Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1903-09-10
DUAL MINDEDNESS OF MAN
A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev.
G. j. Greenwood.
Message Suggested by the Eighth Chapter Of
Romans-Mind Of Flesh and
Mind Of Spirit.

Mind Of Spirit.
WEsTF1EID, N. 1.-THE Rev. c. J. Green.
wood, pastor of the First Baptlst Church
here, who recently. came from Merlaen'
Conn, and is making deep impression,
preached Sunday morning on The Dual
Mindedness of Man" The text was chosen
from Romans vii: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
startling statements and convincing Gil
makes. 1t is the great assurance. chapter,
ending with mo separation" 1t IS re-
liable thermometer with which to take
ones spiritual temperature. 1t is a spen.
did eycitant and tonic for spiritual heart
failure. If 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'
caliy recommend it as wade mecum for
the Christian on his annual outing. 1t is
a 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 8 great story OF
DIR. 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 Stevensons, 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 q sinister, selfish, sensuous, murder
Gus character, more demon than human.
DR.. Henry Jekyll represents the mind OF
the spirit. He is a generous, gentlemanly,
kind, considerate man. The two minds OF
one individual have nothing III common
A bitter hatred exists between them, and
Il fierce war that wages hotter and hotter
TO the end goes on in the battlefield of the
soul. Gradually DR.. Jekyll becomes de-
spondent, sckens, 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
charlottesville mind OF the flesh and the
mind of the spirit, with the result reversed.
In the person of the hero. Corson. Hyde
and Jek,,l 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. Jelyll is sore,y wounded, but
not slain. From the crimson field, with
uniform soled and tattcrcd he rises. like
Jacob from wrestling with the angel, to
find Hyde mortaly wounded and himself
the chastencd and changed victo The
same tENln has UGH IluSltdtth III WV
scientific word by grating the pupa of a
spider upon the pupa of IA fly. The result
G: the vivisector's skill is monster within
whose violated organism struggle two IL
rcconcilablc impulses. The one is a say,
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 repns'
i've and lie is pleasing. We adopt the
,,,,,, ,.1.,,n al va i,n IN, N
OF our loathing for the former, ard show
our love for the latter by iilling the niche.
OF our art temples with Menus dc Mics
and Apollo ha.videres. There j. nOthinN
particularly fascinating about the dead
stump OF tree or the vcrdurriCsS sands
of a desert. No one but the grave robhoI
or medical student is supposed to be IN
terested i'll corpscS. \ morguc Is the last
place You would visit un,css compelled by
necessity. On the other hand there is
nothing that will awaken greater interest
than life. 70 the Alpine t!ayc'cr, the blue
gentian is welcome sight, ms 1t opens II;
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
titul to the eye OF the child is the butterfly
as it spreads its wings OF Eau2e aal 10Y.
ages through the empyrcan blue. The
fisherman delights 70 watch the spCck.ei
trout as he PUSHES for cover, or the gray.
ling rs he leaps from the swirling pool.
One cannot watch the tered deer bound
through the forest g!ades and Climb the
rocky steep; OF follow u" flight OF tn"
eagle as he circ'es toward The san, without
feeling his nerves t}ngle and the blood ru.h
through the arteries While reading The
cruise of the GIrhp'ot," became 50 IN.
tcrested that ] wanted 10 join in the OK
citing chase cf the great sperm whale ~
he charged through the waters i'll his rapid
Eight Life is the thing tina, fasclnatcs
us. Stir, snap, speech are the things that
catch the eye. That is why the cry is for
spcedicr autos and swifter Shamronks.
But the common conception Of lie ID
false. The vast majority OF people are
lahorinc under a dcusion. You stand
where the tides OF humanity roll swift and
strons-you sec men accommodating, colossal
fortunes at bound and living in dazzling
splc1dor; you II. tee the seek, lat and
p!caSureovins epcureans at the club
houses; the coarse amOr0Ns Ia'St2tls at
the social functions; the Clcopatra9, the
Salomes aud society queens whose studied
grace and wine flushed checks entrance
but to destroy and, and YOU say This is
life-hfc at high room and high midnight
of the twentieth century
Christianity comes to lis and says: This
ia not life. This is DEATH And a recent
uttarouro of ID, Hills furni shea q s,,len
III ri5,,al for tha rnr,milt,l service If ,ha
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