Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-07-29
Caln1aSe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaae. D. ID.

Los Angeles, Cal, July 2B.-ln tnis
sermon the preacher demonstrates Tue
rule of natural law In the spiritu"i
world. and shows that physical, men
tai moral and spiritual development
ought to proceed harmoniously together
TO produce the best type OF mahhoou
and womanhoOd. The text is fsalln l.
q. "The way of the ungodly shall per
ish."
Great was the scientific galaxy OF the
Victorian era. Herbert Spencer anu
John Tyndall and Thomas Henry Hux-
lev and Michael Faradsy and Sir Ham
phry Davy and Sir Charles Lyeli anu
Sir William Hooker and John stevens
Henslow and scores of other botanists
and physicists and chemists ana geolo-
pists Will make the reign Of Victoria
famous during the coming centuries, as
the contemporary poets OF Shakespeare
irmortaliZed the EliZabethan reign.
Yet among all the naturallsts who Nv
ed in England during the nineteenth
centurv not one will be more quoted Dy
future generations than Charles Dar-
win. The son and grandson OF TWO
great ancestors, he was the greatest OF
the three. From under the overhang'
ing dome of that great forehead there
looked forth penetrating eyes whlch
read the prehistoric genealogies OF am
mails and vegetables. AS geologist he
read the open leaves Of rocks. The past
ages were to him as seconds OF time.
He lived not in generations or IN cen
turtles, but In ages and in millenniums'
Though ike Galllei, he was eIcom'
municated by the church and looked
upon as an enemy OF the Cross, his re-
searches will yet be used, and are even
now being used, to prove that true SCI
ence and divine revelation are one.
Ofall the books which Charles Darwin
wrote not one has had greater influence
upon the scientific world that his "Or
igin of Species by Means OF Natural BE
lection" We do not accept that bool
In any of its goddess teaching, but IL
that book Is one sentence which IN
narrow sense we do accept. "The sur
vival of the fittest' is sentence whicl
will go ringing down the corridors o
time. We find the survival Of the mites
everywhere. We find the stronge
plants crowding out the weaker. w
find the stronger species living upol
and driving out the weaker species
We find the stronger creatures OF IN
various species trampling upon an
destroying the animals and plants
their own kind.
Stronger Versus Weaker.
The other day I was sitting on
norch overlooking a beautiful var
allied with roses. Suddenly l hear
great commotion in the hencool
With that saw a big cat gracefull
leap over the fence with little chicke
in her mouth. Then, off in the distanc
saw that cat run away In terror frol
a pursuing dog. Then, in imaginatlol
saw that little dog being seized by
hungry wolf. Then l saw the wo
being killed by a mountain lion. Ne
saw the lion being slain by the bu
let Of man. In Imagination, ever
where l saw the stronger preying upc
the weaker AS l sat on that porch
said to myself, "Is not Charles ia
wins sentence, the survival OF q
fittest.' not only the law Of nature, b
. also the law of GOdT Yes. yes,
said. It Is true. God deals with 4
human race just as he deals with Z
vegetable and animal kingdoms.
u we'll as with the mineral. 1t Is n
for us 10 vindicate that law. Our
terest and our duty lie in recognizil
its existence and adapting ourselves
its operation. The penalty OF inc
lence In this world is subjection a
finally extinction. The men who a
weak through listlessness fall IN
race against strong limbed rlva
y Those who would win must strive.
- Strong physically should we
Why? Because in this rustling, b'
Ting, pushing. jostllng and high pr
sure aye it is almost an impossiblll
for any man to make a success In i
unless he Is broad Of chest, stout
limb I'D clear of eye. Even unc
the verS brightest OF conditions
physical strain is awful. With pc
physical equipment a successful !
is well nigh an impOssibility.
Many a man Of clear brain, II
heart and noblest aspirations has be
trampled underfoot merely beca'
I'd he had not the physical vitality to
the work which he was called upon
I'd do. The physical weakllng Of the
man race Is almost in the same pc
ton as Is a sick COW amid nerd
stampeding buffalo. IL she can
keep up in the mad race for life
falls. She is crushed under hoof I
sisters and brothers pass over
prostrate form and quivering ne
The physical weakling is IN the 50
- nosition as is the stunted tree.
stouter tree and the taller reaches
: and reaches down. With Its br
branches it absorbs all the sunli
overhead and makes the stunted
live under its shadow. With Its az
or and stronger roots the tall
absorbs most Of the nutrlment out
the soil Thus, If man is not abl'
stand the physical strain and do
much work as his stouter and broa
, chested brothers, he falls, ano'
takes his place, and the world marc
on. The physical weakling inevit'
Is either trampled underfoot or
other pushes him out of his positio
the line Of the advancing human a
Of progress.
Survival of the Ftttest.
II you do not believe In the phy'
- survival Of the fittest, sound the CT
Of some Of our successful men. v
Puv II Now