The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-23
"a mans best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet

"a mans best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet"
THE LIVING TEMPLE. %
Not in the world of light alone
Where God has built His blazing throne,
Nor yet alone in earth below,
With belted seas that come and so,
And endless isles of surIit green
is all thy Makers glory seen;
Look, in upon thy wondrous frame,
Eternal wisdom still the same
The smooth, soft air, with pulse-Iike
Flows murmuring through its hidden
caves ",
Whose streams of Frightening purple
rush,
Fired with a new and livelier blush (8y,
While all their burden of decay
The ehbing current steals away "a;
And REQ with Natures flame they start
from the warm fountains of the heart.
No rest that throbbing slave (5) may ask,
Forever quivering Ger his task,
While far and wide crimson jet
Leaps forth to fill the woven net (6),
Which in unnumbered crossing tides
The flood of burning life divides;
Then. kindling each decaying part %,
Creeps back to find the throbbing heart
But, warmed with that unchanging
Behold the outward moving frame;
y
thong 90,
And linked to reasons guiding reins 40
BY myriad rings C1E in trembling chains
Each craven with the threaded zone 12)
Which claims it as the Masters own.
See how yon beam of seeming white
Is braided out Of seVen-hued light 49,;
Yet III those lucid globes Qf no ray
By any chance shall break astraY.
Hank how the rolling surge (15) of sound.
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Wakes the hushed spirit through thine
With music It is heaven to hear
Then mark the cloven sphere ue) that
A Al thought in its mysterious folds;
/ nat fSeis senSa ton 5 90 faintest
And flashes GS) for the sovereign Will;
Think on the stormy would that dweis
Locked in it's dim and clustering cells G95
The lightning CLEANS Of power it sheds
Along its hollow CLASSY threads (20l!
0 Father grant thy love divine
10 make these mystic temples thine!
When wasting age and wearYing strife
Have Have s9pped the leaning walls Of life,
When darkness gathers over all
And the last lettering pillars fall
Take the poor dust Thy mercy warns
And mold it into heavenly forms!
% The human frame The human body
is composed Of hundreds of bones, mus
cIes. nerves etc, all working together in
most wonderful and marvellous harmony.
(2} The air cells Of the lungs. The aggre-
gate SURFACE of the air cells of the lungs
exceeds 10000 square inches, an area
nearly equal TO the floor of a room twelve
feet square. The average adult lungs
contain an estimated number of 900, O90, 900
air~cellS They are so delicate that the
very least hard pressure would cause in
tense pain, yet tons of air surge through
their intricate pages. We breathe mill
ions of tons every year.
(S) The blood, by being purified in the
lungs by oxygen, is changed from a dark
purple to a light crimson hue.
~ ''Ebbfng curent'-the expired air. A
great portion of the decayed and worn
out particles Of the body are thrown cut
from the lungs in the form of carbonis
acid and vaPor
81 The heart This little organ, by it's
ceaseless Industry, Gin the allotted span
the psalmist gave to man" exerts Il
power equal TO the lifting the enormous
weight of nearly 400 000, coo pounds The
heart was In former ages thought to be
the seat of all affection, love purity,
goodness and evil passions Science has
found the seat of the mental faculties to
be in the brain. while the liver has 10 do
with the physical feelings. While the
heart has lost it's romance, It is still the
seat of wonders.
and capillaries. The circulation of the