The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-10
The SECOND COMING
REV. DIR. FUNK's SERMON AT ROA-
NOKE COLLEGE.
A PROCESS OF EVOLUTION.
CHRIsT's WORDS TO THE WANDER
ING JEW.

The DnrwiniRn Evolution Essential
ly True, hut Its Trouble That IL
Does Not Go Far MISUNDERSTANDING
Progressed 10 the Kingdom of the
Natural MAN. We Must Now Pro-
gress to the Kingdom of the Spirit
uaI MRn-The Process Subject to
Scientific Analysis
Salem, Va, June 9.-The commencement
exercises of the forty-eighth year of Ro-
anoke College We're begun this morning.
with the baccalaureate sermon by the
Rev DR. l. X. Funk. DIR. Funk's sub
ject was The Next Step in Evolution
The Present Step" 'Tarry thee till 1
come These words in the legend OF the
Wandering Jew said DR.. Funk. "smote
the guilty priest like successive thunder
claps though uttered without the noise
of speeeh-this Jesus, now climbing Cal
vars 10 His death would come again. and
the Jew could not perish from the earth
until He came. That the Christ is COM
ing and tnat His coming is near at hand,
is believed to-day by millions. He is
coming; but how? Hear Hin: The king
seed into the ground and it should spring
and grow up. ne knoweth not how. But
whence this germ of life, no one can tell.
Life always come from love. but it de-
velops by natural processes. Life reap
pears in new life. The seed and the
Christ-like reincarnate themselves in
more seed, more of the Christ life.
Ia. fe aet
ed expression in the new testament. That
is the second coming of Christ-not that
II is the only coming. His coming in visi-
BILE shape would be comparatively unim-
portant. To meet Him on Broadway or
on the Strand might be of no real value,
but who can measure the value of hav-
ing Him recreated in the life of a man.
Christ came the first time into mems
vision by coming on the plane of their
senses; He comes the second time by
lifting them up the plane of his spirit
ual comprehension
The Darwininn Theory True.
This coming of Christ involves a new
birth, new creation, new KINGDOM.
! The Darwinian evolution is essentially
true. it's great fault is 1t does not go far
! enough. AS man has stepped from the
mineral kingdom to the vegetable king
dem. and from the vegetable kingdom to
the kingdom of the natural man. so now
he steps from the kingdom of the natur-
al man to the kingdom Of the spiritual
man. every portion OF this step a pro-
cess that is subject to critical scientific
analysis. II that analysis goes deep
enough and wide enough and far enough
II Is the continuance of evolution with
out break, without a leap, lifting the
raoe-1by a new birth through Christ, the
type-life. up to the plane OF spiritual be-
ing and knowing"
This evening the annual address before
the Young Mems Christian Association
was delivered by Rev. Dr. Roland c.
Holland, of Charlotte, N. c.. a graduate
OF Roanoke. class OF 1860.
On Monday evening there will be the
contest for the medal in oratory on
Tuesday the trustees hold their annual
meeting, and there will be the address
before the Alumni and the annual ad-
dress before the Literary Society.
on Wednesday morning representatives
OF the graduating class will-deliver ora
tons, and la the afternoon the alumni
dinner will be served
large attendance of graduates and
friends Is expected.