...of Nature's struggle to perpetuate her biological ideals, good or bad, even to the " visiting of the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation." Nature, religion, and history join to celebrate the inviolability of that law upon whose...

...constitution, and owing its perpetuation* principally to the law of hereditary descent — " visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations," in this case outlasting the centuries, hidden for ages and generations and then made...

...harsh, unjust and cruel. Some men urge cruelty against the law of heredity, because it visits the vices of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. If a man in the third story of a house should empty red-hot coals down upon a little babe beneath, that...

...objections." The other great preacher took for his text the passage in which it is said that God visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, and all he had to say was that God could not do otherwise. It seems to me that if a minister...

...third commandment gives us the law of heredity: Tor I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.'...

...character and to good. "God layeth up the iniquity of the wicked for his children," — "Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation." By which we are to understand, what is every day exhibited in actual historic proof, that...

...plainly and boldly than in that law of the " Ten Commandments," where it is declared that God visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. If one is asked for the most conspicuous and memorable statement in all literature of the solidarity of...

...harsh, unjust and cruel. Some men urge cruelty against the law of heredity, because it visits the vices of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. If a man in the third story of a house should empty red-hot coals down upon a little babe beneath, that...

...find an explanation in a very familiar definition. "The Lord thy God is a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations." There is surely no need to go further than this. The anthropomorphic conception can stand...

...generation are sometimes visited upon a succeeding one ; or, in the language of holy writ, God " visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him." On this subject, Mr. Cheever justly remarks, that " in all such...