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Hence, as a matter of fact, no individual ever 

 passes through his career without giving way to 

 sin. Is sin therefore a necessity of our inherit- 

 ance? or how shall we explain this universal fact? 



We may say that the Spirit of God is given 

 to every man, or offered to all, to assist in with- 

 standing the onslaught of impulse. This is ac- 

 cepted by all, but it does not clear up the situation. 

 Even regenerate persons give the same general 

 testimony : that they all at some time fall into sin. 

 Is this, then, a disproof of the divine ability to 

 keep one from sinning? Does this universal testi- 

 mony establish a law of necessity? Has God put 

 us under sin at our birth and furnished us with 

 no way of escape even through Jesus Christ? To 

 say that the universal experience proves sinful 

 inheritance, is to allow that the same experience 

 proves that there is no relief through faith in 

 Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. This is a 

 conclusion from which all will draw back. Is it 

 not better to seek an explanation of the universal 

 experience from the nature of freedom and the 

 general influences that pervade all society, even 

 the best-known Christian society? 



"It has been concluded that regeneration so 

 affects the will, the affections, and the intelligence 

 as to establish in its subject a preponderant tend- 

 ency toward God and His Kingdom of righteous- 

 ness. But a right tendency is not necessarily one 

 of perfect and indefectible strength. The complex 

 life of the human soul makes it possible that the 



