The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-30
DAY OF QUIET AND REST
THERE WAS LITTLE STIR At ACTON
CAMP MEETING YESTERDAY.
An Address on "ieredity's Chainv In
the Recommendations Funds
at bethany Park.

Yesterday was day OF quietness and rest
at Acton Park A number Of the cottagers
went TO their homes in the morning and re-
turned on the evening trains. The prayer
meeting in the morning was poorly attend
ed. as was. also the lecture by Rev. F. NJ.
westhaser. OF Falkland. in the afternoon 1t
was altogether a sleepy day. and there was
no occurrence to mar the monotony that
prevailed throughout the entire camp.
good attendance is expected to-day how
ever, and the programme Is an exception
ally good one. The speaker of the morning,
Rev. j. w. Hamilton, OF Cincinnati, and
secretary OF the Freedman's Aid and South
ern Educational Society, Is well known
throughout Methodism. Mr.. Hamilton will
lecture I'm the morning at 1870 o'clock. Z.
7. McWhirter has been selected 10 conduct
the services in the afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Your Great Grandparents, Yourself and
Your Great Grandchild, or Heredity's
Chain,' was the subject of an address
by Rev. T. VI. Westhafer, of Falkland,
at the afternoon services yesterday.
Mr.. Westhafer spoke In part as fol-
lows: Professor Drummond at first tried
TO separate religion and science but the
fountains overhowed and intermngled
They belong together. Our subject is so
worded in order to call attention to the law
in nature, which binds the generations of
living creatures together. Those who early
learn this law are better able to cultivate
the good handed down to them by their an
cestors and to restrain the evil, working 1t
as much as possible out Of their lives and
by careful living not to sow seeds Of sin to
be reaped in future generations. Informa-
nj I,s-
vent insinuating reflections against right
eous parents whose children have gone
wrong. for people will recognize the law
which brings fruit from seed sown four
generations gone, whose names are un-
known and their graves, perhaps, unmarked
and forgotten. But natural law, true to her
trust, works to the surface again that
which we would hide and forget. Anthro-
biologists divide society into five classes.
namely, the normal class, rightminded,
trustworthy. conscientious and conserva-
tive; the dependent class, found in aims
houses, asylums and other charitable insti-
tutions; the delinquent class, criminals
found in reformatories and prisons; the de-
| fective class. insane, feeble-minded, idiots
| and imbeciles, and lastly, men of abnormal
| talent. Society must depend on the normal
class for balance and life. The increased
activity OF the delinquent class, representing
| Itself In succeeding generations brings
| about al last the abnormal man. who is
/ giving philanthropists, courts educators
| and prison wardenS such large field for
| study. All agree that his reproduction
should be prohibited and that for life he
should be eliminated from society, Of which
| he is the curse.
Science working with humanity, notices
in particular generations suffering from
wrongdoing OF preceding generations and
science cries Behold law. the chain of
heredity.' But the child Of God, beholding
with natural eye what science shows, with
| quicker ear has heard an echo from the dis
/ tant past. The echo gone, and a voice is
| heard 1t Is the voice of the author of law,
| speaking from Sinai: Keeping mercy for
/ gression and sin and that will by no means
| clear the guilty. visiting the iniquity Of
ans iat onztb upon the children unto the third
| poet and philosopher pale when We consider
Moses as lawgiver from God, for his laws
| in flesh and blood, bone and nerve, of every
| living creature as well. In our day
| the masses are busy with earning a liveii-
| MOOD, In counting profit, or in grieving over
| loss, in running after amusements for minds
| not disciplined by culture or grace None of
| these will prayfully consider what sin will
| bring upon them. God cannot say to such
1 people, Stop. let us reason together. Let
| me explain my laws which L cannot change
TO license sin without wrecking a world
| and so injure a universe There is but one
| course to pursue with the giddy, headstTong
| world, and that is to flash the light of the
| commandments into their faces and rattle
| the chains of slavery against their ears
1t took four generations of captivity
TO cure the Israelites of idolatry, but they
| came out cured. If the captiveS of sin to-
| day could be made to investigate the sins
| of their ancestors and then to avoid sin, by
| the grace of God it would be blessing &c
tha Tan rhr In, chr
| learn and practice the same lessons, thus
| blessing succeeding generations.
What is it that causes men to despist
| children and grandchildren of a traitor.
| Why is it that woman Sights and avoid,
her sister who has fallen from virtue? Nat
why is it that an Legitimate child is un,
der the ban of so-called polite society
Again the same answer. natural law work
ing destruction to wicked deeds an ex
ample to others who have not yet sinned
INToXICANTS AND HEREDITY.
DIR. T. d. Gathers, president of Walnu
Lodge Hospital, Hartford, Conn, who Ia,
made special study OF heredity, in thos,
who use intoxicants, writes: The numerou.
instances in which the drinking of grand
parents descends to grandchildren can -
seen in any community in which drinkin,
is followed. A very general agreement ex
lists among medical experts that from 80 Il
50 per cent. of wrecks from drunkenness
are made so by the start given them b!
ancestors, of which 20 per cent. goes bacl
| to grandparents and per cent TO great
I grandparents
In the evening John E. Wiley. OF Ander
son, addressed the meeting and delivered
| the same address, that he did a year ago
"A Gamble Among Words" Last year
wheL Mr.. Wiley was on the programme fo
| some reason there was a very small at
tendance and he was requested TO delive
the same address over again. The cot
| tagers who attended the meeting yesterda!
evening expressed themselves as enjoying
Mr.. Wiley's lecture very much.
| Tomorrow will be Epworth Leag da!
| and special rates have been arranged 70
children of one fare for two children unde
fifteen years Of age 1t has been extensivel,
| advertised. The musical programme will b.
under the direction of Professor King, o
| Indianapolis.
Acton Personals.
Mr. Charles Robinson is spending Sun