Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-07-29


truth Ike this of the natural world ana
vet not grasp 1t In the spiritualf HOW
could he find Gods footprints In ma
ture and yet not find Gods footsteps
ON Calyary's rocksT Ah, my friends,
I cannot account for that | cannot
and dare not pass judgment on Charies
Darwin's life. cannot understand
how this great student OF nature couiu
turn his back upon God any more than
7 can understand how he who was
once such a lover Of the beautiful could
so warp his mind that the poets IKE
Shakespeare and the musicians IKE
Handel and Beethoven and wagner
could not touch his heart.
Tn his own words read the follow
ing. al have said that In one respect
my mind has changed during the last
twenty years. Up to the age OF thirty
or beyond it poetry Of many klnus'
such as the works Of Milton, Gray,
Rvron. Wordsworth, Coleridge ana
Shelley. gave me great pleasure, ana
even as a schoolboy took intense de-
light in Shakespeare, especially in the
historical plays. have also said that
formerly pictures gave me consider
able pleasure and music very great oe-
light. But now, for many years, can
not endure to read line of poetry. 1
have tried lately to read Shakespeare
and found it so intolerably dull that II
nauseated me. have also lost my
taste for music and pictures. l retain
some taste for fine scenery, but IL does
not cause me the exquisite dellgnt
which it formerly did" In other words
Charles Darwin became such close
/ student in one line Of study that ne al
lowed his love for the beautiful In arr
and nature and his love for God to be
come atrophied. Parts Of his brair
were nightly alive. Some parts were
completely dead.
Develop Through Christ.
Let me read on a little further: my
mind seems to have become KIM o.
machine for grinding general laws ou
Of large collections Of facts, but WI!
this should have caused the atroph.
Of that part Of the brain alone on whlcl
the higher tastes depend l cannot con
ceive. A man with a mind more nign
" organized or better constituted thai
mine would not, / suppose, have thu
suffered, and If l had to live my Ill
again would have made rule
read some poetry and listen to som
music at least once a week, for pei
haps the parts Of my brain now atr'
phled would thus have been kept actlY
through use. The loss Of these taste
"a n loss of happiness and may posslbl
be Injurious to the intellect and MOI
probably to the moral character by el
feebling the emotional part of our nj
ture." Do you wonder that Darwil
who wrote such sentences as thes
could let the spiritual part Of his III
become atrophled as well as the ae
J thetic and the love for the beautiful
And so, young people as well as OLD
people as you develop along physlc
and moral lines want you to deyel(
along the line of the spiritual. l wal
YOU to develop In Christ and throut
Christ. Who Is the highest model f
7 all spiritual development
But" says some one, Il have nev
j tried to develop myself in and throui
5 Christ" Then, my brother, is that al
: reason why you should not start nov
r When an enemy one day taunted q
y great preacher Esprit Flechier /
e cause of bis humble birth and becau
a he had begun life as tallow chandl'
j DR.. Flechier replied. ayes. my sphe
!, in life used to be very humble, b
d in all probability had you begun II
II as began it you would have been
J. candle maker all your life" Becau
some Of lis are warped spiritually
that any reason why. in Christ.
n cannot become like tree planted
e the rivers Of water, that bringeth for
Ie IFS fruit i'm its season." Oh, my frien(
e in Christ and through Christ, will y
IL not spiritually start anew? Then,
Is law of the survival Of the fittest W
d God, you shall prosper and live 4
y ever and ever. Will you not, here a
y now. become one with Christ for
" highest Of all development?
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