Milford chronicle., 1904-08-12
Survival Of Fittest.

Survival of Fittest.
A strong muscled Oarsman. who
knew every nook ana corner of that
coast, rowed us out The center of tbe
boat had no keel, but, instead. glass
flooring. As we rowed on we could see
down ana down, fifty. sixty. seventy
and eighty feet. Here We're the rocks
/ piled up in incongruous forms. like
| unto the Bad Lands Of the Dakotas
/ There We're walls of rocks. dlsmantIed
fortresseS in rocks. crumblina cathe-
drals in rocks, shattered masonry in
rocks, whole fallen Jerichos in rocks.
pyramids and palisades were in rocks.
Rocks in column. rocks aslant. i'm
mensities and inhnities of rock. In
yonder cavern Il fish. hermitlike. was
dwelling. We could see his head MS he
silently kept vigil, watching the other
hsh swim 10y. Now dartcd past hun
dreds Of thousands of sardines chased
by larger fsh. In those DEPTHS as on
the land the survival OF the fittest''
Is the law OF life-the big fish eat the
smaller fish
Now we seem to be pushing our way
into the marine farmlands. Whole
gardens Of vegetables seem to be plant
ed upon the rocks. Many Of those
forms Of vegetable life are named after
the table foods we grow in our country
gardens. There are the waving wheat
nelds ana siiken bearded corn Just :
ready for the husking and the meadow .
ands green and red with clover tons. q
Now we seem TO be entering the Indian
md African jungles. The seaweeds l.
ire matted and snarled together. They -
'eem TO take upon themselves all col u
rings. Here are the long, clinging ~
ines, there the broad leaves and the ~
harrow leaves, the short leaves and =
he long leaves. There are leaves in
he mass and here leaves with rents in
heir curtains through which we can e'
ee the glistening fin Of a goldfish, red ~
$ gold-aye, red as blood Fish, like u'
ntO which in color / never saw, be- u
luse these fish are never caught with
ne hook; these goldfish are vegeta- "a
ans. Now we seem to be wandering "a
nong the Calaveras groves Of the sea. er
hese weeds lift themselves like III
lightly oaks. With their outspreading Ia'
'anches they seem to be Offering sure a
lchorages for birds nests, only for i''
e fact that no feathered orchestras Au
IN dwell in the depths of the seas Ne
ow the bare rocks appear again and as
EN- to be like unto mighty mountains the
their impressiYeness. crying: Come. d
an. come, and take my gold! Come wa
d take my silver. My bones are con yer
r, my heart is iron; come and take Il
wealth! As we wandered on. i.ie
ering into this strange and unknown siia
rid, / say to myself: There are the mt
'ealed mysteries of the sea seventy I'ol
It deep. What must be the mys- 'al
les Of the sea hundreds Of feet deep SUI
les deep. unfathomably deep? What cur
st be the mysteries of the sea when syn
jewish, weighing one-half thou plli
ID pounds, rubs up his side against eau
whale, weighing thousands upon uisd
usands Of poundsT" Yes the sea is b
lystery, a great unfathomable mys- som
= be
God Is a Mystery. sep5
hat the mysterious sea was 70 tbe leon
ply exile looking off upon the Med or {
ranean God always has been and IFS
avs will be to us on earth. He is the
lystery. We know that he created sepa
world. but how? We cannot tell. st.
know that in the beginning Christ his
J. and yet be was born a HELPLESS was
e. How? We cannot tell. We as Il
W that John, as the beloved dis in Il
2, walked and lived with Christ. day:
concerning many facts about the lowe
onality of Jesus. John was as much rOcks
he dark as was Nicodemus when cure
aid, How can these things be?" exile
compares our knowledge of God him,
little child's knowledge of a hu- the '
parent We know that our babies looks
Ot fully understand us. Therefore Asia
says: "Now we look through a tian
darkly. Now know only in churC
" DO You wonder that when John patrii
n to use the mysterious ocean as separ
symbol of mysterious God he never
out in the words of my text in who
ence TO heaven, "And there was gospe
lore sea?' All the mysteries of PEELED
shall receive heavenly solution fectio
the seas shall vanish away. wave.