your nature, physical, material, animal; but you have got a mind and emotions or “soul”; and you have got a spirit.  To act as though you had not is just as futile as to pretend that you have not got a body.  “Where there is no vision the people perish.”  “Mankind is incurably religious.”  “All the world seeks after God.”  Those proverbs, those sayings, which are familiar to all, crystallize the world’s experience that human beings are spiritual beings.  If there is any person who thinks that he is merely an intellect and a body, I will direct the attention of that intellect of his away from himself to the race, and I will remind him that practically no race in the world has ever been entirely without the sense of God; that, however hard men try, they have never been able to cure humanity of its spiritual hunger; that though our gods are often gross and earthy, even diabolical, yet they are spiritual, and they are the proof that man is spiritually aware; that he is a spirit as well as a body and a soul.  Now I say that anyone who tries to base his morality on the assumption that he is only a body, or only an intelligence, or only a spirit, has got a false standard, and his morality is a dishonest kind of morality.  The body will avenge itself on those who ignore it.  Psychologists are teaching us that the mind will avenge itself on those who ignore it.  And this is just as true of the spirit.  Where there is no vision the people do perish.  Your spiritual nature avenges itself on those who try to rule it out.  Base your morality either on the exclusion of any part of your being, or on the assumption that what you do concerns yourself alone; and you will find that you are violating human nature.  It is useless for you to act wrongly and to affirm that you do it “because human nature is what it is.”  When you do so, you are assuming that human nature is not what it is; that is to say you assume that it is purely physical, when, in fact, it is three-fold—­body, soul and spirit.  You can see for yourselves, I think, how this violation of human nature works itself out.  For animals promiscuity is not wrong.  When they treat themselves as purely animals they are basing their moral standard, if I may put it so, on bed-rock; they are animals, and therefore they behave as animals without violating any law of their being.  As they rise higher in the scale of evolution their morals become nobler.  There are moral standards among the lower animals, but they remain at a certain level, and rightly so.  No animal is harmed by behaving like an animal, for in doing so he obeys the law of his being; but if human beings behave as though they were animals, what happens?  They find to their horror that they have let loose upon the world detestable, hideous and devastating diseases.  Do you think that medicine will ever be able to rid the world of what are called the diseases of immorality as long as immorality remains?  I do not believe it.  I know that you can do much for individual sufferers, though you cannot do one-tenth part of what doctors thought they were going to be able to do, eight or nine years ago.  And, of course, whatever we can do, we must and ought to do.  But we do not reach the root of the matter by medicine.