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Show HOLDS EMilTl HAS REAL LESSQN Man Is Director and Creator of Higher Destiny, Declares De-clares Pastor. That the human race Is becoming more familiar with tho story of humanity and that evolution Is now a household word, was tho lvislo Idea of a sermon preached at tho First Unitarian church yesterday morning by the Itov. John Mallck. The subject was, "Vessels Fitted Into Destruction." De-struction." The Rev. Mr. Mallck said in part: Tho story of our humanity Is becoming be-coming familiar to us. involution Is now a household word; We havo paid that tho en mo powor that pushed the Jelly fish to prayers and symphonies sym-phonies will push us on to superman. Obsurve n moral holiday and watch tho powers that bo pimh our llttlo bark on without concerning ourselves with oar, rail or rudder. But thcro Is another side to tho story of evolution. Somo lives in tholr change go on to saint and scholar. Others go on to barnacle and parasite. Evolution mils us that tho fit survive- Thn man in tho wholesome atmosphere fits and he survives. Tho urging which -attends Ufo driven the rose and dog on to perfection. It docs not so drive man. Wo chooso the field nnd naturo neither neith-er drives us to perfection nor saves us wilh mcchnnlcal salvation. Wo are not only the products, but tho directors of evolution. Wc are creators cre-ators of the race because wo are a part of tho creative and beautifying power of llui God Himself. Celibacy of tho clergy, the persecution persecu-tion and exile of tho great thlnkors and war took away the best In life and loft no offspring. Tho mediocre were left to multiply. Tho highest types of men do not roprodnco their kind. Tho low and oven pathological patho-logical produce their kind many times. Our good will has fostered tho unfit. This contury says tho lino should end. Idiots, the Insane and tho hopelessly inofficlent should yield to tho common good. We say that those related to each othor should not marry. It Is also faid that persons per-sons related to each othor as nearly as second cousins should not marry because It is not good for tho raco. From Socrates to Napoleon history tells us that tho mantle of power docs not fall on those of tho samo house. But we believe today that In somo way health, powor and efficiency ef-ficiency do follow along the family line. The Edwards family gavo us 1400 social servants; tho Jukes family fam-ily 1200 social burdens. This Is not fate, but choice. Tho ancients called this side of humanity "vessels of wrath fitted to destruction." Tho great pottor made vessels of honor and dishonor. We havo dropped tho hate from the mind of tho potter and havo bocomo bin co-workers both to shape and reject. Humanity has no meaning ns a product prod-uct of the first creation week. As a crude product, for us to perfect it is rational. God cannot mako men without men more than ho can mako violins without a Stradlvarlus. The unfit un-fit who add increasing burdens to tho race found sanction in former times in tho mysterious provldonco of God. They find no such sanction .In this country's thought. Wo havo bocomo God's, knowing good and evil and -knowing thoso who should survlvo sur-vlvo and thoso who should not. |