My friends, when will we fast-living, fast-eating, fast-working, and fast-dying Americans learn the great lesson, that life is a unit, that the Divine Trinity in us, namely, the physical, intellectual, and spiritual, is one life, with different phases of expression; and whatever mars one mars the whole, and whatever builds up one most surely builds up the others? All our powers are many members in one body, with an inter-dependence which is eternal. Slight your body, and you smite your soul and enervate the mind. Corrupt the mind, and you debase both body and soul. When will those who profess to be God’s children by the adoption of the Holy Ghost, catch the Spirit of His great Apostle Paul, who, more than any other sacred writer, maintained the sanctity of the human body and its subservience to the mind and soul. Hear him: “I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, and be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” I admit the power of the Holy Ghost in the work of regeneration, but is there not something for us to do, in keeping our bodies under, “lest we become cast-aways?” I do not say that _all_ human evils and ills have their primary origin in physical habits, but I do say that the great mass of impulsions from the excited, inflamed, over-stimulated body toward the soul, are in the interests of sin. The economy of salvation orders otherwise. By the Gospel the body may become the temple of the Holy Ghost. By the law of self-denial of the New Testament, our bodies, with all their fiery elements, may be made an inspiration to our souls. It is not the purpose of God that a life-time warfare shall be kept up between the body and the soul. There ought to come to every true Christian a day of final victory over his bodily powers, in which they will cease their rebellion, and come into the sweetest union with the soul in its great work of developing a likeness to Christ. Why are we called upon to present the body a living sacrifice to God, if its powers are not to be sanctified to holy purposes? Why should we spend all our life waiting for the adoption of our whole nature, to wit, the redemption of the body, as well as the soul. Our fondest dreams for the progress of humanity must be based in a newly created body by strict obedience to the laws of God, written on every fibre, tissue, muscle, and bone. We cannot develop the human brain and heart to the possibilities that God has put in them, while they are the tenants of bodies the laws of which are violated in the commonest habits of every-day life.