The Washington herald., 1918-02-13

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hawked about the building copies Of
strengthen the Hyde nature. Jesus
Christ comes to feed and strengthen
the DIR. Jekyll nature, to help you to
be decent That's why we built this
Tabernacle.
But listen! Thank God, folks, there
is ray OF light to the story and 1
bring 1t to you. Your Will is su-
preme. That's the ray of light Your
will is the pivot of your destiny. that's
the ray of light You are the one
who can say who will take the throne
! of your life, and II you weren't I
wouldn't be preaching to you.
In front of you tonight stands the
/ mild hammered, pure, virtuous, re-
fined DR.. Jekyll nature that wants to
to be decent. On the other side
crouches the dwarfed, mean, vile. low.
misshappen- Hyde, and he asks con-
troll. Neither Of them can take con-
| troll until you say which. You can
say who will win, heaven or hell. You
can say whether hell will weep to-
night, or heaven will weep. or whether
| heaven will smile or hell will smile
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be written on the Lambs Book Of
Life or whether it will not. Your will
is supreme-that Is the pivot OF your
| destiny. It's up to you to say whether
it's Hyde or Jekyll who wins-it's up
to you. God has decreed the freedom
of your will.
Drug Not Discriminating.
The drug, as l told you, in Steven
| sons story had no discriminating
power Of action. It was the will Of
the fellow who took the drug that
decided whether 1t would be Hyde
or Jekyll. Don't forget that part.
And you're got the same position to-
day-now. There are men today who
try to avoid this truth and they
try and blame It on others or other
things. Please don't do it. You are
at fault.
Here's another man. He tries to
blame hts cussedness on his environ
ment. We are trying to apologize for
| our dannation on an economical basis
Forget It! Forget II! You can't raise
morals in proportion as you raise the
|, scale Of wages l believe in wages,
and as much as you can get, but you
don't increase morals as you increase
the scale of wages. You've got to
look far beyond the payroll.
1 firmly believe that environment
has a great influence upon character
believe If society permits any con-
siderable portion of her people to live
in foul, unlighted rooms, where eight
to ten people cook and eat and sleep
in one room, and where they work
twelve or fourteen or fifteen hours
a day; believe II society allows de-
serving manhood to struggle along on
less than living wages and compels
him and his family to live below the
hunger line; IL society permits the
shoulders of widowed motherhood to
be forced down under Industrial bond
age and throws the unripe strength
Of children into the great hopper Of
corporate greed to be ground up into
dividends, society has got to share the
| responsibility IL those kids grow up to
be thugs, thieves, drunkards and pros
| titutes,
| All the devil can do Is to tempt
you Remember your will is supreme
| Please remember there was no dis
eliminating power in that drug at all;
1t was the will of the fellow who
drank the drug that would deter
NAC A1saC PAOpOSANiOng anu IL . up
to you to say whether you will be
Christian or not. Remember, all the
| devil can do is to tempt you, and
there are not devils enough in hell to
make you sin IL you don't want to
sin, and there are not angels enough
in heaven to make you decent il
you don't want to be decent. It's up
to you. It's up to you.
Your will IL The seat of
your religion is not in your lachry-
NAL glands; no, it Is not in your hand
kerchiefi no, 1t is not blowing your
nose and singing "Come, to Jesus"
Oh, no. religion Is not In your tears.
Ray of Hope.
Even that ray of hope may be ex-
| tinguished and when it Is gone your
life is a blackened page which, IL
given up to your evil will, then your
will is no longer a power to resist.
Then God pity you!
One of the laws OF Nature is that
the abuse or the prostitution OF any
force or faculty must be paid for by
the death or paralysis of it. II you
have something and you don't use
1t, you lose 1t because you didn't use
1t when you did have It. God gave
1t and you didn't use 1t and that is
one of the laws Of Nature. that you've
got to pay for it by the death or par
alysis of it.
So, IL you don't use your will you
will lose 1t, because. 1t will be para
lyzed. And IL you keep on hitting it
up for the devil, after a while you
will be like old Jekyll and you will
die and away you will go. DR.. Jekyll
at first would change into Mr.. Hyde
only when he chose to do SO, but every
time he released Hyde. Hyde grew
stronger and more powerful and hard
er to conttol.
Every time you do wrong it's easier
to do that wrong the next time. Every
time you take q drink, the next time
has more power and the second and
/ the third and on down through, sir.
"Oh, wretched man that I am; who
shall da1fxyar