The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-10-16
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED
DUAL NlNDEDREss OF CHRIST"

1hc Bev. G.. j. Greenwood Makes Deep
Impression with Message Suggested
by tho Eighth Chapter Of Honans-
Mind OF Flesh aud Mind or Spirit.
WEsruELp, n. 1.-The Rev. C. j. Green.
wood, pastor OF the First Baptist Church
here, who recently came from Meridon,
Conn? and Is making o deep impression,
preached sunday morning on Tho Dual.
MludgdHcss of MINI The text was chosen
from Romano vi.i:0. For the mind OF the
iIosA Is death; uut the mind Uf the spirit
Is he and peace Mr. Greenwood said:
The eighth chapter OF Romans Is full of
startling statements and convincing eli.
MAKES. 10 Is the great assurance chapter
beginning with ono condemnation" and
ending with No separation" 1t is q re-
liable thermometer with which 10 take
ones spiritual temperature IL Is a gplen-
qid oXeitant and tonic for spiritual heart
failure. III taken lu sufficient doses at fire.
quent intervals, il will relieve that tired
feeins which comes over so many of us
during the summer months, when the hour
Tor the Sunday service arrives. We espe-
cally recommend it "a a wade mccum FOR
the Christian on his annual outing IL is
O. wholesale message TO proclaim in these
days when so much is being said about tue
atrophy OF the spiritual nerve and the de-
cline OF religious conviction.
Robert Louis Stcvenson's great story Of
'Dr. Jelyll and Mr.. Hyde" is, after all,
but an elaborate working out OF the state
mcnt made by Paul in the text. A strange
book Is this story OF Stevenson's, and
stranger still the two minds that struggle
Tor the control Of the man. Mr.. Henry
Hyde represents the mind of the flesh.
dc ls a sinister, selfish, sensuOus, murder
GUS character more demon than human.
DR. Henry Jekyll represents the mind OF
the spirit. He is o generous, gentlemanly,
kind, considerate man The two minds OF
one Individual have nothing in common.
A bitter hatred exists between them, and
a fierce war that wages hotter and hotter
to the end goes on in the battlefield Of the
soul. Gradually DR.. Jehyll becomes de-
spondent, sickens, and the inhuman Hyde.
that ''insurgent horror Gagged in flesh"
prevails over him and brushes out his life.
In the Redemption Of David CorsOn"
we have the same contest between the two
giadiators-the mind of the flesh and the
mind OF the spirit, with the result reversed.
In the person OF the hero, Corson, HYDE
and Jelsyll find a 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
UNIV Al ogAASA anu tdbbtlENs llt AA5Gss llkG
F., Jacob from wrestling with the angel, ia
| find Hyde mortally wounded and himself
the chastened and changed victor. The
same truth has been illustrated in the
scientific world by grating the pupa Of a
spider upon the pupa Of a fly. The result
OF the vivisector's skill is a monster within
whose violated organism struggle two ir,
reconcilable impulses. The one Is saw.
age OF the, jungle with an abnormal appe.
tite for blood; the other is an innocent
! creature with a passion for the sunshine
10 the ordinary mortal death is repuls'
/ i've and life Is pleasing, We adopt the
/ grim skull and cross bones as the symbol
Of our loathing for the former, and show
| our love for the latter by filling the inches
/ OF our art temples with Venus de Milos
/ and Apollo Belvideres. There is nothing
! particularly fascinating about the dead
/ stump Of a tree or the verdureess sand;
OF a desert. No one but the grave robbeI
/ or medical student is supposed to be in
! terested IN corpses. A morgue is the last
/ place you would visit unless compelled by
necessity, On the other hand there il
/ nothing that will awaken greater interest
than life. To the Alpine traveller, the blue
! gentlan 10 welcome sight, as it opens it:
| petals in the realm Of perpetual SHOWS
/ Sweet Is the oasis with It's shady palms
! and solitary fountain to the caravan creep
ing across the hot wdstes of sand. Beau
/ tltul to the eye Of the child is the butterfly
as 1t spreads its wings of gauze and voy
( ages through the empyrean blue. The
fisherman delights TO watch the speckleC
! trout as he rushes for cover, or the gray
! ling as he leaps from the swirling pool
/ One cannot watch the ALTERED deer bounC
through the forest glades and climb tht
rocky steep; or follow the flight of tn,
| eagle as he circles toward the sun, without
| feeling his nerves tlngle and the blood rusl
! through the arteries, While reading ''Tht
! Cruise of the Cachalot," / became so in
terested that | wanted to join In the ex
citing chase Of the great sperm whale al
! he charged through the waters in his rapiC
flight: Life Is the thing that fascinate
us. Stir, snap, speech are the things tina
catch the eye. That is why the cry is fo
speedier autos and swifter Shsmrocks.
But the common conception of life j
false, The vastI majority of people ar
laboring under o delusion. You stan(
where the tides Of humanity roll swift ant
| strong-ycu zee men accommodating colossa
fortunes ct q bound and living in dazzling
splendor; YOU notice the sleek, fat AM
! pleasure loving epicureans at the clNl
houses; che coarse amorous Falstafs a
the social functions; the Cleopatras, tn
| Salomes and society queens whose studiet
grace and wine flushed cheeks entranc
but to destroy and, and you say "This i
Gfe--life at high noon and high midnlgh
OK the twentieth century"
Christianity comes to us and says: 9TH
is not life. This is death" And a recen
utterGnee of DR.. Hills furnishes a splen
did ritual for the committal service of tn
modern preacher: Here we commit hi
body. to the dust, his stomach to stale
OK, his palate to spiced wines, dust t
dust, tongue to terrapin, while the spiri
returns to the animal aud the beasts tina
fed with it." Because thing is dresse
in tailor-made suit and moves about,
IS not necessarily alive. Thunder an
| Ihe meteor that cnrnns nlnnrinc dn,,-n IN