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Yet Spiritual ami Physical Conilitlous
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Other—A Warning Agniied Dissipation.
Text: “Till a dart strikes through Ills
llvor.” Proverbs vii.. 23.
discoveries Solomon's anatomical and physiological
were so very (treat that he was
nearly his 3000 years ahead of the scientists of
Christ, day. lie, more than 1000,years before
seemed to know about the circula¬
tion of the blood, which Harvey discovered
1619 years after Christ, for when Solomon
in Ecclesiastes, describing the human body,
speaks of the pitcher at the fountain he
evidently means the throe canals leadfttg
from the heart that receive the blood like
pitchers. When he speaks in Ecclesiastes
of the silver cord of life, lie evidently means
the spinal marrow, about which in our day
Drs, Mayo and Carpenter and Dalton and
Flint and Brown-Kequnrd have experiment¬
ed. And Solomon recorded in the Bible,
thousands of years before scientists discov¬
ered it, that in bis time the spinal cord re¬
laxed in old age, producing the tremors of
hand and head, "or the silver cord bo
loosed.”
In the text he reveals the fact that he had
studied that largest gland of the human
system, the liver, not by the electric light
of the modern dissecting room, but by the
dim light of a comparatively dark ago, and
yet had seen its important functions in the
God built castle of the human body, its se¬
lecting and secreting power, its curious
cells, its elongated branching tubes, a di¬
vine workmanship in central and right and
left lobe and the hepatic artery through
which flow the crimson tides. Oh, this
vital organ is like the eye of God in that it
never sleeps!
Solomon know of it and had noticed
either in vivisection or post mortem what
awful attacks sin and dissipation make
upon it. until the llat of Almighty God bids
the body and soul separate, and the one it
commends to the grave and the other it
sends to judgment. A javelin of retribu-
tioni not glancing off or making a slight
wound, but piercing it from side to side
“till a dart strike through his liver.”
Galen and Hippocrates ascribe to the
liver the most of the world’s moral depres¬
sion, and the word melancholy means black
bile.
I preach to you the gospel of health. In
taking a diagnosis of diseases of the soul
you must also take a diagnosis of diseases
of the body. As if to recognize this, one
whole book of the New Testament was
written by a physician, discourses Luke was a
medical doctor, ami he much of
the physical conditions, and he tells of the
goo d Samaritan’s medication of the
wounds by pouring in oil and wine, and
recognizes hunger as a hindrance to hear¬
ing the gospel, so that the 5000 were fed.
He also records the sparse diet of the
prodigal away from home and tho extin¬
guished eyesight of tho beggar by th e way-
side, and lets us know of the hemorrhage
of the wounds of the dying Christ and tho
miraculous post mortem resuscitation. Any
estimate of the spiritual condition that
does not include also the physical condition
is incomplete.
When the doorkeoper of Congress fell
dead from excessive joy because Burgoyne
had surrendered at Saratoga, and Philip
V., of Spain, dropped dead at the news of
his country’s defeat in battle, and Cardinal
Wolsey faded away as the result of Henry
VIII.’s anathema, it was demonstrated that
the body and soul are Siamese twins, and
when you thrill the ono with joy or sorrow
you thrill the other. We may as well recog¬
nize the tremendous fact that there are two
mighty fortresses in tho human body, the
heart and the liver, the heart the fortress
of the graces, the liver the fortress of the
furies. You may have the head filled with
all intellectualities, and the ear with all
musical appreciation, and the mouth with
all eloquence, and the hands with all in¬
dustries, and the heart with all generosities,
and yet “a dart strike through the liver.”
First, let Christian people avoid the mis¬
take that they are all wrong with God be¬
cause they suffer from depression of spirits. his
Many a consecrated man has found
spiritual sky befogged and his hope of
heaven blotted out and plunged chin deep
in the slough of despond and has said: “My
heart is not right with God, and I think
I must have made a mistake and in¬
stead of being a child of light I am a child
of darkness. No one can feel as gloomy as
I feel and be a Christian.” And he lias
gone to his master for consolation, and he
has collected Flavel’s books and Ceoil’s
books and Baxter’s books and rend and
read and read and prayed and prayed and
prayed and wept and wept and wopt
and groaned and groaned and groaned. My
brother, your trouble is not with the heart;
it is a gastric disorder or a rebellion of tho
liver. You need a physician more than you
do a clergyman. It is not sin that blots
out your hope of heaven, but bile. It not
only yellows your makes eyebails, and furs
your but tongue, and your head ache,
swoops upon your soul in dejections
and forebodings. The devil is after you.
