vehement ly. ‘Ho is a coward,’ ho repeated, ‘and I will answer for my words at the first landing. ’ “I looked at Corwin. I had seen him sit on the hurricane deck, a revolver in hand, and, as a waiter threw champagne bottles over tho rail, raise his arm swiftly and shatter tho falling glass with a bullet. Thero were graver sto ries, too, of his deadly aim in duels. Ho sat stiff and motionless, with a ter rible fire iu his eyes. I was amazed by his next words. “ ‘Does the game go on?’ ho asked quietly. ‘Not with you, ’ said tho young man, bending forward, the veins of his forehead swelling. ‘Not until I prove that you are afraid to bet,’ and with a sudden motion he thrust his hand across the table and, seizing Corwin's hand, turned the cards face up ou the table. I was ou my feet at that instant to arrest Corwin’s right hand, for I felt that he would draw his revolver at the insult. Bat a hush fell over those around the v.tlo and tho hotheaded young man was gazing stupidly at the cards before him. Four aces lay there, au invincible hayd, for straight flushes were uot then play ed. Thero was a blue tinge on Corwin’s white lips, and the young man looked bewildered. Then tho young fellow burst into tears. “ ‘We can’t play together any more,’ ho cried. ‘You threw money into my pocket because you thought I was losing too much. I can’t take it,’ he said, ris ing from his chair. ‘You cau,' said the gambler, in an oven voice. ‘I laid down my hand. Tho money is yours. Be sides,’ he added, with a little shiver, ‘I held out an ace on you.’ "Every mau at the table knew that Corwin had lied. Wo all got up aud left tho young man sitting there before his money. I found Corwin shortly aft erward standing upon the deck looking into tho darkly whirling water. ‘Give mo your baud,’I said. ‘What in the world did yon mean? You never cheat ed at cards in your life.’ “ ‘Tut, tut,’ he answered, with a lit tle laugh that was slightly harsh, ‘lie is only a boy and I loved his mother once.’ ”—Chicago Chronicle. 4F . Congressman Botkin’s Statement WASramroN, D.C., April 1, 1898. Dr.S. B. Hartman, Columbus, O. 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