Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-12-17
OUR ROYAL BLOOD.
sEach One Resembled the Children of
q King" Is the Text Taken BY
DR.. Talmage.
The Eloquent Divine Shows That the
Human Race Has a Royal
Ancestry.

BROOKLYN, Especial The sub,
ject of DR.. Talmage's sermon
was "Royal Blood" and his
text: Judges viii, IS: "Each one re-
sembled the children OF a king
Zebah and Zalmunna had been off
to bat6le, and when they came back
they were asked what kind of people
they had seen. They answered that
the people had a royal appearance;
''each one resembled the children 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 intelll-
gence. The name Washington means
patriotism, although some of the
blood of that race has become very
thin in the last generation. The faml-
~ of the Medici stood as the
representative OF letters. The
family of the Rothschilds is significant
of wealth, the loss of $4O,OOO,OOO in
194S putting them to no inconven-
ience; and within few years they
have loaned Russia $12,OOO,OOO,
Naples 100000, Austria, $780,
600, 900, and England, 5000, O0O,OOO;
and the stroke of their pen on the
counting-room desk shakes every thing
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 Hapsburge in Aus tria,
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 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
relations by the relationship OF the
cross; all of us are the children OF the
king.
First, speak of
OUR FAMILY NAME.
When we see 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 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 of the hoofs of
the snow-white cavalcade that bring
them to the gates in triumph.
Our family name takes lustre 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 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 Bethany.
The resurrector at Main. The super
natural oculist at Bethsalda. The
savior of one world, and the chief Joy
of another. The storm his frown.
The sunlight his smile. The spring
morning his breath. The earth
quake the stamp OF his foot. The
thunder the whisper of his voice. The
ocean 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 q tempest, or
drown world, OF flood imnensity
with his glory. What other family
name could ever boast of such an IL
lustrious 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 flags and ensigns.
The heraldic design is sometimes a
lion, or a dragon, or an eagle. Our
coat of arms worn right over the
heart, hereafter shall be cross, a
lamb standing under it, and a dove
AAS oVCL IL. c1u OoSooS4-
eonsI Most significant of all family
"coats of arms" In every battle I
must have it blazing on my fag-the
dove, the cross, the lamb; and when I
fall, wrap me IN that good old. Chris
tian flag, SO that the family coat of
arms shall be right over my breast,
that all the world may see that I
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.
Next, speak ofthe family sorrows.
If trouble comes to any member of
the family, all feel it. 1t is the GUS
tom, after the body is lowered into
the grave, for all the relatives to come
to the verge of the grave and look in
to it. First those nearest the depart
ed 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