Connecticut western news., 1900-08-30
CHILDREN OF A KING.
CR. TALMAGE BREACHES OF THE
 scloNS OF ROYALTY.

SClONS OF ROYALTY.
 The Roykl House of Jesus, and the Sun, the Moon, the Stars and All Nature Are It's Heritage-The Cross Its Great Hernldic Sign.
 /, WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-In this dis course pr. 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 a child of God; text, Judges viii, 1S 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 appearances; leach one resembled the children of a 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- presentative of letters. The family of the Rothschilds is significant of wealth, the loss of $40,0OO, ,00O in 1S48 putting in a few years they have loaned Russia $12,OO0O0O, Naples, $25,000,000, Aus tria, 100000 900, and England $200, ,0OO,- GOO; 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 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 inter- twined with the history of their re- spective nations symbolic of imperial authority.
 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 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, speak of our family name When we see 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 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, not by trampling 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 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. It gathers fra grance 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 bis 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 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 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 a heartbreak, or hush tenn pest, or drown 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 lien, or a dragon, or an eagle. Our coat of arms worn right over the heart, hereafter shall be cross, a lamb standing under 1t, and dove flying over. 1t. Grandest of all escutch- cons! Most significant of all family escutcheons! In every battle I must ha Ioz zfn hn the cross. the lamb; and when I 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 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 blush, be this my shame That no more revere his name.
 -'Next, I speak of the family sorrows. If trouble come to one member of the family, all feel 1t. It 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 it. 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 fpels the shock. Thus, by reason of the filial, maternal and paternal re- lations of life, we stand. so close to- Rether that when trouble sets It's bat tery, all feel the thrill of distress. In the great Christian family the sorrow xaf a.,extf fca ho tho .f s,l