But then across the blue Flashed on my vision tense a warmer light, Of western glow touched with bright radiance Laden with incense and with heavy breath Of kneeling hundreds. Beads were told and lips On heavy eyes unlit by other gleam. Unknowing there they kneel held by the sway Can such a worship lift the soul to God? The question came,-then answering thunderously "Miserere Rex Caelorum." "Miserere Miserorum." Though dull and dumb they kneel, shall not the sound Of even such worship reach a loving God? The God who pitying hears on high The hungry sparrow's twittering cry The abject, ugly. and the poor- His mercy lasts but lo! the time Passes when a mere sounding rhyme Can celebrate His praise sublime. (Miserere Rex Caelorum) God is a spirit and the heart And mind and all must play their part In worship that loud voices start (Miserere Rex Caelorum) (Miserere Miserorum.) Sweet smells and anthems sounding loud Lord, let us bring our ALL to Thee (Miserere Rex Caelorum) (Miserere Miserorum.) II. The picture faded and the music died Faintly away, and left me questioning. And then beside the crosses 'gainst the blue I saw the ball that set me querying, No longer symbol of the ancient world Of Grecian art and thought, but balancing The shining crosses. Round and white it gleamed To know all things on earth and in the heavens, And all its creatures, learn the wonder tale Of the wide circling stars, and learn the truth The one supremest glory,-boundless love But wait! When death or agony Touch the deep springs of your own desperate need? Oh, keen of glance and quick of mind! Say what pleasures do you find In tangled maze And mystic haze Of ancient lores that twist and wind? Oh, bright of eye and swift of thought! To dim the bright And glinting light Those pages of romance have caught? Slow of smile, but quick to start Giving ever Noble, generous, kindly heart. Oh, large of heart and quick of brain! Know this for true That even you Must take at last-though it be pain. Nor mind nor heart can help you when Yet lowly bowed In faith, your Judge must find you then. III. So ever in the mellow summer light And from the quiet church down in the town Give this one faith and true humility And raise these other men bowed lowly now In mere lip worship up to purer things To seek a nobler knowledge of their God? Come, Spirit great-thou wind that sweepest on Through all the ages, same in every age But changing as the needs of men do change. To-day I looked into her face and saw Oh firm but tender mouth, so pure and sweet! Of blest renewal of the vision high. And you, calm brow wreathed with serenity, In you there speaks a reconciling peace. ON THE ORIGIN OF THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM 11 Bright faith has met with knowledge and the two ON THE ORIGIN OF THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM Naples Table Association Prize Essay. The history of our knowledge of the lymphatic system can be divided into three periods. The first begins in 1622 with the discovery of the lacteals. Aselli, an anatomist at Pavia, was dissecting a live dog before a group of friends in order to study the movements of the diaphragm, when to his surprise, on spreading out the mesentery he saw it covered with white cords. These he took to be nerves, but soon found his mistake, and recognized the lacteals as vessels for absorption. The new discovery did not quickly make headway, for in the first place it was not in accord with the teachings of Galen, and in the second place the full force of the opinion of Harvey was thrown against it. However, in about thirty years the fact that the lacteals are the absorbants from the intestine, and that they empty into the thoracic duct, which in turn opens into a vein in the neck, was firmly established. A new discovery, made in 1651, namely that there are general lymphatics, or those which carry lymph and not chyle, ushered in the second period. For the next hundred and eighty years those who worked on the lymphatic system were occupied in tracing the distribution of the lymphatics to the different parts of the body, for example to the skin and to the various organs. During the third period, which began about fifty years ago, attention has been turned mainly to the lymph glands. It had been noted that there were small bean-shaped bodies along the course of the lymph ducts, but the structure of these bodies could not be determined before the microscope came into use. Both in the study of Comparative Anatomy and of disease, a |