The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-17
THE SENSES AND
KNOWLEDGE
OF SOD
Second Of Series Of Sermons De.
IiYered by Rev. Il. C. Cush-
man on Sunday.

Oh the SuUJSCI IlOW We May GrOW IN
the knowledge of God by the Five
External Senses in Union with Human
Judgment" was delivered by Rev. H.
C. Cushman on Sunday night. His
text was: "And he smelled the smell
Of his raiment and blessed him and
said, see the smell of my son is as
the smell of field which the Lord
hath blessed" and he said, in part:
God designed the nose for a four
fold purpose, viz: to smell, to modu-
late the voice in speaking, to dis
charge moisture from the eyes and to
afford passage for the breath. A
nan of taste must have a good nose,
for we taste in part with our organ OF
scent.
Gen. l. 20, informs us that God made
the fishes and the amphibia first of all
in the animal kingdom. All vertebrates
above the fishes generally resemble
man in the essential type of their
olfactory apparatus. In most fishes
the nostils are simply shut or closed
sacs and do not communicate posterior-
ly with the mouth. The proboscis of
the elephant exempffies a singular
elongation of the nose, in which the
organ becomes modified for tactile
purposes. In the seals, beavers and
other diving animals, or amphibia the
nostrfls can be opened and closed at
will by sphincter muscles and valvu-
lar processes.
The mucuous membrane lining the nose
and it's cavities is called pituitary from
(Latin) pituita-phleg the ma
ture of its secretion. or schneiderian,
from Schneider, the first anatomist
who showed that the secretion pro
ceeded from the mucous membrane and
not, as was previously imagined, from
the brain. God placed punches or
thick net works of veins and arteries
within the pituitary membrane that
lines the partition and spongy bones
founding the direct passages from the
postrils to the throat. God placed
this collection of veins and arteries
in the nasal cavities to generate heat
tC elevate the temperature of the air
in its passage to the lungs. These
plexuses are as a hot plate where
combustion or oxidation goes on rap
idly. The air passing over this men,
brane becomes overheated from high
temperature, or from violent exercise
as with dogs in the chase. These
have to open and breathe through their
mouths in order that cooler air may
lower the temperature of their bodies
These plexuses Or hot plates in the
nose not only keep the nose from
freezing in extremely cold weather
but serve to explain the tendency to
hemorrhage from the nose in cases of
general or local plethora.
The mucus membrane thus heated
more readily dissolves the odorous
particles suspended in the atmosphere
thus We are enabled quickly to dis
tinghish the various perfumes. Sail
ors say they can tell when they are
approaching the shores of Spain long
before they can see it by the scent of
rosemary, which must be very pleas
ant welcome We have all heard of
the spicy, breezes of Ceylon from Bish-
op Heber's Missionary Hymn When
the roses and violets are blooming in
the fields of Grasse in France and the
wind blows from the north the butter
fies smell the perfume and when the
south winds blow softly they rise up
on their wings and assisted by the
ings of the wind they fly and fly and
fly all night from the northern shores
OF Africa across the Mediterranean
sea till they reach the fragrant fields
of floral sweets
1T is an important truth that our or
gans of sense never entirely lose their
powers. God placed our organs of
sense close together and near the