a moment's investigation. It is simply confounding the action of
the mind upon the brain with the mind itself. Every effect must have a
cause. When I make a special mental effort what is the cause lying behind
the effort? Is it the molecular action of the brain? I _will to_ make the
effort, and do it. Then will power lies behind brain action. But power is
a manifest energy; there is something lying behind it to which it belongs
as an attribute; what is it? Answer, _will_. But, where there is a _will_
there must of a necessity be that which _wills_. What is it that _wills_
to make a special mental effort--that lies away back "behind the throne"
and controls the helm? It is evidently the I, _myself_, the "inner man,"
_the spirit_. On one occasion, when some of the disciples of the Nazarene
were sleepy, Jesus said to them, "The spirit indeed is willing, but the
flesh is weak." It is the spirit that _wills_ to make a special mental
effort. Here is the "_font_" of all our ideas. "What man knoweth the
things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?" 1 Cor., ii, 11.
_Will_, as an effect, belongs to the spirit of man, as _the cause_ lying
behind. Beyond this no man can trace this subject, short of crossing over
from the spirit of man to the invisible Father of spirits. The spirit of
man is a _wonderful intelligence_! "The body without the spirit is dead,
being alone." When we analyze the physical structure back to the germ and
sperm-cells we are brought face to face with the invisible builder. Call
it what you may, it still remains the same invisible architect, which,
being matter's master, built the organism. We live, and breathe; we die,
and cease breathing. Dead bodies do not breathe. Therefore, life lies
behind breath, and spirit behind life. So life and breath are both
effects, which find their ultimate or cause in _spirit_. This at once sets
aside all that materialists have said in order to show that spirit and
breath are one and the same. The original term, translated by the term
spirit has, in its history, away back in the past, a _physical_ currency.
The old-fashioned materialist or "soul-sleeper" finds his fort in this
fact. His entire aim is to get the people back to an old and obsolete
currency of the term "_pneuma_." If we lay aside words which were used in
a physical sense, in times gone by, we will not have many words to express
the ideas embraced in mental science. In ancient times "_pneuma_"
signified bo