Christian herald and signs of our times . 408 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. July t, A FOUL STREAM. Our fathers understood not thy wondersin Egypt ; they remembered not the multi-tude of thy mercies ; hut provoked him at thesea, even at the Red Sea.—Psalm 106: 7. ^^nUR fathers! From them we de-Ill 111 rve our nature- We inherit ouri\l IjJ fathers propensities; for that^— which is born of the flesh isflesh. As is the nature, such is the con-duct. Hence the Psalmist writes inverse 6: We have sinned with ourfathers, we have committed iniquity, wehave done wickedly. If we must
Christian herald and signs of our times . 408 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. July t, A FOUL STREAM. Our fathers understood not thy wondersin Egypt ; they remembered not the multi-tude of thy mercies ; hut provoked him at thesea, even at the Red Sea.—Psalm 106: 7. ^^nUR fathers! From them we de-Ill 111 rve our nature- We inherit ouri\l IjJ fathers propensities; for that^— which is born of the flesh isflesh. As is the nature, such is the con-duct. Hence the Psalmist writes inverse 6: We have sinned with ourfathers, we have committed iniquity, wehave done wickedly. If we must men-tion our fathers faults, it is not to screenourselves ; for we have to confess thatour lifes story is no brighter than is not because the fathers have eatensour grapes that the childrens teeth areset on edge ; for we ourselves havegreedily devoured those evil clusters : We have sinned with our fathers. It may help us to escape out of themeshes of our natural depravity, if welook back and see the causes of ourfathers sins. To confess our personalsin will tend to keep us humble ; and
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