Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-30
DIR. TALMAGE
Delivers a Sermon on Good Parents
and Good Children.
traits That Run In Families and the Good
OF had Blood They Represent
Law of IIeredity.

nc text CHOSEN by Kew. Dr. lalmaWc
for his sermon Sunday ways samuel,
&yit, IS: Whose son art thou. tho,i
young mani
Never WAS there moro unequal
fight than that between David and to-
Hath David five feet high; Goliath
ten. David, a shepherd hoy. htonrht
up amid rnrai scenes; Goliath, a war
rior by profession. Goliath. mountain
of braggadocio: David, marvel of hui
mility. Goliath, armed with AN iron
spear; David, armed with a sling with
smooth stones from the creek. But
you are not to dcSpisc those lattrt
wcapone. There was regiment Of
singers in the Assyrian army, and a
regiment of singers in the Egyptian
army, and they @ladc terrible cNccu-
ton, and they could cast a stone with
as much accuracy and force as now
can he sent shot or shell. The Greeks,
in their army, had singers who would
throw lcadcn plummct~ inscribed with
the irritat'n- wjf9s. Take this 80
it was mighty weapon David en-
ployed in that famous combat \ dew
ish rabbi says that the probability is
that Goliath was in such contempt for
David that in paroxy>m uf laughter
he throw his head back aud his helmet
fell OF. and David saw the uncovered
forehead. and his opportunity had
come, and, taking this sling and swing
ing il around his head twN Sc tiitcS
times, aIid aiming it AT that uncovered
forehead, crashed il in like an eggshell
The battle over, behold the tablcau:
King saul sitting, little David stand
ing, his fingers clutchcd into the hair
Of decapita,ci Goliath ~ Sprl SECS
David STAN ling there holding in his
hand the ghast,y, rocking. staring
trophy, evidence nf the compete vie
tory over Gods enemies. the king wru
ders what ra'tntagc was hunorcd 10y
such hcroism. ami in my text he asks
David his pedigree. whose son art
thou, thou young man." The king saw
what you and src-that this question Of
heredity is a mighty question. Tn"
longer live the more believe in blood
good blond, had blood, rri'ud hldid;
humble blood hdneSt blood, thirviug
blood, heroic blood, cowarlly blood
The tendency may skip a generation or
two, but il is sure To come out, aS in Il
little child you sometimes see a SINH
larity to a grcat-grandfathcr, whose
picture hangs on the wall. That the
physical and mental aud moral unali=
ties are Unbeatable Is patent To any
one who keeps his eyes open. The sim
ilarity is so striking sometimes as To bc
amusing. Great families, regal ar
literary, are apt Ia have the character
sites all down through The genera
ions: ami what i more pcrccptihlc in
such families may he seen, on n smaller
scale. in all families. \ thousand
years have no power to oblitcratc the
difference. The great lip of the house
of Austria is seen in all the genera
lions, and is called the lIapsburg lip.
The house of stuart always incauS. in
all generations, cruelty and bicotry
and senSuality. Witness the queen of
SCOTS. Witness Charles l. and Charles
ii. Nitncss James |. and James ii ,
and all other scoundrclS of that line.
Scottish blood means persistence. Eng
lish blood means reverence for the
ancient, Welsh hood means rcligioaity.
Danish blood means fundnc>S for the
sea, Indian blood means roam
ing disposition. Celtic blood
means fcrvidity, Roman blood
means conquest. The Jewish faculty
for accumulation you may trace clear
back To Abraham, of whoa the
Bible says: lie was rich in silver and
gold and cattlr;" and t. Isaac and
Jacob, who had the same character
istics. Some families are characterized
by longevity, and they have tenacity
of life positively Methuselish. Others
are characterized by Goliathian stat.
ure, and you can see it for one genera.
ton, two generations. five generations
i'm all generations. Vigorous theology
runs down in the line OF the AleNau'
dcrs. Tragedy runs on in the family
of the Kcmblcs. Literature runs on il
the line of the Trullopcs. Philanthropy
| runs on in the line of the Wilbcrforces
| Statcsmauship runs on in the lin, OF
the Adam,cS. lou see theSs rsculiar
tiles in all generations.
Henry and Catharinc OF Navarro re-
ligious, all their families religious
The celebrated family of the Casini, al
mathematician. The celebrated fam
| lily of the Mcdici. grandfather, son and
Catharine. all remarkable for keen in,
tellect. The celebrated family of Gus
tavus Adolphus, all warriors. Thi'
law of heredity asserts itself without
reference to social or political condi
ton. for you sometimes find the ignobl,
in high place and the honorable in oh
scure place. A descendant of Ed
ward l.. a tollgatherer. A descendant o
Z lward H.. doorlleeper. A descend
ant of the duke of Northumberland
a trunkmaker. Some of the mighties
families of England are extinct, while
some of those most honored in tn,
peerage go back TO an ancestry of hare
l1nuckles and rough exterior. Thi
law of heredity is entirely independent
of social or political conditions. Their
you find avarice and jealousy and sen
suality and fraud having full swing il
some families. he violent temper o
Frederick William is the inherit
ance of Frederick the Great. 1
is not theory founded by world,
philosophy. but by Divine au
thority DO You not remembc
Grafton, of the generations of thu
righteous, of the generations of vipers
of an untoward generation, of a stub
born generation, of the iniquity of thu
fathers visited upon the children unit,
the third and fourth generation? ;,
that the text comes to-day with thu
force of projectile hurled from might
lest catapult: Whose son art thou
thou young MANI Well" says som,
one, that theory discharges me from
all responsibility. Born of sanctifie'
parents, we are bound To be good, anC
we can not help ourselves. Born o
unrighteous parcntage, we are bounC
to be evil, and we can not help our
selves. Two inaccuracies. As mucl
as if You should say: The ccntripcta
force in nature has a tendency to brini
everything to the center, and there
fore all come to the center. TIL,
centrifugal force in nature has
tendency to throw everything q
the periphery, and therefore every
thing will go out to the periphery.
| You know as well as / know that yol
can make the centripetal force over
come the centrifugal, and you car
make the centrifugal overcome tn
centripetal. AS when there is might.
tide of good in family that may b
overcome by determination to evil, a
in the case of Aaron Burr, the liber
tine, who had for father Presiden
Rurr the consecrated: as in the case O