Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-08-27
CHILDREN OF A KING.
DR.. TALMAGE breaches OF THE
ScIONS OF ROYALTY.

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WASHINGTON, Aug 26.-In this dis
course DR.. Talmage, who during his
Journey homeward has seen much of
royal and imperial splendOrs, in pass
ing through the capitals of Europe,
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 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 royal appearance; leach
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
family of the Medici stood as the re-
preventative of letters. The family Of
the Rothschilds is significant of wealth,
the loss of S40,00O,0OO in 1913 putting
them to no inconvenience; and within
a few years they have loaned Russia
S12,0O0,000, Naples, S25,O0O,OOO, Aus
tria, S40.000000, and England $20O.O0O,-
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 Roman
Germany. the Bourbons of France, the
Stuarts and Guelphs of Great Britain
are houses whose names are inter-
twined with the history of their re-
spective nations symbolic of imperial
authority.
But L preach of q 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.
The Ancestral Line.
First, l speak Of our family name.
When we see q descendant of some one
greatly celebrated in the last century,
we look at him with profound inter
est. To have had cOnQuerOrs, kings or
princes in the ancestral line gives lus-
ter to the family name. In our line
was a King and ConQuerOr. 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 conquer all nations.
H. lN,Yf Nv
lifting them up. st. John saw him OF
a white horse. When he returns he
will not bring the nations chained to
his wheel or in iron cages; but [ hear
the stroke of the hoofs of the snow
white cavalcade that brings them to
the gates in triumph.
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 flung
their sweetness into his sermons, and
the box OF alabaster that broke at his
feet. The Comforter at Bethany. The
ResurrectOr at Main. The supernatural
OculiSt at BethSaida. The Saviour of
one world, and the chief joy of another.
The storm bis frown. The sunlight
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 twin
king of his eye. The universe the fly
ing dust Of his chariot wheels Able
to heal heartbreak. or hush tenn
pest, or drown a world. or flood i'm
mensity with his glory. What other
family name could ever boast of such
an illustrious parsonage?
Henceforth. swing out the coat of
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
ensigns. The heraldic sign is some
times a lion. or dragon, or an eagle.
Our coat of arms worn right over the
heart, hereafter shall be cross,
lamb standing under it, and a dove
flying over it. Grandest of all escutch-
eOnsl Most significant of all family
escutcheons, In every battle 1 must
have it blazing on my fag-the dove,
the cross, the lamb; and when | 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.
Ashamed of Jesus, that dear friend,
On whom my hopes of life depend;
/ MOI When blush, be this my shame
! That no more revere his
Next, 1 speak Of the family sorrows
If trouble come to one member of the