The Mena weekly star., 1913-06-26
w. c. T. U. COLUMN
Bertha Kelly, Press Supt,

ueNclOpllleUL Ol lllt CHllu . Cii"i
 acter. heredity or environment?
 God is no respecter of persons, ana
 His three consummate perfectlonss
 are infinite life, infinite wisdom and
 infinite power. There are three things or principles which are the
 causes productive of living beings:
 The divine love. of which is the all-
 perfect wisdom: the divine wisdom
 in the perception OI all posslDle
 means. and the divine power, which
 is by the joint will or union of the
 divine love and wisdom. God ls
 all in all power, love and wisdom.
 The souls three powers are al
 lection. understanding and will Ihe will is the conjunction ot affection
 and understanding. The mind has
 three operations-it thinks, it makes
 choice and puts the thoughts into
 operation. or performs. We mlght
 state that there are three kinds ot
 wisdom-wisdom relating to God to mankind and to ones self. knoWl-
 edge is not wisdom, and there are
 three kinds of knowledge pertain ing to God to other and to one
 own heart. Knowledge and virtue dignify and enoble mankind; lgno-
 rance and vice Overwhelm them with depreciation and contempt. We| seek knowledge of good and evil
 from evil instructors. The same old sermon preached by Satan on
 knowledge. It seems that knowl-
 edge of God. which is just as easy
 to learn, or the parts He intends
 for us to know, as the knowledge
 of the world; but yet some say
 that much of our development of
 character came into the world with
 us: that our fathers and grand
 fathers are responsible for the con-
 duet of their offspring; and so they
 are. but not only as the offspring
 isinfuenced by their examples. The
 child's mind is blank-there is not one thing that it knows except
 what an Infinite Mind gave it. If
 children are evil they get that evil
 through teaching, not through
 birth. The sins of the fathers are
 handed down through as many generations as will accept them by
 their own vii, not through the will of God but through language
 and performance given by com panionship. Eve was pure until influenced by evil company. She influenced her husband by her words and he obeyed her and Satan Then she was not capable of being a christian mother. Her child grew up a murderer. It was not the blood-it was the influence and teaching of convicted parents. Curl laws should be the same as Gods laws. Then we would be back in the garden again, and since Christ has shown us the way to the tree of life, Satan would have no chance to advance and can be kept in the rear with his evil followers. Christ said, Suffer little children to come unto me. and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of heaven" Now if we teach them of the king dom of darkness rather than of light, we lead them away from the kingdom of heaven into environ ments are are evil. There is mol good. as Satan teaches the world, but only God is good. and those born of their own will in His i'm age or likeness. Those born in the image and likeness of Satan are evil Those born of God have eter- nal life after leaving this form of clay. Those born of Satan must suffer the second death-death of the soul that sins Once I read of a good mothers platform which she had printed and stuck it in her mirror, that she might see it every day. This was done previous to the birth of her first child. It read: 'I will accept the absolute respon- Sibility of motherhood believing that a child is what his mother makes him. | will govern by fore thought instead of afterthought. | will act on this rule-that obedience is the straight gate and narrow way that leads a child to the best things. mental and moral. That it is pos sible flo bring into the environment of the child every influence neces- ~ory for itS healthy moral develop- ment. That the home should be fol thr little child what the university is to the youth. fostering and in- spring his natural interests in the furnishing him lheI means of Investigating the natural interests and converting them into true knowledge, and teaching him| 10 use habitually the knoWlege heI has acquired.' This Womans six children are successful men and women, now advancing in wisdom of God, of others and themselves.
 This Is true progression During the first years of a child'S life it| receives the foundation upon which
 maturity of character must rest. The foundation of any structure is
 its principal part Birth and death
 come not of my will in this world.
 but my birth or death for the sec
 ond time does come and cannot
 come in any other way except
 through my will. I must be born
 for eternal life or I must suffer the
 second death after judgment, which
 comes after resurrection. This is
 why parents should ever be watch
 fuI, seeking only the purest enyir-
 onment for a healthy soul. Jesus
 was influenced not by the world.
 nor by anything except his will and
 power, which was from the begin
 ming trained by his heavenly par
 ents. and he was obedient to his