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Our Double Personality.

One of the favorite themes pf.fl
modern psychologist is mans sdcI
bic personality" and 1T strikes
| reader not familiar with st PAM
| epistles as a wonderful dissolved
But long before 1t became a prinefr
of science 1t was a tenet of theolog&
and the great apostle has had mai
to echo his words-many who tha1
| found that when they would do goo
evil was present with them. Mar
double personality was in the Epfst|
| to the Roman'sbefore 1t was In HaE
let, and it was In the soliIoquy OF t
King of Denmark before It was ella
Grated in Stevenson's "Dr. JekyIlAI|
| Mr.. HYDE Even the phrase ts al
very different from the Bible nomeI
| clature of the .'old man" and
new man" struggling for mastery
our souls.
He must be very blind who dol
not confess that he Is the subject
contending impulses, desires and paI
sions. He is not simply "a pendnln|
between a smile and a tear" he is
shuttle-ball between sin and grad
between heaven and hell.
Call it what one will, accept
modern phrase IL it suits better, b
it is the part Of wisdom so to guild
and direct life as to recognize IL
| facts which environ us. A man bea1
ing in himself all these element
propensities cannot AFFORD to ieno}
his perils as though they did not
list. Some Of our insurance compa1
les risked their entire capital upon
site subject to earthquakes. But Thu
is wisdom itself beside the act OF
man who risks his immortal sol
amid passions liable at any mome1
to throw him of his feet and to5sS
on fire his passions by flames risin|
from the pit.
One does not get rid Of life BY gel
ting rid Of the Bible which SO fait4
fully mirrors It. Mans life, as "
commonly know 1t, is not simple, !
not fixed, Is not irldesctructible: B4
ing what he is he is q fool IL he ven
lures near the fame in garments q
tissue.
Being what he is,- the young maj
cannot afford to venture too tnear st4
He is not adamant. Before he real
Ices his danger his evil desires begi|
to smoke. There Us something y
him-call it what Paul called 1t 9
,all it what the man of science cal
It. that matters not-whfch is liabl
at any moment to respond to the az
peal made to it. Spirits when mad
perfect may not have this double pei
sonality, but he has It, and II wis4
he will bear himself accordingly.
Give the better life IN one: the bel
ter chance. 1t is not sufficient q
shun danger. It is required, that
man build up virtue. Give the noble
|. personality what it needs for nurtrrf
Feed that life with the bread whicI
came down from heaven, and refresI
It's exhausted strength with Wate1I
from beneath the throne. A ma
tossed between doubt and faith,
nine cases out Of ten reads the WITH
ings of some agnostic., Why not hei|
the other nature in the soul by read
ing the other book, the Bible?
But science is teaching US anothe|
lesson not to be forgotten. In ou|
old-fashioneds laundering husbandr1
we used to treat the vine, the shrub
the tree, for their various diseases
Now we treat the ground from wh1cI
they spring. Instead Of doctoringSthI
crop we cure the soil. The way
keep the potato from rotting is to,re
create the hill by innoculatton. AM
the way to deliver the soul from II
soul maladies is to make it a nel
creature by the power of an IN
grated grace which reaches belo1
the roots as well as below the fruitsI
This is what Paul meant when 1
answer to his own question, VIII
shall deliver me?" he answered
"Thanks be,to God who giveth us th|
victory through u Lord Jesu|
Christ?"-The Interior.