The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-07-31
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all ,thatWas going on it would be
shocked There are sins that will
blast your, home; that will cripple
your influence for good; and that will
dam your soul except YOU repent.
:: As a rule men do not plunge into
gross and desperate sin at one bound.
They lean toward sin before they
leap into sinsp Just as a bridge is
weakened by the continued. washing
around the foundation of the pier SO
character is broken by a gradual but
certain submission to sins sway In
the life until finally the step is taken
that results in disgrace and ruin.
The seed Of one Of those giant trees
in California is no larger than a
mustard seed, yet see what 1t grows
to: y Sin begins small like a mustard
seed but develops until 1t controls the
entire man to his ruin. Sin, Is like
leprocy that poisons the blood and
gradually brings on death. e. - ~.
Robert Louis Stevenson in most
striking and forcible manner has told
Fof bhe operation of this law in. the
moral world and the peril of persist
ing in these things that, are con-
trary to the best interests Of'the soul.
In his story. of DR.. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde he pictures the gradual develop
ment and power of evil in the indt-
vidual life, You remember that DR..
Jekyll was kind and respected ply
stefan who discovered remarkable
drug that had the power to change
him into a mean and cruel individ-
uaL known as Mr.. Hyde. For weeks
he would be DR.. Jekyll, tender and
loving and kind to everybody, then
after taking the drug he would take
on the the character of Mr.. Hyde,
cruel and murderous. y S. t*s
AS Mr.. Hyde, a child ran against
him on the street and he felled her
to the ground with one blow. One
night an old man with white hair,
politely asked him to show him the
way to a certain place and Hyde flew
in rage and knocked him down with
his kane, and then with ape-like fury
leaped on his PROSTATE form and like
a fiend crushed his bones Everybody
loved DR.. Jekyll, while everybody
turned away from Mr.. Hyde with.
loathing and disgust. .,s, : !: ID
r. Time went by and the transforms
|tfon was made again and again by
the aid Of the drug, BY and by DR..
Jekyll noticed it became easier and
easter to-, cha nge himself from his
good. self to. his evil self, from the
good doctor to the. wicked Mr.. Hyde,
and at the same time it was getting
harder to change himself back to
/ DR.. Jekyll. Finally he would be-
leone Mr. Hyde without even the
Iuse Of the drug. He wentA to bed as
| DR.. Jekyll and woke UP as Mr.. Hyde.
He sat down on a bench in the park
and suddenly he changed to Mr..
Hyde. Then one day he shut himself
in his room and try as he would he
could not transform himself again
to the good side Of his nature. His
servants heard q strange voice in his
room whining and crying. Friends
were called in to see what was the
trouble and he locked the door. They
battered down the door and there on
the floor they found DR.. Jekyll dying
as the wicked Mr.; Hyde. He had
taken poison when he found 1t Inn
possible to overcome the evil nature
that had gotten the better Of him.
Ths{seis smother form OF sin known
as rel &ex6hJe sin. It Is SO common
that H does not shock anybody. You
may beaH 4&epectable sinner and vet
carry no Social stigma. Respectable
sin is thefsfn that is tolerated by res
pectable society and does not have
the door shut in it's face. The res
I,pectable sinner never shocks OF
startles people; he or she. never out
RACES the feelings of society OF
breaks Its unwritten laws.
|:t% God s however uses scathing Ian
guage when he speaks of the respect
able sinners Jesus Christ fairly Bills
tered such! in, his day and unmerci-
fully held them up to scorn. He was
severe on respectable sin because Of
its deadening influence on the con-
science. When man can do things