HEREDITARY SIN IS DISPROVEN 91 



that of any ethnic religion of history, the life of 

 the people of Africa has been a continual stream 

 of the most revolting and wasteful sin. The only 

 thing that is saved from human wreckage is the 

 physical structure, which is found in most perfect 

 form and strength. 



And yet Bishop William Taylor brings from 

 Africa a little child, whose heritage is this be- 

 sotted life of her people for unknown centuries; 

 places her in school; friends gather about her; 

 by means gained through nursing and other em- 

 ployment she pushes her way through college, 

 graduates in 1909 from the University of South- 

 ern California as the equal of any in her class, and 

 takes her master's degree from the same institu- 

 tion the following year, and then seeks special 

 preparation in a missionary training school to go 

 back as a missionary to her own people. What is 

 the meaning of this? Does it mean that sin is 

 not a very evil thing? Does it mean that there 

 is very little difference between those who have 

 known its power and those who have lived above 

 it? Or does it not rather prove, beyond a per- 

 adventure, that God allows all human beings to 

 start on the same level morally? It was this same 

 Bishop William Taylor who said, ' ' There are no 

 heathen children in the world." God is so just 

 and equable in His ways with men that, so far 

 as morals are concerned, each child is really in 

 spiritual nature at the top. Every fall is a per- 



