and if so, what will be the punishment of those parents, who, by their attempt to murder him before he was born, made him a murderer of another, afterwards. These laws are in nature and we cannot get away from them. What, ah what, will the Judgment reveal? Listen to God speak:

"For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be bad." (Eccs. 12:14.)

But Jacob was not ignorant of this law and unknown to Laban he set to work immediately to use it for his own profit. He is the same old Jacob, cunning, keen, far-seeing, selfish and deceitful; he still shows the heel-grasper's spirit. If this is the action of the life of a converted man, then it is far beneath what the Bible teaches. We do not believe it to be such. In his closing comments on this chapter Adam Clarke

says:

"The talent possessed by Jacob was a most dangerous one; he was what may be truly called a scheming man; his wits were still at work, and as he

devised so he executed, being as fruit-
ful in expedients as he was in plans.
This was the principle and the most
prominent characteristic of his life;
and whatever was excessive here was
owing to his mother's tuition. She was
evidently a woman who paid little re-
spect to what is called moral principle
and sanctified all kinds of means, by
the goodness of the end at which she
aimed, which in social, civil, and re-
ligious life is the most dangerous
principle on which a person can pos-
sibly act. In this art she appears to have
instructed her son, and unfortunately
for himself he was in some instances
but too apt a proficient."

We clipped the following editorial from a daily paper that gives some idea of the far reaching effect of this law and the result that it is having on the human family of today, and we repeat, if actions of like character bear out such fruit among the unsaved; if we look upon it with such loathing and contempt coming from the lives of those who make no profession of sal

vation, what will the fruits be, and with what contempt and disgust overwhelms us when we positively know that even among those who are posing as leaders of God's children, means are constantly being employed to destroy that which God has ordained to life and prevent conception and thus prevent children from coming into existence and being born. What will the judgment reveal? What a picture of the carnal mind.

PRENATAL INFLUENCES.

John Brady, a moral pervert of St. Louis, has confessed that he stabbed seventeen girls in the course of the last few weeks. Fortunately none of the young ladies were fatally hurt, but in every instance the knife penetrated the flesh and painful wounds were inflicted. Brady's mother remembers the fact that his father, from whom she has been separated for years, was a very cruel man and was in the habit of beating her, and throwing knives and other dangerous weapons at her when in a fit of rage.

The insane desire to stab the women whom he met on the street was no doubt inherited by

young Brady; his degeneracy is the result of prenatal influences. The inhuman father and brutal husband should be hunted down and made to suffer the consequences of the crime perpetrated through his degenerate offspring.

That such things are possible has been proven many times over by the students of crimonology. Many an unfortunate child inherits the inclination to commit certain crimes; the brutal and inconsiderate parents are paving the way for violence three generations removed. If criminal ancestors were punished for the crimes entailed by their tendencies additional penalties would have to be provided by the law.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE POWER OF INFLUENCE OR DAMNED INSIDE

THE FAMILY CIRCLE.

Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house.-Gen. 31:14.

The thirtieth chapter closed by saying:

"And the man increased exceedingly

and he had much cattle and maidser-
vants and menservants and camels and
asses."

But as his flock increased the flocks of Laban decreased; perhaps not so much altogether as to number, but in the quality. Read again the forty-first and forty-second verses of the thirtieth chapter and you will see why this was so. Will you kindly permit me to ask the question. once again, are those actions of Jacob's described in those two verses the type of the actions of a regenerated man? Does not a regenerated man. act and live square and fair with his fellowmen both in public and private? Come, I say, give me your answer. Had you dealings with a neighbor and he should deal with you in the