Man in the Light of Evolution 



Young man and maid have united to form a 

 family, and with high hopes and ideals go for- 

 ward without fear. The cares of life thicken. 

 The father has to earn and provide house and 

 Kvelihood, the young mother must make a home 

 and care for the household. Actual life is very 

 different from their expectation. It seems like 

 a monotonous and humdrum round instead of a 

 swift advance. The goal of their hopes is far 

 away, and seems to recede. Progress is very 

 slow. Young manhood is the period which fur- 

 nishes the most ardent pessimists and many of 

 our reformers. They are learning that the most 

 useful thing in life is the ability, not to fly or 

 to run without wearying, but to '' walk and not 

 faint." This is the critical question: Will they 

 keep on walking when they can no longer run, 

 or will they faint? Their wills are being trained 

 to endure and overcome — the hardest and most 

 important lesson of life. But the glory of the 

 struggle is hid from them; what they see is 

 mainly the rough back of the pattern which they 

 weave. 



Whether they will hold out depends prima- 

 rily not on their wealth, learning, or present suc- 

 cess, but on the persistence of their faith. If 



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