Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-08-01


tbc arteries oe hundred and fifty years,
Pugnncity or combativeness character
ICES other families. Sometimes one form
of evil. sometimes another form Of evil.
But it may be resisted; it has been re-
sisted. If the family frailty be avarlce,
cultivate unselfshness and charity and
teach your children never to eat III "p,
plc without Offering somebody else han
If it. Is the family frIlty combatlve-
ness. keep out Of the company OF quick
tempered people and never answer an
impertinent question until You have
counted hundred both ways, and after
Won have written an angry letter keep
il n week before you send II, and then
burn it up.
Is the family frailty timidity and
cowardicc, cultivate backbone; read the
biography OF brave men like Joshua or
Paul and see if you cannot get a little
iron in your blood. Find out what the
family frailty is and set body, mind
and soul in battle array. Conquer you
will. think the genealogical table was
nut in the first chapter OF the New les
lament not only 10 show our Lord S ped
icrec, but TO show that a man may rise
up in ~ ancestral line and beat back
successfully III the influences Of bad
hcrcdity. See il that genealogical table
that good King Asa WAS born Of vile
King Alba. See il that genealogical
table that Joseph and Mary and the
most illusuious Being that ever touched
our world or ever will touch 1t had IN
their ancestral line scnndalous Rcho-
loam and Rahab and Thamar and Bath
sheba If this world is ever 10 be Eden
ized--and ii Will be--all the infected
families of the earth are 70 be regener-
atcd, and there will some one arise III
each family line and open new genoa
logical table. There Will be some Joseph
TO arise il the line and reverse the evil
influence Of Rehcboam, and there will
be some Mary 10 arise in the line and
reverse The evil influence Of Bathsheba.
Perhaps the star Of hope may point
down 70 your manager. Perhaps you are
10 be the hero or the heroine that Is 20
put down the brakes and stop that long
line Of genealogical tendencies and
switch il off ON another track from that
ON which il has been running for a CEN
tury. You do that, and will promise
You as fine palace rs the architects OF
heaven can build, the nrchway inscribed
with the words, More than conquer
or" But. whatever your heredity let
me say you may be sons and daughters
of the Lord God Almighty.
Estranged children from the home
stead, come back through the open gate
Of adoption. There IS royal blood in our
veins there are crowns on our escutch-
con; our father il king our brother Is
king; we may be kings and queens unto
God forever Come and sir down on the
ivory bench of the palace. Come and
wash III the fountains that fall into the
basins of crystal and alabaster Come
and look ont of the upholstered window
upon gardens of azaleu and amnranth.
Hear the full burst of the orchestra
while you banquet with potentates ard
victors. Oh, when the text sweeps back
ward, let il not stop ut the cradle that
rocked Your infancy, but at the cradle
that rocked the first world, and when
the text sweeps forward let it not stop
at your grave, but at the throne on
which you may reign for ever and ever.
Whose son art thou, thou young mani"
Son Of God Heir Of immortality! Take
your inheritance!