Connecticut western news., 1891-12-10
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
SERMON ON ROYAL BLOOD PREACHED
 BYTH REV. DR. TALMAGE.

The Discourse Preceded by the Singing
 ing of Cowper's Standard Hymn Begin
 ming, "There Is a Fountain Filled with
 Blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins."
 BROOKLYN, Dec. 6.-This morning the vast congregation which filled every available space in the Tabernacle at the opening of the service, sang with great heartinsss and evident feeling Cowper's well known hymn beginning:
 There is a fountain filled with blood.
 Drawn from Immanuel's veins-
 The subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon was, Royal Blood," and his text, Judges viii, IS, Each one resembled the children of 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 resembled the children of 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 1848 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- bon in France were families of i'm perial authority.
 THE ROYAL HOUSE OF JESUS.
 But 1 come to preach of family more potential, more rich and more ex- tensive-the royal house of Jesus, of whom the whole family in heaven and op earth is named. We are blood rela- tions 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 a king and conqueror. The Star in the East with baton of light woke up the eternal orchestra that made music Ut 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 a white horse When he returns he will not or ill iron cages; but hear the stroke of the hoofs of the snow white caval- ,ade 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. It gathers fra grance 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 l 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 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, ol hush tempest, or drown a world, ol food immensity with his glory. What other family name could ever boast o1 such an illustrious personage2
 l SWING OUT THE COAT OF ARMS. Henceforth, swing out the coat o | arms! Great families wear their coal of arms on the dress. or on the door O the coach, or on the helmet when they go out to battle, or on flags or ensigns l The heraldic sign is sometimes lion or a dragon, or an eagle. Our coat O. 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! Mos significant of all family ''coats of arm } ]!
 In every battle l must have it blazing on my flag-the Dove, the Cross, 1h
 Lamb-and when 1 fall wrap me il that good old Christian flag, so tha the family coat of arms shall be ri sh over my breast, that all the world Ina, see that 1 looked to the Dove of tn Spirit, and clung to the Cross, and de pended upon the Lamb of God, whicl taketh away the sin of the world.
 Ashamed of Jesus!-that dear friend
 On whom ;ay hopes Of life depend.
 | No! when blush be this my shame | That no more revere his name.
 Next I speak of the family sorro WIS
 If trouble come to one member of tn
 family, all feel it. It is the custor
 after the body is lowered into the gray
 for all the relatives to come to the verg
 of the grave and look down into il
 First those nearest the departed come
 then those next of kin, until they hay
 all looked into the grave. So whe
 trouble and grief go down through tn heart o1 one member of the fanil. they go down through them all. Tn
 sadness of one is the sadness of all.