He has failed to despoil your character,
and he does the next best tiling for him—
he ruffles your peace of mind. When he
says that you are not a forgiven soul, when
he says you are not right with God* when
he says that you will never get to heaven,
he lies. If you are in Christ you arejust as
sure of heaven as though you wore there
already. But satan, finding that he cannot
keep you out of the promised land of
Canaan, lias determined that tho spies shall
not bring you any of tho Esohol grapes be¬
forehand, and that you shall have nothing
but prickly pear and crabapple. You are
just as much a Christian now under the
cloud as you were when you were accus¬
tomed to rise in the morning at 5 o’clock to
pray and sing “Halleluiah, ’tis done!”
My friend, llev. Dr. Joseph F. Jones, of
Philadelphia, book a translated spirit and now,wrote Physi¬
a entitled, “Man, Moral
cal,” in which he shows how different the
same things may appear to different peo¬
ple. He says: “After the the great battle on
the Mincio in 1859, between French and
the Sardinians on the one side and the Aus¬
trians on the other, so disastrous to the
latter, the defeated army retreated, fol¬
lowed by the victors. A description of the
march of each army London is given by two corre¬
spondents of the Times, one of
whom traveled with the successful host, the
other with the defeated. The difference in
views and statements of the same place,
scenes and events is remarkable. The for¬
mer are said to be marching through a
beautiful and luxuriant country during tho
day and at night encamping where they are
supplied with an abundance of dainties. the best
There provisions and all sorts of rural the proceed¬
is nothing of war about
ing except Its stimulus and excitement.
On the side of the poor Austrians it is just
the reverse. In his letter of the same date,
describing the same places and a march
over the same road, the writer can scarcely
find words to set forth the suffering, im¬
patience and disgust existing around him.
What was pleasant to the former was In¬
tolerable to the latter. What made all this
difference? asks the author. 'One, condi¬
tion only. Tho Frouoli are victorious, the
Austrians have been defeated.’ ”
So, my dear brother, the road you are
traveling Is the same you have been travel¬
ing a long while, but tho difference in your
physical therefore conditions the makes it look different,
nu 1 two reports you have
given of yourself are as widely different as
tho reports in the London Times from the
two correspondents. Edward I’ayson, some¬
times so far up on the mount that it seemed
as if the centripetal force of earth could
no longer hold him, sometimes through a
physical disorder was so far down that
it seemed as if the nether world would
clutch him. Poor William Cowper was a
most excellent Christian and will lie loved
in the Christian church as long as it sings
fits hymns beginning, "There is a fountain
(Hied with blood,” “OH, for a closer walk
with God.” “What various hindrances we
meet” and “God moves in a mysterious
way.” Yet was lie so overcome of through melan¬
choly or black bile that it was only
the mistake of tho nab driver who took him
to a wrong place, instead of the river hank,
that hs did not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so mightily affected
by the physical state, what a great oppor¬
tunity this gives to the the Christian physician, both the
for he can feel at same time
pulse of the body and the pulse of the soul,
and lie can administer to both at once, and
if medicine is needed he can give that, and
if spiritual counsel is needed he can give
that -an earthly and a divine proscription
at the same time - and call on not only tho
apothecary of earth, but the pharmacy of
heaven. Ah, that is the kind of doctor I
want at my bedside, ono that cannot only
count out tho right number of drops, but
who can also pray. That is the kind of
doctor I have had in my house when sick¬
ness or death came. I do not want any of
your profligate or atheistic doctors around
my loved ones when tho balances of life are
trembling. A doctor who has gone through
the medical college and in dissecting room
lias traversed the wonders of tho human
mechanism and found no God in any of tho
labyrinths is a fool and cannot doctor me
or mine. But, oh, the Christian doctors!
What a comfort they have been in many of
our households! And they ought to have a
warm place in our prayers as well as praise
on our tongues.
