The Yale expositor., 1896-07-31
jockey. Tide of evil tremendous in

jockey. Tide of evil tremendous in
some families. 1t is like Niagara Rap
ids, and yet men have clung TO rock
and been rescued. There is a family
in New York, whose wealth has rolled
up into many millions, that wac found
cd by man who after he had vast
estate sent back a paper of tacks be-
cause they were two cents more than
he expected. Grip and grind and gouge
in the fourth generation-I suppose it
will be grip and grind and gouge in the
twentieth generation. The thirst of in
toXicants has burned down through
the arteries of a hundred and fifty
years. Pugnacity or combativeness
characterizes other families. Some
times one form of evil, sometimes an
other form of evil. But it may be re-
sisted, it has been resisted. If the fam
lily frailty be avarlce, cultivate unset
fishness and charity, and teach your
children never to eat an apple without
Offering somebody else half of it. Is
the family frailty combativeness, keep
out of the company of quick-tempered
people, and never answer an imperti-
nent question until you have counted
a hundred both ways, and after you
have written an angry letter, keep 1t a
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 in your blood. Find
out what the family frailty is, and set
body, mind, and soul in battle arsy.
| Conquer you will think the genoa
| logical table was put in the fret chap
| ter of the New Testament not only to
show our Lords pedigree, 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 Rehoboam and Rahat
and Thamar and Bathsheba. If this
world is ever to be Edenized-and II
will be-all the infected families of the
earth are to be regenerated and there
will some one arise in each family line
and open a new genealogical table
There will be some Joseph to arise in
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. Per
haps the star of hope may point dowT
to your manger. Perhaps you are t
be the hero or the heroine that is Il
put down the brakes and stop that Ions
line OF genealogical tendencies anC
switch it off on another track from tina
on which it has. been running for [;
century. You do that and l will prom
iso you as fine a place as the architects
of heaven can build, the archway in
scribed with the words: More thar
conQueror." But whatever your hered
ity, let me say you may be sons ant
daughters of the Lord God Almighty
Estranged children from the homo
stead, come back through the open gat
of adoption. There is royal blood 4
our veins, there are crowns on our es
cutcheon, our Father is King, ou
Brother is King, We may be kings an
queens unto God forever. Come and 81
down on the ivory bench of the palace
Come and wash in the fountains tha
fall into the basins Of crystal an
aiabaster. Come and look out of tn
upholstered window upon gardens O
azalea and amaranth. Hear the full
burst of the orchestra while you ban
quet with potentates and victors. oh
when the text sweeps backward, let
not stop at the cradle that rocked you
infancy, but at the cradle that rocke
the first world, and when the tex
sweeps forward, let it not stop at you
crave, but at the throne on which yo
may reign. forever and ever. who's
son art thou, thou young man?' So
of God! Heir of Immortality! TAX