Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-28
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In NItcN.HiUk tue Utl'uoANu lhCl ihht
with many Of tho great men Of the
earth there has been no lasting intlu.
euco IN their descendants 10 retain
prominent positions among mankind,
tho B0g,on Herald points out that y
single family BY the name Of Mather
dominated Nov England history Tor
more than 200 yoats, showing what
immense virility lay In tho mind and
heart VI the descendants u Richard
Mother, who came n this country In
1885 az a Church Of England minister,
aui brought fame uron tho family
name. Then II says;
Tho Ma'hor family disappeared with
tho generation that folio cd amor Colton
Mathgr. II has died out almost ul com.
ulCiOly ne other families connected with
our carly Sow England lie havo disup.
polfOd. There o. no iuuprishabiO Ito Ia
% family. Sooner or later its great UnOs
perish and leave only tho marks of their
great name behind them. But the
Mathers wOtotwo centuries ago no prone
iuont In Sew England that the swapping
Of the little finger Of one ot them could
bring about revolution, and 20 tho eye
OF youth Cotton Mather was tho biz,
glurihud gtand.daddy who represented
all that was torrur.insplfingi Ice tho Chris
tinu ministry, and from whose presence
the children N today would run as N
policeman woro alIor thom.
Tho many instances that may be
cited IN support Of the view that there
Il no imporishsblo life In u family
would seem almost to mako the
rule ABSOLUTE; aud such II may
be regarded 10 very great
extent among men. But there Ia In
history, past and prospective, most
notable exception which destroys the
atsolutism Of the rule and indicates
that hereditary greatness Is by no means
either an impossibillty or an improba.
bllily.
In the case Of the patriarch Abra.
ham, for instance, there was the Divine
promise that 10 him and his
seed should all the nations Il
tho earth be blossei. 10
must DO comedies thsl gfcs:utss
wac necessary 10 the occu.
panoy Of the high position that could
confer blessings upon all this
nnIions; aud the promise was distinctly
family ono. After i0tty.nve con.
turtles there Il no dlfliculty In showing
how the entire earth has BEEN bossrd
In the philosophy, the rell ion, aud
tho lurlspruienoo Of "tho seed" Of
Abraham, and tue WORK 10 not yet
complete.
Although II was necessary for por.
ton OF tina. seed 70 be hold together a.
were tue iowa to given period sud
then dispersed among tho ma.
ti1nF, ana for another portion
to be- carried elsewhere, ming.
ling their blood with inhabitants Of
Europe, Am 'rica and Asia, Ia order
to fulhl tuu promise, tho fact OF that
fulnnmonl s enough 10 establish be-.
You'd the pgralvontuTe Of doubt that
hereditary greatness ianot anuuknown
iaclo, Ia tho worlds progress ItiRal
spoclAl promise to the seed Of Abraham,
and In that respect the record thereof
is indisputable evidence of the Divine
cxisteHce that made Il.
That same "sued" today who are
faithful In "1he works of Abra.
ham".-lbedionc 10 Divine cu.
mand--uho have an immutablc
promise Of greatness continuing In tho
family, as they have the natural 90.
suance that its adults will approx.
mate each other Ia stature from goner.
alton to generation. There are brighter
and more powerful intelllgenoes In
some places along tho line than In
others, M there are some men taller
or heavier than others; but the great.
ness continues the family heritage,
and from the family ranks come the |
chosen ones to bless the natiorsoi me !
earth.