The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-15

a great deal more rapid IL We never sinned.
How can we have courage unless there Is
danger and apprehension of the danger?
How can we have patience unless there are
burdens to be borne and a desire to remove
the burdens? How can we have fidelity I'M
less there is some trust TO be maintained and
some reckoning that is calling on you to
leave the trust and flee away. The scorn of
go0dy-goody Is right, but goody-goody Is
er does anything wrong because he never
does anything at all Is or no use In the
world. Temptation is truggle, and virtue
energies from struggle and you cannot have
the choice o. right without the possibility
OF doing wrong: and choosing wrong Is sin;
and sin Is fail; because IL is choosing the
animal from which we are emerging rather
than the spiritual condition into which we
have partially emerged Does this take
away the reality. the awful reality of sin.
or remove II from our Consciousness!
AN ILLUSTRATION.
AZ think it brings IL nearer and closer to
our Consciousness. and you will pardon a IA
miliar story to illustrate 1t. The elder Tying
was very fond Of children. He was preach
ing one Sunday in his Sunday-school room
to his children. He was not an evolution
ist; he lived before the doctrine of evolution
was known, and as he was a very orthodox
clergyman it is not too much to say he
would not have been an evolutionst If it had
been known, but for all that he was preach
ing evolution without knowing it. He said
to the children: There is a serpent who goes
In sinuous, crooked ways-that is the liar;
there is the hog who eats and eats and eats
and cares not for anything but e~ating-thar
is the glutton; there is the little boy or girl
VINO likes TO pass before. the glass and see
how beautiful he or she is-that Is the pea
cock; and there Is the passionate child who
cannot control his temper and flames out on
ever provocation-that Is the tiger When
he had finished his sermon he took his hymn
book and announced the hymn, and the chill
dren started not altogether, and his face
flushed up and he struck the book a blow
girl back in the room, standing on the pew,
said Tiger Dr.. T Tvni laid tdO down his l book.
in his arms: l told you he loved little chill
dren. No girl would have come to his arms
under those circqmstances If she had not
holding her in his arms, he said: Children,
she has told the truth; 1 have been fighting
the tiger all my life. and I have not got con-
troll Of him yet; do not let the tiger get con-
troll over YOU / have not told the story TO
enliven an evening discourse, but for this:
If a minister who is orthodox of the ortho-
dox desires to bring home to children the
fact of sin, and a little girl understands the
preaching and has it brought home to her,
the preacher is preaching evolution, / have
a right to say that the doctrine of evolution
does not take away the conviction and con-
seriousness OF sin. 1t brings ii nearer. The
mote. Sin is not a strange, mystic fact-it
is here, 1t Is now. Every man is two men
a divine man and a human man, an earthly
man and a super-earthly man; he is linked 10
the lower, out of which he is emerging; he
is linked 10 the upper, toward which he is
tending. We carry the animal with us. Oh,
L wish / could burn that into your con-
science and into my conscience-we carry
the animal with us. When we indulge the
appetite, we are falling back into the ami
NAL, the remnant of which we carry with
us; and when we fall into greed, into COW
etousness, into pride, into vain glory, into
selfishness, we are falling back into the ami
NAL, from which we are not yet emerged.
Every man is two men. The Centaur repre-
sentS a half horse, half man reality. Every
man is half animal, half man-except that
some have grown out of the animal to be
larger men, and some have a very small
wretched man hat / am; who shall deliver
me from this body of death? / have read
a tragic story Of a Russian prisoner work
ing In the mines chained TO a fellow-pris-
oner, and the fellow-prisoner died. and for
forty-eight hours he remained in that dark
mine haine to a corpse. So Paul says OF
himself, / am chained to a corpse. Who
shall deliver me from this dead body? One
may be an evolutionist, he may believe that
the individual emerged from a lower animal,
he may believe the whole race has emerged
may believe that in this emergency the indi-
vidual comes under divine law, and that ev-
cry violation of that divine law is a sin and
every sin is a falling back into the animal
condition, and the only hope of himself and
the only hope of the race is in the power that
shall lift him up and out OF himself, up and
out of his lower self into his higher, truer,
nobler self. until he shall be in very truth
son OF man and son of God"