tribution as the wonderful machine functions incessantly in life's requirements. But suffice to say that all this wonderful process of muscles, brain, nervous system and combinations of bone and blood powers mark the wisdom and goodness of our Creator. They function in this wonderful machine to furnish the individual life with means to meet the exigencies and even anticipated demands of life, ever changing in its course and mazes.

TOPICAL SUGGESTIONS:

1. The structure and contour of the physical body, and its adaptations.

2. The movable foundations, strong bones, sinewy muscles with lubricating ducts.

3. The spinal column, its articulation most marvelous, supporting the cranial system.

4. The nervous system, as sentinels, report constantly their findings, giving warnings of danger and expressions of pleasure.

5. The circulatory system, including the heart or pump. 6. The pneumatic, digestive, cranial and generative systems. 7. The dermis, epidermis, hair constituting a waterproof covering.

8. Comments of a distinguished engineer, and a scientist, showing the marvelous construction and articulations of the body.

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VII

MIND

N considering the great manifestations of the goodness of God we see in the mind of man a benign purpose most wonderful and inestimable. In all the physical, mental and spiritual movements and their relations the activities of the Mind are outstanding. In fact within the conceptions of mind are lodged the great powers of achievement in all these spheres.

Man may have a physical body like unto that of Apollo and a brain of large proportions and a spiritually benign purpose well developed, but without mind to pilot, direct and plan all would be little in the affairs of life.

What then is mind? How does it function? What are its relations to the whole man? What purpose does it serve? These are questions apropos.

All psychologists and mental scientists agree that the seat of the mind is the brain which functions through the nervous system and that mind may be analyzed into its known functions. Formerly Mind was divided into the activities embraced within intellect, sensibilities and will. To-day they may be known as knowing, feeling and willing.

In knowing we find power to reason, weigh, calculate and discern.

In feeling, including affection, we realize ability to receive impressions and store them in memory as historical fact or for immediate use.

In will we find power to put into effect or motion the findings of knowledge or intellect which weighs the facts and the many impressions from which conclusions are made.

The mind in its activities functions through many avenues. According to the classifications of mental scientists, practically all of life's conscious activities, aside from the involuntary functions involved, are bound up within this power called Mind. With conscience as a counterpart of mind we have the character which controls to a very large extent the activities of the physical, mental and spiritual life.

The list of the functions above suggested cover the joys, pains and hopes of life. They include thinking, reasoning, emotions, memory, perception, association, imagination, instinct, habit and will, from which life's findings are gleaned and character is built.

Without this wonderful instrument given by our Great Creator, life would be a void and meaningless. It sleeps, it sings, it rejoices, sorrows, busies itself with life's duties, hopes for the best and finds its way out of the intricate mazes of life, bringing and weaving into the fabric of life the findings of the research through all creation. It reaches up to the starry heavens and asks the meaning of this wonderful dome. It digs into the earth and would demand a voice from the untold ages, it weaves in and out through the changes of life and questions every form of knowledge and imagination. It aspires to the highest and noblest conceptions of God and man. It cries with a loud voice for the Infinite throughout the vast creation. As the Biblical writer would say, "Oh, that I might find Him."

In fact without this marvelous instrument the whole creation "would be without form and void." At every

turn it places an interrogation point. It sees in the newborn child a being very old at birth, covered with the hoary hairs of heredity, possessing and embracing the mental powers and potentials of mind of all the ages past.

In all the activities of the physical body we see the benign purpose of the Creator as the mind of man directs it in all its relationships. In boyhood days at school and on the playground as the youngster weaves in and out among his playmates, now running, jumping, wrestling, playing ball or in the swimming pool, the little monitor coaches, plans and parries for every movement; and later, in business life, amid the strains and turmoils of time, he does not linger or halt when action is demanded.

The little girl may be found rolling hoop, fixing dolly's clothes, painting pictures or planning party, all under the directions and supervision of this secret, invisible creation called Mind. And later, among the never-ending demands of social and domestic life, even until old age, when the physical body is withering and the foundations are unsteady, this faithful servant stands ready to guide even to the brink of death, and finally say good-by without even a thank you for its lifelong care and protection.

The only rest required for all the labour of love is slumber's sweet repose as the physical body in sleep renews its potential energy and prepares for the activities of the new day. Even then, during the sleeping hours, it can be depended upon to sense the coming of the light, and as a sentinel responds to and announces the resurrection and the gift of the new day.

It not only guides the physical body through life, but in its mental activities absorbs from the wonderful crea

tion around, from the experiences through which it passes, a foundation of faith in the higher and nobler and spiritual conceptions, running concurrent with all life. The lower gives way to the higher, the physical decays and passes, but the spiritual realities, absorbed under the spell of life's vicissitudes, are enlarged as things seen, fade and give place to the unseen. The mind lingers with the Palace until the whole is swallowed up in spiritual vision. The body decays, but the mind with the new vision may be quickened. We may exclaim with the Biblical writer: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

As we further consider Mind in its relations we must note the large part it plays in the affairs of life, giving ecstatic joy in pleasant memories of friends, functions, and associations, bringing before our minds visions of the past; as age grows upon us with these memories clearly defined it lays a foundation of hope for the future in enlarged anticipation of a joyous immortality.

How the memory leads us back in middle life and old age to the scenes of childhood and youth, ever lending its reflections to brighten the path of life even when adverse conditions throw their shadow athwart and confront our movements. As the poet Moore says:

"When time who steals our years away

Shall steal our pleasures too

The memories of past will stay

And half our joys renew."

Again, as George H. Betts says in his book, "The Mind and Its Education":"A good mind is an asset on which the owner realizes anew each succeeding day."

Having considered the Mind and the various senses, we must look into the Palace to see the King. What is His character? And how does He serve?