Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Calnage
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee, DID.

ANiS VI HdtuIai law IN the Spiritul
world. and shows that physical. men
tai, moral and spiritual devclopmen
ought 10 proceed tremendously togethe
TO produce the best type Of manhood
and womanhOJd. The text is Psalm
g. The way Of the ungodly sha! Fer
ish."
Great was the scientific galaxy Of the
Victorian era. Herbert Spencer ana
John Tyndall and Thomas Henry Uuy-
ley and Michael Faraday and Sir Hum.
phry Davy aud Sir Charles I.yeU and
Sir William Hooker and John Stevens
HenslOW and scores of other botanists
ana physicists and chemists and geolo.
glsts will make the reign Of Victoria
FAMOUS during the coming centuries. as
the contemporary poets of Shakespeare
lmmortalized the Elizabethan reign
Yet among all the naturalists who liv-
ed In England during the nineteenth
century not one viii be more quoted by !
future generations than Charles Oar |
WIN The son and grandson Of two
great ancestors. he was the greatest Of
the three. From under the overland
ing dome Of thlt great forehead There
looked forth penetrating eyes which
read the prehistoric genealogies of ami.
mals and vegetables. As geologist he
read the open leaves Of rocks The mast
ages were to him as seconds of time
He lived not in generations or in con.
Iurles' but in ages and in millenniums
IhOugh. like Galilei. he was excom-
municated by the church and looked
upon as an enemy Of the Cross his re- ,
searches VIII yet be used. and are even !
now being used, to prove that true sci a
ence and divine revelation are one :,
or all the books which Charles Darwin =
wrote not one has had greater inauenco :.
upon the scientific world that his or. n
Ign Of Species by Means of Natural So =
ieclioh. We do not accept that bool, :,
N any Of It's goddess teaching. but in 81
mat book is one sentence which in n =.
narrow sense we do accept. "The snr- ~
'iyal of the fittcst' is Il sentence which "
VIII so ringing down the corridors Of =,
me. We find the survival Of the dttest - -
everywhere. We find the stronger ~ ~
'lants cr0wding out the weaker We -
'hd the stronger species living upon
nj driving out the weaker species
We ma the stronger creatures of tbs -
arious species trampling upon and 10
estroying the animals ana plants of 'e'
leir own kind. ma
Stronger Versus Weaker 49,
me Other day | was sitting ON n -,
lrch overlooking a beautiful ward ~,
LED with roses. Suddenly l heard D-
great commOtiOn in the bencoon
i'm that / saw a big cat gracefuIlv l
up over the fence with a little chicken me
her mouth. Then, off in the distance NIT
saw that cat run away in terror from, VIII
pursuing dog. Then, in Imagination. wh'
saw that little dog being seized by the
hgry wolf. Then l saw the wolf 10
ing killed by a mountain lion Next and
iaH the lion being slain by the bul- law
OF man. In Imagination. every 10
ere l saw the stronger preying upon leop
weaker. As l sat on that porch faw
q to myself, rs not Charles Dor- max
ls sentence, the survival Of the to cl
est not only the law Of nature, but men
o the law Of Cody? Yes. yes says
., It Is true. God deals with the shou
nan race just as he deals with the But
etable and animal kingdoms. as until
] as with the mineral. 1t is not good
us to vindicate that law. Our in surv
st and our duty lie in recognizing and
existence and adapting ourselves to mum
operation. The penalty of indo- HO
e in this world is subjection and braiI
lly extinction. The men who are whic
X through llstlessness fail in the MS r
against strong llmbed rivals forty
Sc who would win must strive. its C
rohg physically should we be. paire
=? Because in this rustling, bus made
:, pushing. jOstling and high pres there
age 1t is almost an impossibility He 81
any man to make a success in life or
IS he is broad Of chest, stout Of boots
and clear Of eye. Even under do tn
very brightest Of conditions the man
ilcal strain is awful With poor Ian
iical eauipmeut successful life hands
ell nigh an impossibillty. the III
Inv man OF clear brain true work
t and noblest aspirations has been used
piled underfoot merely because ing p
ad not the physical vitality to do sold
work which he was called upon to TO be-
The physical weakling Of the hui out Il
race Is almost in the same posi- Kind
as is a sick COW amid herd OF wheel
peding buffalo If she cannot drove
up in the mad race for life, she the ki
She is crushed under hoof Her away
s and brothers pass over her One Z
rate form and quivering flesh. into Il
physical weakling is IN the same editor,
on as is the stunted tree. The stead
or tree and the taller reaches nm men t,
reaches down. With IFS broad have I
hes II absorbs all the sunlight at this
cad and makes the stunted tree down
nder its shadow with ITS deem keys f
N stranger roots the tan tree done ="
q most Of the nutrlment ont NJ and tn
H. Thus. II a man is not able to old tyI
the physical strain and do as our III
work as his stouter and broader put Tol
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