Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-07
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
SERMON ON ROYAL BLOOD PREACHED
BY THE REV. DR.. TALMAGE.


BY THE REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Discourse Preceded by the Singing
ing of Covrper's Standard Hymn Begin
ming, There Is II Fountain FILLED with
Blood Drawn from Immanuers Veins"
BROOKLYN, Dee 6.-This morning
fhe vast congregation which filed every
available 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 Immanuel's veins
The subject of DIR. Talmage's sermon
was. Royal Blood" and his text,
Judges viii, Is, Each one resembled
the children of Il 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 resembIed the children of a king.
| stand today 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
generation. The family of the Medici
stood as the representative of letters.
The family of the Rothschilds is
significant of wealth, the loss OF forty
millions of dollars in 1913 putting them
TO no inconvenience; and within few
years they have loaned Russia twelve
millions of dollars, Naples twenty-five
millions. Austria forty millions and
England two hundred millions; 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-
pcrial authority.
THE ROYAL HOUSE OF JESUS.
But | come to preach of a family
more potential, more rich and more ex-
tensive-the royal house of Jesus, of
whom the whole family in heaven and
on earth is named We are blood rela-
lions by the relationship of the Cross;
Of no
First, l 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
trampling them down, but by lifting
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
cade that bring them to the gates in
triumph.
Our family name takes luster from
the star that heralded him, and the
spear that pierced him, and the crown
that was given him. 1t gathers fra
GRANGE from the frankincense 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 Bethany. The
Resurrector at Main. The supernatural
Oculist at Bethsaida. The Saviour of
one world, and the Chief Joy of an
other The storm his frown. The
sunlight his smile. The spring morn
ing 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 heartbreak, or
hush a tempest, or drown a world, or
flood immensely with his glory. What
other family name could ever boast of
such an illustrious parsonage?
SWING OUT THE COAT OF ARMS.
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
go out to battle, or on flags or ensigns.
The heraldic sign is sometimes lion,
or a dragon, or an eagle. Our coat of
arms, worn right over the heart, here
after shall be Cross, a Lamb standing
under it and a Dove flying over it.
Grandest of all escutcheons! Most
significant of all family ''coats of arms!"
In every battle [ must have it blazing
on my f1ag-the Dove, the Cross, the
Lamb-and when l 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 l 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.
No! when blush be this my shame
That no more revere his name.
Next 1 speak of the family sorro WIS.
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 departed 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 ends of the line touch
the battery, and all the circle feels the
shock Thus, by reason of the filial,
maternal and paternal relations of life,
we stand SO close together that when
| trouble sets its battery all feel the
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