The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-31
NUMBER 2

evil par-ntage, and / want to tell you that
the highest thrones In heaven and the might
lest triumphs and the brightest rowns will
be for those who hal evil parentage, but
who by the grace OF God cOnquered-con-
lnered. As good. as useful. as splendid a
gentleman rs | ever knew had for II 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 u drunken horse
Jockey. Tide Of - ." " in some
famillesl 1t Is likA. aud yet
men have chung to aS escued.
There is a family in Ma Jse wealth
has rolled up into mAhy =. that was
founded by a man who. after he hal vast
estates, sent back n paper of tacks because
they were . cents more than he expected.
Grip and grind and gouge i'll the fourth
generation-I suppose it will be grip and
grind and gougs in the twentieth generation.
The thirst of intoxicants has burned down
through the arteries OF Il hundred and fifty
years. Pugnacity or combativtness charac-
terizes other families. Sometimes one form
of evil sometimes another form of evil. But
it may be resisted: it has been resisted. II
the family frHiity be ~ayarice, cultivate un-
selishness and charity and teach your chill
dren never to eat an apple without Offering
somebody else half OF it. l. the family frail-
tv combativ1ness, keep out OF the company
Of quick tempered people and never answer
an impairment question until YOU have
counted Il hundred both ways. aud after You
have written an angry letter keep it a week
before you send it, aud then burn it up.
Is the family frailty timidity and cow
ardice. cultivate backbone: read this
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
traiity is aud scr boiy, mind and soul in
battle array. Conquer you will. | think
| The pauAnlauiaal tahiA NVaa utlt in tha frat
chapter of the New Testament not ouly to
show our Lords pedigree, hut to show that
a man may rise mp In AN aneestrHl line aud
beat back successfully all the influences of
bad hereiiiy. See in that genealogical table
that good King Asa was born of vile King
Alba. See in that genealogical table that
Joseph and Mary and the most illustriou5
Being that ever touched our world or ever
will touch it had in their ancestral line
scandalous Rehoboam and Rthab and
1hamar and Bathsheba. If this world Is
ever to be- EdeniZed and it will be-all the
infected families Of the earth are to be re-
generated, and there will some one arise In
each family line and open a new genoa
logical table. There will be some Joseph to
arise in the line and reverse the evil in
fuence of Rahoboam, and there will be some
Mary to arise In the line aud reverse the
evil influence OF Bathshsba. , Perhaps
the star of hope may point down
to your manager, Perhaps you are
to be the hero or the heroine that Is
10 put down the brakes aud stop that
long line of genealogical tendencies and
switch ii off on another track from that On
which 1t has bseu running for a century.
You do that, AMI l will promise you rs flne
Il palace as the architect of heaven can build.
the archway inscribed with the words, more
than cOnqucrur." 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 aud 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
baster. Como and look ont OF the uphOls-
tered window upon gardens of azalea and
ImIranth. Hear the full burst OF the Or
3hestra while you banquet with potentates
and victDrs. Oh, when the text sweeps back
ward, let it not stop at the cradle that rocked
your infancy, bat at the cradle that rocked
he first world, and when the text sweeps
IOrward LET it not stop al your grave, but at
he throne on which you may reign for ever
AID ever. "Whosa son art thou, thou young
nan?' Son of Got! Heir of Immortality
Take ) our inheritance!