The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-24
THE SENSES AND
KNOWLEDGE
OF GOD
Third Of Series by Rev. C. H.
Cushman, on the Sense
Of Touch.

Pa
senses and knowledge OF God was de-
livered Sunday last, the text being
from st. Marks vi, Sc: "And whittier
soever he entered into villages, or
cities, or country, they laid the sick in
the streets and besought him that
they might touch If 1t were but the
border of his garment; and as many
as touched him were made whole"
/ The subject was: How We May
Grow In the knowledge by the Sense
u, Touch and Human Judgement"
and Rev. Cnshman spoke as follows:
AT the city of Main in Palestine,
Tue great King of Kings touched the
coffin. when there was no help for
the widows son. And He said young
man / say unto thee, arise!' and De
that was dead sat up and began to
speak. and He delivered him to his
mother. We have a compassionate
Eigh priest that can be touched with
feeling of our infrmities. The royal
touch of King Jesus has developed in
our hearts and hands the sympathet-
ic touch so that we desire to dwell
among our fellow men with constant
benefactions and endless sympathies
doing good every day.
The Greeks called nerve 'neuron'
| from a resemblance to- a string. God
placed sensory nerves in the nem-
branes and skin in every part of our
bodies in order that we may not be
injured without our knowledge. The
sensory nerves are connected with
the oblong portion of the brain and
terminate in minute conical protuber-
ances in every membrane and in all
the skin
The sense of touch is the most
widely diffused of all the senses, and
is so readily felt that although Jesus
was pressed upon by the surrounding
throng of people, yet he knew that
some one had touched him. God
placed a greater number of sansory
papillae in the end of the tongue and
ends of the fingers. and in the red
part Of our lips. God made the skin
thinner on the front portion of the
body. in order that we may be more
sensitive to touch and know at once
the shapes of objects. whether they
are hot or cold, rough Or smooth, wet
or dry, liquid or solid.
The brain is the central Office OF
| the sense of touch. The sensOry
nerves within the skin make the skin
| the chief seat of the sensation of
touch. God made the skin to be a
covering for our bodies, and to con-
vey the sense of touch, Ito assist il
the breathing and aeration of our
bodies AS the pehspiration eXudes
through the pores the pores in turn
inhale the air. AS proof that We in
hale. so to speak, through the pores
of the skin, if our bodies (all but
cur heads) were covered with some
impermeable substance we would soon
die and our hearts and lungs would
be ,engorged or congested with blood
as they are in any cases of a5phyxia
If you dip a cat or dog into melted
parafin they will die almost as soon
as if ten grains Of strychnine had been
gwen them. When certain extent
| of the surface of the body is burned
especially on the abdomen the patient
apparently may be doing well, yet is
apt to die suddenly.
God designed the skin so that when
there is no necessity for this great
and useful integument to throw off
the excretions or to inhale air it will
absorb water through the sweat pores
Eell1.s wrecked and without fresh
water may relieve their thirst to some
extent by saturating their clothing
with the salt water or dipping their
bodies under water.
There are points of touch for the
pulsations of the arteries Those in
the temples are Gods familiar tap
pings to remind us that in Him we
live. and move and have our being
Living by His permission one bea,
or throb of life in the heart at q
time. That pulsation at the heart
sounds like a base drum and it is
saying: My son! my daughter! give
me thy hearth The pulsations at the
wrists are Gods taking us by the
hands pressing them, both our hands
| in His in order to develop in our
fingers the sympathetic touch. And
those in the feet remind us that we
are to walk obediently in all the ways
of Gods Appointment.
| We feel our chests moving or heav-
| ing like the swelling of the sea, the
tidal breath ebbing and flowing It
| Is the alternative embracings of God
breathing into us the air of life. IT'S
Gods loving arms around us, while
we are inhahng Gods sweet nectar of
life
place a magnet near the steel and
| feel only drawing or touch of Gods
magnetism or dare you feel Gods re.
pellent force in the electric current?
| The hands Of the aged and blind
Michael Angelo were guided by direc-
ton Of the Pope, to examine some