The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-09
DUAL MINDEDNESS OF MAN
A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev.
c. J. Greenwood.
Message Suggested by the Eighth Chapter Of
Romans-Mlnd Of Flesh and
Mind OF Spirit.

here, who recently came from Meriden,
Conn.,, and is making deep impression,
preached Sunday morning on The Dual.
tIindedness OF Man" The text was chosen
from Romans, viii:6: For the mind of the
flesh is death; but the mind OF the spirit
is lite and peace" Mr.. Greenwood said:
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 q sp.en-
did cxcitant and tonic for spiritual heart
failure. Ii taken in sufficient doses at fre-
Quent intervals, it viii relieve that tired
feeling which comes over so many of US
during the summer months, when the hour
for the Sunday service arrives. We cspe-
cially recommend it as a vaGe mecum for
the Christian on his annual outing. 1t is
q 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 Stevensons great story OF
"Dr. 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 or 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. He is generous, gentlamanly,
kind, considerate man. The two minds OF
one individual have nothing in common.
4 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 DIR. Jekyll becomes de.
spondent, sickens, and the inhuman Hyde.
that ,,'insurgent horror Gagged in. flesh"
". ht,,,o o,,I III. L..
In the redemption OF David Corson"
We have the same contest between the two
gladiators-th2 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 trumphs 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, 10
find Hyde mortaliy wounded and himself
same truth has been illustrated in the
scientific world by grating the pupa OF
spider upon the pupa of fly. The result
OF the vivisectors skill is a 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
10 the ordinary mortal death is repus.
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 niche:
OF our art temples with Venus de Milo:
and Apollo Belvideres. There is nothing
particularly fascinating about the dead
stump OF tree or the verdureess sands
OF desert. No one but the grave robbeI
or medical student is supposed to be in,
Aafl, ,,,p A Al.
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 trave,er, the blue
gentan is a welcome sight, as it opens it:
petals in the realm of perpetual SHOWS,
Sweet is the. oasis with its 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 1t spreads its 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 ltered deer bound
through the forest glades and climb the
rocky steep; or follow the flight OF the
eagle a.; he circles toward the sun, without
feeling his nerves ting,e and the b.ood rush
Cruise of the Oachalot," l became so IN
terested 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 is the thing that fascinates
lis. Stir, snap, speech are the things that
speedier autos and swifter Shamrocks.
But the common conception OF life is
false. The vast majority OF people are
laboring under a delusion You stand
where the tides of humanity roll swift and
strons-you sec men acculnulating colossal
tnnts, - ~ l.,-S. L..
splendor: you IL, tice the s'eek, fat and
pleasure-.oving epicureans at the club
houses; the coarse amorous Falstaffs at
the social functions; the C.eopatras, the
Salomes and society queens whose studied
grace and wine flushed cheeks entrance
hie-.ife at high noon and high midnight
OF the twentieth century"
Christianity comes to us and says: "This
is not life. This is death" And recent
9tterance of DR.. Hills furnishes a splen,
did ritual for the committal service OF tho
body. to the dust, his stomach to stalled
OK, his palate to sp!ced wines, dust to
dust, tongue to terrapin, while the spirit
returns to the animal and the beasts that
led with it," Because q. thing is dressed
In tailor-made suit and moves about. i.
smoke are not always indications of nfe,
The meteor that comes plungng own the
sky with q roar and a trail OF light is
dead. The heavenly bodies use il for u
football and toss it through space. Because
man walks about on two legs, winl;s with
two eyes, listens with two ears and wags
his tongue, he may not be alive according
the Paups theology. Let me illustrate.
Here ~ man whose occupation is such
that the world derives no benefit from it,
Rather, his business exerts ba.eful and
blghting influence upon his fellows The
business smirches character, destroys body
and soul, and the outcome is a wreck cast
upon the sands of lifc's great ocean Ia
bleach and rot. He conducts a physical
intellectual and moral slaughter house fol
monetary consideration. He knows that
his business is damnable in the sight OF
God and demoralizing to society. He i:
fattening swine or flooding the social or
ganism with lepers. There are no extcnn
ating circumstances. There are no baneh
eial compensations. The results of hi,
business are evil and evil only Yet hg
continues to curse men. / say such @
being, whatever his occupation or socia
standing however great his wealth, il dead
Just. as dead in the sight OF heaven a,
though his body were rotting in tn,
shrouds. He is dead to God. dead to al
moral obligations, dead to all the higher
promptings and pleadings OF the soul tha
- within him. His moral nature is afro
phied. All his thoughts, his impu,ses, hi
acts are carnal. He lives to the flesh, ant
ooi the fiesh reaps corruption. Every shea
that he binds for time or eternity is
bundle OF corruption. The smiles anS
smlrks OF an evil person are not signs o
Me, but danger signals that warn u