The Newtown bee., 1898-07-15
Il his strength he could indicate a force


of say u pounds. Then he was told to
multiply Ii by IA and to keep ON pressing
while he was doing it; he did so, and It
was found that if he did the multiplica-
ton problem correctly, he was unable to
press more than 16 pounds while he was
doing it; this was often tried ON many
people; that was clear Indication prov
ed by many experiments, that the mind
effort used in multiplying two simple
numbers was about equal to the physical
effort used by the hands in pressing six
pounds. In other words six pounds Of
hand work in an ordinarily bright mans
strength was required in order to do null
DUPLICATION. AS the problem was made
harder his pressure was less. IL the
problem was q very difficult one which
absorbed all his attention, the pressure
would diminish until lit was almost i'm
possible for him to keep up any pressure
at all if he did anything towards really
solving the problem.
OF COURSE THIS WAS CRUDE, ROUGH
CALCULATION,
but it was very evident that mind effort
was real effort, and that 1T could be
thing as physical strength. That was
interesting; but here was for US a more
interesting thing. Let the man put ev-
cry ounce Of force into his strength, let
him praco tho uooet that ba v,0scihlr onYv Ia
then let some stimulus be added, slim
illus not to his muscles, but one which
| had to do with spiritual powers, let q
strain of magnificent music such as q
bit from the sword song Of Wsgner'e
Siegfried be played: IL he was man
sensitive to such influences, then he had
been using his utmost force before yet
| when that stimulus was added then the
scale would go flying up; you would sec
three, four or five pounds above his ex'
treme bodily strength added just by such
spiritual stimulus. On the other hand il
was just as possible to take away his
strength, as surely as if you took it away
by weakening his arm, it was possible te
take it away by bringing some discour'
aging spiritual stimulus to bear, play 6
dirge, or a sleeping song, If the man was
one moved by such things, it affected the
strength of his pressure really and radi
cally. There is no doubt that such spir,
itual impulses as hope, faith, joy, or ev'
en- prayer could be shown to have direct
power and influence on q mans strength
save that one will not experiment with
such, as he will with music. In ether
words the soul Is a real force in the life
Such things explain how that thing la q
fact which we so often read about, anG
which we all haYe experienced, thai
some great stimulus or excitement, some
influence brought to bear on us will af
feet our strength, will increase or di
minish it according as to whether it il
one calculated to help or hinder us. We
will do things under excitement, which
we could not possibly do at other times
We can easily see that faith can add q
distinct strength to the vigor wherewitk
SICK man will fight disease, and love
will add strength to the arm that strikes
other words the spirit impulses are rea
impulses; they are so real as to be
manifested even in physical ways, and
probably il that was endeavored
they could be roughly measured
in Ebody units up to . certain limit
SO one of our real present matter OF fact
possessions is our spiritual possession
1t is a power which can be cultivated OF
can be neglected.
Then, salvation the saving of the
soul comes to have present and literal
meaning, which Is worth while consider.
ing. Here Ia power which can be ours
for the using in this life; here is the
spiritual power, the soul, it is as real al
the arm; it is as much part of as 90
foot or heart or head. That soul has
evidence of immortality, we believe it to
be the heir of the future life, that la the
hope and faith Of all ages, and religions,
but any how starting off to consider only
this life: it is real power; it is a pos
| session. It can be cultivated, and 80
preserved. or it can be neglected, and 50
deteriorate. Indeed IL seems TO be d mat
ter of evidence that 1t can be lost, this
spiritual gift, even here on earth. It can
vanish from mans nature by disuse, or
violation of the laws OF It's preservation,
A continued course Of wicked things, OF
sensual things weaken, and probably nj.
timately destroy this spiritual faculty.
A continued cu1tivating OF spiritual