The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-31
A GLORIOUS FUTURE.
Dr.. Talmage Tells of the Heritage
of Gods Children.
Sermon Suggested by His Contact
with Imperial SpIendOrs of
EurOpe-The Royal House
of Jesus.
copyright, 1900. by Louis KIopsch.l
ShinPton.

washington,
In this discourse DR.. Talmage, who
during his journey homeward, has
seen much of royal and imperial
splendors in passing through the cap
itals of Europe, shows that there is no
higher dignity nor more illustrious
station than those which the Chris
tian has as child of God; text,
Judges Sis: 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 peo-
pie had a royal resemblance. 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
family of the Medici stood as the rep
resentative of letters. The family of
the Rothschilds is significant of
wealth, the loss of $40, 100000 in 1s4S
putting them to no inconvenience, and
within a few years they have loaned
Russia $12.OOO.OOO Naples S25,OOO,OOO,
Austria $4,000. 900 and England $780,
600, goo, and the stroke of their pen on
the counting-room desk shakes every
thing from the Irish sea to the Dan
ube. They open their hand and there
is war; they shut it and there is
peace. The ROmanoffs of Russia, the
HOhenzollerns of Germany, the BOur-
bons of France, the Stuarts and
Guelphs of Great Britain, are houses
whose names are intertwined with the
history of their respective nations
symbolic of imperial authority.
But l preach of a family more po-
tential. 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 rela-
tiOns by the relationship of the cross;
all of us are children of the King.
First, I speak of our family name.
When we see a descendant of some
one greatly celebrated in the last CEN
tury, we look at him with profound
interest. To have had conquerors,
kings or princes in the ancestral line
gives luster to the family name. In
our line was King and a Conqueror.
The Star of 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, not by trampling them down,
but by lifting them up. st. John saw
Him on a white horse. Wnen He re-
turns. He will not bring the nations
chained to His wheel or in iron cages,
but / hear the strike 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
at ANdih- LhC
natural Oculist at Bethsalda. The
Saviour 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 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 heart
break or hush a tempest or drown a
world or flood immensityw with His glory.
What other family name could ever
boast of such an illustrious person
age?
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 lion or a dragon or an eagle
Our coat of arms, worn right over the
heart, hereafter shall be a cross, a
lamb standing against it and dove
flying over it. Grandest of all escutch-
cons! In every battle | must have IT
blazing on my fag-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 l looked to the
Dove of the Spirit and clung 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;
No! When I blush, be this my shame
That 1 no more revere His name.
Next, 1 speak of the family sor-
rows. If trouble come to one member
Of the family, all feel it. 1t is the Gus
tom, after the body is lowered into
the grave, for all the relatives to come
to the verge of the grave and look
down into it. First those nearest the |
departed 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 mem |
Der 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 all |
the circle feels the shock. Thus, by |
reason of the flial, maternal and pa