The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-07
SCl0NS OF ROYALTY
DR.. IALMAGE SPEAKS ON THE GL0RI-
GUS HERITAGE OF GODS CHILDREN
Thoughts Suggested by His Contact
With the Imperial splendorso of Euro
pean CapftaIs-Christfans Members
ofthe 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
a 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 people they
had seen. They answered that the
people had a royal appearance. Each
one resembled the children Of a king"
That description of people is not ex-
tinct. There are still many who hay
this appearance. Indeed, uney are the
sons and daughters of the Almighty
Though now in exile, they shall yet
come to their thrones. There are fam
fly naISes hat stand for wealth and
patriotism or intelligence. The name
Of Washington among US will always
represent patriotism. The family OF
the Medici stood as the representative
of letters. The family of the Roths-
childs is significant of wealth, n loss
Of $40, 600, 0O0in 1S4S putting them to no
inconvenience, and within a few years
they have loaned Russia $12, 600, 000.
Naples $25, 900, 900, Austria $40, 900, 900
and England $500, 900, 900. and the stroke
of their pen on the counting room desk
shakes everything from the Irish sea
to the Danube. They open their hand
and there is war, they shut it and there
is peace. The RomanOffs OF Russia,
the H~ohenzollerns Of Germany, the
Bourbons Of France, the Stuarts and
Guelphs of Great Britain, are houses
whose names are entwfned with the
history of their respective nations SYM
bolic of imperial authority.
But I preach Of a family more poten-
tial. more rich and more extensive
the royal house of Jesus, of whom the
whole family in heaven and on earth is
named. We are blood relations by
the relationship of the cross; all of us
are the children of the King
First, 1 speak of our family name.
When we see a descendant of som one
greatly celebrated in the last century,
we look at him with profound interest
To lave had conquerers, kings or
princes in the ancestral line gives lus-
ter to the family name. In our line was
a King and C~onquerer. The Star IN
the East with baton of light woke up
the eternal orchestra that made music
at his birth. From thence he started
forth to onque all nations, no by
tramping them down, but by lifting
them up. st. John saw him on a
white horse. When he returns, he will
not bring the nations chained to his
whee or in iron cages. but l hear the
strike of the hoofs of the sno white
cavalcade that brings them to the
gates in triumph.
LUSTER FROM STAR AND SPEAR.
Our family name takes luster from
the star that hera1ded him and the
spear that pierced him ana the crown
that was given him. 1t gathers fra
GRANGE from the f~rakincense brought
to his cradle and the lilies that flung
their sweetness into his sermon n
the box of that broke at his
feet. The Comforter at Bethany. The
Resurrector at Main. The supernat-
ural Oculist at Bethsada- The Saviour
of one world and the chief joy of an
other. The storm his frown. The sun
light his smile. The spring morning
his breath. The earthquake the stamp
OF his foot. The thunder the whisper
of his voice. The ocean a drop on the
tip Of his finger. Heaven a 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 heart break or hush a
tempest or drown a world or flood i'm
mensity with glory. What other fam
lily I'LL NONiA wv
illustrious parsonage?
Henceforth swing out the coat of
armsI 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 heradic sign is sometimes a
lion or dragon or an eagle. Our coat
OF arms, worn right EEL the heart,
hereafter shall be a croSs, a lamb
standing against it n a dove flying
over It. Grandest Of all eScutcheons
In every battle I must have 1t blazing
on my flag-the dove, h cross, the
lamb, and when I fall wrap me in that
good old Christian flag so that h fam
lily coat of arms shall be right over my
breast, that all the world may see that
/ look to the Dove of the Spirit and
chung to the Cross and depended upon
the Lamb of God, which taketh away
n sin of the world.
THE FAMILY SORROWS.
Ashamed of Jesus, that dear friend,
On whom my hopes of life depend;
No! When 1 blush. be this my shame
That I no more revere his name.
Next, l speak of the family sorrows.
If trouble come to one member of the
family all feel ii. 1t is the custom.
after the body is lowered into the
grave, for all the relatives to come TO
the verge of the grave and look down
into il. First those nearest the de-
parted come, then those next of kin,
until they have all looked into the
grave. So, when trouble and grief
go down through the heart of one
member of the family, they go down
through them all. The sadness of one
is the sadness OF all. A company OF
persons join hands around an electric
battery; the two persons at the ends
of the line touch the battery and al
the circles feels the shock. Thus. by
reason of the filial, maternal and pa
ternal relations of life. we stand 81
close together that when trouble set:
its battery all feel the thrill of dis
treSs. In the great Christian famil!
the SORROW of one ought to (be the Sor
row of all. Is one prosecuted? Al
are prosecuted. Does n suffer loss
We all suffer loss. Is one bereaved
We are all bereaved.
Their streaming eyes together flow
For human guilt and mortal woe.
If you rejoice at another's miSfort
une you are not one Of the sheep. bu
one of the goats, and the vulture O.
sin hath alighted on your soul and no
the Dove of the Spirit.