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SERMON ON THE
Sc n Sc Of
TASTE
Rev H. C. Cushman breaches
Fourth in Series Of Sermons
on the Senses

The fourth sermon In the series
which Rev. H. c. Cushman is deliver.
ing on THE Senses and knowledge Of
God" was heard Sunday. Rev. Mr
Cushman read st. Luke XIV. 3645.
The text was the And and 43rd
verses of the same chapter: "AnJ
they. gave him piece of broiled fish
and of an honeycomb. And He took
IL and did eat before them" The sub
ject was how me may grow In
the knowledge of God by the sense Of
taste and human judgment.
God designed the tongue to be the
chief organ of taste. For the particu-
lar use by which we procure the SEN
sation of savors. and the combined
sense of taste and smell. or by which
We judge both SAVIOR and flavor. The
tongue aids in the act of sucking, mas,
tication, pronunciation, and escpuition
The tongue is symmetrical muscu-
lar organ attached to its base or roots
to the Hyoid OF U, shaped bone
(Adam's Apple if you prefer to cali it
that) it extends forward to the incisor
teeth, occupying and conforming to
the shape of the buccal cavity except
when moved out for the purpose of
using and abusing.
Most vertebrates, especially nam.
mails, have perfect tongues, but in
vertebrates, and the arttculata have
lot true tongues. There are strange
tongues. The wood eating animal, the
giraffe, Is a specialist in height, by It's
long silt like legs, seven foot neck.
and eighteen inch tongue Is enabled
to eat from the topmost branches of
the tall trees when the normal food
is scarce. The South American Amt
Eater has an extensile head, and a
Irehensile tongue, the latter Is so
long that the Amt Bear (as it Is often
called has to fold 1t up in order to
get it back inside it's mouth. The
projecting papillae adds to the rough
ness of the tongue, and in the feline
race they are in the form Of recurvea
stiles. and are flexible and strong to
enable them to scrape with their
tongues the flesh from the bones of
their prey. and for combing their fur.
God designed the mucuos membrane
OF the tongue to be. the principal seat
of the sense of taste. He supplied
three branches of gustatpry nerves,
One at the base of the tongue controls
its motion with almost a manual dex.
terity. Another branch runs to the
jaw and face and when substances
taste too sour. or bitter, we make the
grimace., This branch never fails to
detect the four primary and l might
say permanent tastes, viz: bitter
sweet, sour, salty. God placed still
another branch that runs to the soft
palate and its arches, and to tho
fauces, terminating in papillae
These are the special organs of the
compound sense of taste and smell
These enable the wine and tea
'tasters" to judge OF sayOrs and fla
vors and the 'after-last' and bouquet"
by rinsing their mouths with the wine
or tea.
1t has been said that man of taste
must have a good nose, for we taste
in part with our organ of scent. When
We take Castor Oil. if we hold the
nose We shut off the odor and reduce
the objection to the taste only. God
gave the sense Of taste to direct us
in the choice of food to make the act
of eating agreeable, and to excite the
flow of mucous and saliva to aid the
digestive process.
las a rule the natural suggestions Of
the stomach, in the state Of health or
disease as to food and drink, may be
safely complied with even when some
seeming extravaganza of diet is sug-
gested. When our risen Lord de-
sired to establish His personal ident-
ity He asked his disciples if they had
any meat. 'sAnd they gave Him
piece of broiled fish and of an honey.
comb. And He took it and did eat
before his fisherman Apostles" Je-
sus loved fish! Especially when
broiled. We love the fishermen and
their fish too.
God placed in common bituminous
coal an artificial sugar "Saccharin,"
which Is many hundred times sweeter
than honey. God gave to the honey
bees an instructive sagacity to gather
wax and the nectur of flowers, and to
wi ifCAdSOudl SClfo, OllS ct JlIu6
and to fill it with the honey. And q
use their trowels (which we call
stings) to cap the top of the cells with
wax and then to inject with the sting
a little formic acid at the top to pre-
serve the honey.
, David, the sweet psalmist of Israel,
took the harp of ten strings and &C.
companied his tongue-harp OF a thou
sand strings and sang, saying that thu
true knowledge Of God will enable us
to worship Him in truth and righteous
ness. which is more to be desired thar
fine gold; sweetsr also than honey and
the honeycomb.
A mother in Israel was reading the
old family Bible and when she was
told mot to read it, as she could not
understand it" she replied II know
honey when taste 1t. The Psalmist
said, 'How sweet are thy words unto
my taste Tor palate) yea, sweeter than
honey to my mouth"
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