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TABERNACLE SERMON The Marriage Ring.”

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‘© HEREDITY.”

Fayerre, Mo, March 21.

At the invitation of the chief citizens of jthis place the Rev. 1. De Witt Talmage, 'D. D., stopped here to preach on his way |to Kansas Gity and other places. He arvived yesterday (Saturday) afternoon, and will leave on Monday. His audience here was no exception to the rule that no church for the last twenty years has been large enough to hold the audience when De, Talmage is announced to preach. The preacher's subject was ‘‘Heredity,” and his text 1 Samuel xvii, 58 : “‘Whose son art thou, thou young man?” Following is the sermon in full, which is the eleventh in the

series on ae Ring :”

Never was there, a more unequal fight than that between David and Goliah. David five feet high ; Goliah ten. Davida shepherd boy, brought up amid rural seeues ; Goliah a warrior by profession. Goliah a mountain of braggadocia ; David a marvel of humility. Goliah armed with an iron spear, David armed with a sling with smooth stones from the brook. But you are not to despise these latter weapons. There was a regiment of slingers in the Adsyrian army and a regiment of slingers in the Egyptian army, and they made terrible execution, and they could cast a stone with asmuch precision and force as now can be hurled shot or shell. The Greeks in their army had slingers who would throw leaden plimmets inscribed with the _ irritating words, ‘Take this!” So it was a mighty wespon David employed in that famous

combat.

A Jewish rabbi says that the probability is that Goliah was in such contempt for David, that in a paroxysm of laughter he threw his headjback, and his helmet fell off, and David saw the uncovered forehead, and that his opportunity hadcome,and taking this sling and swinging it around his head two or thtee times; and aiming at that uncovered forehead, he crushed it in like an egg-shell.

The battle over behold a tableau: King Saul sitting, little Vavid standing, his fingers ciutched into the hair of decapitated Goliath. As Saul sees David standing there holding in his hand the ghastly, reeking, staring trophy, evidence of the complete victory over God’s enemies, the kiag wonders what parentage was honored by. such heroism, and in my text he asks David his 68: ‘Whose son art thou, thou young man?”

The king saw what yon and I see, that this question of heredity is a mighty ques- tion. The longer I live the more I believe iw blood—good blood, bad blood, proud blood, humble blood, honest blood, thiey- ing blood, heroic blood, cowardly blood. The tendency may skip a generation or two, but it is sure to come out, as in a little child you sometimes see a similarity to a great- grandfather whose picture hangs on the wall. That the pliysical and mental and moral qualities are inheritable is patent to anyone who keeps his eyes open. The similarity is so striking sometimes as to be amusing. Great families, legal or literary, are apt to have the characteristics all down through the generations, and what is more perceptible in such families may be seen on a smaller scale in all families. A thousand years have no power to obliterate the differ- ence.

The large lip of the House of Austria is seen in all the generations, and is called the Hapsburg lip. The House ef Stuart al- ways means in all generations cruelty and bigotry and sensuality. Witness Queen of Scots. Witness Charles I. and Charles II. Witness James I. and James IL, and all the other scoundrels of that imperial line, Scottish blood means persistence, English blood means reverence for the ancient, Welsh blood means religiosity, Danish blood means fondness for the sea, Indian blood means roaming disposition, Celtic blood means fervidity, Roman blood means conquest.

The Jewish faculty for accumulation you may trace clear back to Abraham, of whom the Bible says ‘“‘he was rich in silver and gold and cattle,” and to Isaac and Jacob, who had the same characteristics. Some families are characterized by longevity, and they have a tenacity of life positively Methuselish. Others are characterized by Goliathian stature, and you can see it for one generation, two generations, five gener- ations, in {all the generations. Vigorous theology runs onin the line of the Alex- anders. Tragedy runs on in the families of the Kembles. Literature runs on in the line of the Trollopes. Philanthropy runs on in the line of the Wilberforces. States- manship runs on in the line of the Adamses. Henry and Catherine of Navarre religious, all their families religious. The celebrated family of the Casini, all mathe- matictans. The celebrated family of the Medici— grandfather, son and Catherine— all remarkable for keen intellect. The celebrated family of Gustavus Adolphus all warriors.

This law of heredity asserts itself with- out reference to social’ or political con- dition, for you sometimes find the ignoble in high places and the honorable in obscure places. A descendant of Edward I, a toll gatherer. A descendant of Edward III. a doorkeeper. A descendant of the Duke of Northumberland a trunk maker. Some of the mightiest families of England are ex- tinct, while some of those most honored in the peerage go back to an ancestry of hard knuckles and rough exterior. This law of heredity ise tirely independent of social or politicial condition. Then you fini avarice and jealousy and sensuality and frand hav- ing full swing insome families. The violent temper of Frederick William is the inherit- ance of Frederick the Great. It is not a theory to ba set forth by worldly philosophy only, but by divine authority. Do you not remember how the Bible speaks of ‘‘a chosen generation,” of ‘‘the generation of the righteous,’ of ‘“‘the generation of vipers,” of ‘‘an untoward generation,” of

‘a stubborn generation,” of ‘the iniquity

| of the past visited upon the children unto,

the third and fourth generation !” So that, the text comes to-day with the force of a projectile hurled from mightiest catapult : **Whose son art thou, thou yeung man!” |

**Well,” says some one, ‘‘that theory discharges me from all responsibility. Born of sanctified parents we are bound to be good and we cannot help ourselves. Born of unrighteous parentage we are bound to be evil and we cannot help ourselves.”

