The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-09-11
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED
dual mlNDspNsSs OF cHslST."
The Rev. c. J. Greenwood Makes Deep
Impression with . Message Suggested
- by the Eighth Chapter OF Romans
Mind of Flesh and Mind of spirit.

WESTFfBLD, y. J.-The Rev. {, y. Green
wood. pastor OF the FIRST baptist Church
here. who recently came from Merden.
Conn. and Is making deep impression,
preached Sunday morning on The Dual
Nlndedncss of Man" The text was chosen
from Romano. viii:6: "Ror the mind OF the
flesh is death: out the mind of the spirit
is lie and peace" Mr.. Greenwood said:
The eighth chapter OF Romans is full OF
startling statements and convincing ch-
makes. 1t is the great assurance chapter,
beginning with mo condemnation and
ending with NO separation. IL Is re-
liable thermometer with which 10 take
ones spiritual temperature. Ii ls a splen-
did excitant and tonic Tor spiritual heart
failure. III taken in sufficient doses at ire
quent intervals, It will relieve that tired
feeling which comes over SO many OF US
during the summer months. when the hour
for the Sunday service arrives. We espe-
clally recommend II as wade mecum Tor
the Christian on his annual outing. IL Is
a Wholesale message 10 proclaim IN these
days when 50 much Is being said about the
atrophy of the spiritual nerve and the de-
cline OF religious conviction.
Robert Louis StevenSon's great story OF
Or. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is, after all.
but an elaborate working out of the state
ment made by Paul IN the text. A strange
book Is this story of Stevenson's, and
stranger still the two minds that struggle
for the control of the man. Mr.. Henry
Hyde represents the mind of the flesh
He is a sinister, selfish, sensuous, murder
Gus character, more demon than human,
DR. Henry Jekyll represents the mind of
the spirit. lie IS generous, gentlemanly
kind, considerate man. The two minds OF
one individual have nothing in common.
A bitter hatred exists between them. and
fierce war that wages hotter and hotter
To the end goes on IN the battlefield OF the
soul. Gradually DR.. Jekyn becomes de-
spondent, s,ckens, and the inhuman Hyde
that "lnsurgent horror Gagged IN flesh"
prevails over him and crushes out his life
The book - the creation of Stevenson's s
weird Imagination, but the counterparts
of Hyde and Jekyll are to be found IA
every individual.
In the Redemption Of David Corson"
we have the same contest between the two
gladiators-the mind of the flesh and the
mind OF the spirit, with the result reversed.
In the person OF the hero. Corson. HYDE
and Jekyll find field for conflict. In this
story the mind of the flesh triumphs over
the mind Of the spirit, but the victory is
not decisive. Jekyll Is sorely wounded. but
not slain. From the crimson field. with
uniform soiled and tattered, he rises. like
Jacob from wrestling with the angel to
find Hyde mortally wounded and himself
the chastened and changed victor. The
same truth has been illustrated IN the
scientific world by grating che pupa of a
spider upon the pupa of fiy. The result
or the vivsector's skill is a monster within
whose vlols ted organism struggle two lr-
reconciable impulses. The one is saw
age OF the jungle with an abnormal appc.
tite for blood. the other Is an innocent
creature with passion for the sunshine.
In each ono OF us there lis 4 dualminded
ness. Two combatants arc engaged in
herce conflict. IL is n struggle for ruler
ship, and the victor Will be either Jckyll
To the ordinary mortal death is repuls-
or Hyde.
i've and life is pleasing. We adopt the
grim skull and cross bones as the symbol
of our loathing for the former, aud show
our love for the latter by filling the inches
OF our art temples with Venus de Milos
and Apollo Belvderes. There is nothing
particularly fascinating about the dead
stump Of a tree or the verdurcless sands
Of n desert. No one but Che grave robber
or medical student is supposed TO be in
terested in corpscs. A morgue il the last
place you would visit unless compelled by
necessity. On the other hand there Is
nothing that will awaken greater interest
than life. To the Alpine traveller, the blue
gentan "a a welcome sight as 1t opens its
petals IN the realm of perpetual SHOWS
Sweet Is the oasis with its shady palms
and solitary fountain 20 the caravan creep
ing across the hot wastes of sand. Beau
tful To the eye Of the child IL the butterfly
as 1t spreads ITS wings of gauze and voy-
ages through the empyrean blue. The
fisherman delights 20 watch the specked
trout as he rushes for cover. or the gray
hing as he leaps from the swirling pool
One cannot watch the TERED deer bound
through the forest glades and climb the
rocky steep; or follow the hight Of the
eagle "a he circles toward the sun, without
feeling his nerves ting,e and the blood rush
ihvns h., IL. egfsl
Cruise OF the Cachalot," / became so in
tercsted that ! wanted to join IN the ex.
citing chase OF the great sperm whale as
he charged through the waters in his rapid
flight. Life il the thing THAI fascinates
us. Stir, snap, speech are the things that
catch the eye. That Is why the cry IL for
speedier autos and swiftcr Shamrocks
But the common conception Of life il
false. The vast majority OF people are
laboring under deuson. You stand
where the tides OF humanity roll swift and
strong-you see men accumulating colossal
fortunes at bound and living in dazzlin,
spiendori you notice the sleek, fat and
pleasure-loving epicureans at the club
houses; the coarse amorous FalstafTs at
the social functions; the Cleopatras. the
Saiomes and society queens whose studied
grace and wine flushed checks entrance
but TO destroy and, and you say This il
life-ilfe at high noon and high midnight
OF the twentieth century"
Christianity comes To us and says This
N not life. This is death" And a recent
utterance OF DR.. Hills furnishes a splen.
did ritual for the committal service OF the
modern preacher: Here we commit his
body TO the dust, his stomach 20 stalled
OK, ms palate TO spiced wines dust to
dust, tongue 90 terrapn while the spirit
returns to the animal and the beasts that
ied with IT. Because thing Is dressed
IN tallor'made suit and moves about. IL
~ not necessarily alive. Thunder and
smoke are not always Indications of life.
Inc meteor that comes p.ungiug down the
sky with roar and a trail Of li1ht ia
dead. The heavenly bodies use il for a
football and toss IL through space Because
man walks about on two legs. winks with
two eyes, listens with two ears and wags
ms tongue, ne may not be alive according
the Pauls theology let me illustrate
Here - man whose occupation is such
that the world derives no benefit from II.
Rather, his business cxerts a baleful and
bhghting influence upon his fellows The
business smirches character, DESTROYS body
and soul, and the outcome is a wreck cast
upon the sands OF LIES great ocean TO
bleach ard rot. He conducts a physical.
intellectual and moral slaughter house for
a monetary consideration. He knows that
his business ~ damnable in the sight of
Tod and demoralizing 10 society. He IA
tattening swine or flooding the social or.
sanism with lepers. There are no e1tcnu.
ating circumstances. There are no bench.
cial compensatiOns. The rcsults of bi4
business a-e evil and evil only. Yet he
continues 10 curse men. ] say such =
being, whatever hrs occupation or social
standing, however great his wealth. u dead
Just az dead IN the sight OF heaven "a
though bis body were rotting in the
shrouds. He Is dead to God. dead 10 an