and the lightning rapidity of action, the positive exactness with which the various organs function, each assisting the other and working with such elegant precision in all movements, we again wonder.

What fine adaptations found in the eye, ear, touch, taste and smell, with their sensations abounding in delights and utilities-ad infinitum-not only for enjoyment, but as censors and preservers of life. At the same time, the mind, with its wonderful mechanism and perception, hovers over and directs the activities of the Palace. In this wonderful power of mind we see it functioning with distinct features.

We have inquisitiveness sending out feelers as detectives to search out the minutest detail in their quest for knowledge and fact.

We have also the feature acquisitiveness and retention as memory which husbands and stores away all the facts and findings of the search.

Then the faculty of aspiration which exercises imagination and penetration, reaching out in prospect and vision even to the Infinite.

Then with all these fine functions we see a splendid adaptation and relation as manifest in the family life. The father is formed, strong, fleet of foot, compact of body, built to contend with the elements and to bring in food for the family. The wife and mother formed to meet the conditions of motherhood, to nourish and care for the helpless child. The child, utterly dependent upon the father and mother, finds affection of the family immediately developed to meet the new conditions of life. The family is cemented by love's bands to suit the new and various relationships.

Having considered in a general way the Palace we live in, we come to look more closely at certain specific

parts to see how they show the wisdom and goodness of God.

These outstanding features are commonly called "The Five Senses"-Touch, Sight, Hearing, Taste, and Smell, are the outstanding in life's conceptions.

The feelings may cover in a general way the whole nervous system, including the sensations of all the other senses, but specifically the system by which we recognize pain, pleasure, and all those sensations which act upon the whole body. These measure the approach of danger from without, such as cold, heat, and immediate contact causing either pain or pleasure, also dangers from within which may be noted by suffering of special organs of the body, marked by pain, languid or debilitated condition.

The senses may be likened to censors to warn the King within the Palace of specific dangers and with warnings almost audible to guard the parts involved. Automatically and involuntarily nature lends first aid to all injured parts in way of rush of blood to coagulate and repair the wound. Then the whole palace is astir, providing ways and means to heal the damaged parts. Hands, feet, eyes, ears and even smelling are brought into play in these activities and movements.

After the general sense of Touch, we have the sense of Sight, the one employed most incessantly in guarding the Palace in its movements during our waking hours to avoid contact in the changing positions, in its relation to other bodies which might endanger the whole or part. It is just as careful to protect the other senses as to provide for its own safety or the safety of the whole body.

Besides functioning as a censor, it also provides means by which treatment of the various parts may be secured. It leads the way to the physician, helps him in

preparing his remedies, watches the clock to note the times for applications, and notes change of conditions.

Having done all this in providing help for the Palace, the Eye, in its relations and activities, provides so much pleasure to the body that the whole Palace moves with eagerness to comply with every suggestion. The tourist will scale the highest Alps to view the picturesque beauties which nature provides among the mountains of Switzerland. They will endure the burning sands of the desert and the ices of the arctics to view the wonders of nature and creation. They will gladly challenge the uncertainties of the ocean, storms and raging seas to gain a glimpse of the Orient or Occident.

The dress of the various nations, with their many coloured garb, is an unending delight to tourists in their quest for change and beauty.

In commercial, industrial and social relations the Eye provides the great essential for utilities and pleasure. The moving picture, the evening dress, the pictures of the home, in fact all the beauties of nature, make appeal to the eye and come under the dominion of the sense of sight.

Next in order we may consider the sense of Hearing manifesting our Great Creator's care.

Much of life is bound up in the pleasures resulting from this sense. Music, one of the abounding delights and helps in all social, patriotic and religious gatherings, supplies man with exhilarations lifting him at times to ecstatic vision.

Among the utilities of this sense we find a large function in industrial, commercial and social life. In industrial environment it may be among the swiftly moving machinery of the factory or mill. Here, tons of whitehot iron in form of ingots or rails may be pushed and

hauled among the workmen in uncovered torso, where the hum and buzz of the wheels and cogs give warning of their unrelenting activities. They almost sing as they revel in their motions, now crunching and now pressing between their iron jaws tons of red-hot steel which seethes, writhes, twists, and then, as the saltpetre is thrown in, comes the explosion. As if shot, the serpentlike form lies conquered as a fallen foe. To appreciate these movements so lifelike, yet so unrelenting, one must have the complete power of all the senses. A failure to hear a whistle or note a sign might cause an explosion, spelling complete destruction of the mill or whole process.

Among the many delights and pleasures of life are found, in nature's provision for pleasure, the singing of the birds, the roar of the waterfall as it leaps and roars over the great Niagara, or the precipices of Yosemite, or the geysers of Yellowstone as they reach their white arms towards the clouds, amid the many coloured shales which speak of glacier, fire and waters past. Or we may hear the pounding of the waves of the Pacific as they break against the rocks as sentinels off the coast of California, all these mark a part of life's joys to those who are born with the wanderlust spirit, or are trained in the art of travel.

The music of the ages in songs of religious or patriotic fervour can only be appreciated by the functioning of this sense and training the ear to the harmonies of music; or in social life as we refer to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and note the inspiration added to song by lyre; and in martial air, the added zest of patriotic fervour begotten by the National Anthem or as the boys sang "Over There"; or in religious worship as the inspiration gathers in fervour as the soloist or the

congregation reaches the appealing tones and notes, adding visions and glimpses like unto Jacob's ladder reaching up to heaven.

We next take up the sense of Taste as showing the wisdom and goodness of God.

This sense, especially useful and filling a large place in the happiness of mankind, is furnished, as it were, with a body-guard in order that its functionings may be keener and its censorship more complete. The little white guards in the way of teeth are ready to challenge every intruder and require him to be searched or dissected as if fearing lest a particle should trespass without giving the countersign or being washed in the salivas of purification before admission to the Palace or holy place.

Besides the little white guards, the sense of Taste is assisted by the sense of Smell, which would require the candidate to give its age and render account of its associations before being admitted to the sacred precincts of friendly relations. So intense is the exhilaration resulting from the exercise of this sense of taste that men delight in associating it with special hours of enjoyment. At a supper or dinner served with seasonable viands or delicious condiments, men are more susceptible to social influences under the spell of this sense. Often the grumpy and grouchy will throw off their feeling leaning to the blue or ultra violet and move up to the warmer and more cheerful side of the spectrum close to the red or orange shades of good fellowship.

The eye, as well as the sense of smell, lies close to this sense in many of its relations. The luscious and beautifully coloured fruits, with their

appeal to the eye,

bring to the vestibule of the palate secretions or saliva suggesting desire to revel in refreshing juices. It may