Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-12-17
JERMON BY DR.. TALMAGE
THE ROYAL BLOOD OF JESUS THE
SUBJECT OF THE DISCOURSE.

Good Chsistians Are All the Subjects Of
the Great King of the Universe-Gr.phis
Picture of the Kings Estate-Oh, Eoi
the Reanion of Saintsi
BROOKLYN, Dec 6.-This morning the
vast congregation which filled every avail
able space in the Tabernacle at the opening
of the service sang with great heartiness
and evident feeling Cowper's well known
hymn beginning:
There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from lmmanuel's veins
The subject of DIR. Talmage's sermon
was Royal Blood, !" and his text Judges
viii, IS, Each one resembled the children
of a king"
Zebah and Zalmunna had been off to
BATTLE and when they came back they were
asked what kind of people they had seen.
They answered that the people had royal
appearance; leach one resembed the chill
dren of a king" | stand today before
many who have this appearance. Indeed,
they are the sons and daughters of the
Lord Almighty. 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 generation. The fam
lily of Medici stood as the representative NJ
letters.
The family of the Rothschilds is signifi
cant of wealth, the loss of forty millions o.
dollars in 1S4S putting them to no ncon
vsnience and within a few years they have
loaned Russia twelve millions of dollars.
Naples twenty-five millions, Austria forty
millions and England two hundred mil
lions; 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 Bourbon in
France were families of imperial authority
But | 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 Oh earth is
named. We are blood relations by the re-
lationship of the Cross; all of us are the
children of the King.
THE FAMILY NAME.
First speak of our family name When
we see descendant ofsome one greatly eel
ebrated in the last century we look at him
with profound interest. To have had con.
querors, kings or princes in the ancestral
line give luster TO the family name In our
line was a 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 conquer all nations, not by trampiEP
them down, but by lifting them up. ST
T,.l. IA ...I.se l.
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. cavalcade that bring them to the
gates in triumph.
Our family name takes Ulster from the
star that heralded him, and the spear that
pierced him, and the crown that was given
him. II gathers fragrance from the frank. |
incense brought to his cradle, and the
lilies that flung their sweetness into his |
sermons, and the box of alabaster that |
broke at his feet. The comforter at Beth |
any. The resurrector at Main. The super
natural oculist 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 a heartbreak, or
hush a tempest, or drown world, or food
immensely with his glory. What other
family name could ever boast of such an
illustriOus personageH
Henceforth, swing out the coat Of armsl
Great families wear their coat of arms on
the dress, or on the door Of the coach, or
on the helmet when they 90 out TO battle,
or on flags and ensigns. The heraldic sign
is sometimes a lion, or dragon, or an
eagle. Our coat Of arms, worn right over
the heart. hereafter shall be cross, lamb
standing under it aud dove flying over it.
Grandest of all escutcheonsl Most signii-
cant of all family coats OF arms" In every
battle / must have it blazing on my flag
the dove, the cross, the lamb, aud when
fall wrap me in that good old Christian flag,
so that the family 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 de-
pended upon the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin Of the world.
Ashamed or Jesus -iDtl uetlF IflcnQ.
On whom my hopes of life depend;
No. when blush be this my shame
That 40 more revere lis name.
THE FAMILY SORROWS.
Next / speak of the family sorrows II
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 rela-
tives to come to the verge of the grave and
look down into it. First those nearest the
departed come then those next of kin, un-
ill they have all looked into the grave. So
when trouble and grief 60 down through
the heart of one member Of the family,
they 20 down through them all. The sad
ness OF one is the sadness Of all.
A company Of persons join hands around
an electric battery; the two persons at the
ends Of the line touch the battery. and all
She circle feels the shock. Thus. by reason
" the filial. maternal and paternal rela-
ions of life, we stand so close together
that wnen trouble sets its battery all feel
the thrill of distress Ia the great Chris
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