, 1886-03-28
"HEREDITY.'
Or. TALmAGE's SERMON. DELIVERED
IN FAYETTe, MISSOURI.

who's Son Art Thou. Thou Young
manY"-Ths Iniauity Of the Past Visited
Upon the chndrsn Unto the Third and
Fourth Generations
FAYFrrE. Mo. March 2l--At the invita-
ton of the chief citizens OF this place the Rev
T.. Dewitt Talmagr, d D., stopped here ID
preach ON his way to Kansas City and other
places. He arrived yesterday Saturday af-
ternoon, and viii leave on Monday. His au-
dience here was nc exception TO the rule, that
no church for the last twenty years has beer
large enough TO hold the audionce when DR..
Talmage Is announced to preach. The
preachers subject was "Heredity," and his
text / Samuel xvii, 50: Whose son art thou,
thou young manf' Following Is the semon Id
full. which is tho eleventh in the series on
eth Marriage Ring
Never was there q more unequal fight than
that between David and Goliath. David five
feet high, Goliath ten. David a shepherd
boy, brought up amid rural scenes; Goliath
a warrior by profession Goliath a mountain
OF braggadocia; David a marvel OF humility.
Goliath armed with an iron spear, David
armed with a sling with smooth stones from
the brook. But you are not to despise these
latter weapons There was a regiment OF
alingers In the Assyrian army, and a regt
ment Of singers in the Egyptian army, and
hey made terrible execution, and they could
cast a stone with as much precision and force
rs now can be hurled, shot or she'll The
Greeks In their army had singers who would
throw leaden plummets inscribed with the ir-
ritating words, Take thisfn So 1t was a
mighty weapon David employed In that
famous combat.
A jewish rabbi says that the probability Is
that Goliath WINS Ia such contempt for David,
that, in n paroxysm OF laughter, he threw his
head back and his helmet fell off, and David
saw the uncovered forehead, and his oppor-
tunity had come, and taking this sling. and
swinging 1t around his head two or three
times, and aiming at that uncovered fore
head, he crushed It In like an eggshell The
battle over, behold a tableau-King Saul sit-
ting. little David standing, his fingers
clutched into the hair Of decapitated Goliath
As Saul sees David standing there, holding
in his hand the CHASTITY, reeking, staring
trophy, evidence Of the complete victory over
Gods enemies, the king wonders what parent.
age was honored by such heroism, and in my
text he asks David his pedigrssi "whose son
art thou, thou young manf'
The king saw what you and | see, that this
question OF heredity Is a mighty question.
Tho longer l live the more l believe In blood
good blood, bad blood, proud blood, humble
blood, honest blood, thieving blood. heroic
blood, cowardly blood The tendency may
skip a generation or two, but It b sure 70
come out, as in a little child you somstimes
zee a similarity to a great-grandfather whose
picture hangs ON the wall That the phyxi-
cal and mental and moral qualities ars inher-
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