Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-09-17
FLESH AND SPIRIT,
OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMON.
A Genuine Contrast Between the
Mind of Flesh and the rllnd OF
Spirit Outlined.

Mind of Flesh and the rlind OF
Spirit Outlined.
WEsTFIELD, N. 1.-THE Rev. G. j. Green
wood, pastor of the First Baptist Church
here, who recently came from Meriden,
Conn.,, and is making a deep impression,
preached pI Sunday morning a1 on "The Dual
from Romans, viii:6: "For the mind Of the
flesh is death; but the mind Of the spirit
is life and peace" Mr.. Greenwood said:
The eighth chapter Of Romans is full Of
sssftllng statements and convincing CHI
makes. 1t is the great assurance chapter,
ending with mo separation" :" 1t is re-
liable thermometer with which to take
ones spiritual temperature. It is a splen-
did excitant and tonic for spiritual heart
failure. If taken in sufficient doses at fire.
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 it as a wade mecum for
the Christian on his annual outing. 1t is
wholesale message to proclaim in these
days when so much is being said about the
atrophy of the spiritual nerve and the de-
cline OF religious conviction.
CDR. 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 sinister, selfish sensuous, murder
GUS character, more demon than human.
Or. Henry Jekyll represents the mind Of
she spirit. He is a generous, gentlemanly,
Lind, considerate man. The two minds of
one individual have nothing in common.
A bitter hatred exists between them, and
a fierce in war that wages hotter and hotter
soul. Gradually DR.. Jekyll becomes de-
spondent, sickens, and the inhuman Hyde.
that insurgent horror Gagged in flesh"
prevails over him and crushes out his life.
The book is the creation of Stevenson's
weird Imagination, but the counterparts
OF Hyde, and Jekyll are to be found in
every individual.
In the Redemption of David Corson"
we have the same contest between the two
charlottesville 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
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 mortal.y wounded and himself
the chastened and changed victor. The
ssselahtlhS of 4
spider upon the pupa of fly. The result
Of the vivisector's skill is monster within
whose violated organism struggle two ir-
reconcilable impulses. The one is a saw
age Of the jungle with an abnormal appe-
tite for blood; the other is an innocent
creature with a passion for the sunshine.
In each one of US there is a dual-minded-
ness. Two combatants are engaged in
fierce conflict. It is a struggle for ruler
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, 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
stump of tree or the verdureless sands
Of desert. No one but the grave robber
or medical student is supposed to be in.
terested in corpses. morgue is 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
| 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 wastes of sand. Beau
tiful to the eye of the child is the butterfly
as it spreads it's wings OF gauze and voy
ages through the empyrean blue. The
fisherman delights to watch the speckled
trout as he rushes for cover, or the gray
ling as he leaps from the swirling pool
| One cannot watch the antiered deer bount
through the forest glades and climb thu
rocky steep: or follow the flight of thu
eagle as he circles toward the sun, without
feeling his nerves tlngl and the blood rus}
Cruise of the Cachalot," I became SO in
terested that I wanted to join in the ex
citing chase OF the great sperm whale Al
he charged through the waters in his rapis
fight. Life is the thing thai fascinate
us. Stir, snap, speech are the things tina
catch the eye. That is why the cry is fo
speedier, autos and swifter Shamrocks:
But the common conception 4of life !
false. The vast majority Of people ar
laboring under a delusion. You stan,
where the tides of humanity roll swift an,
! strong-yOu see men accumulating cOlossa
fortunes at bound and living in dazzlin
spiendor; you notice the sleek, fat an
pleasure-loving epicureans at the clu
houses; the coarse amorous Falstaffs a
the social functions; the Ceopatras, tn
Saiomes and society queens whose studie
grace and wine flushed cheeks entranc
but to destroy and, and you say "Ths
life--life at high noon and high midnign
of the twentieth century,"
Christianity comes to lis and says: "Thi
is not life This is DEATH" And a recen
utterance of DR.. Hills furnishes a spler
did ritual for the co,nmittal 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 spirj
returns to the animal and the beasts tha
fed with it, Because thing is dresse
in tailor-made suit and moves about.
is not necessarily alive Thunder an
smoke are not always indications of lif,
The meteor that comes plunging down th
sky with a roar and trail of light
dead. The heavenly bodies use it for
football and toss it through space. Becaus
man walks about on two legs, winks wit
two eyes, listens with two ears and wae
his tongue, he may not be alive accordin
the Paups theology. Let me illustrat,
Here is a man whose occupation is sue
that the world derives no benefit from i
Rather, his business exerts a baleful an
blighting influence upon his fellows Th
business smirches character. destroys bod
and soul, and the outcome is wreck cas-
upon the sands of ife's great ocean t
bleach and rot He conducts a physica
intellectual and moral slaughter house fo
| monetary consideration. He knows ths
| his business is damnable in the sight