The Penn's Grove record., 1903-09-11
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED
"DUAL MINDEDNESS OF CHRIST"
The Rev. C. j. Greenwood Makes a Deep
Impression with q Message Suggested
by the Eighth Chapter of Romans
Mind Of Flesh and Mind of Spirit.

by the Eighth CHaptef Oh honiais-
Mind of Flesh and Mind of Spirit.
WEsTFIELD, N. 1.-THE Rev. G. ]. Green
wood, pastor Of the FIRST Baptist Church
here, who recently came from Merlden,
Conn, and is making a deep impression,
preached Sunday morning on The Dual
Mindedness of Man" The text was chosen
from Romans, viii:6: "For the mind of the
flesh is death; but the mlnd OF the spirit
The eighth chapter of Romans is full of
startling statements and convincing eli
makes. 1t is the great assurance chapter,
beginning with "No condemnation" and
ending with mo separation" 1t is a re-
liable thermometer with which to take
ones spiritual temperature. 1t is a splen-
did excitant and tonic for spiritual heart
failure. Ii 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-
cially recommend it as a wade mecum for
the Christian on his annual outing. 1t Is
n 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.
Robert Louis Stevenson,s great story OF
sDr. 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, s%ensuous, murder
Gus character, more demon than human
DIR. Henry Jekyl1 represents the mind Of
the spirit. He is a generous, gentlemanly
kind, .considerate man. The two minds Of
ope Individual have nothing in common
A bitter hatred exists between them, and
4 fierce war that wages hotter and hotter
to the end goes on in the battlefield of ths
soul. Gradually DR.. Jekyll becomes de
spondent, sickens, and the inhuman Hyde
that "insurgent horror Gagged in flesh
The book is the creation of Stevenson
weird imagination, but the counterpart
of Hyde and Jekyll are to be found il
every individual.
In the Redemption of David Corson'
we have the same contest between the tw
charlottesville mind of the flesh and tn
mind of the spirit, with the result reversed
In the person of the hero. Corson. Hyd'
and Jekyll find a field for conflict. In thi
story the mind of the flesh triumphs owe
the mind of the spirit,eb but the victory j
not decisive. Jekyll isssorely wounded, bu
not slain. From the serimson field, witt
uniform soiled and tattered, he rises, Xix
Jacob from wrestling with the angel, t.
find Hyde mortally wounded and himsel
the chastened and changed victor. Tn,
same truth has been illustrated in tn
scientific world by grating the pupa of
spider uppn the pupa of a fly. The result
of the vivisector's skill is a monster within
whose violated organism struggle two il
reconcilable impulses. The one is a say
age of the jungle with an abnormal appe
tite for blood; the other is an innocen
creature with a passion for the sunshine
In each one OF US there is a dualminded
ness. Two combatants are engaged il
fierce conflict. 1t is a struggle for ruler
ship, and the victor will be either Jekyl
To the ordinary mortal death is repuls
or Hyde.
i've and life is pleasing. We adopt tn
grim skull and cross bones as the symbo
of our loathing for the former, and shoy
our love for the latter by filling the niche
of our art temples with Venus de Milo
and Apollo Relvideres. There is nothin
1arly fascinating about the dea'
stump tree or the verdureless sand
of a desert. No one but the grave robbie
or medical student is supposed to be in
terested in corpses. A morgue is the las
place you would visit unless compelled b
necessity. On the other hand there i
nothing that will awaken greater interes
than life. To the Alpine traveller, the blu
gentian is a welcome sight, as it opens it
petals IN the realm of perpetual SHOWS
Sweet Is the oasis with its shady palm
and solitary fountain to the caravan Greer
ing across the hot wastes of sand. Beau
tiful to the eye of the child is the butterf
as 1t spreads its wings OF gauze and voy
ages through the empyrean blue. Tn
fisherman delights to watch the speckle
trout as he rushes for cover, or the gray
ling as he leaps from the swirling poo
One cannot watch the Uttered deer boun
through the forest glades and climb til
rocky steep; or follow the flight of til
eagle as he circles toward the sun, withou
feeling his nerves tingle and the blood rus
through the arteries. While reading 9Th
Cruise of the Cachalot," / became so il
terested that I wanted to join in the e.
citing chase OF the great sperm whale a
he charged through the waters in his rapi
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 of life
false. The vast majority of people ar
iaboring under a delusion. You stan
where the tides of humanity roll swift an
strong-yous see men accommodating colosss
fortunes at a bound and living in dazzlin
spiendor; you notice the sleek, fat an
pleasureloving epicureans at the clu
houses; the coarse amorous Falstaffs a
the social functions; the Cleopatras, til
Salomes and society queens whose studie
grace and wine flushed cheeks entrane
but to destroy and, and you say This
fe-hfe at high noon and high midnigr
OF the twentieth century"
Christianity comes to US and says: 9TH
is not life. This is DEATH" And a reeen
utterance of DR.. Hills furnishes a spler
did ritual for the committal service of til
modern preacher: Here we commit h
body. to the dust, his stomach to stale
OK, his palate to spiced wines, dust t
dust, tongue to terrapin, while the spir
returns to the animal and the beasts tia
TED with It,. Because a thing is dresse
IN a tallor-made suit and moves about,
IS not necessarily alive. Thunder an
smoke are not always indications of lif
The meteor that comes plunging down tn
sky with a roar and a trail of light
dead. The heavenly bodies use it for
football and toss it through space. Becaus
q 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 Inc illustrate
Here Is "a man whose occupation is sue
that the world derives no benefit from i
rather, ms business exerts a baleful an
Dlghtlng influence upon his fellows. II
business smirches character, destroys bod
and soul, and the outcome is a wreck cas-
upon, the sands of hfe's great ocean [
bleach and rot. He conducts a physica
intellectual and moral slaughter house fc
q monetary consideration. He knows thu
his business is damnable in the sight
God and demoralizing to society. He
fattening swine or flooding the social o
ganism with lepers. There are no exten,
ating circumstance. There are no beneI
cial compensations. The results of h
business are evil and evil only. Yet
continues to curse men. / say such
being. whatever his occupation or soci
standing, however great his wealth. is dea
just as dead in the sight of heaven {
Though his body were rotting in ii
6hr sHe $ dead to God, dead to a
MOI to all the high'
Is within d. His moral nature is atr
phied. All his thoughts, his impulses, h
acts are carnal. He lives to the flesh, an
Of the flesh reaps corruption. Every she;
that he binds for time or eternity is
bundle Of corruption. The smiles an
smirks of an evil person are not signs
life, but danger signals that warn I,
against falling into an open sepulchre.
You remember Vatican in Victor Hugo
Les Miserables." He sleeps, and in h
sleep he beholds the death of sin. AS /
comes to the house of ~revelry, the flower