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TIIK NOTED DIVING’S SUNDAY DIH- OOUK9K. A Sermon That Mostly Concern# Tills l.lfo, Yet Spiritual ami Physical Conilitlous Arc Largely Dependent l' pon Kadi 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.