248 PRENATAL CULTURE. 



Christ-life is animating and actuating their souls. 

 Such a life may be conducive to morality in off- 

 spring, but it will not endow them with strong 

 religious tendencies. 



Many church me'mbers do not know what 

 Christianity is. They may have an intellectual 

 concept of it, but to know what Christianity is, 

 one must possess it. He must feel the life of God 

 in his soul as the all-pervading, all-controlling 

 power of his being. Christianity is not conduct, 

 although it should control conduct; it is a life, a 

 vital force, conceived in man by the Holy Spirit. 



Parents who are truly Christians, whose lives 

 are bubbling over with the spirit of devotion, and 

 Love Will Beget whose hearts are full of Divine love, will, must, 

 transmit this spirit to their offspring. 



Many who have been converted, and therefore 



know something of the realities of the higher life, 



allow their religious sentiments to lapse into a 



Passive Snti- negative, passive state, having, as they say, "made 



Potentiaf n0t the "~ peaCC with God >" and ordered tneir lives 

 with the teachings of the church, they settle down 



instead of settling up. They fall into a matter 



of fact, stereotyped way of living that requires 



very little activity of the moral sentiments. Such 



The Most Active persons, if judged by their conduct and church 



Bowers Control. test { monVj must be c i asse( i w i t h the devout and 



religious, but the passive state of their sentiments 

 makes it impossible for them to transmit active, 

 pronounced moral qualities to their offspring. 

 Again, if they are actively engaged in business 

 Worldly or pursuits that daily exercise other faculties and 



propensities, the offspring will partake most 

 largely of these active qualities and may thus be 



