The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-23
SMALL AUDIENCE
MAKES HIM TIRED
DIR. Lyman Beecher Sperry,
Of Oberlin, Addresses
the 7. NJ. c. A.

without doubt, there is a great deal
of disappointment in many cases this
mutual disappointment
the audience disappointed in the size
of the speaker, and the speaker great
ly disappointed in the size of the gath
ering!" said DIR. Lyman Beecher Sper-
ry, of Oberlin, Ohio, who addressed the
Y. M. G. A. in the lecture room of the
association yesterday afternoon on
| Physiology, Faith and Fear"
Fifteen years ago, continued DR..
Sperry. Il addressed a gathering Of
young men in Minneapolis and after l
was through in that city, 1 was invited
to come to st. Paul and deliver a sim
liar lecture to the Young Mems Chris
tan association in the old Market
hall. Ever since 1 have been stead
lily engaged in the lecture work. and Of
all the many audiences 1 have stood
before in those years, this is the very
smallest. What's the matter? Don't
you think it's pretty nearly time to
wake up and get move on? This is
a great and wealthy city, but it makes
me tired to see such a small gather
ing as this to hear the words of
man whose life has been devoted to the
cause which this association has bound
itself, the uplifting Of young men!
"The burden of my talk this after
noon shall be to show in as far as pos
SIDE the relation Oh the mental 1ullC-
lions tO--the physical systems. For
instance, 1 am going to try and show
you in how far the mind can govern
the matter of which the human body is
formed.
Man should, according to the terms
of Holy Writ, live to be $50 years OF
age. AT 100, instead of moldering in
the grave, he should be in the prime
/, and glory of his manhood. And what
is it that prevents this? 1t is worryI
Man frets and stews himself into his
grave.
Let us now see how it is possible
for him to do this. Man is formed of
two complete and different physical
systems. There is, first, the nervous
system, or center, technically termed
the cerebro-Spinal system, which COM
, prises all the nerves and ligaments in
the human frame. The other is the
alimentary system. 1t takes in the di-
| gestive work, the liver, kidneys, etc,
| and it Shall be my mission to endeavor
! to show you that the latter is govern
ed TO a greater degree than you think
by the former" --'- --a------'-@
DR.. Sperry then went on to demon.
strate that this was true by means of
many and simple Illustrations. He
cited the case of the man who blushed
when surprised. He maintained that
| the fact that the emotion so worked
upon the pIoOd caplIIarleS as TO change
| their caliber, and permit, through their
| abnormal dilation of more than the
| usual amount of red corpuscIes, caused
| what is commonly known as a blush.
| In many other ways he showed that
| men and women, especially of mod
| ern times, are prone to become prema-
| turely old by worry.
Among other interesting things DR..
! Sperry made the assertion that 100, 900
| babes are born upon this globe. in
each twenty-four hours. OF these 20
per cent do not survive the first year,
| a great minority are of premature
birth, and that of those who do arrive
at years of maturity,-the great ma
Jority do not survive the age Of forty.