Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-07-28

we nnd IL in the law OF physical eouIn-
ment. Young men. young women. I'm
this struggle OF life are YOU going 70
allow yourselves to be tramrled under
foot merely because you do not look
after your physical health? Are Won
going TO let the great opportunities OF
We slip from your grasp merely be-
cause you have not taken the proper
physical exercise and food and sIeen
for your lungs and heart and stoniachf
oh, said William L. sherman TO
General Grant one day, Il feel Just as
able to carry on another war as l did
twenty years ago" You may feel so
Sherman" answered General Grant.
but feeling so does not make you able.
We may be mentally as bright as we
ever were but we could not stand the
physical strain" The civil war was
fought and won just as much by
Grants stomach as by Grants brain.
Young people, by the law OF the surviy.
al of the fittest God bids you take care
or yourselves physically. This Is q tru.
ism, but IL is a t-uism the Darwinian
teachings, as well as the divine COM
mandments, never tire OF pressing
home to human hearts. 1 see the broad.
stout chested farmers boy coming to
the town and pushing the pale faced
physical weaklings to right and left.
Christian Comnunfsm.
would also tell you that there is an
memorable law OF tie survival or the
flttest I'm the mental world. The man
who can think the quickest, the man
who can supply some long felt want in
the community, Is the man who Is going
10 crowd his competitors to the wall,
and there Is no help for it. The same
law which makes il possible for q cat
to pounee upon n little chicken or
leopard to leap upon the back of a
fawn is precisely the same law which
makes it possible for the man OF brains
10 climb to his throne over the backs of
men who have no brains. Communism
says: THAT is not right. No one man
should have more than his fellows
But communism may talk from now
until doomsday. Talking will do no
good. There is a universal law of the
survival Of the fittest in a mental way.
and no communism except the COM
munism Of Christian love can change II.
How is this law working out-that
brains which think trample over brains
which do not think? Why, you can see
Its results on every hand. Thirty or
forty years ago every little town had
its cobbler. This cobbler not only re-
paired the shoes and boots, but also
made the shoes and boots, but one day
there came along man with brains.
he said to himself: what is the use
OF all these cobblers making their
boots by hand? l will make machinery
do the work Of flesh and blood" This
man of brains went TO work lie built
a large factory. lie employed 200
hands He made these 200 hands. with
the use OF machinery. do five times the
work which the same number of hands
used to do. He also lowered the sell
ing prices. The shoes and boots were
sold one-third cheaper than they used
TO be. The man of brains who drove
out the village cobbIer was the same
kind of man that drove out the village
wheclwright The man of brains who
drove away the village cobhler Is also
the kind Of man of brains who took
away the business OF the typesetter
One day this man oc brains walked
into the printing office and said: Here
editor. is q typesetting machine. In.
stead OF employing twenty. thirty. fifty
mon to set your type, all that you will
have TO do is TO have a man sit down
at this machine, as PaderewskI sits
down at the piano. He can play the
keys for awhile and the whole work is
done" But" cry the village cobblers
N vi -Ino
old typesctters, you have taken away
our LIES work. We cannot do aught
but follow the line OF work we used to
do We shall starve. We shall die"
But the memorable law OF the survival
or the fitest means that these ma
chimes shall exist and that the man OF
thinking brains shall triumph over the
man whose brains never think.
Getting sIdetracixed.
The fittest survive In the mental
realm. There is no doubt about IL.
Now. my friends. and especially nv
young friends, what are you going to
DO about this fact? Are you going to
let your brains lie dormant? Because
some have been cobblers for twenty
years. are you still TO be q cobbler
now? Are you mentally going TO try
TO do the work OF the present century
In the way our forefathers did things
and not by the present up to date
methodist Are you going to resist the
Announcements OF the times in the way
some nearsighted Pennsylvania farm
ers did many years agol may not
be giving these facts exactly right.
No St Il
TALLY true. One OF the prominent rail-
roads or the east was extending its
lines toward Pittsburg. The railroad
officials wanted 10 run their iron rails
through a certain township. The
farmers rose up in protest. They said:
IF we allow this railroad 10 be built
1t will do all the hauling. Our farms
viii be broken up, and our horses will
be useless, because then there will be
nothing left for them to carry to mar
ket. These farmers not only protest
ed thus, but in the state legislative
halls at Harrisburg. through their rep
resentative, they defeated that railroad
from running through their township.
1he result was that that railroad
going into Pittsburg took another
course. The old farmers township is
now sidetracked. 1t is nothing but a
simple country town. On the other
hand, the valley through which that
railroad now runs is prosperous and
wealthy. Land has doubled and
trebled In value. There is an inevita-
bic law OF the survival OF the fittest
in brains. How are you grasping your
opportunities? Are you trying to make
the world travel in stagecoaches and
canal boats when the shrieking
whistle OF the Overland Limited is
calling its passengers to get aboard?
IL you do not develop your brains.
then, by the law of man and the law
of God, to the wall you must go. THE
survival of the fittest" is the mental
demonstration of life Never let that
one truth out of your mind until you
have developed your intellect to It's
highest possibilities.
But the fittest survive in the moral
world as well as in the physical and