The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-12-18
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Great Family OF the Foyal
House of Jesus.
All the Christians In the world Belong TO
1.-THE Heritage May be Freely
Partaken OF by whose
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tabernacle from the text:
Each one resembled the children Of a king
Judge viii, 10.
Zebah and ZaImuna had been off to
battle, and when they came back they
were asked what kind of people they
had seen. They answered that the peo-
pie had a royal appearance; leach one
resembled the children of a 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. al
though some of the blood of that race
has become very thin in the last gener-
atom. The family of the Medici stood
as the representative of letters. The
| family of the Rothschilds is significant
of wealth, the loss of forty million dol
lars in 1s4S putting them to no incon-
venience; and within a few years they
have loaned Russia twelve million dol
lars. Naples twenty-five million dol
| lars, Austria forty million dollars, and
England, two hundred million dollars,
and the stroke of their pen on The count
ing 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 i'm
perial authority.
But l come to preach of family
more potential, 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 re-
lations by the relationship of the cross;
all of us are the children of the King.
First / speak of our family name.
When we see a descendant of some one
| greatly celebrated in the last century,
we look at him with profound interest.
To have had conquerors, kings or
princes in the ancestral line give luster
TO the family name. In our line was
King and a 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 conquer all nations, not by
them up. 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 hoofs of the snow-white caval-
cade that bring them 20 the gates in
triumph.
Our family name takes luster from
the stars that heralded Him, and the
spear that pierced Him, and the crown
that was given Him. 1t gathers fra
GRANGE from the franlxincense that was
brought to His cradle, and the lilies
that flung their sweetness into His SER
mons, and the box of alabaster that
broke at His feet. The Comforter At
Bethany. The Resurrector at Main.
The supernatural Oculis at Bethsaida.
The Saviour of one world, and the Chief
JOY of another. The storm His frown.
The sunlight His smile. The spring
morning His breath. The earthquake
the stamp of His foot. The thunder
the whisper of His voice. The ocean a
drop on the tip of His finger. Heaven
a 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 heart break, or
hush tempest. or drown word, or
food immensely with His glory. What
other family name could ever boast
such an illustrious parsonage?
Henceforth, swing out 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
go out to battle. or on the flags and en-
signs. The heraldic sign is sometimes
\ lion. or a dragon, or an eagle. Our
coat of arms, worn right over the heart,
hereafter shall be a cross, a lamb stand
ing under it and dove flying over it.
Grandest of all escutcheons! Most
significant of all family coat of arms"
In every battle must have it blazing
on my fiag-the dove, the cross, the
lamb; and when fall, wrap me in that
good old Christian flag. so that the fam
lily coat of arms shall be right over my
breast. that all the world may see that
looked to the Dove of the Spirit, and
chung to the Cross, and depended 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 speak of the family sorrows.
If trouble come to one member of the
family, all feel it. 1t is the custom,
after the body is lowered into the
grave, for all the relatives to come to
the verge of the grave and look down
into it. First those nearest the de-
parted come. then those next of kin,
until they have all looked into the
grave. So, when trouble and grief go
down through the heart of one member
of the family, they go down through
them all. The sadness of one is the
sadness of all. A company of persons
join hands around an electric battery;
the two persons at the end of the line
touch the battery, and all the circle
feels the shock. Thus, by reason of the |
ilial, maternal and paternal relations
Of life, we stand so close together that |
when trouble sets its battery all feel
The thrill of distress. In the great |
Christian family the sorrow of one |
ought to be the sorrow of all Is one |
prosecuted? All are prosecuted. Does |
one suffer loss? We all suffer loss. Is |
one bereaved? We are all bereaved
Their streaming eyes together flow
For human guilt and mortal woe.
If you rejoice at another's misfortune |
you are not one of the sheep, but one |
of the goats; and the vulture of sin |
hath alighted on your soul, and not the |
dove of the shirt