The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-25
DR.. JEKYLL AND MIR HYDE.
An Interesting Lecture study by DIR
Edward N. CaIisch.

Edward N. CaIisch.
THE Moral Of the Story of DR.. Jekyl
and Mr. Hyde" was the subject of a
delightful and entertaining lecture deliv-
cred at the Guards hall last night be-
fore the members of the Savannah Lyceum
by DR.. Edward n. Calisch of Richmond
Va, who has already achieved much fame
on the lecture platform. The speaker was
introduced to his large audience by Rev.
Charles H. Strong, who told an interest
ing story of how DR.. Calsch's lecture
came to be written.
The speaker began by giving in short
outline sketch of the famous story. The
story, he said, is of course a physical i'm
possibility, but psychologically speaking
it is an every day occurrence. 1t is the
same old story of habit, of the evil where
it is cultivated finally supplanting in
man. the good. The question of the origin
of evil, he said has perplexed the human
race ever since the race began. 1t was
not confined to the old world alone. CO.
lumbus when he came to America found
race of people who were also looking for
long lost garden of Eden, just as were
those in the old country
DIR. Calisch gave an interesting account
of the doctrines of the old religious lead
ers Buddha and Zoroaster, and others.
He spoke particularly of the Jewish
theology which teaches that evil cannot
be absolute, but is always relative and
contingent. When God completed the
world, He said of everything in it: TT
is good"
The speaker then gave a comparison of
the Biblical Adam in the garden of Eden,
and the DR.. Jekyll of the story, the former
having acquired knowledge by eating of
the forbidden fruit. the latter having
separated the evil in himself from the
good by the application of a drug. The
chlld lives in purest innocence until it
acquires that same knowledge: then il be-
comes a responsible being. Armed with
that knowledge it becomes as Jekyll with
the drug, with the power to remain DR..
Jekyll, or with the ability to become Ed
ward Hyde. Who is there, he asked. who
has not some hidden vice, some secret
sin, known only to himself and to his
God
Edward Hyde was small at first. he said
put the demon of evil gradually grew.
and as he grew the good. DR. JelSvu
grew less and less. Good is a natural
normal condition; evil is a thing which
cap be avoided, but when sought and
INDUCED the horrid form of HYDE grows
continually larger and stronger. until n
is no longer a weakness but a strength
Inc same truth applies to races and to
nations as 10 the individual. In the re-
cords of history the same principles are
read Dynasties and thrones have been
overturned not by outward foes. but by
the poisoned chalice which they have car
ried to their own lips. The France of to-
day, though nation dear to us. is totter-
ing to her goal II was not lola who was
convicted yesterday, he said, but the
French republic. The evil there has been
put before the good, the Hyde before the
| JekyH, and so it is going to ruin as it has
done in the past DR.. Calisch concluded
with some eloquent and interesting refer.
! ences to the American government of to.
day, and the questions which are now agi.
| Eating its real leaders, its DIR. Jekylls. as
| well as its jingoistic Hydes.
Rev. Charles II. Strong announced al
| the beginning of the lecture that Gov. Rot
Taylor of Tennessee win deliver the sew.
| enth lecture of The lyceum course or
March 20, and the eighth and last will
| be by Leland T. Powers on April A.