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154 image and likeness of that, Whose blessed characteristic it was, when manifested here on earth, that He went about doing good? [Acts x. 38.]. How evident then is it, from these considerations, that the heart and lungs of the human body, by virtue of their useful operations on the other viscera and members, are continually repeating and enforcing, in their significant, figurative, and powerful language, the Divine precept of the to all His true disciples, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your, and glorify your  which is in heaven!” [Matt. v. 16.]

But there is yet another point of no small moment, resulting from the situation of the bodily organs under consideration, which must not be passed over in silence.

It is a fact well known to the anatomist, that the heart and lungs of the human body have a secret internal communication with the cerebrum and cerebellum of the head; and that there is every reason to believe, that from this communication they derive their respective powers of pulsation and respiration, and thus of imparting life to the body. It is known also to the anatomist, that these same organs reside in an abode of their own, distinguished by the diaphragm from the abode of the other viscera of the body, and