Milford chronicle., 1904-10-14
CalnaQe
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaae, D.D.

Los Angeles, Cal. Oct. 9.-In this
sermon the preacher unsparingly ex-
poses the folly and wickedness of pride
whether it be founded on ancestry. pos
sessions. social position and influence
or upon personal vanity. The text is
Proverbs xxx, 23, "A mans pride shall
bring him low"
The Paphlagonian pigeons were said
to have had two hearts Physiologists
have good reason to doubt that state
ment. but etymologists know that there
are some words that seem to have two
hearts. Uttered 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
10 suit their environments. In a bad
sense these words have the craven au.
ricles of culprit or a bad intentioned
man. Their skins are as black as the
blackness of the eternal night that
they inhabit. In a good sense their
hearts beat steady and true. They are
the pump, which drive only good and
pure blood through their different are
teries as the purest of water tumbles
over the miller's wheel because that
water comes from the clearest of
mountain streams
The word pride" in this age may |
sometimes be used in a good sense. In |
Bible times it always had a debased |
meaning. Searching through con-
cordance l cannot find one place where
thGt word pride" was not used as the
symbol of sin" and condemned as the
cause of sin. God denounces it all
through the Old Testament. God hurls
at it his eXecrations all through the
New. Arrogance 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 manacing his
hclpless victims at the present time.
Therefore this sinful pride, which is
found nesting in many hearts as a fa.
tai cancer, must he cut out or some OF
us will be forever lost
Pride OF Lineage.
First. consider the siiliest of all kinds
of pride that of aristocratic lineage
The spoiled infant in its 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 because of their having been .
born in an arstOcratic home 1t cries !,
Bow low to me. not because l have !
brain or have accomplished anything.
not because | am of any earthly use to =
anybody. but because my father or Il
grandfather or great-grandfather has 3
accomplished something to make his ~
lame famous or because my great
had in her veins the
Hood of the European arstocracv." 81
listen to the babblings Of one who W
would continually shake before our Il
yes single branch of his ancestral do
rec which happened to bear Il few bi
ragrant blossoms, while on that same al
enealogical tree are hundreds Of 9th til
branches which have borne nothing in
ut worm eaten fruit, and which W
ranches have been gnarled and twist. ye
i for generations and for centuries. Ia
Have you ever stopped to consider ia
ow many different ancestors you have he
adj! My parents We're two in number. to
had one father and one mother. But, H'
eppuG back another generation. | aW
nd | had four grandparents and eight an
eatSrandpnrents and sixteen great wa
eat grandparents and thirty-two hd
Observation-Disclosures. And so spl
lck ana back they 30, doubling with III
ch generation. \ few hundred years er,
ok / find my ancestors were not yei
united by the tens, but by the thou an
nds. Now, my friends, what right we
$ man with family pride to follow drC
one branch of a genealogical tree cry
at lands him in a kings throne room est
III an earl's palace and ignore the JUS
ndreGS of other ancestral lines. any WI
e of which would land him in a j
asants hut or perhaps even at the pre-
d Of hanSman's moose? For, though diff
ne of us may not have had ancestors to
10 were hanged. all of us have had he
nty of them who ought to have been can
nged if they had been treated as sea
y deserved. Thus, when we esti- fro
tie how many different ancestors we he
have had, both good and bad. l a
re is great deal Of broad common fel'
se in the answer which Theodore the
Osevelt gave to one Of his boys who MAJ
boasted in school about his family. too
e president said: There are only l b.
classes of boys in this world. my too
Big boys and small boys alike are at
Ter good boys or bad boys 1t does will
make very much difference from | any
ut family you spring If you are u how
d boy the world will respect you adv
If bad boy the world will punish er
and despise you" wh(
His Coat OF Arms. bett
hen there is another fact that al port
1s amuses me in reference to the equi
e assumptions of family pride Al. Men
It without exception the great fam NJ
J Of the earth are proud OF their way
cent from some one man who in a rs
youth was nobody, the son OF a artiC
carrier, stOnemason or a labor riou,
D the ditch. Where did the proud artfc
)r family come from2 From nal. So.at