Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28


I hrst time entered the Office of u
| Orson Fowler, the phrenologist e
| claimed to his partner, My, what
| fine animal!' Mr.. Beecher was fin
| animal. As YOU look upon The plctul
| Of that magnificent head you are ne
| surprised to hear that young Henr
| Ward BcechCr was the finest footba.
kicker Of his class IN Amherst COLLEGE
But as | look upon long row Of bic
lures Of the worlds most eminent min
listers of the past generation find tha
almost without exception they We're al
good animals. 1t is almost an impos
slDliity for any man to stand in the
front rank Of the ministry today with
out being a physical athlete. Rev.
Robert Collyer, the poetic preacher of
New York, graduated from the black
smiths forge, but many ministers
who are preaching in our large cities
today could easily step from the pulpit
to the blacksmith forge and strike a
herculean blow. so great is their phys
ical as well as mental stamina.
! enter the law Offices Of the late Sen
/ ator William NJ. Eyarts. MT. Choate."
/ say, why did your partner make the
wonderful success he did? For ve,rs
he stood at the head Of the New York
bar Our late ambassador to Eng
land answers: Because Mr. Eyarfs
was good animal. lie could sit down !
at his desk and work on a ease dav in |
and day out for eighteen hours out Of .
every twenty-four. lie had mental
equipment, and he had also unlimited
physical resources" William NJ. Evarts
was able to succeed when others failed
because his backbone was strong as if
made Of steel What is true of tho
lawyer and minister is also true of the
physician. the inventor and the mer-
chant. The reason one class of men
ialls and the other succeeds is often
due not more TO great mental strength
Lhan TO physical stamina.
The survival Of the ittest." Oh ves
we find it in the law of physical eouip.
nent Young men. young women. i'm
his struggle Of life are you going to .
illow yourselves TO be trampled u1de.. =
oot merely because y0u do nor look Z
fter your physical health? Are v,u
oing 10 let the great opportunities of
re slip from your grasp merely be- Y,
ause you have not taken the proDer u
nySicaI exercise and food and sleeD :"
II your lungs and heart and stomachr ~
On said William 4. sherman to C
eneral Grant one day, 81 feel lust as ~ ~
Die TO carry on another war as [ did u
venty years ago" "You NAV feel so Oi
herman. answered General Grant ~
'ut feeling so does not make you able. 81
may be mentally as bright as We %
er We're but we could not stand the
ysical strain" The civil war was d
ught and won just as much bv U'
ants stomach as by Grants brain 20
Jung people. by The law OF the surviy 'ii'
of the iittest God bids you take care su
yourselves physically This is tr1l- DO
D. but it is a truism the Darwinian Al, Au
-chings, as well as the divine con. Dui
hdments, never tire Of pressing -, -
ne TO human hearts. / see the broad J.
ut chested farmers boy coming TO DOO
town and pushing the pale faced liie
'slcaI weaklings to right and left. so9
christian Communism. lia
would also tell you that there is an tho
1orable law Of the survival of the -.
'st in the mental world. The man onir
can think the quickest, the man 80,
can supply some long felt want in VITO
is the man who Is going ,,,,.,
IL, -i-' a. iHl'e'ieors TO the wall wor
there Is no help for It. The same tho
which makes it possible for ca rrri
'Ounce upon a little chicken or n III,
ard to leap upon the back Of d-ar
Is precisely the same law which
es 1t possible for the man Of brains
imb to his throne over the backs Of Tn
who have no brains. Communism the I
Ihat is not right. No one man man
Id have more than his fellows" man
communism may talk from now for IL
d0omsday. Talking will do no give.
There is universal law of the busin
val of the fittest in a mental wav. the I
no communism except the com sellin
sm OF Christian love can change II is tOl
W is this law working out-tbat trade
IS which think trample over brains dians
do not think? Why, you can see opene
7sulls on every hand. Thirty or came
years ago every little town had The c
,bbler. This cobbler not only re- The n
the shoes and boots, but also with l
the shoes and boots, but one day he CO
came along a man with brains. his &
lid to himself: what Is the use skin,
] these cobblers making their skin {
by hand? will make machinery had g
3 work Of flesh and blood" This goods
If brains went to work. He built skins.
ge factory. He employed 200 tiful o
!. He made these 200 hands, with offered
Ie Of machinery, do five times the ers he
which the same number Of hands Il do
to do. He also lowered the sell have ]
ices. The shoes and boots were chief S
'ne-third cheaper than they used this 81
The man Of brains who drove white I
Ie village cobbler was the same he, ~,
# man that drove out the village not VIZ
wright. The man of brains who Indian