ed away, and the human brother was restored to his
senses and to his home. This is a parable of the spiritual attitude
toward oppressors, toward those who oppress the people in
public, as well as toward those who oppress us in our private lives.
We must liberate them from the brutal frame in which they are
inclosed; we must give them back their human shape!

IV. THE TWO SOULS IN THE HUMAN BREAST.

Sunday, Dec. 11, 1904.

Painful and revolting associations are called up by the
phrase--"leading the double life." To the aversion provoked by the
evil itself, is added in such cases the disgust excited by the hypocrisy
with which it is cloaked. He who leads a double life offends not
only by the wrong he does, but by borrowing the plumes of virtue.
He lives a perpetual lie; he is "a whited sepulchre, clean on the
outside, full of filth and corruption within." The Beecher trial at
the time so profoundly agitated the whole country, because the
accusations brought forward associated the name of one of the
most prominent characters of the nation, a man of brilliant talent
and meritorious service, with secret impurity. The more
meritorious such a man's services, the more damning the charges if
they be established. Nor do we admit in such cases the sophistical
argument, that the interests of public morality require the facts to
be hushed up in order to avoid a scandal. Nothing is so imperative
where guilt really exists as that it be confessed and expiated. The
public conscience requires the truth. Let the sinner make a clean
breast of it; let the atmosphere be cleared by an act of public
humiliation. No injury to the cause of public morality is so great as
the lurking suspicion that men who stand forth as exponents of
morality are themselves corrupt. Lurking suspicion, distrust of all
the moral values, is worse than recognition of human weakness,
however deplorable.

There are other examples of the double life, with which all who
have knowledge of the world's ways are familiar. That of the
merchant, for instance, who, though he has long been virtually a
bankrupt, conceals his position behind a screen of opulence,
emulating the sumptuous expenditure of the rich, living a life of
glittering show; tortured inwardly by the fear of exposure, yet not
courageous enough to be honest; sinking deeper himself and, what
is worse, dragging others down with him. A young man at college
sometimes leads a double life, his letters home being