The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-03-30

W otubNCn uoiSc'JOChCy. Atuc VI evil
is tremendous in some families. 1t 10
like Niagara Rapids, and yet men have
clung 10 rock and been rescued.
There is family in New York whose
wealth has rolled up into many millioGs,
that was founded by man who, aftet be
had vast estate sent back paper OF
tacks because they were two cents more
than be exrected. Grip and grind and
gouge in the fourth generation-f sup
pose it will he grip and grind and gouge
in the twentieth generation. The thirst
for intoxicsnss has burned down through
the arteries OF a hundred and flfty years.
Pughacity or comba,iveness charscterize
other families, Sometimes one form of
evil, sometimes. another form of evil.
Bpt it may be resisted, it has been resist
ed. II the family frailty be avarice,
cultivate uncel6shncss and Charity, and
teach your children never to eat an .ap-
pile without offering somebody else half
of it. Is the family frailty combative-
ness, keep out OF the company of quick
tempered people, and never answer an
impairment question until you have
counted hundred both wavs, and after
you have written an angry letter Keep it
a week before you send it, and then burn
it up! Is the family frailty, tinidity and
cowardice. .cultivate backbone, read the
biograpy of brave men like Joshua or
Paul, and see il you caunot pet little
iron in your blood. Find out wha, the
family ffaility Is, and set body, mind,
and soul in battle array.
l think the genealogical table was put
in the first chapter of the New Testament,
not only to show our Lords pedigree,
but to show that
MAN MAY RISE
up In an ancestral line and beat back
success 'ully all the Influence OF bad here
ditv. See in that genealogical table that
good King Asa came of vile King Alba.
See in that genealogical table that Josep
and Mary and the most illustrlous being
that ever touched our world, or ever will
touch it, had in their ancestral lire scan
dslous Rehohoam and Thamar aud
Ba,hsbeba. If this world is ever TO he
Ederiz ,d-and it will be-all the infect.
ed families Of the eartn are to be regen-
ers,e'i, and there will some one arise in
eoch family lice and opeu new geneal
ogcal table. Thers will be some Joseph
in the line to reverse the evil H. fl renee
Of Rehoboam. and there will be some
Mary 10 the line TO reverse the evil in
flaence of Bathshebs. Perhaps the star
of hope may point down to your man
ger. Perhaps you are to be the hero or
heroine that is to put down the brakes
and stop that long train OF genealogical
tendencies and switch it of on another
track from that on which it has been
running for a century. You do that,
and will promise you as fle a palace.
as the architects of hdaven can build, the
archwsy inscribed with the words :
More than oenqneror.
| But whatever your heredity, let me
say, YOU NAV he sons and daughters Of
the Lord God Almighty. Estranged
children from the homestead come back
through the open gaze Of adoption. There
are crowns on our escutcheon. Our fa-
ther is King. Our Brother is King. We
may be kings and queens unto God for
ever. Come and sit down on the ivory
bench OF the palace Come and wash in
the fountains that fall into the basins OF
crystal and slsbaster. Come and look
out OF the upholstered window upon the
gardens OF szalea and smaranth. Hear
the full burst of the orchestra while you
banquet with potentates and victors. oh,
when the text sweeps backward, let it
not stop at the cradle that rocked your
infancy, but at the cradle that rocked
the first world, and whom the text sweeps
forward. let it not sop at your grave
but at the throne on which you may
reign forever and ever. "Whose sor
art thou, thou young manP" Son ol
God! Heir OF mortality! Take your
inheritance.