I bless God that the number of Chris¬
tian physicians is multiplying and some of
the students of tho medical colleges are
here to-day, and I hail you and ordain you
to the tender, beautiful, lioaven-descendocl
work of a Christian physician, and when
you take your diploma from the medical
college to look after the perishable body
be sure also to get a diploma from the
skies all to look after physicians the imperishable soul. with
Let Christian unite
ministers of the gospel in persuading good
people that it is not because God is against
them that they sometimes feel depressed,
hut because of their diseased bodies. I
suppose David the psalmist was no more
pious when he called on everything human
and angelic, animate and inanimate, even
from than snowflake to hurricane, to praise tho
God when he said, “Out of
depths of hell have I cried unto tlieo,
O Lord,” or that Jeremiah was more
pious when ho wrote his prophecy than
when he wrote his Lamentations,
or Job when lie said, “I know that
my Redeemer liveth,” than when
covered over with the pustules of ele¬
phantiasis as he sat in the ashes scratch¬
ing the scabs off with a broken piece of pot¬
tery, or that Alexander Crudon, the con-
cordist, was a better man when he com¬
plied the book tiiat has helped 10,000
students of the Bible than when under the
power of physical disorder lie was hand¬
cuffed and straight-waistcoated In Bethnal
Green Insane asylum. “Oh,” says some
Christian man, “no one ought to allow
physical disorders to depress ids soul. Ho
ought to live so near God as to be always
in the sunshine.” Yes, that is good advice,
but I warrant that you, the man who gives
the advice, lias a sound liver. Thank God
for a healthful hepatic condition, for as
certainly as you lose it you will sometimes,
like David, and like Jeremiah, and like and
Cowper and like Alexander Crudon,
like 10,000 other invalids, ho playing a dead
march on the same organ witli which now
you play object a staccato. this point is only to
My at not
emolliato tho criticisms of those in good
health against those in poor health, but to
show Christian people who are atrabilious
what is the matter witli them. Do not
charge against the heart the crimes of
another portion of your organism. Do not
conclude that because the patli of heaven
is not arbored with as fine a foliage, or the
banks beautifully snowed with exquisite
chrysanthemums as once, that, therefore, will
you are on the wrong road. The road
bring you out at tho same gate, whether
you walk with the stride of an athlete or
eome up on crutches. Thousands of Chris¬
tians, morbid about their experiences and
morbid about their business, and morbid
about the present and morbid about the
future, need the sermon I nm now preach¬
ing. Another practical of this subject Is
use
for the young. Tho theory Is abroad that
they must first sow their wild oats and af¬
terward Michigan wheat. Let me break
tho delusion. Wild oats are generally pulled sown
in the liver, and they can never be tiiat
up. They so preoccupy that organ
there is no room for the Implantation of a
righteous crop. You see aged men about
us at eighty erect, agile, wild splendid, grand
old men. How much oats did they
sow between eighteen years and thirty?
None, absolutely none. God does not very
often honor witli old ago those who have iri
early life sacrificed swine on tho altar of
the bodily temple. Remember, and O young
man, that, while in after life after
years of dissipation you may perhaps have
your heart changed, religion does not
change the liver. Trembling and stagger¬
ing along these streets to-day are men, all
bent and decayed and prematurely old for
tlie reason tiiat they are paying for lines
they put upon their physical estate before
they were thirty. By early dissipation they
put on their body a first mortgage and a
second mortgage and a third mortgage to
the devil, and these mortgages are now be¬
ing foreclosed, and all that remains of their
earthly estate the undertaker will soon put
out of sight. Many years ago, in fulfill¬
ment of my text, a dart struck through
their liver, and it is there yet. God for¬
gives, but outraged physical law never,
never, never. Solomon in my text knew
what he was talking about, and he rises up
on his throne of worldly splendor to shriek
out a warning to all the centuries.
Oh, my young brother, do not make the
mistake that thousands are making in
opening the battle against sin too late, for
this world too late, and for tho world to
come too iatel What brings that express
train from St. Louis into Jersey City three
hours late? They that lost fifteen affected minutes early
on the route, and them all the
way, and they had to be switched off here
and switched off there and detained hero
and detained there, and the man who loses
time and strength in tho earlier part of the
journey of life will suffer for it ull the way
through, the first twenty years of life dam¬
aging the following fifty years. a
Some years ago a solentiflo lecturer went
through the country exhibiting of the on great
canvas different parts human body
when healthy and the same parts when
diseased. And what the world wants now
VOL. V. NO. 41.
is some eloquent scientist to go through
the country, showing to our young people
on idler's blazing canvas tho drunkard's liver, the
gambler’s liver, the libertine's liver, tho
liver. Perhaps tho speotaolo
might stop some young man before ho
comes to the catastrophe and the dart
strikes through Ills liver.
have My hearer, this Is the lirst sermon you
heard on the gospel health, and it
may be the last you will ever hear on that
subject, ami 1 charge yon In the name of
Goo and Christ and usefulness and eternal
destiny When take better earo of your hoalth.
some of you die, if your friends put.
on your tombstone a truthful epitaph, it
will read, “Here lies the victim of late sup¬
pers,” or it. will bo, “Behold what lobster
salad at midnight will do for a man,”or it
will lie, "Ton cigars a day closed my earth¬
ly existence," or It will be, “Thought I
could do nt seventy what I did at twenty,
and I am here,” or it. will be, “Here is tho
consequence of sitting a half day with wet
feet,” or it will he, “This is where I have
stacked my harvest of wild oats,” or fn-
stead of words the stone cutter will chisel
ures—namely, for an epitaph on dart the and tombstone two lig
a a liver.