As much as if you should say, ‘‘the centripetal force in nature has a tendency to bring everything to the centre, and therc- fore all things come to the centre. The centrifugal force in nature has a tendency to throw out everything to the periphery, and therefvre everything will go out to the periphery.’ You know as wellasI know that you can make the centripetal overcome the centrifugal, and you can make the centrifugal overcome the centripetal. As when there is a mighty tide of good in a family,that may be overcome by determin- ation to evil, as in the case of Aaron Barr, the libertine, who had for father President Burr, the consecrated; as in the case of Pierrepont Edwards, the scourge of New York society seventy years ago, who had a Christian ancestry; while, on the other hand some of the best men and women of this day are those who have come of an anoestry of which it would not be courteous to speak in their presence.

The practical and useful object of this sermon is to show to you thatif you have come of a Christian ancestry, then you are solemnly bound to preserve and develop the glorious inheritance; or, if you have come of a depraved ancestry, then it is your duty to brace yourself against the evil ten- dency by all prayer and Christian deterini- nation, and you are to find out what are the family frailties, and in arming the castle put the strongest guard at the weak- est gate. With these smooth stones from the brook I hope to strike you, not where David struck Goliath, in the head, but where Nathan struck David, in the heart. ** Whose son art thou, thou young man?”

Sometime, in the winter holiday, when we are accustomed to gather our families together, old times have come back again, and our thoughts have beeu set to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. The old folks were so busy at such times in making us happy, and perhaps on less resource made their sons and daughters happier than you on larger resources are able to make your sons and daughters happy. The snow lay two feet above their graves, but they shook off the white blankets and mingled in the holiday festivities—the same wrinkles, the same stoop of shoulder under the weight of age, the same old style of dress or coat, the same smile, the same tones of voice. I hope you remember them before they went away. If not, I hope there are those who have recited to you what they were, and that there may be in your house some article of dress or furniture with which you associate their memories. I want to arouse the most sacred memories of your heart while I make the impassioned interrogatory in regard to your pedigree: ‘‘ Whose son art thou, thou young man /’

First, I accost a)] those who are descend- ed of a Christian ancestry. I do not ask if your parents were perfect. Perhaps there was sometimes too much blood in their eye when they chastised you. But from what I know of you, you got no more then you deserved, and perhaps a little more chastisement would have been salutary. But you are willing to acknowledge, I think, that they wanted to do right. From what you everheard in conversations and from what you saw at the family altar and at neighborhood obsequies, you know that they had invited God into their heart and life. There was something that sustained those old people supernaturally. You have no doubt about their destiny. You expect if you ever get to heaven to meet them as certainly as you expect to meet the Lord Jesus Christ.

That early association has been a charm foryou. There was a time when you got right up from a house of iniquity and walked out into the fresh air because you thought your mother was looking at you. You have never been very happy in sin because of a sweet old face that would pre- sent itself. Tremulous voices from the past accosted you until they were seemingly audible, and you looked around to see who spoke. There was estate not mentioned in the last will and testament, a vast estate of prayer and holy example and Christian entreaty and glorious memory. The sur- vivors of the family gathered to hear the will read, and this was to be kept, and that was to be sold, and it was share and share alike. But there was an unwritten will that read something like this: ‘In the name of God Amen, I being of sound mind, bequeath to my children all my prayers for their salvation: I bequeath to them the Christian religion which has been so much comfort to me, and I hope may be solace for them. Ifbequeath to them a hope of reunion when the part- ings of life are over; share and share alike may they have in eternal riches. I be- queath to them the wish that they may avoid my errors and copy anything that may have heen worthy. In the name of the God who made me, and the Christ who redeemed me, and the Holy Ghost who sanctifies me, I make this my last will and testament. Witness,all ye hosts of heaven. Witness, time, witness, eternity. Signed, sealed, and delivered in this, our dying hour, Father and Mother.”

You did not get that will proved at the Surrogate’s office; but I take it out to-day and I read it to you; I take it out of the alcoves of your heart; I shake the dust off it, I ask you will you accept the inherit- ance, or will you break the will? O ye of Christian ancestry, you have a responsibility vast beyond all measurement! Ged will not let you off with just being as good as ordinary people when you had such extraor- dinary advantages. Ought not a flower planted in a hot house be more thrifty than a flower planted outside in the storm? Ougat not a factory turned by the Housa-

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Ought not you of great early opportunity be better than those who had a cradle un- blessed ?

