St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-18
FIRST FROM HER0ISM.
DR.. Smith, Of the Peoples,
Presents the Conception
Of Immortality
AS Natural Induction from
the Facts Of Man and
Of Life.
Self-Saeriflee, Devotion to
Principle, Give the Lie to
UtilitapianS.
Man a Citizen by Nature OF
a Country That Is
Heavenly.
The Food of Heroism.

This was the text of DR.. Smiths ser
mon yesterday morning at the Peoples
church. The reverend gentleman took
his text from John iv., 80: But he
said unto them have meat to eat that
We know not Of" and his discourse
reads:
In the play of Julius Caesar" when
Cassius and Brutus began to plan the
downfall of Caesar. the lean and hun
CRY Cassius says:
was born free as Caesar so were you.
We both have fed as we'll, and we can both
Endure the winters cold as we'll as he.
And after recting certain weaknesses
he had known in their leaders, past, he
cries out again:
Now, in the name of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown SO great.
So does Shakespeare make his RO-
mans discuss the physical basis of
greatness and the relation of diet TO
achievement. Nor is it apart from the
methods of natural science to consider
the capacity for food in determining
the rank of organization. Animals that
eat little, do little; and are short lived.
The man of science picks up some fossil
teeth. If they are pointed and adapted
to tearing prey. he says, "fhis animal
lived on fesh:" if they are fiat
and adapted to grinding grass
or leaves, he says, This ami
NAL was vegetarian" The
method and apparatus for digestion is a
key for classification. Animals live
where their food grows. If an animal
is to- be traveller he must live upon
common foods, or must be able to sat-
isfy himself with variety. The races
of men, without doubt, are affected by
the foods which they use. Somebody
has said the relocating Hindoo could
never be match for the beef-eating
Englishman, and it is hard to tell how
many and how great are the deeds on
land and on sea which would have been
impossible except for rare roast beef.
But while the activities of the lower
orders of life can be quite accurately
predicted by knowledge of the diet,
this law has decided limitations when
applied to man. The gospel of bills of
fare cannot be safely pushed too far. Ii
it were universal the good cook would
deserve, not only $4,000 year, but all
the honorS which could be heaped up
by grateful civilization. For in choos-
ing his articles of diet he would not only
select that which could
Tempt the Appetite,
but he would become far more efficient
| than school teacher, author and preach er
combined in directing Iife's activities.
| Ordinary physical laws when they reach
nf ini lf hxy
| mysterious limitations. DelmOnico
| never had an artist who could make up
| dinner to:produce heroism. OF con-
| coct dainty dish to secrete
the crystal dew which should fall
| at the sorrow of a little child.
| This leads me to note that one i'm
portant distinction between man and
the lower orders of life is disclosed
when they exhaust themselves COM
pletely in their physical functions,
while he only seems to become man
when the physical functions are subor-
dinated to other purposes of life. Take
architecture; the work of the lower
| animals is to find shelter or place for
rearing young; their homes may be
| beautiful, but beauty is only incidental:
one good way to build nest, all birds
thereafter of that kind copy the first
success. The generations of birds to
come after are only helpless imita-
tors and never true artists. There is
no progress; they are utilitarian !;
the nest will do, and that is enough.
But man. so soon as he has achieved
that which will do-in other words, so
soon as he has taken care of the physi-
cal neceSsitieS-the becomes free. His
highest achievements are made when
he has diseDtanged himself from the
realm of mere necessity The intel
lectual aptitudeS of men use the physi-
cal basis of life, but everywhere tran
Scend it; and this is true even in the
realm Of the senses. 1t is not enough
with
Forms of Beauty.
1t is not enough to be clothed; he
seeks garments of grace.
In the intellectual life language de-
velops until it expresses the wants of
everyday life; it expands with every
advance of civilization. But language
becomes the vehicle of imagination,
it becomes el0quence, poetry, mu-
sic, and SO becomes tranScendent.
The history of the race reveals an I'M
folding capacity for higher things. AS
the baby throws away his tin rattle for
the marbles, tops, and kites of the boy
and as the boy sacrifices these for base
ball, tennis. guns, dogs, boats, horses,
what you will, so the race, from being
simply seekers of food and shelter,
have continually tended toward more
complex methods of activity, wider
scope of motive and broader ideals OF
life. This race tendency has accent
uated itself by the development of spe-
cial types of men. For example, under
every form OF civilization there have been
found those who were willing to devote
themselves to such employments as
painting, sculpture, music, literature
Now these are not bread-winning en-
pigments. Artists as rule the world
over have been poor, if it has been nee
eSsary for them to SubsiSt upon the re-
suits of their art. This fact has been
owing to the lack of development Oh
the part of the community in which
these men have found themselves. Lei
man invent a telephone to make
swifter the prosaic messages of trade
and he at once becomes rich. Let {
man make poem SO sweet and ricf
that it deserves to have its human music
telegraphed with buttons of diamond:
by wires of gold over sea and land, anC
the singer remains poor. 1t is plaiT
that these classes of men are not SuS
tanned by the ordinary motives of the
business world, but have found new
intoXicant
Wine of Power,
which may be called the joy Of life
There are types of men higher ever
than these; they are those whom WI
call heroes and saints. They are sus
tained by unseen forces, as they art
actuated by motives above the common
order of the world. master, eat," say
the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth. Cal
you not imagine the unearthlines
which shone upon the eyes of the Sol
of Man, as he replied: 81 have meat Il
eat that We know not?" The career ant
character of Jesus, as we'll as His teach
ing, furnish not only model for al
noble human endeavor, but fur
nish also solution for every
high and glorious deed which ha'
,, shone out in human history. The
Christian religion furnishes an idea
philosophy of life, which is as far re