the body more, or goad the soul to greater crimes. Hear it: “This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard.” That is, bad conditions of the physical nature, wrought by gluttony and drunkenness, have made him stubborn and rebellious. It will not help the case to say that his stubbornness and rebellion caused his gluttony and drunkenness, for if they did, then his soul must act on the body. His morals must influence his manners, and therefore his manners must reflect on his morals; they must interact, which is just the point we make; that his appetite and lust fire the temperament or disposition, and a fiery disposition provokes appetite and lust to wilder indulgences. A remarkable fact, in this day of advanced science and revelation, is that Christians and moralists in their work of reform have paid so little attention to the influence of the body on the soul. Jesus Christ more than any other teacher or reformer recognized the demoralizing and debasing influence of bad bodily conditions. Hence he almost always healed maladies of the body before he entered his principles upon the soul. It is true that his many miracles on the bodies of men were primarily intended to reveal his divinity; yet divinity in its manifestations always runs over the whole line of the natural before passing into the supernatural; therefore Christ’s miracles on the bodies of men had a sanitary side to them. The man with the leprosy was in the poorest condition bodily to hear favorably any talk about moral sweetness; hence Christ healed his diseased body, in connection with his moral teachings. His example with the blind and hungry and deaf in this respect ought not to go for nothing with those of us who seek to save men in our day. Philanthropists and Christians for the most part have overlooked the power of a debased body on the soul. They forget that Paul likens a body that has sinful habitudes to a thing of death, as compared with the soul that seeks to live the new life in Christ Jesus. Therefore good men have labored to create in themselves and those whom they seek to reform, certain emotional conditions of the spirit, by a tenacious adherence to creeds, or the patient performance of a set round of religious duties, and all this regardless of bad physical conditions begotten by bad habits of eating and drinking. While they have been struggling to bring their own souls and the souls of others into holy attitudes, all the basilar forces of the body have run riot within, and perhaps beyond, the pale of human customs and human laws. If you want to empty a boiler of steam, it will not help you much by lifting the safety valve if you still keep water in the boiler and fire in the furnace. Prayer, Bible reading and Psalm singing will not help a man much to get rid of his sins, if he keeps up a set of bodily habits which fire the body and inflame the soul to continue its sinning.