Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-04-27
4 LESSON FROM LIFE.
DR.. Talmage Eulogizes the Late JUS
ticc Stephen ]. Field.
HrIigi" Training laid the Goun-
dntiou ot Ills Character The
t.rcnt Di>inr'> Iributr ton
Departed Friend.

discourse. and the lessons drawn nIc
inspiring. IcNt, - SamGcl, i:3~: KNOW
We not that there IL prince and great
man fallen this day in Israel
Here - Il plumrd cataialpuc, followed
10y King DAVID and - funeral urati"n
which lac delivers at the Inmh. tnncr"n-
ing Nhucr. the great. David w"cps ont
the text. More appropriately than
when originally uttered Wc may nov
utter this rc~uuudiuG Lamentations:
"ku"w Nr not that there i, IT prince and
a great man fallen Thu day IN israeli"
II was - inmates after >iN, the cN-
act hour at lhc sunset al the sabbath
daV. aud while The evening lights were
being liudl,d. thai the soul of stephen
j. Field. the lawyer. the Judge. the pa
tri"t. the statesman, the Christian, as
ended. II waS Sunduvn ia The home
ON Wonder capitol Hill ~ il WIS sun
down va all the surrounding hills. but
in both eases ia" sun >"t Ia h' followed
Ivy glorious sunrise. Hear the Easter
anthems still lingering in the ain. "rhc
trumpet shall sound. aud the d>ad shall
rise
our departed friend came forth a hoy
from Il ministers home in New Eug-
land. lie knclt with father and mother
al morning and evening PRAYER. learned
from maternal lips lessons of picty
which lasted him aud controlled him
amid all III" varied aud exciting scenes
Of n lifetime aud helped him to die
in peace an oCtogcnarlan. Blot out
from American history the names of
those ministers sons who have done
honor To- judicial hcuch and rommrr-
cial circle and national legislature and
presidential chair. and You would oh
lit"rat" many of the grandcst chapters
| Of that history. II IL no small adNan-
iag' IL nave started from II home where
God * h"unrrd and the subject of a
worlds emancipation from sin aud Sor-
row j. under constant discussion. The
Ten commandments. which are the
foundation nf all good law Roman
law. German law. English law. Amcri-
can law are the best foundation upon
which Ia build character. and those
which the boy. stephen j. Field. 81
bridge were his guidance when, a half
century after. as Il gowncd Justice of
the supreme court al The uitcd States.
he unr"llcd his opinions. Bibles, hymn
books. catrchiSmS. family prayers. AT
mosphcTc sanctiiicd. are good Suri ouui-
ings for boys and girls To start from.
and If our laNcr ideas of religion and
S..l. al. Il.
ducr a. splendid men and women as
the much -dcriicd iuritauic sabbath
and puritanic teachings: have produced
il will he IA matter of congratulation
and Thanksgiving.
DO NOT pass ny the fact that ! have
not yet seen emphasized that stephen
j. Field WAS Il minister's son. Notwith-
standing that there are conspicuous cx-
| ccptinns Ia the rule and the exceptions
have built up Il stcreotypcd defamation
on the sub cct statistics plain and I'M
dcniablc prove that a larger proportion
of ministers sons turn out well than
=" to be found in any other genealog-
- table. Let all the parsonages of
denominations of Christians where
-hildrcn are growing up take the con
, ISOLATION. See the star of hope pointing
down 10 that Manager.
Notice also that our departed friend
MAS member of IA royal family. There
were no crowns or sceptcrs ar thrones
! in that ancestral line. but the family
Of the Fields. like the family of the
New York Primes, like the family of
| the Princeton AlcNanders. like a score
| of families that ! might mention. il il
were best To mention them, were the
children of the King" and had put on
| them honors brighter than crowns and
| welded influence longer and wider than
| scepters. That family of Fields traces
AN honorable lineage back 500 years to
| llubertus de la Field. coadjutor of Will
liam the tonqueror. Let us thank tod
| for such families. generation after gen
| GRAFTON on the side of that which is
| right and good. Four sons of that coun-
| try minister. known the world over for
| extraordinary usefulness in their
| spheres. legal. commercial. literary and
theological, and daughter. the mother
| Of one of the associate justices of the
| supreme court. Such families counter.
balance for good those families all
wrong from generation to generation
Co., families that stand for wealth. I'M
riShtrously got and stingily kept OF
| wickcdly Squandered; families that
| stand for fraud or impurity or malcv-
olcnce: family names that immediately
come Ia every mind, though through
sense of propriety they do not come Ia
| the lip. The name of Field will survive
| centuries and he synonym for reli
| gion. for great Jurisprudence, for able
| Christian journalism. as the names OF
| the Pharaohs and the Caesars stand for
| cruelty and oppression and vice.
| While all parents cannot aspire to have
such conspicuous households as the ono
the name OF whose son we now cele-
brate. all parents may by fidelity in
| prayer and holy example have their
sons and daughters become kings and
| queens unto God, Ia reign forever and
ever. Eut the work has already been
done, aud could go through this coun
try and find a thousand households
which have by the grace of tod and
blessing upon paiernal and maternal
excellence become the royal families OF
| America.
Let young men beware lest they by
| their behavior blot such family records
with some misdeed. We can all think
Of households the names of which
meant everything honorable and con.
secrated for Il long while. but by tn,
| deed of one son sacrificed, disgraced
| and blasted. Look out how YOU roi
| your consccruted ancestry of the name
hey handed To You unsuIlicd. Better
rs trustee IL that name add something
worthy. DO something 10 honor the
Did homestead, whether "A mountain
cabin or Il city mansion or a country
parsonage.
Rev. David Dudley Field. though 3.
gears passed upward, is honored to-day
oy the Christian life. the service. tn.
Heath of his son stephen.
Among the most absorbing books o
the Bible is the book of Kings. which
again and again illustrates that though
piety is not hereditary, the style of pa
rentage has much To do with the styl,
IF descendant. II declares of King Abb
lam: "Ilc walked in all the sins of hi
tather which he had done before him,
and of King Azariah: lie did tina
which was right in the sight of tn,
Lord, according to all that his father
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