Show TOT TOTAL TA AL L DEPRA VITY nv Ti MRS fn JOHN i A. A ironA LOO ronA P Republican Special S' S Servie r I Copyright ht 1 1607 1 7 Who ho can cnn doubt douht the soundness of or the doctrine of total depravity when evidences evi dences are arc seen every day tiny of or its truth Otherwise e how can cak canve we ve account for the lie perversity wilful debasement ement anti and debauchery In which so many maTlY persons per per- sons soils Indulge themselves Why hy will wili Individuals addicted to In Intemperance In- In temperance the drug habit and anil man many other oilier vicious prop propensities turn deaf dear ears earl to lo time the pleadings s and prayers of wives mothers husbands children anti 11 friends f Why Thy will they persist in tin till use of or alcohol drugs s and to tobacco tobacco to- to bacco hacco In iii their various forms when tho they know leno positively they arc are poisons that arc are wrecking their lives JIves and their fortune fortunes If If there was W-IS not nol in t the tho seeds of oC total depravity If IC It J Is not a a. true dogma dog how are nrC we Wf to explain the conduct of youths who have known nothing limit but Indulge I I ge nc Itc-nc n net net- and antI luxury an and who have ha had hall affection antI and solicitude lavished upon I tIm teen all their theil lives live anti and who whose c parents par par- emits have been heen examples of or perfect yet cl their children are arp- so obstinate ob oh- in their evil tendencies that thathy y hy cannot be he won from them Their Theil dissolute sl conduct condict tho they know knots i is breakIng break break- Ing lug the hearts of all nn who love hove them and atul still tl they cannot be Induced to re reform reform reform re- re form They Thy go from flom one extreme mo of or profligacy to another until th they reach the thc lowest rung on the tho ladder Il of their downward course How llou man many times limes one sees beautiful women n who ho have been delicately delicate rr ii and amid seemingly have all the lie wb qualities that could be desired in 10 a t. t woman married marriel well th their lr husbands hus bus hands bands loyally devoted de to them for fOl whom tot for some Rome physical Indisposition physicians ians sometimes sometime pre prescribe some Rome drug 01 cr alcoholic remedy In the tile use of oC v iloh they lie not Infrequently become lecome perfectly c reckless ss In lii their abandon to the frivolities of or society they may have hav al also o lost all control of or themselves I md Iod ht become quite indifferent r nt to th the appeal appal al of th their lr husbands children and friends No power poser seems nl l to re restore restore re- re of or duty dilly or their sense senHO store tor them to self respect respect ct alone bringing re relief relief re- re heart broken lief hot to them anti and their friends In Jn such Ruch cases who shall say MY there LIre are not Inborn tendencies to to total total to- to tal ml depravity If women In li-i all their weakness are ore victims ml to lo such Innate r cIl propensities what of the count countless leas numbers of or men I who In lii their careers betray the old I Adam that is std said to bp hp in every man In ii early He life the they seem to tn h he hA ambitious proud mon men th the they may bo ho talented and In nil all respects eligible for forat fora a at any ny po position They win vin the hearts of oC all who know the heart hand them heat frequently of time the most brilliant attractive anti lovable women of or their acquaintance and make mak them their wives may have fulfilled the place of or wife anti and mother of or their theil children a admirably admirably ably they hey may have ha entered Into alt all their husbands' husbands plans plan with enthusiasm and arid ma may have ha contributed largely to theIr success For a time Hmo the husband hus hUI band may have boon been worthy of or the tho devotion of oC his lovely ely wife but step stephy by hy step his Indulgence in vicious habits lees does its fatal work worl and anti finally the brutality and antI depravity of or his nature g get t supreme control anti and he never stops until he lie has hns wrecked hl his own 11 life and that of hrs his faithful lovin loving v jfe wife heaping heaping the deepest humiliation upon his children and und friends In some iome cases not satisfied with the anguish he lie has hns caused by wilful neglect neglect neg neg- lect beet and perfect abandon In the gratification gratification gratl- gratl of his evil Ovll appetites appetite he throws away ambition arid and position squanders his Income anti and see seeks Its the thc companion companion- snip of or dissolute men anti and women anti nd lavishes upon tIm the tho women of that cla class clat t hits his entire substance ignoring i the ex existence ox- ox 0 of hl his legitimate If wi wife ft he ap appears appears ap- ap pears in public showering attentions upon lila his temporary Inamorata Do not such cases s prove h beyond yond all J possible contradiction that there Is such stich a thing as ns total df depravity y pra in the human numan i species species' |