Arizona republican., 1904-10-03
blame. the sheen is not.

blame, the sheep Is not.
 "We should be more like ideal men and less than ideal sheep (barring the sheep's innocence) if we were guided more by our properly and diTmely in- structed conscience and reasoning fac ulties, and less by our whims or sell fish desires or habits or likes and dis likes, or moods or other petty Ierson- alities or indulged frailties This ap- plies in small things and great. in re- ligious and moral matters and il mat ters indifferent. A gentleman suffering from a cold said to me: I causnU iU by making IooI of myself. by expos ing myself when I knew better, just because I happened to be in the mood for it. We catch a good many things by making fools Of ourselves to suit the mood Or the hour, or the permanent choice of the hart. The mere animal never makes q fool of it=elf: t is as God made it.
 "This cap1city to know rgA1 from wrong is a fact that must come into court as a basis of judgment on a:l we do and are, on all the decisions we make, or ways we taSe and tEe ends we reach. This is .rUs or a,3n without any Bible, without duy kHowl- edge of Christ, the divine teacher. then how much heavier the responsibility is upon us who have all the light and help of the gospel of Christ, and who live in the noon time brightness of the gos- Pel day!
 ITO those who are trying b parry the force of this responsibility on the plea of heredity, trying to hide 6th-nd the sins of the grandfatAers, and to excuse themselves for yielding to temp tations. or following evil choices on the ground of inherited tendencies. Dr. Deems once said: NO one can release himself from responsibility because of inherited evil proclivities. While I am not responsible for inherited tan-
 am responsible before God to use all my powers in fighting evil tendencies and doing right" It is an Unmanly, sinful thing for man Or woman to lie down before an inherited trend Of his nature and say, There is nothing can do. I was born that way and can not 1elp it. A sheep might uze such a plea, but how unmanly for a man to do it
 "A baby will overcome adverse ten dencies. There is a powerful tendency nf its nature against walking. a ten dency 10 fall and sprawl. but it will learn to walk though, after many q labo-iOus and unsuccessful effort, after many discouraging and bruising fall and failure. II is not going to lie sprawling, unable always to walk. just because it was born that way. Let the man have at least the courage of the baby and not lie down to be .a chronic weakling. That is the plea Of sinful heart for more sin. Hereditary tendeE eies mean a harder contest, but God will help the man who chooses the right and consistently contends for 1t.
 'One reason for presenting this sub ject is the desire to inspire us all to assert in the name of God in Christ Jesus, the fact and validity of our lofty heritage, as something nobler, higher than a mere intellectual animalism that we rise up and claim and practice our exalted privilege as sons of God rather than mere brothers of the animal. The other reason is to present our Lord Jesus Christ as the central object of choice, and the Almighty Redcemer Of wandering or fallen and weak and sim