The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-30

the white trader refused. No, chief" said he you have paid me enough. 1 do not want any more. With that the In- dian chief gave A grunt of satisfaction. He turned to his warriors and said: Come trade with oaleface. He honest man" Then turning to the white trader he said: "Paleface, suppose you take that last skin, Indian no trade with you. Then me know you dishonest white man." An, yes the old Indian trader knew the law of the survival of the Attest in the busi- ness world The way the great merchant builds up his true business success Is not by cheating his customers, but by al- ways being honest, always true and al- ways trying to give Is customers more for their money than they can get 1t any other store.
 As there is a survival of the fittest in the physical and mental and moral realms so there is also survival III the spirltual realm Charles Darwin never meant 10 snply this sentence to the spiritual world, but God does. God emphatically does thin fin the words of my text. How does the first Psalm of David read? The godly shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth It's fruit Tn it's season. His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. But the way Of tho ungodly shall II. VI
 vival of the Attest in the spiritual world. If we are one wi'h Christ. we shall grow and keep on gro ling all through the eter- mites. We shall bear fruit millennium at- fer millennium. If we are not one with Christ. we shall become Hike the chaff which the wind driYeth away. The whirlwnds of the judgment day snail sweep us away to our eternal doom.
 "Rut.n says one, "how could man like Charles Darwin grasp a great truth like this of the natural world and yet not grasp 1t in the spiritual2 How could ne find Gods footprints in nature and yet not find Gods footsteps on Calvary E rocksf
 An. my friends 1 cannot account Tor tnat
 I cannot and dare not pass judgment on Charles Darwins life. cannot under stand how this great student of nature could turn his back upon God any more tban I can understand how he who was once sucb A lover of the beautiful could
 so warn his mind that the poets like shakesneare and the musicians like Han del and Beethoven and Wagner could not touch his heart
 In his own words l read the following;
 "I have said that in one respect my l mind has changed during the last twenty wears. Up to the age of 30 or beyond It noetrv of many kinds. such as the works nf Milton Cray Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley, gave me great nleas1ire. and even as school boy 1 took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially fin the historical plays. l have also said that formerly pictures gave me consider abIe pleasure and music very great de- | light. But now. for many years. cannot l endure to read line of poetry. l have | tried lately to read Shakespeare and found | if so intoerably dull that 1t nauseated | me. I have also lost by taste for music
 and pictures. I retain some taste for fine | ecanerv but if does not cause me the ex-
 n,islte delight which 1t formerly did" | Tn other words Charles Darwin became | such n close student in one line of study | that he allowed his love for the beautiful | i'm art and nature and his love for God l to become atrophied. Parts of his brain
 were nightly alive. Some parts were | completely dead.
 Develop Through Christ.
 r.et me read c4 ntrie further. My | mind seems It. have become q kind of ma chine for grinding general laws out of l 1arge collections of facts, but why this
 sbould have caused the atrophy of that | mart of the brain alone on which the high
 er tastes depend l cannot conceive. A
 ,nan with A mind more highly organized | ar better constituted than mine would not, | sunnose. have thus suffered. and If | had to live my life again l would have made A rule to read some poetry and l us.en to some music at least once T week. for perhaps the parts of my brain | rou, atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these