The Washington herald., 1918-02-13
| EVENING SERMON
DR.. Jekyll and MIR. Hyde

Hyde. When he was in that dispo-
sition, he was Hyde; when he was
good and pure, he called himself DR..
Jekyll. When he was Mr.. Hyde he
slanted his handwriting; he opened a
bank account in the name of Mr..
Hyde, and never drew against that
bank account unless he was going
| down the line as Mr. Hyde. He
never drew against that account when
he was DR.. Jekyll.
So he made this a real nature. For
long time he lived this double life,
switching from DR.. Jekyll to Mr..
Hyde and from Mr.. Hyde to DR..
Jekyll-good to his wife, going down
the street in a limousine with her
and passing another woman in an
other limousine that he bought and
paid for when he was Mr.. Hyde
keeping somebody on the side when
he was Mr.. Hyde.
Now wait a minutei The drug
which he drank had no discriminat-
ing action at all. oh no, not a par
ticle! He would change from Hyde
to Jekyll as easily as he would
change from Jekyll to Hyde. 1t was
the person who took the drug that
had the power of discrimination! I!
He could decide which he would be.
1t wasn't the drug.
So, you've got the power to de-
eide whether you will go to heaven
or hell, or hell or heaven. You are
the discriminating power in you.
One thing / know is this: Every
time DR.. Jekyll used the drug to
release Mr.. Hyde. Mr.. Hyde grew
stronger, sir, until the day came
when Hyde was stronger than
Jekyll.
And the heartrending and sicken-
ing story ends with the victory of
he'll. DIR. Jekyll died Mr.. Hyde. He
died damned, vile, corrupt, iniQui-
tous. You can't fool all your days
with evil. no sir,
Free to Make Choice.
Now with these few facts laid be-
fore us we learn something. First,
there is a DR.. Jekyll. thank God. in
every man and woman. The possi-
biIities OF heaven and hell lie con-
cealed in everybody.
1t is free with everybody today,
/ to make his choice and turn away
/ from God and from this truth. And
| yet 1 say. throbing in the breast of
every man and woman of the hurry
| ing. rushing pushing, crowd, going
pellmell down the street, is a force
that woos them and pleads with
/ them to do right, calls to the very
\ highest in their life as the sun
| kisses the moisture into the skies
| / believe that at heart nine-tenths
of the people in the world want to
be better than they are. 1 make no
I NJ
/ hard and cruel and reckless, still 1
will plead the cause for that man
! or woman.
. Why" you say to me, does the
! drunkard or the harlot want to be
| better?"
Undoubtedly. I have never seen
a drunkard in my life that didn't
want to be sober and do the right
thing. no matter how low down he
is. I've never seen any, and I've
faced them for twenty-one years. They
all want to do better than they are
1 do not believe that the painted
woman of the street can pass a pure
woman by with the divine blush of
modesty on her cheek without envy
ing the woman that hasn't sold her
womanhood. The prostitute envies the
/ yirtuous woman, she would like to
be like that woman. The drunkard
envies the sober man. The thief en-
I vies the honest man. That is true
| all through this old world.
What a world Of bitterness and
/ criticism would vanish If we only
made it a rule in our life never to
brand a man or woman as hopelessly
and helplessly bad until after we had
! bankrupted our powers trying to make
them decent and live a decent life!
| God hates sin. God makes a dis
/ tinction between sin and the sinner.
God hates sin. God will not COM
promise with sin, but God loves the
sinner and God is doing all He can
| to keep the sinner out Of hell.
Reciprocity In Love.
I think one reason why so many
people are so blind to the love of
God is that they are always measur-
ing God by the rules that apply to
human beings. We love anybody as
long as they love US. When they
cease to love, we cast them OF and
pass them up. Not so with God! If
God would cast on all who don't love
him, half of the world would be
cropping around today, but God still
AoNCo IHcTe lSIl a person on
earth that God hates. God wants
them all to do right and forsake their
sins.
erything. No. you are wrongI Death
has not conquered everything, death
has never conquered a mothers love
and never will conquer 1t.
Oh. God Is in love with the beauti-
full God il daal
uful. God paints the lily. He dis
tills the dew-drop. He moulds the
pear:
Sin is beautiful. is IT? No! Sin is
vile. God hates that. Love fs beau-
tifuL. God loves the beautiful. God
Is in love with the beautiful. He
wants people to do right and forsake
their sins.
L think the bravest fight, sir. that
a man ever makes is the fight against
physical appetite. One of the great
est heroes in the world, in NV opjn-
ION, Is the man who Is struggling
against the demands of an infamed.
appetite, disordered physical frame in
which every nerve cries out for some
thing to drink or for the qualification
OF some desire. Oh, what a battlei
On, how he lights. Oh, how he struR-
giles! oh, how he conjures up the
fond face Of his mother and OF hi.
child, that for their sake he NAV be
decent and win out in the worldI
When the body masters the soul,
you've got a sinner. When the soul
masters the body you've got faint,
The soul is a gift from God. The
soul can think with God, act with
God. The soul without God is lone
some and The soul wants God to come