The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-06-04

distressed wives and helpless children
few months, perhaps weeks, the oath
would be violated, the solemn pledge
broken, the hopes CT the distressed fam
lily dashed to the earth, and the poor
victim is more helplessly drunk than
ever he was before WAS he born so 2
Why is this, and how is it? have no
doubt whatever upon the question OF de
velopments, Transmission of bodily ana
mental qualities, prenatal influence OF
whatever name you may choose to give
it. For l, the Lord thy Cod am leal-
Gus God, visiting the iniqultles OF the
fathers upon the children, unto the third
and fourth generation of them that hate
me, and showing mercy unto thousands
of them that love me and keep my com
mandments." The same truth is ex-
pressed where it is said that the fathers
have eaten sour grapes, and the chill
dren's teeth are set on edge.
Women are purer and better than
men, and if it were not for the good
qualities transmitted through mothers,
| hell would be let loose on earth before
the fourth, or even the third generation.
| Men who resemble their mothers or
their mothers family, either in per
son or disposition, are far better than
those who resemble their fathers. This
law of development was fully recogniz-
ed in the case of Christ, who, mentally
and morally, was much more like a wo-
man than a man He could not have
been the pure man that He was, if He
had had any human father Hence, all
orthodox Christians believe that his hu-
man origin was myracle.
Here comes in the objection to my the
ory that the purest and best men often
have the most profigate sons, while the
sons of the most miserable drunkards
are often the most sober, prosperous men
and have the greatest 6etestation of
drunkenness. The prenatal influence
of the mother upon the offspring is ad-
mitted by all scientific men, and should
be better known and un derstood by wo-
men. The sooner they appreciate the
tremendous fact, the better for the hui
man race. Now suppose the father is a
drunkard, the wife and mother must suf-
fer. She has horror of the crime
which causes her woe, and she transmits
this horror of the use of strong drink to
the child of her sorrow, and all through
life he carries this inheritance with as
unerring and uncomfortable certainty as
he would the physical inheritance of con
} sumption, had his mother had that terri
} BILE disease This man carries out this
inheritance from his mother, and is all
his life practical temperance man, and
is almost fanatical in his opposition tc
the evil But here comes his sons, and
here the inheritance from his drunken
father may crop out. Good people will
mysteriously shake their heads and say
Yes. He is very good man; but ther
there must be something wrong; he ha:
not properly trained his hoy,or he would
not be such as he is" The Jews vel
understood that the sins of the father:
? were visited upon the children. anc
, hence they asked Christ whether a Ger
tain man was born blind on account o
the sins of the father. 1t would be wei
for every man who hates the Lord Goo
; to be assured that his iniquities, whethe
r they take the shape of drunkenness
: lying, theft, petty rascality or what not
: are ssre to be visited upon his descend
: ants, although it may take the third o
l fourth generation to be fully developed
A l must stop Tor this week. Do no
1 take exceptions to my theory until 1 ge
through. I will pursue this subject fal
ther hereafter.