Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28

0 and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper
0 But the way Of the ungodl,
e shall perish" Yes, there is the law o
r the survival Of the fittest in the spir
: itual world. If we are one with Christ
we shall grow and keep on growing
r all through the eternities We shall
bear fruit millennium after millennium
If we are not one with Christ. we shall
become like the chaff which the wind
driveth away" The whirlwinds Of the
judgment day shall sweep us away to
our eternal doom.
But" says one. chow could a man
like Charles Darwin grasp great
/ truth like this of the natural world and
/ yet not grasp it in the spiritual. How
! could he find Gods footprints in ma
ture and yet not find Gods footsteps
on Calvary's rocks?' All. my friends,
cannot account for that | cannot
and dare not pass judgment on Charles
Darwin's life. l cannot understand
how this great student of nature could
turn his back upon God any more than
! can understand how he who was
once such a lover of the beautiful could /
so warp his mind that the poets like /
Shakespeare and the musicians like /
Handel and Beethoven and Wagner
could not touch his heart
In his own words | read the follow
ing: Il 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 kinds,
such as the works of Milton. Gray.
Byron, Wordsworth, Colerdge and
Shelley, gave me great pleasure, and
ayen as schOOlboy | took intense de-
light In Shakespeare, especially in the ;
historical plays. have also said that !
pictures gave me consider
.ble pleasure and music very great de- (
ight. But now, for many years. l can ,
lot endure TO read Il line of poetry }
ave tried lately TO read Shakespeare
nd found it so intOlerably duh that it 8
me. l have also lost nv y
lste for music and pictures. retain q
)me taste for fine scenery, but it does y.
OF cause me the exquisite delight i
hich it formerly did" In other words. ,
harles Darwin became such a close
udent in one line of study that he al
wed his love for the beautiful in art a.. ~
I'd nature and his love for God to be- Re
me atrophied. Parts Of his brain M
ere nightly alive Some parts were ste
mpletely dead. t9l
Develop ThroaEb Christ. J.
Let me read on little further: MY lea
nd seems to have become a kind Of L
'chine for grinding general laws out Ing rs,
large collections Of facts, but why day
S should have caused the atroDhv 51
that part of the brain alone on which SIS
higher tastes depend l cannot CON 8 81
We. A man with a mind more high leay
organized or better constituted than 4,
le would not 1 suppose have thus tsai
fered, and if had to live my life ~ ss
-n | would have made a rule to Ds
d some poetry and! listen to some Xxi y y
sic at least once week. for per 64S
IS the parts Of my brain now afro NO ~
ID would thus have been kept active Que
ugh use. The loss Of these tastes .9.l; soh,
loss Of happiness and nay possibly Harl
Injurious to the intellect and more & IN ~
laBly to the moral character by en- YorH
ling the emotional part of our ma roGo
:" DO you wonder that Darwin. j.
wrote such sentences as these. -
d let the spiritual part Of his life. De
me atrophied as well as the aes- Coin
c and the love for the beautiful? Pass.
so, young people as wen as older R;@. :: g.
le. as You develop along physical IS
moral lines I want you t0,develop sS!
the line Of the spiritual want 6,22
TO develop in Christ and through ! ~ ~
It, who is the highest model for s 45
'iritual development S5iI
IT. says some one, Il have never TO4i
TO develop myself in ana through iIss
{" Then,. my brother, is tiiat any 7 al
n why YOU should not start now? ri
an enemy one day taunted the ......
preacher Esprit Flechier be- At G
Of his humble birth and because 'ISsaq eaiq
d begun life as a tallow chandler. south
Iechier replied, Yes. my sphere P;h; No
e used to- be very humble. but III
probability had you begun life -
)egan it you would have. been a 7@I
maker all your life" Because 81
OF us are warped spiritually is T55
my reason why, in Christ, we 65
become '-fIke tree planted By siSi
-ers Of water, that bringeth forth, q
1t in its season." Oh, my friends. $50
1st and through Christ. will YOU $50
irltually start anew? Then, By- 80
the survival Of the ftttest with. So
-ou shalF prosper. ana live for
nd ever. VIII you not. here and WOOD
'ecOme one with Christ for the.
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