Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-12
REV. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
He Dlscourses on the Glories
of Christianity.
All Believers In Jeaus Heirs TO the Great
Get OF all Grsatness-Ths Christian
Coat OF Arms-Blsssed Days
Z Soon to Como.

This morning the vast congregation,
which filled every available space at
the opening OF the service, sang, with
great heartiness and evident feeling,
Cowper's well known hymn, beginning;
There Is fountain filled with blood
Drawn from lmmanuels veins
The subject OF DIR. Talmage's sermon
was "Royal Blood" and his text Judges
viii, 10; Each one resembled the child
rem OF king"
Zebah and Zplmunna had been oil to
battle and when they came back they
were asked what kind OF people they
had seen. Tney answered that the
people had royal appearance" Each
one resembled the children OF king"
/ stand to-day before many who have
this appearance. Indeed, they are the
sons and daughters OF the Lord AL
mighty. Though now in exile, they
shall yet come to their thrones. There
are family names that stand for wealth
or patriotism, or intelligence. The
name OF Washington means patriotism,
although some OF the blood Of that race
has become very thin in the last gener-
alton. The family Of Medici stood as
the representative Of letters. The fam
fly of the Rothschilds is significant OF
wealth, the loss OF $40,000,00O in 1913
putting them to no inconvenience; and
within q few years they loaned Russia
sl2,OOO,OOo. Naples s25, 600, 600, Austria
100000 900 and England $500, 600. 900;
and the stroke Of their pen on the
counting room desk shakes everything
from the Irish sea to the Danube. They
open their hand, and there is war: they
shut it, and there is peace. The house
OF Hapsburg in Austria the house OF
Stuart in England, the house of Bour-
bon in France, were families OF impe-
rial authority.
But come to preach OF family more
potent, more rich and more extensive
the royal house OF Jesus, OF whom the
whole family in heaven and on earth is
named. We are blood relations by the
relationship OF the cross; all OF us are
the children OF the King.
First-I speak OF our family name.
When we see defendant OF some one
greatly celebrated in the last century we
look at him with great interest. To
have had conquerers, kings, or princes
in the ancestral line gives lustre TO the
family name. In our line was King
and Conqueror. The Star in the East
with baton of light woke up the eternal
orchestra that made music at His birth.
From thence He started forth to con-
quer all nations, not by trampling
them down, but by lifting them no. st.
John saw Him on white horse.
When He returns He will not bring the
nations chained to His wheel, or in iron
cages; but hear the stroke OF the
hoOis OF the snow white cavalcade that
brings them to the gates in triumph.
Our family name takes lustre from
the star that heralded Him, and the
spear that pierced Him, and the crown
that was given Him. 1t gathers fra
granco from the frapkincense brought
to His cradle, and the lilies that flung
their sweetness into His sermons, and
the box of aiabaster that broke At His
feet. The comforter at Bethany. The
resurrector at Main. The supernatural
oculist ut Bethsaida The Savior Of
one world and the chief joy OF another.
The storm His frown. The sunlight
his smile. The spring morning his
breath. The thunder the whisper Of
His voice. The ocean drop on the
tip of His finger. Heaven sparkle on
the bosom Of His love. Eternity the
twinkling OF His eye. The universe
the flying dust OF His chariot wheels.
Able to heal the heart break, or hush
the tempest, or drown world, or food
immensely with his glory.
What other family name could ever
boast Of such an iilustrious parsonage?
Henceforth swing cut the coat Of arms!
Great families wear their coat OF arms
on the dress or on the door Of the coach
or on the helmet when they 10 out to
battle. or on flags and ensigns. The
heraldic sign is sometimes a lion or a
dragon or an eagle. Our coat Of arms,
worn right over the heart, hereafter,
shall be a cross, q lamb standing under
Il and dove flying over II. Grandest
Of all escutcheons! Most significant OF
nil family ''coat OF arms" In every
battle ] must have 1t blazing on my flag
the dove, the cross, the lamb; and
when fall wrap me in that good old
flag. so that the coat Of arms shall be
right over my breast, that all the world
NAV see that 1 looked to the dove Of the
spirit and chung to the cross and de-
pended upon the Lamb OF God which
taketh away the sin Of the world.
Ashamed of Jesus-that dear friend,
On whom my hopes Of life depend;
MOL when blush be this my shame
That no more revere his name.
Next, 1 speak Of the family sorrows.
II trouble comes 10 one member OF the
family, all feel it. It Is the custom, az
ter the body Is lowered into the grave,
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