The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-03
ADDRESSED BY DR.. DORMAN
Held Yesterday at the Grand Opera
HOuse-A large Audience of Mem
Music by the Orchestral GIee Club.

| HOmse--A Large Audience of Men
Music by the Orchestral GIee Club.
| A large audience of men greeted DR..
G. A Dorman at the Grand Opera
house meeting yesterday afternoon. The
subject Of the Doctors address was
Are We Responsible for Inherited
Tendencies" and given by him for the
| first time at the meeting. The special
music by the orchestra, glee club and
male quartette was a marked feature
| of the service.
| The speaker began by defining hered-
| ity, giving illustrations to make his
meaning clear We all inherit physical
mental and moral tendencies. He then
| touched upon the relative power of
| heredity and environment and gave
| some startling facts and statistics. The
| doctor did not believe that God would
| judge man born in the slumS by the
| same standard that He would the man
| born under reverse circumstances and
surrounded by more helpful influences.
In summing UP the speaker said; rs
man responsible for his conduct in view
of the foregoing facts, in regard TO
liSIuIlS anu euNlIOnIneHl lue ludleIl-
alists will tell us that he is not, that he
is a creature of circumstances. That
it is as impossible for a man to go
against his inherited tendencies and the
results of poor environment as it is for
stone falling over a precipice to re-
verse it's flight or for a man In the cur
rent of Niagara river to be kept from
going over the falls but the facts are
that stones do reverse their flight as it
were. Some years ago as / stood look
ing at Niagara river just above the
falls l saw a bird fly down and pick a
leaf from the swiftly flowing stream;
so God can send His angels to rescue
man in his fall. The facts are that men
do turn. Look at Jerry Macauley, see
how he turned; and at John Bunyon,
the drunken tinker, how he turned and
gave TO the world book that next to
the Bible, has influenced more lives
than any other
Some years ago a skeptic meeting
some of the native converts In the
South Sea Islands tried to discourage
them from following Christianity but
one of the men pointed to a huge block
and said "do you see that well, that is
where we used to cut off the heads of ,
men. Do you see that large oven yon-
der, well that is where we used to throw
men and roast them alive. If you had
been here one hundred years ago you
would have been treated in the same
way
Has man the power of choice? Yes,
if he isn't an idiot. Yes, if he isn't in
sane. But some will have harder time
of it than others. Let us have sympa-
thy for the fellow that is having a hard
struggle-some are paupers from
choice, but many are born tired.
Christ alone can save men, The saliva
ton that simply saves men from the |
penalty of their sins is not worthy of
the name of salvation Christ came to
save men from their sins.
did you ever think of the heredlty |
of Christ? Where did He get His he
redity? He was a workingman; as a
boy He was brought up as. ordinary
children. Yet at the age of twelve He
the wise doctors in the tenn
pie by His questions. Did He inherit
that supreme virtue from Joseph and
Mary or their ancestors? Where did
He get the power to reverse all the
ideas of the laws of His day? There
never has been man like Christ since
His sermon on the mount lives to-day.
The only answer is He is the Son Of
God 1t is our privilege to be sons of
God and be partakers of His divine ma
ture according to His unfailing prom
ise'
At the close of Dr. Dorman's address
A. r. Irvine made few appropriate
remarks.