The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-01-05
FARMvILLE, VA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1906.

my text. How does the first psalm Of
David read? The godly "shall be Ike
tree planted by the rivers Of water,
that brlngcth forth its fruit I'm It's sea
son. His leaf also shall not wlther.
and whatsoever he docth shall prosper.
But the way Of the ung,dly
shall perish" Yes, there f. the law Of
the survival OF the fttcst In the spir-
itual world. II we are one with Christ.
we shall grow and keep on growing
all through the eternitics. We shall
bear fruit millennium after millennium.
If we are not one with christ. we shall
become like the chan which the wind
driveth away" The whlrlwnds Of the
judgment day shall sweep Us away to
our eternal doom.
But" says one, how could mnn
like Charles Darwin grasp great
truth like this of the natural world and
yet not grasp it IN thc spirtualt How
could he find Gods footprints in mt
turc and yet not find Gods footsteps
on Calvary's rOcksF' Ah my friends
/ cannot account for that cannot
and dare not pass judgment on Charlie
Darwin's life. cannot understand
how this great student of nature could
turn his back upon Cod any more tn
can understand how hc who was
once such lover of the beautiful coul 0
so warp his mind that the poets like
Shakespeare AMI thc musicians like
Handel and Beethoven and Wagner
could not touch his heart
In his own word rad the follow
ing: II have said that Ia one respect
my mind has chang Il dur.n! thr last
twenty Years. Up 20 the age of TART,
or beyond il poetry Of many kinds
such as the works Of Milton. Gray
Byron, Wordsworth Colcrdge and
Shelley, gave me great pleasure. AMI
even as a schoOlboy / took intense de-
light In Shakespeare, especially In tie
historical plays. | have also said that
formerly pictures gave me consider
able pleasure ana music vc.y great de
light But now. for many ycir'. can
not endure 10 read q lin Of poetry. /
have tired lately 10 read Shakespeare
md found IL so intoleu.l, Gu th { ii
nauScatcd me haze also lost m
taste for music and pic u;ct rc.1..
'omc taste FOR fine scenery. but it Do
not clusc me the cXglisitr dcisl
which it formerly iii g." lu OH WI ''s
Charles Darwin became suth clos
student I'm one line o. S,u iy thu a. al
lowed his love for the beautiful in az
and nature and his love for cod to be-
come atrophcd. Parts of hs hr 50
were nightly alive Some parts wee
completely dead.
Let me read on litlc further. N!
mind seems to have become "a Kind O'
machine for grinding general laws ol'
Of large collections OF facts. hui why
this should have eau the atronh
Of that part Of tho brain alone on wh.c.
the higher tasteS depend I cannot con
ceive. \ man with mind more high
~ organized or better constituted ihI
mine would not, suppose. have thU
suffered, and If | had tO live my lif
again / would have made u rule Il
read some poetry and listen ~ SON
music at least once w''k. flr pe'
haps the parts Of my brain nov afro
phicd would thus have b cI kop aci.,
through use. The loss Of these taste
is loss of happiness and may pos iil
be Injurious to the intellect and mo
probably TO the moral charlc'c- by e..
fccbling the emotional part of 1u- 3D..
turc." DO you wonder that Darwin
who wrote such sentences as DO $50
could let the spiritual part of his lif
become atrophlcd as well MS th' ae-
thctic AMI the love for the bcauiml
And 50, young people rs well ol1c'
people. as you develop along uhys.cl
and moral lines | want sou TO y,ll.
along the line Of The spiritual | wan
YOU 20 develop in Christ AMI tlro.g
Christ. who is the highest mg.ci fD
all spiritual development.
"But." says some one. 81 have move
lIltNl lU fiNfNlf lliN rf'll ~ Nllfi l'."Nit- I
Christ" Then. my brother. * that am,
reason why YOU should not start now
When an enemy one day tHmtci m,
great preacher Esprit Fleciicr De-
cause Of his humble birth AMI hccaus,
he had begun life "a n tallow chan1ler
Dr. Flcchlcr replied. YES. NY sphcr,
I'm life used TO be very humble hu
IN all probability had You hcg3n M, |
as ! begln Il You would have been q |
candle maker all your life" Because
some Of MS are warrel spiritually Is |
that any reason why. ia Christ. we
cannot become like tree planted by !
the rivers Of water. that bringcth fortl |
It's fruit In It's season." Oh. my friends |
IN Christ and through Christ. viii you
not spiritually start ancwf Than. D., |
law Of the survival Of the fittc,i Wit |
God you shall prosper nnd live FOR
ever and ever VIII you not. here and |
row. become one with Christ for the
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