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over me. and have felt her warm tears
raining down upon my hands and face
Blessed mother. did you pray in vain for
your boy? II shall not be In vain. An!
no. no II shall not be In vain. / will pray
for myself. Who has sinned against so
much instruction as / have? Against so
many precious prayers put up TO heaven
| for me by one OF the most lovely, tender,
pious confding. trusting of mothers in
her Heavenly Fathers care and grace.
She never doubted she believed. She al
ways prayed as II she did. My Bible, my
mothers Bible and my conscience teach
what / am and what have made myself.
on! the bitter pangs OF an accusing con-
science. ! need saviour mighty 10 save.
must seek him. I will. I am on the sea
/ Of existence and can never get of from
Il. l am aflOat. No anchor no rudder,
no compass no book Of instructions, for
] have put them all away from me. saw
Jour OF the perishing, save, or / perish
DO YOU wonder that the next day he
arose In prayer-meeting and said: My
brethren, / stand before you monument
of Gods amazing mercy and goodness,
for ever blessed be his holy namei all 1
have and all ! am / consecrate TO Jesus,
my Saviour and my God" Oh! the power.
Of ancestral prayer. Hear IL! Hear It!
But ] turn for a moment to those VINO
had evil parentage. and l want TO tell you
that the highest thrones in heaven and
the mightiest triumphs and the brightest
crowns Will be for those who had evil
Ddrentage but who by the grace or GOd
onquered-conquered AS good, as use
full. as splendid a gentleman as | ever
knew had for a father a man who died
disappearing God until the neighbors had
10 put their fingers in their ears 10 smut
out the horror. One Of the most consecra-
ted and useful Christian ministers OF to-
day was the son of a drunken horse jock
ey. Tide Of evil tremendous in some ram
lies. 1t is like Niagara rapids and yet
men have chung TO a rock and been reScu-
ed. There is a family in New York,
whose wealth has rolled up into many
millions, that was founded by man who
after he had vast estate sent back a pa
per Of tacks because they were two cents
more than he expected. Grip and grind
and gouge in the fourth generation-I
suppose it viii be grip and grind and
| gouge in the twentieth generation. The
| thirst of intoxicants has burned down
! through the arteries of a hundred and fif-
/ ~ years Pugnacity or combativenesS
| characterize other families. Sometimes
one form Of evil, sometimes another form
of evil But II may be resisted, il has
| been resisted. If the family frailty be
| avarice, cultivate unselfishness and char
| ity, and teach your children never to eat
an apple without Offering some
| body else half of II. Is the
/ family frailty combativeness, keep out Of
| the company Of Quick-tempered people,
and never answer an impertinent ques-
| ton until you have counted a hundred
| both ways, and after you have written
| an angry letter, keep 1t week before you
send 1t, and then burn 1t up Is the fam
/ lily frailty timidity and cowardice. culti-
| vate backbone read the biography of brave
| men like Joshua or Paul and see if you
| cannot get a little iron in your blood.
| Find out what the family frailty is ana
| set body, mind and soul in battle array.
/ Conquer you will. / think the genealogi-
cal table was put in the first chapter Of
the New Testament not only
| to show our Lords pedigree,
but to show that a man may rise
4 up in an ancestral line and beat back sue
cessfully all the influences of bad heredity.
See in that genealogical table that good
| King Asa was born of vile King Abba.
| See in that genealogical table that Joseph
! and Mary and the most illustrious Being
! that ever touched our world, or ever will
touch 1t, had in their ancestral line scan
dalous RehCboam and Rahab and Tha-
| mar and Bathsheba. If this world is ever
to be EdeniZed-and il will be-all the in
fected families of the earth are to be re-
| generated and there will some one arise
in each family line and open a new genoa
logical table. There viii be some Joseph
to arise in the line and reverse the OWL
influence of Rehoboam, and there will he
line and reverse the evil in
iuence of Bathsheba. Perhaps the
star of hope may point down to your
manager Perhaps you are TO be the her,
or the heroine that is to put down the
brakes and stop that long line of genoa To-
gical tendencies and switch it off on an
other track from that on which it has
been running for a century. You do that
/ -.
the architects of heaven can build, the
| archway inscribed with the words More
than conqueror." But whatever your
| heredity. let me say you may be sons and
daughters of the Lord God Almighty Es-
| tranged children from the homestead
come back through the open gate of adop-
ton There is royal blood in our veins
there are crowns on our escutcheon, our
Father is King, our Brother is King. we
may be kings and queens unto God for
ever. Come and sit down on the ivory
bench of the palace. Come and wash in
the fountains that fan into the basins OF
crystal and alabaster. Come and look out
of the upholstered window upon gardens
of azalea and amaranth. Hear the full
burst of the orchestra while YOU BANQUET
with potentates and victors. Oh! when
the text sweeps backward, let ii not stor
at the cradle that rocked your infancy
but at the cradle that rocked the first
world, and when the text sweeps forward
. let it not stop at your grave but at the
throne on which you may reign forever
and ever. Whose son art thou. thor
young MANI Son of God Heir of i'm.
! mortality! Take your inheritance!