The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-12-28

storehouse of registered impressions,
the seat of memory, with its grasp upon
the past; of reason, with its power to
analyze the present; of imagination,
with its capacity to reach out into the
future. Shut away within its narrow
box, the skull, it deals continuously
with the doing of the world outside.
Brain Central Office.
"The brain is the central Office to
receive, translate and transmit mes
sages that come from the outer world
along the multiplex network of wires
that constitute the nervous system.
The ear receives message that betok-
ems sorrow or Joy. 1t is transmitted
along slender hidden wire. An i'm
preston is made upon the brain, which
translates it. Immediately the face is
flushed and the eyes fill with tears or
laughter.
Contemplate the hand, the most
wonderful mechanical tool in the uni
verse; strong, subtle, cunning, and
more delicate than the stroke of va
grant feather in its touch; used as a
sledge by the boxer, as a cup by the
savage, welding the AK of the wood
man, guiding the brush of the painter
and the chisel of the sculptor; used in
stead of eyes by the blind and in place
of lips by the dumb strong to save a
man from death and tender to calm the
troubled dreams of babe
Think of the voice-articulate and
capable of infinite modulation Have
you never marveled as you have heard
some consummate orator or listened to
some rarely sweet singer? What power
there is in the human voice to weave a
spell over all the senses; to hold the
attention, and even, at times, to COM
pei the reluctant consent of reason it.
self.
by its vibrations alone. even with
out the aid of spoken words. it is capa-
bic of interpreting the sublest emo
tions of the heart. Rising in ectasy,
triumph and joy; discordant in passion,
hatred and jealousy; low and gracious
in love, gentleness and tender sorrow.
The voice of the nightingale and the
fierce snarl of the tiger cheated of his
prey are born imprisoned in the human
throat.
Mans body has been called the house
beautiful and the temple of the living
God. The more we study it the more
we marvel and the deeper reverence we
have for Him who has endowed us so
richly. But after all this body is not
the man, and its various and wonderful
workmanship forms but small part of
his intrinsic value.
"You may lose a hand or an arm or
limb. You may be manned or dis
figured, and yet the real man may still
remain untouched. Many dauntless
soul has lived a noble life, strong, in
spring, helpful, even though imprison-
ed in body broken by misfortune or
wasted by disease.
How many have blessed the name of
Jennie Cassidy, who have known moth
ing of. her weary vigil for years
stretched out upon her little iron bed
stead in Louisville, Ky. The history
of the past is rich with the names of
brave men and brave women who have
conquered and risen above their ply
steal weakness and impotence and have
achieved great things for God and hui
manity.
care you not conscious of the exis-
tence of an inner being which can live
on almost entirely independent of the
life of the body?
"The body is at cnurch, the mind may
be pouring over absent ledgers. 1t may
be casting up store accounts; in the
stock exchange engineering some new
deal. 1t may be engaged in recounting
last weeks gains or losses; living over
again some scene of pleasure, or bend
ing anxiously by the sickbed of some
loved one. Your body has been on a
moving train. Your mind left the sta
ton only to- return again to scenes of
parting or to linger lovingly, perhaps
regretfully, among the familiar things
of the life that is past.
"The body may be a great stay at
nome and the mind great traveller.
Your outward man may never move
from its position in your great arm
chair before the fire. 1t may never
lose its delightful sense of warmth and
comfort, while your inner man is TAX
ing successive journeys to Attic regions
with Franklin and Nansen and Peary.
"You may be looking at the glowing
Goals in you CRATE. You may be see
ing fields upon fields of drift ice, the
glistening peaks of mighty ice noun
tains, men struggling against the hos
tile elements or yielding in despair
against the pressure of tremendous odds
in the frozen north. Can you estimate