Connecticut western news., 1896-07-30
WHOSE SON ARE YOU ?
THE REV. OR. TAIMAGE'S ELOQUENT i THOUGHTS ON AERsDlTY.

TIRE REV. OR. TALMAGE's ELOQUENT i THOUGHTS ON HERsolTY.
 ZAs Psdagrss of David-Ths Law of He ], rsdfty = Chrissain Ancestry. Its Power ] s.A Its Rsspenaibnity-Kinxs and Queens ] ef 0ed and Heirs of Immortality.
 WASHINGTON, July 26.-This sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage on heredity will bring all the family records into requi- sition and lead people to study their own proclivity toward good or evil. The text chosen was Samuel xvii, 5S: "Whose son art thou. thou young man?"
 Never was there a more unequal fight than that between David and Goliath; ; David five feet high, Goliath ten; David . shepherd boy brought up amid rural scenes. Goliath 8 warrior by profession {; Goliath . mountain of braggadocio, David . marvel of humility; Goliath armed with an iron spear. David armed with sling, with smooth stones from the brook. But you are not to despise theee latter weapons There was 8 regi- ment of singers in the Assyrian army and . regiment of slingers in the Egyp- tian army, and they made terrible exc cution. and they could cast stone with as much accuracy and force as now can be sent shot or she'll. The Greeks in their army had slingers who would throw leaden plummets inscribed with the irritating words, Take thisp
 So it was a mighty weapon David employed in that famous combat. A is that Goliath was in such contempt for David that in 8 paroxysm of laugh ter he threw his head back and his helmet fell on, and David saw the un- covered forehead, and his opportunity Aad come, and taking this sling and swinging 1t around his head two or three times. and aiming it at that un- covered forehead, crashed it in like an eggshell The battle over, behold the tablean: King Saul sitting, little David sanding. his fingers clntched into the sees David standing there holding in his hand the ghastly, reeking. staring trophy, evidence of the complete victory over Gods enemies. the king wonders what percentage was honored by such heroism, and in my text he asks David his pedigree, Whose son art thou. thou young manr" The hing saw what you and see. that this question of heredity is . mighty question.
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 | The longer live the more I believe In blood-good blood, bad blood, proud blood. humble blood. honest blood. thieving blood. heroic blood, cowardly blood. The tendency may skip genera tion or two. but it Is sure to come out as in little child you sometimes see 8 similarity to great t-grandfather whose picture hangs on the wall. That the physical and mental and moral qualities arc inheritable is patent to any one who keeps his eyes open. The similarity is so striking sometimes as to be amusing. Great families, regal or literary, are apt to have the characteristics all down through the generations. and what is moro perceptible in such families may be seen on . maller scale in all fami- liea A thousand ycars have no power to obliterate the difference.
 The large lip of the house of Austria is seen in all the generations and is called the Hapsburg lip. The house of Smart always means in all generations cruelty and bigotry and sensuality. Wit neas Queen of Scots Witness Charles and Charles IL Witness James I and James II and all the other scoundrels of that line. Scottish blood means per sistence, English blood means reverence for tho ancient. Welsh blood means re- lfgiosity. Danish blood means fondness for the sea, Indian blood means roaming disposition, Celtic blood means fervidity. Roman blood means conquest The Jewish facility for accumulation you may trace clear back to Abraham, of whom the Bible says ''he was rich in silver and gold and cattle, " and to Isaac and Jacob, who had the same character istica Some families are characterized by longevity. and they have tenacity of life positively Methuselish- Others are characterised by Goliathian stature, and you can see it for one generation, two generations. i've generations, in all fhe generations. Vigorous theology runs down in the line of the Alexanders. Tragedy runs on in the family of the Eembles. Literature runs on in tho line of the Trollopes. Philanthropy runs on in the lines of the Wilberforces. States manship runs cn in the line of the all generations Henry and Catherine of Navarro religious. all their families religious The celebrated family od Casini, nll mathematician. The ceie- brated family of the Medici, grandfa- ther. son and Catherine, all remarkable for keen intellect. The celebrated family of Gustavus Adolphus, all warriors
 This law of heredity asserts itseh without reference to social or political condition, for you sometimes find the iRnoble in high place and the honorable In obscure place. A descendant of Ed, ward toll gathorcr. A descendant ol Edward III doorkeeper A descendant of the Duke of Northumberland a trunl maker Some of the mightiest families of England are extinct, while some o. those most honored in the peerage gt back to an ancestry of hard knuckle. and rough exterior. This law of heredit, is entirely independent of social or politi
 cal conditions Then you find avaric' and jealousy and sensuality and fraut
 having full swing in some families
 The violent temper of Frederick Vii
 liam is the inheritance of Frederick tn
 Great It is not theory founded b.
 worldly philosophy, but by divine au
 thority. Do you not remember how tn
 Bible speaks of chosen generation, Q
 the generation of the righteous. of tn
 generation of vipers, of an rntowar'
 generation, of stubborn generation, 0
 the iniquity of the fathers visited upol
 the children unto the third and fourtl
 generation? So that the text comes to
 day with the force of 8 projectile hurle'
 from mightiest catapult. 'Whose sol
 art thou. thou young mang'
 Nature's Two Forces.