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Our Duty to the Children: 58 total pages.

until it becomes of principle, is superficial and has no strength of resistance in it. With such an in­heritance the case of a child would be hopeless if the Lord did not provide some strong basis of good to offset the tendency to evil. Without such help there would be no ground to stand upon to resist the natural tendencies, and one 18 19 HEAVEN'S HOLD UPON THE CHILD would inevitably be carried away by them. The Lord makes the provision which is necessary in a most wonderful way, and He makes it for every one. The Lord first provides that the natural in­heritance of a child shall not be awakened im­mediately at his birth. It lies dormant, and the natural tendencies to evil only gradually mani­fest themselves as years go by, some of them not appearing till life is far advanced. We see the wisdom of this provision of the Lord, for if one came suddenly at birth into the full force of the evil tendencies of his inheritance, it would be impossible to withstand them. But delay alone is not protection enough. Even if the awakening of the

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