Arizona republican., 1899-05-21
OUR SUNDAY SERMON
Bv Rev. John Macintosh, Pastor FlrSf Congregational Church,
 Jersey City, N. J.
JEKYLL AND HYDE.

as a play, because IL rtcOSHlZeo lHt
 fact Of double element in human na
 ture; which truth the novel develops
 tc an exaggerated degree, portrayine
 the same person as one hour a nOblf
 gentleman and the next hour a de
 prayed beast The kindly Dr. Jekyll
 could take drug and thereby change
 himself into the cruel and f1endish MT
 Hyde. By again taking the drug he
 could be retransfoFmed to his former
 benelfcient character. These two ma
 lures alternated and played off against
 one another till finally the lower be- gan to get the upper hand, and finally
 gained complete mastery, the drug
 Having little by little lost its power to
 reproduce the good. It is a dreadful history with a terrible result.
 But it is only repetition of the old,
 old story of human nature as recorded
 in the Bible and enacted everywhere
 m every age. Man has a two-fold na- ture which is the cause of a violent
 and everlasting conflict within him
 He is like the Latin deity, Janus, dou-
 bIe faced. He is virtuous and vicious
 fair and foul, heavenly and earthly,
 godly and dlevilish. If you look at enc
 expression of this two-faced creature
 you will be fascinated by the exceed
 ing beauty of his countenance; df yOn l icok at the other expression you will be Terrified by it's hideCusness. Byron might have said of all men what he said of Burnls-s'a strange combination Of dirt and deity" This is the kind Of being the natural man is, to q greater or less degree, wherever you find him-whether in the business world, in society, in the church, or in the Bible.
 fr- .11 sr<% I made up of human beings who are two faced. All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely play CTS" But there's behind the scenes which must be taken into ac- count. You see the real persons when the paint and the powder, the wigs and the boards are taken Off.
 IN BUSINESS AND DOMESTIC
 SPHERES.
 Here is the double-faced man Of business He has a smile and a hand shake for the profitable customer, and keeps the frown and inpatient gesture for his emplcye-or perhaps for his wife. Another is kind and affection ate in his home, hateful and hideous in his office. The heavy buyer would scarcely know the pleasant salesman if he heard him scoldfng at home; the good wife would hardly know her de voted husband if she heard him lord ing it over his hard-wCrked employees.
 Often by following man for a day you can get a good sight of both faces. Some, however, can keep up a consist ent exterior, but they honestly deplCTe the great contradiction between their inner and their outer life There are thousands of men whose outward daily 1 life will bear close examination; and yet those men whom others regard as | open and frank in all things-aS sim | gle minded, single hearted, and con- sistent-these very men are most con- scious and most fearful Of their own | dh1plicity. They feel the truth of the | Scotch proverb which says, eff mems | thoughts were written on their fore heads we would all wear our bonnets | low down over cur 'brows." Many men | as they move around in their business and in their homes show to them selves, if net to others, that their lives | are complex, contradictory, double sided things
 HOW ABOUT THE CHURCH?
 Do we find anything of this kind in the church? Yes. Perhaps some reader of this will say there is more incoll- sistency and hypocrisy ill the church than anywhere else. In one sense there is great opportunity for this, in it's deplorable use sometimes as a cloak fer rascaIity-and every such case discovered is noised abroad, to scores that occur elsewhere without getting like publicity. There are black sheep in the fold, and even wolves-in sheepHS clothing. But even aside from these exceptional cases, the church is Oy no means free from imperfectionS Like the rest of the world, it is made ID of human beings, and consequently las many faults. But-with all the weakness and imperfection of the worthy and the insfncerity of the un- it be more than fair Ind just to grant that the majority are earnestly striving to conquer the evil rnd that, unlike the book and the 1lay, the better side is gaining
 Perhaps, however, .yCu are one who an see nothing good in the church; -ou have always the ill fortune of get ing on it's worst side. You don't like 'ecpfe who call themselves Christians lave special grudge against minis CTS, and no use for anything or amy me belonging to a church.
 Now, admitting that these people, iii ommon with all mankind, have their lark side, and some of the best of them nay lock gloomy and unsympathet:c tt times, have you ever tried to see heir best side? Are you sure they're IS bad as they look from your stand 'Cint? You have heard of the Miser- ccTdia-the brotherhood established bout six centuries ago in Italy whose work was to freely care for the ick and to bury the neglected dead III the workers wore 1onoy hIarl- owns, the hoods of which covered the / ace entirely, there being only two oles, for the eyes. Dressed in this