The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
BY THE REV. FRANK DE WITT TAlMAeE. D. Q.

Los Angeles, Cal, October 9.-ln thlS sermon the preacher unsparingly expos es the folly and wiekedness of pride' whether 1t be founded on ancestry, pos sessions, social position and influence or upon personal vanity. The text is Pro- verbs xxix, 2S, "A mans pride shall bring him low"
 The Paphlagonian pigeons were said to have had two hearts. Psychologists have good reason to doubt that statement, but etymologists know that there are some words that seem to have two hearts. Ut- l tered in one sense their meaning is good and pure, but uttered in another sense their meaning is evil and corrupt. Like the chameleon, they are able to change their outer colorings to suit their envi- ronments. In a bad sense these words have the craven auricles of a culprit or a bad intentioned man. Their skins are as black as the blae1ness of the eternal night that they inhabit. In a good sense their hearts beat steady and true. They are the pumps which drive only good ana pure blood through their different arter- les is the purest of water tumbles over the miller's wheel because that water comes from the dearest of mountain streams
 The word pride in this age may sometimes be used in good sense. In Bible times 1t always had a debased i meaning. Searching through a concor- dance l cannot find one place where that word pride was not used as the sym bol of sin and condemned as the cause of sin. God denounces it all through the Old Testament God hurls it at his exc creations all through the New Arro- gance and pride compose the quicksands which have destroyed many an immortal soul in the past. They are the insidious means whereby Satan is tripping up and manaclng his helpless victims at the present time. Therefore this sinful pride, which is found nestling in many hearts as fatal cancer, must be cut out or some of us will be forever lost.
 Pride of Lineage.
 First, consider the silliest of all kinds of pride, that of aristocratic lineage. The spoiled infant in it's canopied bed, screaming for the attention of its nurse, is not more of a nuisance than are these people who strut through the world claiming the homage of their fellows be- cause of their having been born in an aristocratic home. It cries, Bow low to me, not because I have brain or have accomplished anything, not because am of any earthly use to anybody, but because my father or grandfather or at-grandfather has accomplished something to make his name famous or because my great-grandmother had in her veins the blood of the European aris- tocracy." Listen to the babbling of one who would continually shake before our eyes a single branch of his ancestral tree which happened to bear a few fragrant blossoms, while on that same genealogi- cal tree are hundreds of other branches which have borne nothing but worm eaten fruit, and which branches have been gnarl d and twisted for generations and for centuries.
 Have you ever stopped to consider how many different ancestors you have had? My parents were two in number. I had one father and one mother But, stepping back another generation. I find l had four grandparents and eight great grandparents and sixteen great-great- grandparents and thirty-two great-great- great-grandoarents. And SC back and back they gc, doubling with each genera ton. A few hundred years back 1 find my ancestors were not counted by the tens, but h~ the thousands. Now, my friends, what right has man with fam fly pride to follow up one branch of a genealogical tree that lands him in
 
 ace and ignore the hundreds of other an- cestral lines, any one of which would land him in peasants hut or perhaps even at the end of a hangmans moose? For, though some of us may not have had ancestors who were hanged, all of us have had plenty of them who ought to have been hanged if they had been treat ed as they deserved. Thus, when we es- innate how many different ancestors we all have had both good and bad, there is a great deal of broad common sense in the answer which Theodore Roosevelt gave to one of his boys who had boasted in school about his family. The president said: There are only two classes of boys in this world. my son. Big boys and small boys alike or either good boys or bad boys. It does not make very much difference from what family you spring, if you are a good boy the world will res pect you and if a bad boy the world will punish you and dispise you.'
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 Then there is another fact that alawys