There Is a kind of sickness that is beauti¬
ful when it comes from overwork for God,
or one’s country, or one's own family. I
have seen wounds tiiat wore glorious. I
have seen an empty sleeve that was more
beautiful than the most muscular forearm.
1 have seen a green shade over the eye, shot
out in battle, that was more beautiful than
any two eyes that hud passed without ln-
jnry. T have seen an old missionary, worn
out with tho malaria of African jungles,
who looked to me more radiant than a rubi¬
cund gymnast. I have seen a mother, after
six weeks’ watching over a family of chil¬
dren down with scarlet fever, with a glory
around tier pale and wan face that sur¬
passed the angelic, it all depends on how
you got your sickness and in what battle
your wounds.
If wo must get sick and worn out, let it
be in God’s service and In tho effort to make
tlio world good. Not in the service of sin.
No, nol One of the most pathetic scenes
that 1 ever witness, and I often see it, is
that of men or women converted in the
fifties or sixties or seventies wanting to he
useful, but they so served the world and
satan in the earlier part of their life that
tlioy have no physical energy loft for the
service of God. They sacrificed nerves,
musoles, lungs, heart and liver on the
wrong altur. They fought their on tho wrong
side, and now, when sword Is all hack¬
ed up and their ammunition all gone, they,
enlist for Emmanuel. When tho high mot¬
tled cavalry horse, which that man spurred
into many a cavalry charge witli champing
bit and limning eye and neck clothed with
thunder, is worn out springhalt, and spavined he rides and
ring boned and
up to tho great Captain of our sal¬
vation on the white horse and offers
his services. When such persons might
have been, through the good hab¬
its of a lifetime, crashing their battle-axe
through the holmetod iniquities, they are
spending their days and nights is discuss¬
ing the best way of curing their indiges¬
tion, and quieting their jangling nerves,
and rousing their laggard appetite, ami
trying to extract the dart from tlielr out¬
raged liver. Better converted late than
never. Oh, yes, for tlioy will get to heaven.
But they will go afoot when they might
have wheeled up the steep hills of the sky
in Elijah’s chariot. There is an old hymn
that we used to sing in the country meet¬
ing house when I was a boy, anil 1 remem¬
ber how the old folks’ voices trembled with
emotion wliilo the y sang it. I have for-
gotten all hut two lines, but those lines are
the peroration of my sermon:
’Twill save us from it thousand snares
To mind religion young.
A Contrary Flag.
If ever’ there was anything in the
world that went by contraries, it is the
Chinese flag. It wilt be recalled that
it is one of the gayest of national ban¬
ners. The body of the banner is of a
pale yellow. In the upper left hand
corner is a small red sun, and looking
at it is a fierce Chinese dragon. About,
one thousand years ago, so the story
runs, the Chinese made war upon the
Japanese. They prepared for a great
invasion. As a prophecy of victory
they adopted a standard which is that
of the present time. They took the
Sun of Japan and made it very small.
This they put in front of the di-agou’s
mouth to express the id da that the
Chinese dragon would devour tho Jap¬
anese. It happened, however, that the
Chinese fleet, oonveynig an army of
100,000 men, was wrecked on its way
to Japan by a great, storm, and all but
three of the 100,000 perished. The re¬
sult of the recent war has not been any
more convincing than the first affair,
that the Chinese flag has been cor¬
rectly conceived.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Cene and Johnnie-
“When I was a pupil at Hebron
Academy over 40 years ago,” said Judge
Hllborn of California, there were
two boys in the Academy to whom I
was especially attracted. One came
from Turner. He wa^i a bright, spir¬
ited little fellow, the best scholar in
his classes, very quick to learn and the
sort of a boy that everybody said
would ‘amount to something by and
by.’ His name was Gene Hale. The
other came from Buckfleld and was a
year or two younger, a little chubby
chap, whom everybody liked. We all
called him Johnnie Dong. He was
the marvel of the school in Latin. He
had read Virgil through, and knew a
great deal of it by heart. He was a
wonder, too, in Latin grammar. After
we left school I went West and lost
sight of them. Now I am here, a
member of the naval committee in the
house, Gene Hale is at the head of the
naval committee in the senate and
Johnnie Long is secretary of the navy."
Not Transferable,
The theatres in Japan have a novel
method of pass-out tickets, which are
positively not transferable. When a
person wishes to leave the theatre be¬
fore the close of the performance, with
the Intention of returning, he goes to
the doorkeeper and holds out his right
hand. The doorkeeper then, with a
rubber stamp, imprints on the palm
the mark of the establishment.