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

OrbOn fOWleT, thc PhiShNS
claimed to his partner, my, what
fine animalw Mr.. Beecher was hne
animal. AS you look upon the picture
of that magnificent head you are not
surprised to hear that young Henry
Ward Beeoher was the finest football
kicker of his class In Amherst college.
But as | look upon long row OF pic
lures of the worlds most eminent min
listers of the past generation l find that
almost without exception they were all
good animals. 1t Is almost an lmpos-
slblllty for any man to stand IN tue
front rank of the ministry today With
out being a physical athlete. Rev.
Robert Collyer, the poetic preacher or
New York, graduated from the black
smiths forge. but many ministers
who are preaching in our large cities
today could easily step from the pulpit
to the blacksmith forge and strike
herculean blow, so great Is their phys
Ical as we'll as mental stamina.
enter the law offices Of the late SEN
ator William NJ. Evarts. "Mr. Choate,'
I say. "why did your partner make the
wonderful success he did? For years
he stood at the head Of the New York
bar" Our late ambassador to Eng
land answers: Because Mr.. Eyarts
was good animal. He could sit down
at his desk and work on case day IN
and day out for eighteen hours out OF
every twenty-four. He had mental
equipment, and he had also unlimited
physical resources" William NJ. Eyarts
was able to succeed when others failed
because his backbone was strong as II
made Of steel What IS true of the
lawyer and minister Is also true OF the
physician, the inventor and the mer-
, chant. The reason one class OF men
fails and the other succeeds Is often
due not more to great mental strength
than to physical stamina.
"The survival of the fttest." Oh, yes
we find it in the law Of physical equip
ment. Young men, young women, II
this struggle Of life are you going u
allow yourselves to be trampled under
foot merely because you do not lool
after your physical health! Are yo'
going to let the great opportunities o
life slip from your grasp merely be
cause YOU have not taken the prope
physicaI exercise and food and sleel
for YOUR lungs and heart and stomach
"Oh." said William T. Sherman l
General Grant one day. IL feel just Il
able to carry on another war as oil
twenty years ago" "You may feel 81
Sherman" answered General Gran
"but feeling so does not make you abi'
. We may be mentally as bright as "
ever were, but we could not stand IN
physical strain" The civil war wa
fought and won just as much D
Grants stomach as by Grants brail
Young people. by the law OF the survl'
' al of the fittest God bids you take cal
of yourselves physically. This Is tr'
. ism. but II is q truism the Darwinla
teachings. as we'll as the divine con
mdQumeuts, ucfei eiS Va P'
home to human hearts. l see the broa
= stout chested farmers boy coming
= = the town and pushing the pale face
physical weaklings to right and LETT.
Christian Communism.
= would also tell you that there is
!, ,nexorable law OF the survival OF Il
:, fittest in the mental world. The mi
who can think the quickest, the m'
q who can supply some long felt want
II the community, Is the man who Is goll
. TO crowd his competitors to the wa
l. and there is no help for 1t. The sar
,. law which makes it possible for c
n TO pounce upon little chicken or
leopard to leap upon the back OF
r. fawn 10 precisely the same law whl
% makes II possible for The man OF brai
n to climb to his throne over the backs
T men who have no brains. Communls
10 saws: THAT Is not right. NO one IN
20 should have more than his fellows
"a But communism may talk from n(
ot until doomsday. Talking will do
n. good. There IS q universal law OF
10 survival Of the fittest In a mental WI
to and no communism except the co
o. munlsm of Christian love can change
Id How Is this law working QUIT
re brains which think trample over Dra
be which do not think? Why. you can
Is. its results on every hand. Thirty
forty years ago every little town l
,e. its cobbler. This cobbler not only
10. paired the shoes and boots, but q
g. made the shoes and boots. but one
ty there came along man with Drai
fe He said to himself: what is the
of OF all these cobblers making IL
er boots by hand2 l will make machin
he do the work Of flesh and blood" L
or man Of brains went to work. lie D.
lie large factory. He employed
hands. He made these 200 hands, W
ne the use of machinery, do FIVE times
en- work which the same number OF ma
Ise used TO do. He also lowered the
do ing prices. The shoes and boots W
to sold one-third cheaper than they u
lu- TO be. The man Of brains who DIR
ISL out the village cobbler was the 81
Of kind of man that drove out the VII
lot wheelwright. The man OF brains
;he drove away the village cobbler Is
Ter the kind Of man Of brains who [
her away the business Of the typeset
sh. One day this man Of brains wal
me into the printing Office and said: III
The editor, is a typssetting machine.
up stead of employing twenty, thirty
,ad men to set your type, all that you
ght have to do IS to have a man SIT a
rec at this machine, as PaderewsRl
ep- down at the piano. He can play
rec keys for awhile and the whole wor
Of done" But" cry the village coDt
to and the village wheelwrights ana
as old typesetters, "you have taken a
der our life's work. We cannot do al
her but follow the line Of work we use
hes do. We shall starve. We shall
bly, But the inexorable law OF the sur'
an Of the fttest means that these
, in chimes shall exist and that the ma
my thinking brains shall triumph over
,,oyor tbink