The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-23

"A mans best things axe 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 r, yet alone in earth below,
With belted seas that come and CO.
And endless isles. Of sunlit green,
is all thy Makers glory seen:
Look, in upon thy wondrous frame,
Eternal wisdom still the same.
The smooth soft air, with pulse-like
waves,
Flows murmuring through its hidden
caves %,
Whose streams. Of Frightening purple
rush,
Fired with a new and livelier blush (8y,
w nile all their burden of decay
the ehblng current steals away "a;
And red 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 a crimson Jet
Leaps forth to fill the woven net co.,
Which IN unnumbered crossing tides
The flood Of burning life divides;
Then, kindling each decaying part 90
Creeps back to find the throbbing heart
But, warmed with that unchanging
Behold &c 3. the outward moving frame;
With glistening band and silvery
thong 90,
By myriad rings G11) in trembling chains
Each craven with the threaded zone f12}
Which claims it as the Masters own.
See how yon beam of seeming white
Is braided out of seven-hued light (13);
Yet in those lucid globes GG no ray
By any chance shall, break astraY.
iark how the rolling surge d5) of sound,
Wakes the hushed spirit through thine
ear
With music it is heaven to hear.
Then mark The cloven sphere us1 that
Al thought in its mysterious folds;
nat +,t LEES sensation 90 faintest
And flashes. (lS) for the sovereign Will;
Inlnk on the. stormy would that dweiis
Locked in it's dim and clustering cells! G99
The lightning CLEANS of power it sheds
-A-ong It's hollow CLASSY threads (2ol!
0 Father. grant thy love divine
20 make these mystic temples thine!
When wasting age and wearying strife
have sapped the leaning walls of life,
Anen darkness gathers over all
And the last tottering pillars fail.
Take the poor dust Thy mercy warns
And mold it into heavenly forms!
d) The human frame The human BODY
is composed of hundreds of bones. mus
cles. 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 room twelve
feet squares The average adult lungs
contain an estimated number of 500 900, 600
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.
CD The blood by being purified in the
lungs by oxygen, is changed from a dark
purple to a light crimson hue
"a ''Ebbfng current -trle-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 2arbopis
acid and vaPor.
t51 The heart. THIS little organ. by its
ceaseless Industry, in the allotted span
the psalmist gave to man. exerts a
power equal TO the lifting the enormous
weight of nearly 40GOG0,0OO pounds. The
heart was In former ages thought tc 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 to do
with the physical feelings. While the
heart has lost its romance, It is still the
seat of wonders.
90 Woven net" the net work Of veins
and capillaries The circulation of the