The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-25
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vegetables and animals, of genera, spec
les and individuals; of angels, Womef
and men. This is the story of matter II
| all it's combinations, of life in all lt'
forms, and of mind in all its phenomena
| This, in brief, SO far as we have ye1
learned is the story Of all creation anc
| of all propagation.
| Let me illustrate what l mean by the
oak. Gods ideal of the oak is ma
jestic tree, six feet in diameter and l0t
feet in height, with mighty roots taking
hold of the rocks and mighty branches
sweeping the clouds-a very giant that
can Wrestle with the storms and play
with the lightning. But in it's begin
nings the oak is tiny shoot, which the
foot of a little child could effectually
crush. God makes it thus and says to
it, Go forward" and then the law of
progress takes it and carries it up from
its hidden germ in the acorn to the inn
posing grandeur of its towering and SOL
id maturity.
Take the eagle as another illustration.
Gods ideal for the eagle is an imperial
bird of great size and strength, with
amazing keenness of vision and with
pionions for majestic flight, the noun
tain crag its castle, and its pleasure
ground the sky.
Bind of the broad and sweeping wing,
Thy home is high in heaven,
Where wide the storms their banners
fling,
And the tempest clouds are driven.
Thy throne is on the mountain top;
Thy fields the boundless air;
And the hoary peaks that proudly prop
The skies. thy dwellings, are.
Such is the divine ideal for this noble
bird, but the young eaglet emerges from
the shell a feeble little creature. and if
YOU could see the little thing during the
first week or two of its existence. and
could stroke it's soft yellowish down,
and look into its male blush ewes it's
very feeblaness would probably excite
YOUR pity. # is in that very small way
the eagle begins. but as 1t feeds and
exercises. it grows and strengthens. un-
til at last under the operation of this
law of progress. it can soar from the
nest. launch into the air. gaze directly
at the noon-dav sun. beat down the
storm clouds under its seyen-foot
spread of wings. and sail from conti-
nent To continent through the oceans of
azure above, over the oceans that roll
below.
But we must ascend into higher val
ues than these, rising from life into
mind from the intellectual to the spir-
itual; and we will now consider man in
the illustration we are pursuing.
Here the speaker referred to the fee
bleness of a little babe, and the law of
working and at last producing
a noble manhood He applied this law
to the church At one time the eight
souls living in the ark constituted the
entire church; and again on the day of
Pentecost, the hundred and twenty
in the upper chamber COM
prised the whole church membership.
But they went forward and behold the
'esults! And while the church to-day is
lot all that we could wish it to be, yet
t stands as the grandest institution of
al the ages So the individual in the
church should grow, developing a spir-
tual growth equal to that of his physi- !
1al, and through all the changes of
ffe, the progress ought to continue, and
lot ehd WIN death, put go on ana on
n the immortality before us.
DR.. Adams mentioned certain active
'orms that this law assumes In its
Christian application, and he closed his /
splendid address by making some spe-
life applications of the law as de-
handed by the present hour We 7
should go forward because it is God
Who commands it, In the military or
of any country, the soldier .
beys his orders unquestioningly or suf-
ers the severest punishment for his dis
OBEDIENCE Yet earthly commanders
ave been known to make mistakes, An
historic example is that of the famous
barge at Balaklava, an event immor-
allied by Tennyson's Charge of the
light Brigade"
Forward. the Light Brieadet
Vac there man disnayed?
Jot tho the soldiers knew
ome ono had Numbered:
'beirs NOT to make renlv
'beirs not ia reason whv
,beire b,,t m do and die
n the valley of Death
,ode the civ hundred
coa o,r oo,,r,ordo,. revey r,a,res a
,istake. and today the order rings out
0 all the varied institutions of the
hurch, to the individual life, to each
ne of us gathered here, go for
Yard"
This of course is on1y a martial re-