Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-30
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SPEAKS ON GLORIOUS HERTZ
AGE OF GODS CHILDREN.
Thoughts Suggested by His Contact
With the Imperial splendors OF Euro
ropean Capitals Christians Members
of the Royal House of Jesus.


much of royal and imperial splendors
in passing through the capitals of Eu-
rope, shows that there is no higher
dignity nor more illustrious station
than those which the Christian has as
child of God; text. Judges viii, Is,
Each one resembled the children of a
king"
Zebah and Zalmunna had been off to
battle, and when they came back they
were asked what kind of eople they
had seen. They answered that the peo-
pie had royal appearance. Each
one resembled the children of king
That description of people is not ex-
tinct. There are still many who have
this appearance. Indeed, they are the
sons and daughters of the Lord Al
mighty. Though now in exile, they
shall yet come to their thrones. There
are family names that stand for wealth
or patriotism or intelligence, The
name of Washington among us will
always represent patriotism. The fam
lily of the Medici stood as the repre-
sentative of letters. The family of the
Rothschilds is significant of wealth,
the loss of $4,000, 900 in 1S4S putting
them to no inconvenience, and within a
few years they have loaned Russia $l2,-
600, 900, Naples $25 900 900, Austria $40.-
100000, and England 5000, 100000, and
the stroke of their pen on the count
ing room desk shakes everything from
the Irish sea to the Danube. They
open their hand and there Is war, they
shut 1t and there Is peace. The Roman
offs of Russia, the Hohenzollerns OF
Germany, the Bourbons of France, the
Stuarts and Guelphs of Great Britain
are houses whose names are intertwin-
ed with the history of their respective
nations symbolic Of imperial author
ity.
But preach of family more poten-
tial. more rich and more extensive
the royal house of Jesus, of whom
the whole family in heaven and or
earth Is named. We are blood rela.
tlons by the relationship Of the cross;
all of us are the children of the
King.
II hSt, opCdh VI oul
When we see a descendant of some one
greatly celebrated in the last century
we look at him with profound interest
To have had conquerors, kings OF
princes in the ancestral line gives lus
ter to the family name. In our lint
was a King and Conqueror. The
Star in the East with baton of ligh
woke up the eternal orchestra thai
made music at his birth. From thence
he started forth to conquer all nations
not by tramping them down, but by
lifting them up. st. John saw him OF
white horse. When he returns hi
will not bring the nations chained t
his wheel or in iron cages. but heal
the strike of the hoofs of the snow
white cavalcade that brings them t
the gates in triumph.
Luster From Star and Spear.
Our family name takes luster from
the star that heralded him and the
spear that pierced him and the crown
that was given him. 1t gathers fra
GRANGE from the frankincense brought
to his cradle and the lilies that flunl
their sweetness into his sermons anC
the box of alabaster that broke at his
feet. The Comforter at Bethany. The
Resurrector at Main. The supernatur,
al Oculist at Bethsaida. The Savior OF
one world and the chief joy of another
The storm his frown. The sunlight his
smile. The spring morning his breath
The earthquake the stamp of his feet
The thunder the whisper of his voice
The ocean a drop on the tip of his
finger. Heaven sparkle on the bosom
of his love. Eternity the twinkling OF
his eye. The universe the flying dust
of his chariot wheels. Able to heal a
heartbreak or hush tempest or drown
world or flood immensely with his
glory. What other family name could
ever boast of such an illustrious per-
sonage?
Henceforth swing out the coat oil
arms. Great families wear their coat
of arms on the dress, or on the door OF
the coach, or on the helmet when they
go out to battle, or on flags and en-
signs. The heraldic sign is sometimes
lion or dragon or an eagle. Our
coat of arms, worn right over the heart
hereafter shall be a cross. lamb
standing against it and a dove flying
over it. Grandest of all escutcheons!
In every battle must have it blazing
on my flag-the dove, the cross, the
lamb. and when l fall wrap me in
that good old Christian flag, so that the
family coat of arms shall be right over
my breast, that all the world may see
that / looked to the Dove of the Spirit
and chung to the Cross and depended
upon the Lamb of God, which taketh
away the sin of the world.
The Royal House OF Jesus.
You cannot see large estate in on,
morning. You must take several
walks around it. The family property
of this royal house of Jesus Is so great
that We must take several walks to
get any idea of its extent. Let the first
walk be around this earth. All these
valleys, the haryests that wave in
them and the cattle that pasture them
all these mountains and the precious
things hidden beneath them and the
crown of glacier they cast at the feet
Of the Alpine hurricane-all these
lakes, these islands, these continents,
are ours. In the second walk go
among the street lamps of heaven and
see stretching off on every side a will
derness of worlds. For us they shine.
For us they sang at Savior's nativ-
ity. For us they will wheel into line
and with their flaming torches add to
the splendor Of our triumph on the
day for which all other days were
made. In the third walk go around
the eternal city. AS we come near 1t,
bark to the rush of its chariots and
the wedding peal of its great towers.
The bell of heaven has struck IL. 1t is
Lob 70 OF ha oh n