Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-08-05
NO. "a.

evil parentage, and 1 want to tell you that
the highest thrones in heaven and the might
lest triumphs and the brightest crowns will
be- for those who had evil parentage, but
who by the grace Of God conquered-con-
quered. As good, as useful. as splendid
gentleman as 1 ever knew had for "A 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 to-day was the son of a drunken horse
Jockey Tide OF evil tremendous in some
iamilies! 1t ls like Niagara rapids, and yet
men have ciung to a rock and been rescued.
There Is a family in New York. whose wealth
has rolled up into many millions. that was
founded by man who, after he hal vast
estates, sent back paper OF tacks because
they were 2 cents more than he expected.
Grip and grind and gouge in the fourth
gensration-I suppose 1t will be grip and
grind and gouge iu the twentieth generation.
The thirst OF intoxicants has burned down
through the arteries of a hundred and fifty
years. Pugnacity or combativeness cbarac-
rerizes other families Sometimes one form
of evil sometimes another form OF evil. But
it may be resisted: II has been resisted. IL
the family fraiity be avarice, cultivate un-
selfshne5s and charity and teach your chill
dren never TO eat an apple without Offering
somebody else half of II. Is the family frail-
Nv combativaness, keep out of the company
Of quick tempered people and never answer
an impsrtinent question until you have
counted "A hundred both ways, and after you
have written an angry letter keep it a week
before YOU send it. aud then burn it up.
Is the family frailty timiJity aud cow
ardice. cultivate backbone; read the
biography of brave men like Joshua or Paul
and see il you cannot get n little iron in
your blood. Find out what the family
fraiity is and ser bojy, mind and soul in
battle array. Conquer You will. | think
fh.. al cal fanla in ha flrlt
chapter of the New Testament not only to
show our Lords pedigree, but TO show that
a 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
Alba. See in that genealogical table that
Joseph aud Mary and the most illustrious
Being that ever touched our world or ever
will touch it had in their ancestral line
scsndaiouS Rehoboam and Rahab and
Thamar and Bathsheba. II this world is
ever TO be Edenized and it will be-all the
infected fainili,s of the earth are TO be re-
generated, and there will some one arise in
each family line and open Il new genea-
logical table. There will be some Joseph to
arise in the line and reverse the evil in
huence Of Rehoboam. and there will be some
Mary to arise in the line aud reverse the
evil influence OF Bathsheba. Perhaps
the star of hope may point down
to your manager Perhaps you are
TO be the hero the heroine that is
to put down the brakes and stop that
long line of genealogical tendencies and
switch 1t off on another track from that on
which 1t has been running for century.
You do that, AMI will promise you rs fine
| a palace as the architect of heaven can build.
the archway inscribed with he words, more
than conqueror." But, whatever your her
edity. let me say you may be sons and daugh-
ters of the Lord God Almighty.
Estranged 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 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 ala
blster. Come and look out of the uphols-
tered window upon gardens Of azalea and
imaranth. Hear the full burst of the or
;heStru while you banquet with pOtentates
and victors. Oh. when the text sweeps back
ward. let il not stop at the cradle that rocked
your infancy but at the cradle that rocked
.hs first world, and when the text sweeps
forward let 1t not stop at your grave. but ut
! he throne on which you may reign for ever
and ever. "Whose son art thou, thou young
nan?' Son of God, Heir Of Immortality
Take your Inheritance!