Show r t N mv t CP I 1 pr r 4 Q I 1 I 1 7 I 1 02 I 1 HIM M it wr KAI 1 ja 7 li it J 4 thoughts Forthe for qt quiet nt hotta acquired AND INHERITED TEX for convenience I 1 would have hare you bear in mind these two tavo divisions of nay my subject acquired ton tendencies dennies and inherited tendencies the influence exerted upon our boys and girls from early child childhood hoed to the a ale age 0 le of maturity are many and varied ilow how shall we best guard our oar boys aud and girls rowing growing into manhood and womanhood from the vices follies and impurities which daily surround them you fathers and mothers hold the key that unlocks the mystery will I 1 ou as parents stand idly by and see your little ones injured in any way you say eav no and yet I 1 you pre arc daily seeing and acu not re listin i asting these evil influences that kill idill both body and soul what are thee influences and how bow can I 1 change changa them you ask shut up these places laces of vice and place in their stead those thosa whole soine boine influences vi which bieh tend teed to t the h uplifting u of manhood and womanhood if we live would have our boys I 1 and girls purer let us be purer ourselves do 0 o all you cin can to make the children chil dien happy at home be cheerful to the dear ones in trusted to your care soon they will leave you vou to build a nest of their own even though you may be poor the happiest hearts and brightest 0 faces are more frequently found in the humblest of homes our very cry nature depends on home borne its influence is eitneir a blessing or a curce in either case it is mighty and all powerful going with us through life I 1 i e and clinging clino irig to us ua in death the reason that so many of our I 1 boys and girla g become dissipated I 1 and run to en aery ery place of amuse 1 went not thinking or perhaps caring what the character of the amusement may be only having one thought arid and that to let away from home it is ia the lack of proper entertainment and int influence luence I 1 there watch cai fully y the literature of y your our homes home there ther e is bea bc arcely reely more debasing 0 influence than that of reading r impure papers or books even the daily papers that seem such a necessity are many of them unfit lor for fanini family y reading tet let u us uj j I 1 preserve tho purity of 01 homo borne bv I 1 having pure reading matter an and innocent amusements our child 1 ren s habits too are formed under the influence of not only home but the street and play ground with their associates if you would have the habits of your children and a in al childrens children pure and chaste see that these qualities are first implanted in your own being too often our children hear charpe jokes and vulgar illusions around the fire side in our cities the greatest danger comes from the street for the street is an education as truly as the home church or school and since it is so BO its ils moral atMOS atmosphere Dhere L should be as pure nure as either eithe r it connot cannot be as long ion M as a saloon A loon or a place of vice rice opens upon its streets for to these thee the e places the moral I 1 I 1 tion naturally aliv gravitates avit tarth tes there is no oiher on earth where I 1 virtue is so lichtl lightly esteemed should we not ri riss 2 ath ath all our I 1 I 1 might to overthrow I 1 ioe at least by our our vote if in ill i 0 other way ivay let us try to maintain p rity at every hazard baard for god says none but the pure in n heart shall see fee him god all lias ha stamped up tip ileth the divine image has bas given us divine i laws with divine guidance guida Z uce pur I 1 ity is freed freedom am from all that coni I 1 laminates tamin tami atos nates and decilles de illes bidy mind I 1 I 1 or soul virtue is a strong power i for good A child s first is to be ili welt ell born not born to an inheritance of riches but to an in 1 beri tance of physical mental and woral moral health an inheritance of evil is limited to the third anti and fourth generation g an inheritance of good goes on indefinitely blessing blessit ble s it thousands one of the best 1 estable established abed laws of Is is that the evil taint transmitted by the drinking and tobacco habit is one of tile the most mos t fearful of herid ity tendencies den deri dennies cies olten often the f fenily nily entirely dies out in the third thir d and fourth generation snowing showing tile the dible bible to bo be ot of groat great scientific accuracy visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon poll u the lie t children unto the third aud and fourth generator getie gene raton of the them m that hate in and gnawing g mercy unto thousands of them that love iv e me and keep keel my codair laments na ments this is no do changing law nor is it given by any changing 0 lawgiver but an e scientific thie fw fac that will stand as loll 1011 long as this world ii I 1 inhabited inhabited babi ted the saddest thing about this all to me is that the men and women won ien professing crull a name will permit such influence to exist in our oar midst tle the mere inere fact that inheritance heri Lauce oi of gool ha a gir greater cater pers persistence istance than haa the lah inheritance of evil vil lights up what would be a kopele s tate state of affairs temperance in the widest and gible bible sen sell e means contrell con troll of all the appetites and passions the fleshy lusts w which 11 ich war against the soul no character con can be kept pure and strong without temperance 0 ocr v r bodies are made for the in indwell dwelling ina ol of god holy spirit what could or should be more pure isyou if you will bear in mind the awful dangers confronting your I 1 chil children drea all because of your neglect I 1 think y you oil would soon boon be up lip and doing doial g to zadour lid our c ammu omni clity unity of these fearful evils parents are directly responsible to god for their children try if possible to turn the step slept of your bittle ores ones I 1 n the way of noble aim earnest and honest work we must realize that life is a warfare at best and that our lives are bed hedged ed in by dangers from the he cradle to the grave crave and then with inherited tendencies entangling 0 thaw it seems like a hopeless case III rut u t the the mothers oi 01 the land are coming to the rescue and are be beginning inning to arouse to a sense of their reE responsibility may we arise to the new conception of the divine plans of life and as we ro go ferard all social life lie ha elevated there is hope arid and courage in the tact fact tufit women are binning beginning b inning to realize what thea ought to do and thit with all the love and pity that women possesses she will ivill tr try y and turn the wayward into straight paths path ilan out tile the signal fil lights and let us station sentinels sentinels at the pitfalls pit fals may god hasten the day the lira br battle that e ear er vas as f ait hall I 1 tell you there arid tillen on in dro ali maps of the iii coill bild aou ou mill ill find it not it i as lounet by the mot liere of invin il I 1 1 az S av W I 1 |