New Britain herald., 1926-11-08

miracle that ever happened IS human baby.
 "If you tickle baby's foot it will draw up the foot out of reach. Put something in his fingers and he will grasp it. This is reflex action. Some people say these reflex actions are instincts which come from our early ancestors who used to hang on trees in the jungles.
 Besides these reflexes there are certain instincts. Instinct is a won- derful thing. Professor took a num- Der of birds in Florida, took them 600 miles into Texas, opened the box, and those birds came back home across 600 miles of the track less Gulf of Mexico to their own nests in six days. The eel will travel down the Rhine and out to sea and make it's way to the Azores, and the young of the eel will in it's turn re- turn to the Rhine. The salmon in the northwest will travel from the sea long way inland up the fresh water streams and deposit their eggs and die. The young salmon hatch out up the fresh water rivers and go down to the sea where their mothers came from, and when 1t Is time to lay eggs they go back up the rivers, and after they lay eggs we catch them and can them. Who do ami mals do things like like?
 Now when we are born there are certain potential qualities that are in us so that we are free only with in limits. We cannot do everything we want to do. l think sometimes the Samuel Smiles books have done some harm. We have discouraged boys and made them waste their lives. The belief that any man can learn to play the violin, for instance, and be a great master. If l had tried that I probably would have been an ordinary violin player. l never would have been a great artist. My mother used to say to us boys. Why don't you draw pictures like the Thomas boys do?' I loved my mother, but that was not kind thing for her to say to us boys. She was trying to force us to do things we could not do. When you tell every man he can succeed in busi- ness, or be president of the United States, or that he can do anything any other man can do. you are un- kind to him.
 Besides our biological inheritance, we have a social inheritance: We are born into a certain home, a certain religious or social group, a certain town and nation. Some bio- logical handicaps may be overcome by ideal environment. and first-class biological inheritance may be an- nulled by evil environment.
 You and I can trace back and see men that were very ordinary, that lived drab lives and did not think they were good for much; but when they had a kingly opportunity im- mediately became kingly.
 You have seen the psychological otIIOoR ol llINil 1iidlISC SOlllCliilltS III helpful way when a large sum of money was left them. They have just lived along with a poverty stricken. inferior psychology, and then there came some opportunities in the form of money, and immediately instead they walked the street like kings and kept their sweetness and ren- sion. many of them.
 The kind of . home we have been brought up in has great deal to do with it.
 Clarence Darrow has put himself upon the map a good deal lately There is no question about Darrow being a very bright man. I don't like his atheism and pessimism, but I will always give the devil his due. and Darrow is shrewd. Darrow takes up the question of the family of Jonathan Edwards. and says that we have bragged about him so much. He said Jonathan Ed wards had two wives. The first one was so immoral that he got rid of her and married a second. All the descendants of Jonathan Edwards that have ever been mentioned that have amounted to shucks came from that immoral wife.
 My answer would be, maybe that woman had a good brain. Perhaps she could pass down to her chill dren good bodies. Then with the other woman to raise them, with their wholesome bodies and good in herited instinct. they were raised in an ideal and Christian home.
 "I don't think anybody would question that if you and I, when we were small babies had been put into Turkish homes we probably would have been killing Christians today and think we were doing Gods service. If Turkish babies had been put into our homes they would have been active in Christian work.
 There is no such thing as a self made man. Men who boast that they are self made are conceited and
 
 himself up has been helped by the guidance and teachings of good mother. God bless you men who come to Bible class, but don't for get the kids at home. Send them somewhere where they will get proper training
 "The environment of the P . life has lot to do with child. A friend of mine said to me, Vaughan, we don't raise our children: our chil- | dren are raised outside these days Our children are forced to mix with | all kinds of people. with moral l |epers and people who may be ! diseased, and it Is different | Our boys do pick up an amount of evil on the street. Let's remember after all, if l fou have a good biological inherit ,Orp and an evil wont 1n,r |