A father sets his son up in business. He keeps an account of all the expenditures. So much for store fixtures, so much for rent,so much for this, so much for that, and all ,the items aggregated, and the father expects the son to give an account. Your Heavenly Father charges against you all the advantages of a pious ancesiry—so many prayers, so much Christian example, so many kind entreaties—all these gracious influences one tremendous aggregate, and he asks you for an account of it. Ought mot you to be better than those who had no such advantages? Better have been a foundling picked up off the city commons than’ with such magnificent inheritance of consecra- tion to turn out indifferently.

Ought not you, my brother, to be better, having had Christian nurture, than that man who can truly say this morning : ‘‘The first word I remember my father speaking to me was an oath; the firat time I remem- ber my father taking hold of me was in wrath; I never saw a Bible till I was ten years of age, and then I was told it was a pack of lies. The first twenty years of my life | was associated with the vicious. | seemed to be walled in by sin and death.” Now, my brother, ought you not—I leave it asa matter of fairness with you—ought you not be far better than whose who had no early Christian influence? Standing, as you do, between the generation that is past and the generation that is tocome, are you going to pass the blessing on, or are you going to have your life the gulf in which that tide of biessing shall drop out of sight forever? You are the trustee of piety in that ancestral line, and are you going to augment or squander that solemn trust fund?! Are you going to disinherit your sons and daughters of the heir-loom which your parents left you? Ah! that cannot be possible; it cannot be possible that you are going to take such a position as that. You are very careful abowt the life insurances, and careful about the deeds, end careful about the mortgages, and care- ful about the title of your property, because when you step off the stage you want your children to get it all. Are you making no provision that they shall get grandfather and grandmother’s religion? Oh, what a last will and testament you are making, my brother! ‘‘ In the name of God, Amen. I, being of sound mind, make this my last will and testament. I bequeath to my children all the money I ever made, and all the houses | own; but a disinherit them, I rob them of the ancestral grace and the Christian influence that I inherited, I have squandered that on my owr worldli- ness, Share and share alike must they in the misfortune and the everlasting outrage. Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of God and man, and angela and devils, and all the generations of earth and heaven and hell, March, 1886,”

O ye highly favored ancestry, wake up this morning to a sense of your opportun- ity and your responsibility. I think there must be an old cradle, or a fragment of a cradle somewhere that could tell a story of midnight supplication in your behalf. Where is the oid rocking chair in which you were sung to sleep with the holy nur- sery rhyme! Where is the old clock that ticked away the moments of that sickness on that awful night when there were but three of you awake—you and God and mother! Is there not an cld staff in some closet? Is there not an old family Bible on some shelf that seems to address you, saying: ‘“‘My son, my davghter, how can you reject that God who so kindly dealt with us all our lives and to whom we com- mended you in our prayers living and dying! By the memory of the old home stead, by the family altar, by our dying pillow, by the graves in which our bodies sleep while our spirits hover, we beg you to turn over a new leaf and that now.” Oh, the power of ancestral piety, well illus- trated by a young man of New York who attended a prayer-meeting one night and asked for prayer, and went home and wrote these words :

“Twenty-five years ago to-night my mother went to Heaven, my beautifal, blessed mother, and 1 have been alone, tossed up and down the billows of life’s tempestuous ocean. Shall I ever go to Heaven! She told meI must meet her in Heaven. When she took her boy’s hand in hers and turned her gentle, loving eyes on me and gazed earnestly and Jong into my face, and then lifted them to Heaven in that last prayer, she prayed that I might meet her in Heaven. I wonder if 1 ever shall ?

‘‘My mother’s prayer ! blessed mether’s prayers! Did ever a boy have such a mother as 1 had! For 25 years | have not heard her pray uatil to-

Oh, my sweet,

night. I have heard all her prayers over again. They have had,‘ in,fact, a terrible resurrection. Oh, how she was wont to pray? She prayed as they prayed to-night,

so earnest, so importunate, so believing.

Shall I ever be a Christian? She was a Christian. Oh, how bright and pure and happy was her life! She was a cheerful and happy Christian. There is my mother’s Bible. I have not opened it for years. Did she believe I could ever neglect her precious Bible! She surely thought I would read it much and often. How often has she read it to me?

“** Blessed mother, did you pray in vain for your boy? It shall not be in vain. Ah! no, no, it shall not be in vain. I will pray for myself. Who has sinned against so much instructions as I have / against so many precious prayers put up to heaven for me by one of the most lovely, tender, pious, confiding, trusting of mothers in her Heaveniy Father's care and grace, She neverdoubted. She believed. She always prayed as if she did. My Bible, my mother’s Bible and my con- science teach me what I am and what I have made myself. Oh, the bitter pangs of an accusing conscience! I need a Saviour mighty to save. I must seek Him. I will.

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