Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-27

book of instructions, for | have nut
them all away from me. Saviour of tho
perishing, save, or I PERISH Do Won
wonder that the next day he arose in
prayer meeting and said: ''My brethren.
stand before you monument of Gods
amazing mercy and goodness, forever
blessed be his holy name. All have and
all I am ! consecrate to Jesus. nv
Saviour and my God?'' Oh, the power
of ancestral prayer! Hear It'll Hear it!
An Inheritance.
But / turn for moment to those
who had evil parentage, and 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 parentage, but who by the
grace of God conquered - conquered.
AS good, as useful, as splendid gentle
man as l ever knew had for father a
man who died disappearing God until
the neighbors had to put their fingers in
their ears to shut out the horror. One
of the most consecrated and useful
Christian ministers of today was the
son Of a drunken horse jockey. Tide of
evil tremendous in some families! It is
like Niagara rapids, and yet men have
chung to rock and been rescued. There
is family in New York, whose wealth
has rolled up into many millions, that
was founded by a man who, after he
had vast estates, sent back paper Of
tacks because they were 2 cents more
than he expected. Grip and grind and
gouge in the fourth generation-I sup
pose it will be grip and grind and gouge
in the twentieth generation. The thirst
of intoxicants has burned down through
the arteries of hundred and fifty years.
Pugnacity or combativeness character
ICES other families. Sometimes one form
of evil, sometimes another form of evil.
But it may be resisted; it has been re-
sisted. If the family frailty be avarice,
cultivate unselfishness and charity and
teach your children never to eat an APP
pie without Offering somebody else half
of it. Is the family frailty combative-
ness, keep out of the compssy Of quick
tempered people and never answer an
impertinent question until you have
counted hundred both ways, and after
you have written an angry letter keep
it week before you send it, and then
burn it up.
Is the family frailty timidity and
cowardice, cultivate backbone; read the
biography of brave men like Joshua or
Paul and see if you cannot get little
iron III your blood. Find out what the
family frailty is and set body, mind
and soul in battle array. Conquer you
will. | think the genealogical table was
put in the first chapter of the New Tes-
lament not only to show our Lord s ped
igree, but to show that man may rise
up in an ancestral line and beat back
successfully 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 it had in
their ancestral line scandalous Reno
beam and Rahab and Thamar and Bath
sheba. IF this world is ever to be Eden
ized-and it will be-all the infected
families of the earth are to be regener-
ated, and there will some one arise in
each family line and open a new genoa
logical table. There will be some Joseph
to arise III the line and reverse the evil
influence of Rehoboam, and there will
be some Mary to arise in the line and
reverse the evil influence of Bathsheba.
Perhaps the star of hope may point
down to your Manager. Perhaps you are
to be the hero or the heroine that is TO
put down the brakes and stop that long
line of genealogical tendencies and
switch it off on another track from that
on which it has been running for CEN
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you as fine palace as the architects of
heaven can build, the archway inscribed
with the words, more than conquer
or. !" But, whatever your heredity, let
me say you may be sons and daughters
of the Lord God Almighty.
Estranged children from the home
stead, come back through the open gate
of adoption. There is royal blood III our
veins; there are crowns On our escutch
con; our father is king; our brother is
king; we may be kings and queens unto
God forever Come and sit down ON the |
ivory bench of the palace. Come and
wash in the fountains that fall 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 back
ward, let it not stop 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 Oh
which you may reign for ever and ever.
Whose son art thou, thou young man?''
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