The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-27
DR.. QUAYLE'S LECTURE
TEMPERANCE DAY Is OBSERVED At
MERIDIAN-sTREET CHURCH.
From sfevenson's story of "Dr. JckyI
and Mr. Hyde" the Lecturer Draws
His 1IOraI-A Big Audiences.

dience which tested the capacity of the
Meridian-street VI. +. Church last night on
THE Parable of DR.. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde,
as viewed from the text taken from the
Proverbs Xxx. /: Wine is a mockeT; strong
drink is raging" It was in observance Of
temperance day.
In treating the subject he said in part:
Jesus was the great worker I'm parallels
and left no successor. AS great as was His
use of parallels. His disciples imbibed none
of 1t. His art died with Him. a parable
is story told with distinctly religious ten
denotes. In it the teller says one thing but
means another. We read Of the sOwer who
went out into the fields to SOW and cast
his seed on the poor ground and on the
good ground and of the results of his work,
but that was not the sower He spoke of,
nor was it the seed He referred TO. The
sower was God; the seed was Gods word,
and the fields were the hearts and souls
of men.
THE story of DR.. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde
is not only a parable, but an appalling
truth, and if 1 had my way there would be
placed in the hands of every young man;
aye, and in the hands of every young wcm-
an In the land, this tale of a double life.
good, while the other was gnarled, shrunk-
en- and twisted. and yet these two charac-
ters were not two lives, but one.
''Sin is thief. 1t steals everything it
has. 1t steals its clothes it's name. its
cabulary and even its door-plate, but with
al ii marches through the streets with
lordly air. and because 1t does we are apt
TO think il is brave, but il is not Sin is
cowardly.'
CHARACTER OF MIR. HYDE.
Mr.. Quayle then expressed the opinion
that Stevenson's character OF Mr.. Hyde
had never been equaled for abject sin and
depravity. Macbeth" said he, although
the story of his life was written in his own
blood, was in many respects a man of
worth and ability. He could lead vast ar
mics successfully. Even the character of
Mephistophiles which, next to Mr. Hyde is
the blackest one ever painted, appears good
by comparison, for Mephistophiles mad gen.
us. while in Mr.. Hyde there was none. AS
the Greeks stripped their athletes to the
bare skin and started them on the course
to race, Stevenson has stripped sin naked
in the character Of Mr.. Hyde.
''Dr. Jekyl was gentleman of fine per-
sonality, who had titles of the highest sort
in his possession. His charm Of manner
made the sick patients feel better when he
came to their bedside and took their hands
in his. His fellow-practitioners respected
him, looked up to him and believed him.
He went to see poor patients. as many ply
sicians do in indianapolis without hope of
gaining one cent; but the man had clustered
in his heart a double purpose. He looked
clean, but he was not altogether clean. He
looked wholesome, but he was not alto
gether so. Because he knew he coulu not
violate the laws of God and man in his
own person with impunity, he invented a
way by which he could go into his door as
DR.. Henry Jekyl, the good, the respected,
the honorable, and crawl out through his
back door as Mr.. Hyde to den OF iniq-
uity."
Dr. Quayle then described the scenes
from the story, when DR.. Jekyl finds that
he can use drug which will change his
character from the well-known one of DR..
Jekyl to the one of Mr.. Hyde He told in
a dramatic manner of the killing of the
child by Hyde anu the gathering of the in
manded why he had done it.
'And what was Hyde's retort?" asked
DR.: Quayle. at was. We'll. what will ye
ance. nothing but the fiend. That there is q
double life in everybody you will admit un-
less you are either fool or liar. You
Some will come to me and say: Now, Mr..
Quayle, you know there some whose
lives are spotless,' bat L reply, 1 know there
are some liars 1t is a great truth that
we are all sinful.
THE KIND OF DRUG
"And what was this drug that Dr. Jekyl
discovered? Stevenson does not tell you
you will say. But he does tell as plainly
as 1t is possible to tell without naming It.
He tells of pouring the powders into the
glass and pouring the liquid over 1t, and of
the working and changing of the mixture
until 1t took on the purple color of a king S
robe. II was wine. Stevenson calls his tale
The Strange Story of DIR. Jekyl and Mr..
Hyde but 1 call it a very usual and Gus
tomary tale. Everywhere there are Jekyls
and HydeS.
"A few nights ago, on one of our streets,
/ saw a poor care-worn woman carrying a
market basket in one hand and dragging
along man with the other. Now, man S
| visible use is TO carry a basket, and there
| fore this man was not in his right place.
L believe from what has been told me that
this man was decent at times. but IL wasn't
| at that time. You ask me what to do To
keep from becoming a drunkard. Don't
| take the first drop. / don't give this advice
| as preacher. nor as a Christian, but as a
man. i know man of fine parts and per-
suasive eloquence, who is posted on many
! things aside from his own profession. Yet !
| saw that man lying stupefied I'm a gutter
arraved in fine clothes and q silk hat. He
was a disgrace TO his family and lived a
double life. If any woman in this pres
| ence feels that her social obligations com
pei her to serve wine 1 beg her to recon
| slider the matter, for the end is apparent to
all. The Mr.. Hyde will finally encroach OF
| the DR.. Jekyl and have him oy the throat
and the poor victim of the double life will
| find that he cannot change back to DIR
| Jekyl when he wants TO. The appalling
mola in the destruction of DIR. Jekyl by
| Mr.. Hyde was that Hyde didn't care, and
MT. HYDE never murdered anyone Rs he
did DR.. Jekyl. You think you can give reiT
| to your evil propensities for week or Z
| month and stop, but you cannot. The besi
! time to take the Kelley cure is when yoI
/ don't need it, and the best time TO stoy
| drinking is before 1t reaches your lips