each is biased, or at least modified, by his vocation in life. We are therefore not surprised that the world should take a worldly view of each individual in it, and that the mind must be lifted up into an atmosphere not clouded by the dust of business or profession before we can form just opinions of our fellow men.

But where is the soul to be found which is to form the basis of all opinion of our neighbor? With scalpel in hand we dissect every part of the physical man in vain. Look into the eye, with its wonderful lenses and coats, and though we may catch the shadow of its presence, it is not the soul. Visit the ear and notice its wonderful adaptation to the sense of sound; see the drum as it is played upon by the drum-sticks of vibration; speak through the first telephone, the chain of bones which connects with the nerves, and yet it is still all physical. Or go to the heart, which is honored as the high priest of our affections, and see the ebb and flow of life's tide, and our search is still unrewarded. Or even the brain, with its millions of cells where facts and thoughts are stowed as treasures in a vault, throws little or no light upon it. In despair we turn from the physical and the actual, from matter to conduct, and in what man does, in what he thinks or in what he is, we find the true man, the power behind the throne, manifest in mind, which is reflected in actions.

The first evidence of spiritual man is that of mental control, both within and without this princely palace. Not only control over his feet when he walks or his hands when he works, but control over his relations to others and control over objects about him. Man first learns to master his environment and then himself, but it does not take him long to find out that no one can master successfully the forces which are about him, in nature, in society and in business, unless he can also

master the more difficult problem of self. This power of control is likewise one which may be delegated. He says to his machine, bind my wheat, print my paper, weave my garment, propel my chariot, until all mechanism is throbbing with mind. Here is a likeness to God, and in the might of controlling power man becomes Godlike, and that man has fallen furthest from his Maker who has lost control over self, thus failing to serve that law of God which is to subject all else to the spirit

nature.

A second manifestation of the spiritual man is seen. in a tireless mind. A feature of the merely physical is fatigue; the evidences of decay are to be seen on every side, and nowhere stronger than in man, from the little child whose eager footsteps hasten to its bed with the close of day, to old age "when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong man shall bow himself, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened." On the other hand, the evidence of the Divine is the absence of repose, for God and God's agents never rest. What is soul rest if not its fullest and highest employment, when it has assumed the ascendancy in the affairs of life? The best definition you can find of rest is a change, and the Sabbath day is only a day in which man's best nature is given a chance to employ itself unhampered.

The mind is never still. Awake, asleep, you can no more escape its activity than you can the ticking of a clock, while in death it only abdicates the throne. No wonder the tomb could not imprison long the "Son of Man," when the very spirit of God was incarnate in his flesh. Magnify the mental which we see in the individual and the difficulties of the resurrection disappear.

Another manifestation of the spiritual man is the mind's independence of the material. Like the sea gull

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which wings its way in ceaseless flight day after day with the ship in its journey, never seeking a perch, so the mind is independent in its operation, or like the condor that flies from Andes peak to Andes peak, far above the reach of man's weapon, so the mind is far above every earthly necessity. It traverses the seas and visits scenes of history far distant, while the body remains at home. The mind oft manifests its greatest vigor when the flesh is paralyzed with disease, or in a dream it is conscious of physical impressions while the body has suffered no hurt. This mental part of man, through its power to personify, gives reality to the ideal until virtues stand full formed before us like ideas spread upon the painter's canvas fresh from his brush. This boundlessness is akin to the omnipresence of God, and the mind stands as made in his likeness, when independent of the flesh.

The spiritual man again manifests himself in mental virtues unknown to the flesh. How often in your work of ministry to your fellow men have you seen hope flame the highest amid physical despair. It may have been the consumptive, while breathing almost the last breath, planning for the future. Or old age, buffeted, defeated, prostrate in financial ruin, no longer able to compete with younger men in modern ways of business life, still planning to build higher and stronger on the old foundations. The statement that "while there is life there is hope," is an acknowledgment that behind the external is the eternal man. We are informed by science that "self-preservation is the first law of nature." It may be so of physical nature, but spiritually self-dissemination is stronger than all. Especially is it true of mental acquisitions, for no true mind can long hide its treasures behind rusty and unused doors. The first impulse of mind acquiring a

new truth is to impart it and to disseminate itself. Or again, how often the body plays the coward while the mind is heroic in the extreme. The soldier's limbs may tremble and his feet would fain carry him from the field of battle, but his mind drives him into the thickest of the fray. The same thing takes place in the presence of the surgeon's table, where deeds of mental heroism are daily enacted. Here the soul shining through the mind is akin to the unchangeable purposes of the Infinite, and serving the law of God declares its immortality.

Your mind is truest to itself when communing with its Maker, for man is a born courtier, and everywhere is found bowing before some conception of Deity. Naturally the study of theology and the purchase of books upon theological subjects has increased from the fourth to the second place in literature, for man is finding himself as he draws nearer to Jehovah. He but prostitutes his mind in service of gain; its truest employment is in seeking God. As water journeys till it finds its level, as all colors combine in the white ray, so our natures are never at rest and all the forces of our being act only as one when we perfect ourselves in holy communion.

We come to know God in two ways, through contemplation, or association. And while it is true we can see something of him in the logic of nature, his loveliness in its beauty, his kindness in its utility, we can only see all of God through association. Oh, for that nearness to God which only comes through meditation, prayer, and, as our text indicates, "With the mind serving his law!" Thus God spoke to Jonah and Samuel. Thus Moses communed and Enoch walked with God, and thus may we, beloved, commune and walk with him.

Mind is always coupled with immortality.

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