Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-04-13


GENEALOGICAL SRRHioN. had, at one time. for a
cocufate very impnlsive and rather a democratic
man. Our Tectorwas aristocrat. On Sunday he had
delivered himself of a sermon in which he incident
ally justified family pride. aud spoke in a manner
thatnusi have been offensive TO any poor p rson of
any inteliige or Independence and, were
leaving the church, my brother curate exclaimed, with
unaffected Indignation, Well, that crowns IS
toadyng discusses. Such fankeyism is intolerable
But I'll administer antdote next Sunday see if
DON'T Like Herod's worms, recior's pride is
ealing him up did attempt TO Gissuade him.
Our rector treated both of with a condescension
that was anything but iattering; and he thought
more of being gentleman (upon which he was
always indirectly Wanting hmself) than of being a
Christian forgetting what Coleridge sad that there
real gentleman without he was Christian.
Next Sunday morning my brother carried
out his threat He told nothing about how he
proposed to manage or mould his course; so Judge
my surprise when, mounting the pulpit, he gave
as his text, the Sd chapter of Luke, part of the 3d.
and the whole of the Oath, 25th, 26lh, 9th, 18th,
29th, 3Oth, 3lst, 3Sd, 33d. 34th, 35th Seth, 37h,
and 39h verses; " in which Che continued) will be
found the following words - and them to the marvel
of the whole congregation, who turned towards the
pulpit with eyes and mouth wide open, he read right
the sixteen verses beg inning with, 8 Joseph
which was the of He'll" and ending with
~ which was the Of Enos, which was the son Of
Seth, which was the of God" Every one is
familiar with the peculiar and strange effects upon
the of the repetition of the words Is which
the son. when occurring in the reading desk
but in The pulpit, prefix a in the shape
Of text they sounded oddly. The rector looked at
NE as if for an explanation, and l did not know
where to look; while the principal persons of the
parish maifesy came 10 the conclusion that my broth
curate gone mad. But If he were, he soon
showed them there method in his mad ess for
he ingeniously evolved out of these sixteen
discourse that might have served essay on the
Republican legened of Liberty, Equality and Fra
ternity." The reader has probably anticipated me
in the use he made of his long text.
80 Here (said he) we have genealogical tree, not
traced by the fa,;ery of sycophants the uncer-
taintY of heralds, but by the unerring Evangelist,
whose information enabled him to mount from branch
10 branch-a geneaiogy beginning with God, and
ending, far ny text goes, with poor Galilean
carpenter. Here is lesson and rebuke for the
pride of descent. The poorest carpenter, in the
poorest village OF England, retrace his lineage
through the unbroken succession and the proud
peer do more, unless the latter, in his pre-
sumption, should be disposed ignore his divine
igin. But it would be use; by whatever differ
ent branches, they arrive at the root; the noble
and the peasant, if both had the power of going
back their ancestry, would both the
35th verse of the Sd chapter of Luke, Which was
the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which
was the OF Adam, which was the of Cod
Here Che continued, looking at the rector's and
The squIfes pews)-here we all meet equal terms.
Disown them we like IN Other degrees, here weare
brought face TO face with, and longer refuse
10 acknowledg poor relations"
Then, looking TO some forms on which group Of
aims house people sat, added:
Here, too. my poor friends, you and your supe
rors meet in the presence Of your common parent
the great God OF heaven and earth, in whose eyes
the Fictitious distinctions of this world naught.
Cold shoulder you they like through lie, they
cannot ignore their relationships when they
this they can no longer speak of you, spuTn you,
as though you formed of different clay. The
carpenter and the king one; and how little i'm
pcF:aEce St. Luke, who sycophanIic genoa.
ogist, attaches to The regal Office, may be
from the manner in which lie passes through the
3Ist verse, where pause is made TO IN lTk the
proud lille of David, which merely the son Of
Jesse which the of Obed, and SO on.''
In conclusion he urged the poor to live Up to
his great origin. and not dsenlle himself 10 that
great share III the inheritance of which his heavenly
Father had laid up for Ais children who truly serve
him. They need not for the proud man disown-
ing them the Thing to be feared was God dis
owning them the last day. The rich he enjoned
10 feel for the poor for brothers, if they would
offend that great Being who has fathers interest for
all.
l thought the rector would never forgive my co-cu-
rate but the only he took of eccentric dis
course was TO cease for after preaching to the
humber orders of the Difference ;hey owed their
g SUPERIOR X before so bad that boring
clergyman said me, - If your rector had put
al eleventh commandment it would run thus: " Thou
shalt neg!ec. to take off thy hat to myself and the
squire"
We LIKE LOUIS NAPOLEON FOR THIS. Among
the recent promotions 10 the senatorial dignity in
France is Capt. Dore's. This nomination. says the
Paris correspondent of the N. Y Courier, is purely
the iardy reward of devotion to the emperor, Napo-