The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-07

of my life 1 was associated with the
vicious. / seemed to l. walled in by
sin and death"
Now my brother, ought you not-1
leave it as a matter of fairness with
you-ought you not to be better than
those who had no early Christian In
fiuenee? Standing as you do between
the generation that is past and the
generation that Is to come, are you GO
ing to pass the blessing on, or are you
going to have your life the gulf in
which that tide of blessing shall
drop out of sight forever? You
are the trustee of piety IN that
ancestral line, and are you going to
Augment or squander that solemn
trust fund? Are you going to disin-
herit your sens and daughters of the
heirloom which your parents left you?
Ahl that can not be possible-that can
not be possible that tdu are going to
take sue1 position as that. You are
very careful about the life assurances,
and careful about the deeds. and
careful about the mortgage, and care
full about the ti:le to your proper
ty, because when yea step off the stage
you want your children to ret it all.
Are you rnelsing 10 precision that they
shall get grandfather's Pr grandmoth-
er's religion? Oh, what last win and
testament you are making, my hrotherl
''In the name Of God; amen. ]; being
of sound mind; make this hy last viii
and testamenG I be9ueath to my
ehildfeh all the money l e FER made
oil L
1 disinherit them; rob THEM 5f the
ancestral grace and the christian in
Auenee that Inherited. / haEe sdaan-
dered that eh ihy Own worldliness.
Share and share alike must they in the
misfortune and the everlasting out
rage. Signed, sealed and delivered in
the presence of God, and inch, and an.
gels, and devils; and All the ggnera-
tiohs Of earth ahd Heaven and hell,
July, 1895.
But l turn for moment to those
who had evil parentage, and l want
to tell you that the highest thrones in
Heaven sand the thightiest tfiumphs
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 gentleman as ] ever knew
had for father man who died BIAS.
pheinihg God Until his heighbors had
TO pitt thelf fingers in their ears to
shat out the horror One of the
most consecrated and useful Chris
tian ministers of to-day was
the son of a drunken hbfso
Jockey. fide 81 evil Tremendous ip
Some families. 1t is like Niagara rap
Ids, and yet men have chung to a rock
and been rescued. There is a family
in New York, whose wealth has Folled
up into mary millions, that was found
ed by man who; after lie had Vast es.
tate, sent bach a paber 81 taclis be
cause they wsfe two cents more than
he expected. Grip and grind and
gouge in the fourth generation-I sup.
pose it will be grip and grind and
gouFe la The twentieth Genera.
ton. The thiFst OF iAtokicants has
burned down through the arteries OF
80 years. Pugnacity or com bative-
ness characterize other families. Sotde.
times one fern 81 evil; Sometimes an.
other form Of evil. But It HAY be re.
Sisted, 1t Has Been resisted. II the
family fFailty be avarice, cult
vate unselfshness and charity,
and teach your ehildfer heTeF to
eat en- apple without Offering Some
body else half of 1t; IS the family
frailty corhbatieehess, keep oft of the
G6mraHy OF quick-tempered people,
and never answer an impertinent ques.
ton until you have counted $50 both
ways, and cftef YOU have written an
angry letter, keep it wsek befofe you
send 1t, and then burn it up. Is the
family frailty timidity and cow
ardice, cultivate backhonsy rsad
the biography of brave men
Ike 5oshda OF Paul and see if
you can not get d little ir@n III your
blood: FiHd odt what the family
irailty is, and set body, mind and soul
in battle array. Conquer you will l
think the genealogical table was put
In the first chapter Of the New Tesla.
inent rot only to show that man
mat rise up in an ancestral line and
beat back successfully all the infu,
ences 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
illhstfious Being that ever touched our
world, or ever will touch it, had in
their ancestral line scandal6us Reho-
boam, ard Rahab, and ThaInar, and
Bathsheba. If this world is ever to be
Edenized-and 1t will Be-all tbs lis
feeted families OF the earth are to be
regenerated, and there will some one
arise in each family line and open new
genealogical table. There viii be
some Joseph to crise ID the line and
reverse the evil influence of
kehoboam, and there will Be
some Mary to ariss IA The line
and reverse the evil influence
of Bathsheba. Perhaps the star of
hope may point down to your psanger
Perhaps you are 50 De the hero OF
the heroine that Is t6 put down
the brakes and stop That 1abS lids Of
genealogical tendencis and switch it off
on another track from that on which it
has been running for century. You
do that and will troihise y6u as line
4 pHlEes As the architects of Heaven
can build, the archway inscribed with
the words More than cendbercE'
But whateteS your heredity, let me say
tod may be sons and daughters Of the
Lord GOD almighty. RsttAn5ed CHI.
dren fEcA the homestead, cong
back through the open gate on
adoption. There is royal blood in
our veins, there are efoWns on