Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-08-07

7-,.,-. IA a family IN New York. whose wealth
r-iI-i up into many millions. that wA-
f.-as.i by a man Who. after be hai vast
.-tstss sent back a paper % tAcks because
tbsv we're 2 ceuts more than h@ exprale!-
G-ib and grind AMI g0uEe M the i1urth
,.s5.rstion-i suppose Il will be gnp Ani
,riuI and g0ugc IN the tweuu-th generation.
Inc thirst o. int0KicAuts has burned doNA
through the arteries Of a hundred ana uIty
ysars. Pucuzcity or cOmbAuyeness eharae-
ierzes other families. Sometimes one form
If evil sometimes another form 81 evil. But
Il may b. resisted: Il has been resisted II
the family frailty be ayarice, cultivate IN
sslflshness and charity and teach your chill
dren never 10 eat an apple without ouering
somebody else half fit. l. the family irail-
" eombatlvsness, keep out OF the company
Of quick tempered people and never answer
an impairment question uhlt you nave
counted a hundred both ways, ana after you
have written an angry letter keep II week
before YOU send Il. and then burn II az.
Is the family frailty timiditY and cow
ardiep cultivate backbone; read the
biography Of brave men ike Joshua or Paul
and see IL YOU cannot get a little iron in
your blood. Find out what the family
lrailty is and SET body, mind aud soul IN
battle array Conquer you will. think
the genealogical table was put in the first
show our Lords pedigree, but 10 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 vale King
Alba. See in that genealogical table that
Joseph and Mary aud the most illustrious
Being that ever touched our world or ever
will touch IL had In their ancestral line
scsndalous Rehoboam I and Raha5 and
Thamar and Bathsheba. IL this world IS
ever 10 be Edenized-and II Will be-all the
Infected families Of the earth are to be re-
generated, and there will some one arise in
each family limo and open "a new genoa
logical table. There will be some Joseph to
arise in the line and reverse the evil IN
duence OF RehDhoam, 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
10 be the hero or tho heroine that is
/ 20 put down the brakes and stop that
long line of genealogical tendencies and
switch it of on another track from that on
which IL has been running for a century.
You do that, and / will promise you as ilno
palace as the architect otheaven can build,
the archway inscribed with the words, "Moro
than conqueror." But, whatever your her
edity, let me- say YOU may be sons and daugn-
tiers Of the Lord God Almighty.
Estrsnged 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 aud ala.
baster Come and look out of the uphols'
tered window upon gardens Of azalea and
amaranth Hear the full burst OF the or
chestra while you banquet with potentatei
and yictors. 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 sweep.
forward let II not stop ut your grave. but u
the throne on which you may reign FOR evnl
and ever. "Whose son art thou, thou ypuuA
man?' Son OF Godl Heir Of immortality
Take your inheritaace