this world is composed of a twofold element — of a body and of a soul — of a body that comes from the earth through our parents to us — and of a soul that comes, not from the earth, but comes directly from the hand of God— of a body that shall one day go down again to the dust from which it sprang — and of a soul that shall one day return to the bosom of its Creator. Each of these elements has its own wants and its own necessities, which, in obedience to Nature's first law of self-preservation, the composite man is bound to respect and provide for. The body demands its bodily food and drink and clothing, and the soul demands the spiritual food of Christ's flesh, and the spiritual drink of Christ's blood, and the spiritual clothing of God's divine grace. But according as men are more worldly or more spiritual, so are they more solicitous in providing for the wants of the body or of the soul, so that mankind is, and always has been, and ever will be, divided into two great classes — worldlings and saints — the votaries of the body and the votaries of the soul — the slaves of Mammon and the servants of God. Now, since, according to St. Paul, the law of the flesh is directly opposed to the law of the spirit; since " whosoever is not with Christ is against Him," therefore, I say, the worldling cannot be a saint and the saint cannot be a worldling, for no man can serve two masters; no man can at the same time serve God and Mammon. But alas, what a choice does man make I He prefers to serve the body that he seeth, rather than the soul that he seeth not. He forgets that his body is
