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ssea II tr4e4llons the resultant e1scls II
class 4sd family cohesion
IrS second verse q tae sixta chapter CT
Geles-s h4s Always becR 2meng ezegetieal
con- lle tatcrs cF.x scstSt9fsasa, AID the
ancient fzfneFs " tSe calrcb, following It's
author q tbs bo1 " kaosh. have l4ken ths
words literally and cpleladed hat certain
4nze-s were euslaFcd by ths beauty cf
s.4Fllly women alld lG teriil4rried villa them
clL Tie refefmefs II the sixteenth century
d. Ltsrpreted the verse u faeAa al tte --sous
0f Gcd were The cescead4nts cf tue
righteous seth, VITO took SiYes FROM
among ths dag gnters or the Unrlghteous
C.in. A third. AL the most reasonable
exegesis, IS that tne word b. E-JLln, iu our
version Translated "God, means als0
mighty ones, and that these '-tni ghty
ones" are among the descendants Of Cam
who lad beeoIae renowned and powerful
and eOgid take whOmsOever they would,
znt IS the Roman youth carried OF tne
Sabine maiteus, they seized upon the
daughters of the Sethites, Of wnoln alone
among the men tie text w@s speaking, the
acooun. perhaps beng solely Of them
The Alan lm&R) n verse third with
whom Goa Will lot always strive, IS the
family OF Seth, who, though the chosen
people. arc nevertheless 10 fan into eyl
ways and their corruption Is the result OF
tes inLerm@rriags with = more corrupt out
abler race.
We see here in the very commencement
Of traditional history the hereditary IN
huence running IN parallel lines, keeping
one family unspOtted from the world and
calling upon the name Of the Lord" and
maintaining the other IN all worldly pros
perlty, endowing them with all the abilities
aud arts necessary 20 power and rendering
them wariike and bloodtnirsty, but never
theless the latter are passed over in the Sc
lection Of a race from which the Messiah Is
10 come and the former chosen.
An examination OF story-whether OF
oations or families-wiu disclose "A con-
geries OF facts down 10 the present time
bearing upon the problem OF heredity, and
every person can say with Justice Shallow:
LAY, that | do; and have done any time
these nine hundred years. and not be sur
prlsed at the al deudum OF his Cousin Slcn-
der: "Au his successors gone before him
hath dOne't, and all his ancestors that come
after him NAV" not only the 'boy being
the father OF the man." but all hIs progeni-
tors being comprised IN him, and, like all
good Bostonlans, he carries about with ham
4 corpulence Of grancfathers.
But las been reserved for men Of this
generation u recognize the great impor-
Iance OF the doctrine and 10 present 1t 10 the
community as one weighty with conse-
quences, and bearing especially upon our
physical well being as well as upon our spir-
ltuahty here and hereafter. No one has
presented the subject more thoughtfully
aud forcibly than Or. Bellows did in Il ser
mon in 1883 IN his Church Of All Souls IN
New York. afterward published under the
title Of Christ the Head of All Principally
| and Power" the text being from Collos-
siaas 2:lO, and the design OF the discourse
| being 10 exhibit the nature and influence OF
| those ''principalities and powers" the splr
| itual realities and relations, which have
| history as old a. Gods own being, "A past Is
| remote as the unbeginning eternity and "a
| future as distant as Uncnding time.
''The dead govern the living. The past
controls the present Tho principalities
| aud Iswers that carry on this very age are
a0t alone or chiefly our ideas, our passions,
our viii; we are merely the instruments,
| channels and vehicles Of the mighty viii
Il great historical past doing what the
accumulated passion, desires, purposes OF
our race VIII have Us do. Ii Is the organ
zed and instituted selfshness, seDsuality
and malice Of the whole past that cOrrupts
The very veins, dwclls in the brain and lives
At the heart of the present generation and
makes the invisible forces OF evil vastly
more fearful and hopeless 10 contend with
than the actual and conscious dispositions
# living sinners and the real and overt acts
Jf present wrong"
A striking coroIlary to these propositions
IS the statement OF the British Medical
Journal on neglected population and the
growth Of crime that "heredity aud the sur
rousdiugs Of the individual are the great
causes Of social failure. Much may bedone
n The overcrOwded urban districts by al
teriug the surroundings, especially in the
case OF childrcn. When Inheritance ha:
pr@lisp0sod children 10 the ready reception
Of Impressions by bad influences, 1t is nee
essary that - IN the case Of other forms o.
brain defect the evil should be met 10y
special care in training and good and right
surroundings"
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