Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-12-10
TABERNACLE, PULPIT.
DR.. TALMAGE ON OUR ROYAL
BLOOD.
There is a Fountain Fillcd with Blood
Drawn From fmmanueis Neins.''--
Each One Resembied the Children of
King"

zebah and 2almunna had been on to bathe,
and when they came back they were asked what
kind Of people they had seen. They answered,
that tie Icoplu had royal appearance each
one rcsemb' ed the children OF king" stand
to-day be fore mlny who have this appearance.
Indeed they are the sons and daughters OF the
Lord Almighty Though now N exile, they
shall vet come to their thrones There are
family names that stand for wealth, or patri-
otism or intelligence. The name OF Washing
ton means pair otism, although some OF the
blood Of that race has become very thin in the
last g neraton The family of the Medici stood
rs the representative Of letters. The family OF
the PothsChilds is significant of wealth, the
loss of forty millions of dollars in 1915 putting
thCm to no Inconvenience; and within
q few yCras they have loaned Russia
l2,0OOOO of dollars, Naples 25OO,WO Austria
4O,O00OOO and England 200,000,0OO and the
stroke Of their pen on the cOuntng-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 a family more poten,
tial, more rich, and more eXtenSive-the royal
mouse 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 King
Fist. / speak of our family name. When we
see a descendant OF some one greatly eeie, ,
bratcd in the last century we look at him with
profound interest To have had conquerors,
GingS. CT Princes in the ancestral line give
lnstre 10 the family name In our Inc was as a q
with IatOn of light woke up the eternal orches-
ira that made music ut his birth From thence
he started forth 10 conquer all nations, not Dy
trampling them down, but by lifting them up
st. John saw him on q white horse. When he
returns. he will not bring the nations chained
to his Wheel or in iron cages, but ! hear inc
stroke Of the hoOi of the snow-white caValcade
that bring them to the gates in triumph
Our family name takes lustre from the star
that hCraldCd him, and the spear that pierced
him, and the crown that was given HIM III
gathers fragrance from the frankincense
brought to his cradle, and the lilies that flung
their sweetness into his sermons, and the box
of alabastcr that broke at his feet. The com
forler at Bethany. The resurrector at Main
The supernatural oculist Mt BcthSalda. Inc
saviour OF one world and the chief Joy OF an
other 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 sparkle on the
bosom of his love. Eternity the twinkUng OF
his eye. The universe the flying dust OF his
chariot-wheels. Able to heal a heartbreak, or
hush tempest, or drown world, or flood i'm
mensity with his glory. What other family
name could ever boast Of such an illustrious
perSOnaCCE
Henceforth, swing out the coat Of arms
Great families wear their coat OF arms on the
dlCsS or on the door of the coach or on the
helmet when they go out TO battle, or on fass
and CnSignS. The heraldlc sign Is sometimes a
l'On. or dragon, or an eagle. Our coat OF
al ms worn right over the heart hereafter shall
lie II cross, lamb standing under II, ana a
dove flying overit Grandest OF all escutcheons,
NJ ST significant of all family coats of arms.
In every battle must have ii blazing on my
faE-the dove the cross, the lamb; and when |
fall, wrap me in that good old Christian nag, 80
that the family coat of arms shall be right over
my breast, that all the world may see that
looked 10 the dove OF the spirit, and chung "a
the cross, and depended upon the lamb OF God
which taketh away the sin OF the world