IX. Ver-nal, belonging to spring. X. Grat-i-tude, thankfulness. A-maze-ment, surprise and wonder. XI. Ex-am-ine, to search into with care. Ten-dril, a slender part of a plant, numbered. Con-tin-u-al-ly, constantly. Moist-ure, dampness. These Definitions are not full, as in a Dictionary. They give only the meaning of the words as they occur, and should therefore only be used as an exercise in connection with the Lesson. THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN. 1.-THE BUILDING MATERIAL OF THE BODY. As the sap may be called the building material of the plant, so the blood is the building material of the body. Everything in the body is made from the blood,-the skin, the hair, the nails, the hard white teeth, the bones, and the muscles. Even the wax in the ears and the tears in the eyes, and the very heart itself, which pumps the blood and sends it through the veins of the body, are all formed from the blood. -The body is the house or habitation of the soul. The bones are its timbers, the skin is its covering, the hair is its thatched roof, and the eyes are its windows. There are also various kinds of machinery in the house, as the machinery for breathing, and the machinery for circulating the blood. But how God makes all these out of the blood of the body no one can tell. The blood itself is made from the food we eat, very much in the same way as the sap in a plant or a tree is made. As there are little mouths in the leaves and the roots of the plant, to suck in the plant's food; so there are little |