remember that another power of man was called out, differing from what he had before.  That Spirit granted on the day of Pentecost did subordinate to Himself, and was, intended to subordinate to Himself, the will, the understanding, and the affection of man; but you often find these spiritual powers were distinguished from the natural powers, and existed without them.

So in the highest state of religious life, we are told, men prayed in the spirit.  Till the spirit has subordinated the understanding, the gift of God is not complete—­has not done its work.  It is abundantly evident that a new life was called out.  It was not merely the sharpening of the intellectual powers; it was calling out powers of aspiration and love to God; those affections which have in them something boundless, that are not limited to this earth, but seek their completion in the mind of God Himself.

Now, what we have to say respecting this threefold state of man is, it is a state of discord.  Let us take up a very simple, popular, every-day illustration.  We hear it remarked frequently in conversation of a man, that if only his will were commensurate with his knowledge, he would be a great man.  His knowledge is great—­his powers are almost unbounded; he has gained knowledge from nearly every department of science; but somehow or other—­you cannot tell why—­there is such an indecision, such a vacillation about the man, that he scarcely knows what to do, and, perhaps does nothing in this world.  You find it remarked, respecting another class of men, that their will is strong, almost unbounded in its strength—­they have iron wills, yet there is something so narrow in their conceptions, something so bounded in their views, so much of stagnation in their thoughts, so much of prejudice in all their opinions, that their will is prevented from being directed to anything in a proper manner.  Here is the discord in human nature.  There is a distinction between the will and the understanding.  And sometimes a feeble will goes with a strong understanding, or a powerful will is found in connection with great feebleness or ignorance of the understanding.

Let us however, go into this more specially.  The first cause of discord in this threefold state of man is the state in which the body is the ruler; and this, my Christian brethren, you find most visibly developed in the uneducated and irreligious poor.  I say uneducated and irreligious, because it is by no means education alone which can subordinate the flesh to the higher man.  The religious uneducated poor man may be master of his lower passions; but in the uneducated and irreligious poor man, these show themselves in full force; this discord—­this want of unity—­appears, as it were, in a magnified form.  There is a strong man—­health bursting, as it were, at every pore, with an athletic body; but coarse, and rude, and intellectually weak—­almost an animal.  When you are regarding the upper classes