Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-05
SUNDAYS SERMON TODAY

and dollars the average man lives most
OF his citizenship. Tho world OF the ma
terial nobody disputes or doubts. IL is
too real. We walk on II, we ride on Il,
we swim In II, we climb II, we handle II,
we pillow II, we sit beneath it's shade, we
taste II, we sec It, breathe II. The world
OF the material Is real. OF course there
are a few pink tea poets who
dip their pens in mist and write nonsense,
who say matter Is nonexistent, an iliu-
sion of the mortal mind. l always notice
that even Christian Scientists are ready
when the dinner bell rings.
"a man SHOULD look well after his
citizenship in the world OF the material.
This is a good world. It is the best-t
say ~ reverently-thst even God could
make. 1t is not to be despised and
hurried through, and the man who never
gets beyond his cook, his tailor, barber.
club or limousine Is nothing but a re-
fined animal. There is the greater world
of the spiritual, just as real as the world
of the material. The man who ignores his
citizenship In the world Of the spiritual
and spends all his time and energy and
his citizenship in the world OF the ma
terlal Is the idiot and fool
Of the centuries.
Second: A man may swear away his
citizenship In the world of the spiritual
by one dramatic act as Nolan did, by his
love of money, by his love o. lust. by his
unbelief, by allowing his spiritual nature
to lie unused for so long that ali the best
IN him Is paralyzed, so that he has no
thoughts of God, no prayer no attendance
upon religious duties, by not placing him
self in an atmosphere to awaken the
spiritual.
Third: He becomes a man without a
soul to all intents and purposes. or
course, he has n soul. L mean he has
Cancelled his interests of citizenship in
the world Of the spiritual and the eter-
nal. When n man cancels his citizenship
In the world of the spiritual he lapses
very near to the animal. The fact is, a
mans soul is about the only thing that
distinguishes him from the brute crea-
tIon.
Man is ive-sided: physical, mental,
emotional, esthetic and spiritual. The
fact is you can find hints and gllmmers
of four of these in animals 1t is the
nth which gives man his distinction.
First: Physical. From the standpoint
of physical, animal creation in particular
excels man. The eagle can see farther,
the deer can run faster. the rabbit and
moose can hear better, the lion and the
81 hAt ilOIt powerful man. VI Nbui Sc
has a greater variety, better organization
and better control of physical powers
than any single animal. but in many
points he is excelled by them.
Second: Mental. We are coming to
see that what we call instinct Is an
elementary and inferior form of think
ing. Only a glimmer, OF course, as com.
pared to the full sunburst of mans in
t~elligence, nevertheless n low form of
thought, so the animal world has GER
tain mental powers.
Third: Emotional. No one who has
heard the COW below for her calf, no
one who has seen animals defend their
young can doubt the existence of the
No one who has seen the
grief of the mother bird for her young
can doubt the existence of the emotional
in the breast of lower creation, and the
emotion of some birds and animals should
put us to shame by their constancy. Some
animals mate for life-it is said when
the doves mate dies it will never take a
second.
Fourth. Esthetic. 1t may be doubted
there Is a love of beauty in birds
and animals. But since I have seen the
conscious elation of the hooking bird
was pouring liquid beauty from his
throat. When the peacock struts across
the barnyard spreading his tail into
three feet of %splendor, nc one can tell
me he didn't know 1t was spangled over
beauty.
Fifth. Spiritual. If man was no more
the four things mentioned, the doc
trine of evolution would look more rea-
.sonable; but here the similarity between
man and animal stops. No animal has
ever been found upon it's knees in prayer.
animal has ever done anything that
even mint that II knew from
whence it mad come or whittier it was
going.
Hear me. men. Have you never
I'VE you never given serious
concern to things spiritual? Have you
never calculated the interests of your
lave you never let your thoughts
play around the problem of the future?
lave you never considered the problem
# your eternal destiny? Have you never
Christ as your Saviour? Then
'ou have never done anything but that
nay be within the range of possibility
" the animal creation,
Whenever you cancel your citizenship
n the world of spiritual you take the
from your brow. you dash the
from your hand and stink pack
With the rest of the brutes.
christianity is the appeal for you to
the animal in you and give the
nigel a nance. 1t is the appeal for you
o pray, to recognize that you are a citi-
of two worlds, to prepare now for
our citizenship In the world of the eter-
Ial by accepting Jesus Christ as your