The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-13
TIE NECESSITY FOR A
 RENEWAL OF SOUL Sermon by Rev. Al. Haynes on the Daily Renewal
 of Life. MISUSE OF TRADITION Renewal of Soul by Exer- else of Spiritual Faculties.
MISUSE OF TRADITION

day morning:
 Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day." II Corinthians iv, 16.
 The Apostle means by the outward man." not alone the body, but bodily as we'll He includes in this term, outward man, as might be shown by reference to other texts, the various conditions of our material ex- istence-the work we do, the things we possess, all that ministers to our well-' being must comfort in the actual world of sense. This outward life, accord ing to the Apostle, has no permanent value Not, necessarily, that it is evil; it simply passes away. To use the word of the text, it perishes; or, better, as the revised version has it, lis decay ing-our outward man is decaying.
 Turning to the second division of the text it will be evident that he means. by the term inward man" what we call, rather vaguely, the soul. The soul, says the apostle, is renewed day by day. And If you ask what is meant by the soul, I can give you, fear, no very satisfactory answer. Just to en- umerate the various definitions Of this word, soul, would consume all the time at our disposal. Certain quaint old lines bear out my statement:
 "One thinks the soule is ainre; another
 fire;
 Another blood, diffus'd about the
 heart;
 Another saith the clements conspire,
 And to her essence each doth give a
 part.
 Musicians thinke our soules are har-
 monies;
 Physicians hold that they complex
 ions be,
 Epicures make them swarms of atom
 Which doe by chance into our bodies
 flee.
 Some think our general soule fills every braine,
 As the bright sunne9 sheds light in
 every stare;
 And others thinks the. name of soule Is yaine,
 And that we onely, well-mixt bodies are"
 St is clear that we cannot enter into a discussion of these and numerous other theories. Accordingly, l shall content myself with most general statement. The problem of conscious ness is one that the pulpit will do well 1 to let alone at the present time, 4 does seem, however, that the trend of things to-day is to give us a surer basis l for our faith that the soul is a subs l tantial entity. Little by little the old dualism is breaking down; the matter l which held that spirit and matter are two radically different kinds of sub stances-one characterized by con sciousness, the other by extension, The l philosophers of to-day are in stam- pede away from this doctrine of dual | ism. Most of them hold to some form of monism; some saying that the sin ge principle of the universe Is mind or spirit, and matter its product, others | saying that this principle is matter, oi which mind or spirit is the product Into these controversies we cannot oi course enter; I have touched upon thu | philosophical issues involved in the tex only to note the fact that materialsm seems to be losing the battle at almos every point where it has joined issue with the adherents of a splrltuallstiC | philosophy. I confidently hope that wt are upon the verge of discoveries tha will demonstrate to us, with scientific | exactness, the reality of the soul as al | entity in itself; capable of feeling thinking, willing, capable of living it own life apart from the body. I desirt to live long enough to have my faitl that l am not @ body possessing a soul but a soul making use of it's own body to have this faith fully justified b, the teachings of science. Meanwhile, shall endeavor, by the principle of faitl alone, to interpret life from the spirit | ual side; 1 shall continue to speak o the moral and emotional part of mans nature as his soul. It is thus interpret the Apostles phrase, the lin ward man." and thus interpreted tn text would read like this,-Though tn body with all that pertains to the bod fly life is in process of change and de cay, the soul, with all those feeling and munitions and purposes that sprlnl out of it, is renewed day by day.
 It will not be denied, am sure tha such q renewal of life as that spoke of in the text is much to be desired The age needs, as it needs nothing else rebirth of fresh feeling; it needs t pass up into some new experience tha shall revivify its faith. Am I mistake in supposing this to be the chief diff culty in many of our New Englan churches? They live in the thought c a past generation; but far more seri ous than that, they live in the spirit
 ual experience of a past generation l The fountains of soul life have becom l sealed; and the people no longer expec 1 that daily refreshing that follows upo l some new revelations of truth to som sure awakening of love, within tn l soul In such a church there is notil ing new to learn, and of course, moth
 ing new to state. The Bible is an ol l book, but it is not, as it should be, ] snew book. The Christian experienc has ceased to be interesting simply be cause it has ceased to grow. In scienc,
 in philosophy in art, there is constar
 renewal in religion alone all is ant
 quated and therefore unreal Mo1 tragically suggestive than we have suy
 pected is the old hymn:
 'iWhere is the blessedness I kne-
 when first I saw the Lord2'
 speak thus directly because woul impress upon you this thought there
 nothing in the world that becomes-t
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