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Show THIS MORTAL FRAME OF . OURS. . Dr, C. H.. Slighthem of the Alaska school service ser-vice reports that it require vast quantities of ether or chloroform to put native to sleep, but when once the anesthetic )aa subdued Mr. Indian ha aleepk like a baby, and the doctor thinks that possibly the stoicism of the native bas enabled him to fight off diseases which otherwise would have dcatroyedtheraca, Ihat-iaareminderthatJhe machinery of the human body ia about the most interesting thing in all this world. It ia created from nothing, and act to work. So delicate ia it that it seems aa though it would be impossible to keep it in motion for an hour. The prick of a pin is sufficient sometimes to destroy it, and yet it keeps throbbing on and on year after year, and when men abuse it, it not only keeps at work, but triea to repair the damages, or when that cannot b to transfer the work upon another organ and make it work double shift. We aay such a medicine medi-cine or such a doctor eursd a certain illness. What we. mean is thit the physician knew what medicines medi-cines "to give to neutralize some devil "that ' had crept info the system,' or t6. remove aome. obstruction obstruc-tion which was impeding the machinery. The healing heal-ing waa all from within. - No medicine did that, else the dead might be raised. When the wise man wrote that "man ia fearfully and wonderfully made," he told a truth, the significance of which grows more and more apparent and majestio the more it ia studied. That the human heart, with its sorrows and joys, should throb on and on, year after af-ter year unfalteringly, is a truth ao marvelosa that man should, every time he contemplates it, grow a wed and humbled arid acknowledge that he would be dust in a moment if the infinite did not hold hia life in all compassionate power and love. |