Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-31

contact in social, business and moral
surroundings AmericaniZed. AS a mat
ter of fact we allow too much to the
credit of transmission. 1t is shown that
where both parents are deaf mutes only
one in ten of the children are deaf.
Neither do blind parents produce blind
children.
1t was formerly claimed that con-
sumption was transmitted by consump-
tive parents to their offspring. but sci
ence now claims that this dread dis
ease, like many others, is by contact
with microbes that will attack and
master weak lungs, no matter from
what cause they are weak. Healthy
and clean surroundings will perpetuate
to old age the child of a consumptive,
while unsanitary conditions will de-
stroy the body of sound paternity.
This mimicry of hereditary is death
or life with most of as. Mr.. Beecher
lecturlng in one of our Iowa churches
stopped short and said, Give me pure
air, If you can't lower window knock
it out and l will pay for It, A man
faints in the crowd; the police cry,
"stand back and give him air!" Let the
child of the alley, cellar or garnet have
pure air, food, clothes, books. papers
and people and he will come to- prosper
and be like his examples and teach
ers.
Mr.. I,amb says: IT have gathered
from the alms-house OF New Jersey
fifty children, whose pictures produce
owing to the fact that many of the
homes for children in this state would
not receive illigitimate children. They
were sent to the alms-house, which we
have tried out of mercy to the child to
free. OF the fifty pictures given more
than one-half of the class mentioned l
believe them to be better than the av-
erage." Ninety-five per cent of them
are not from common prostitutes, but
from young mothers, who from the day
of their fall until the child's birth, re-
pented a thousand times of her folly
and instead Of enbreding lust before
its birth has cultivated innumerable
good resolves to a higher moral stand
ard. AS a result the chronological sign
of we'll developed moral strength in the
prenatal condition Is most prominent in
this class of children; besides they are
almost universally Of healthy parents.
AAC says we titC tIuLilOu6SSA NY oS1e
conceit and pride into believing our
blood and training to have been the
best and this blindness makes us less
capable to train children than are
strangers who coolly look at facts and
correct wrongs in their adopted chill
dren: for this and other reasons he
claims that more foster parents sue
coed than do natural parents. Con-
cludes by saying: whatsoever re-
ceiveth one such child in my name re-
ceiveth me-" Such parent or foster
parent will have Jesus with the family
in the caring of the child-where the
above motive .exists-where the child
is taken in His name. He will aid
whatever you do to or for that child
in My name. You may count that you
do that to Me.-Matt. 25:45.
No child is OF mean birth who has
been born of God.
Rev. Lamb Is state superintendent OF
the Children's Home Society in New
Jersey. writer of books and this one
is only one in four Of a series. Every
lover of humanity ought to send for
these booklets and read them. Every
young man and woman would in time
bless his memory II they could but
read this book on Heredity.