Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-11-08
A FINE ADDRESS
Given by w. w. Pegg at the w. 4. 4
L. Meeting.


u. Meeting.
As understand from your program
The topics for this evenings discussion are
"A Fathers Responsibility and Are
parents responsible for their chlldren's
.tandard of morals2" Therefore at the
solicitation Of your esteemed president
ave consented to introduce the subject in
This brief paper.
The family is tine divine institution fer
ne purpose of perpetuating the human
race and pdtrlarchal was the earliest form
If human government of which we have
my record, and along the ages down to
he present time the nearer to which this
system of government has been kept the
better has been the family, the race and
he nation.
The father as the patriarch or head OF
the family, in my opinion is directly re-
sponsible not only for the physical and
mental but also for the moral training of
The children of the family. The conse-
quences of parental character in action,
thought and word extends to the children.
10 none Of our actions do we act for our
selves alone. Those who come after US
are affected either for better or for worse
There is transmission of qualities. tend
encies, advantages, disadvantages from
parents to offspring This is clearly stat
ed IN scripture. For instance. the secono
commandment Tohu shalt not bow down
20 them nor serve them for |, the Lord thy
God am a jealous God, visiting the lniquity
of the fathers upon the children unto the
bird and fourth generation of them that
hate me Elk 20:5. The Lord is long
suffering and of great mercy. forgiving
niquity and transgression and by no means
clearing the guilty, visiting the inquity OF
the father upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation. Numbers l4:l8.
Thou shewest loving kindness unto thous-
ands and recompensest the inquity of the
fathers into the bosom of their children
after them. The Great, the Mighty God,
the Lord of hosts, is his name Jeremirh,
52:l8 SEES also Elk. 34:z, Deut. $50
This is called heredty. BY this | UNDER
stand that the ability, the defects, the
proneness to given vices. the bent of GER
tain virtues as we'll as physical traits de-
scends from parent to child. That such is
the case we all know. 1t is apparent
Physically it is exemplfied in the erect
form, the clear eye, the rosy cheek, the
sound constitution Of thechildren Of healthy
and vlrtuous parents. 1t is seen in the
ueCfcplL lOtl1, the luSIreleSS eye, the sal
low skin, the debitated frame and de-
PRAYED appettes of the children of the
vicious ard drunkard.
1t is also seen IN the transmission OF
certain tendencies of the body from gen
GRAFTON to generation. Frederick William
had his favorite regiment OF giants whom
he would not allow to marry women of
station inferior to his own. Their offspring
we're noted and their descenda is are the
finest specimens Of physical manhood to be
found in Europe. Heredty influences ev-
cry part of the physical system. The
heart, lungs, nervous system as well as
the brain and face show the ancestry. In
some families the vitality is most remark
able, all the members live to fourscore
years or more.
Intellectual and moral qualities are
transmitted. Having spent SO years of
my life in the school room as pupil and
teacher, ! have had ample opportunity
for observation and my experience has
been that as a rule the children OF those
accustomed to mental calculation and
solving problems learn figures quicker
than others while the children Of literary
and classical scholars more easily learn
classics and composition The same may