Milford chronicle., 1905-08-11
Calnage
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaae, DID.

sermon the preacher takes for hi
theme the hidden voices that call me
TO evil courses and british indulgenc
and those that call us to higher, noble
and better living The text is Ecclesi
astes K 70, For a bird Of the air shaI
carry the voice, and that which hatl
wings shall tell the matter"
Ever since my bOyhoOd days, wher
John Brown introduced me to "Rat
and His Friends" animal stories have
had for me a complete fascination.
Seton Thompson's Lives Of the Hunt
ed his Wild AniRals That / Have
KNOWN his Biography OF a Grizzly"
and his Trail Of a Fanhill Stag" Rud-
yard Kipling's Jungle Tales" Mar
shall Saunders Beautiful Joe" and
Miss Anna SewelPs BLACK Beauty"
ener the widest range for the imaRi-
native writer and the greatest oppor-
tunities for pressing home moral
truths. But. though many books have
been and are being written whose he
r0es and herOines are covered with the
shaggy names Of the wild beasts or
with the glossy coats of the domestic
---@-+41f ~ AAA AAE AlUhL interesting
animal story have ever read is Jack
London's Call Of the Wild" Mr.. Lon
don was a very young man when he |
wrote his masterpiece, yet that story |
has found an almost universal appro- |
baton. There are always many voices
calling us down to sin aud back to an
cestral evils.
This sentiment stirred nv heart
when / first read the book. l was in
a railroad car when 'The Call Of the
Wild was placed in my hand. Day
after day we had been travelling across
the western prairies. l had finished
all the books in my satchel when a
gentleman crossed the aisle and said.
Here is a little story; read it,"
iead II through in a very short time
but as l traced Jack LOndOn's mighty ,
81 Bernard dog from being a pet of
a California millionalre's home until II
became a wild beast amid the SHOWS I
oi the far north, leading en- a pack of :
hungry wolves, l asked myself this J
lther question: why Is there not "A {
1aH OF the Good as we'll as "A Call | O.
II the BadY Why do we not hear the :,
nnumerable voices which are de- :,
cribed by Eeclesiastes as everywhere IL
Iround us calling us to cease asso- =,
laung with human wolves and de- -.
tructive wild beasts as well as those =,
hat are calling US to let loose our y,
)Wer and Vller natures?" As sat in -,
lat car with the Arizona deserts Slip In
ing away underneath our wheels. I yc
aid to myself: "Yes, there is A Call ~
the Good 1t is even a better theme D,
'r story than The Call Of the Wild h.
lay God help me to teach the glorious nj
sson that there are many voices -,
bout us, which are calling us I'D to d,
8 love, Instead Of calling us down to A.
lrist's condemnation. ~,
iaIhe Call Of the Good" in the first 49, 49,,
ace, is spoken by the lips of our an 80 80.
stors, who have been fifty years, on
venty-ive, a hundred-aye, perhaps M.
0 years dead. It comes to us from 90,
rgotten graves, unmarked by tomb nc
Dnes, or, If headstOnes are there. bo,
th epitaphs moss covered or eaten a.
Fay by time, the destroying icono- ort
lst 1t comes to us not so much s.rl
)m our fathers and our mothers, but ~,
I'm great-great- -grandfathers whose rod
nles we nave never read unless we Pet
sical library when trying to prove bar
+ descent from the pilgrim fathers
the MayhOwer time or when trying a.
prove hereditary claim to some val est
BILE property in England or Scotland Cor
Germany whose late owners, who tom
re our family name, died chlldless bnt
j without last viii and testament. UvI
is ancestral call Of the good" nav
nes to us in our dispositions, in tiol
: desires, as well as in our physical NJ I
keups and our entailed landed es- va,
es.
my cynical friend. That is not Ne
at ind. as a rule, In the physicians 80
ce. There find as noble class Of a..
q as ever lived, men W are doing -,
third perhaps One-half, Of their 80 :.
rk for nothing or perhaps even less 80
n nothing / go to the great Chi -
o surgeon, DR.. Murphy. and say: sov,
:. Murphy, here is a young girl SUI vor
ng. She has not a cent. VIII you g.,
rate on her for nOthing?" Il WILL" 80
S DR. Murphy. Send her down" - :,
send her down did. I go to the -. 10
liant Massachusetts lawyer George IL,
HOar, and say: Mr. Hoar, your C,,,
ltry needs you. VIII you live and 80
a poor man? VIII you live in a tL ,,-I
ding house In Washington upon a ~
ger salary so that you may leave 90
country a rich heritage OF a life us ~
lhced for duty's sakeY The young ,iio'n
'er, George F. HOar. answers, Il lor IL
Senator Hoar lived and died upon
lcially poor man. ron
nter the study of the great French squa'
or zola. say: "Mr. Zola, there is OJioN
ing man, Alfred Dreyfus by name, on th
has been unjustly condemned and iils.
to Devils island. He never has sloou
litted a crime; neither have his INTO
ers brought forth one proof Of a uiais