The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-02-04
OUR EVENING SERMON p!
"And great multitudes followed him !;
and he healed them there" Matt. 10. 9.

The great event just preceding the
passage quoted-and the event was great
in the Importance of the lessons taught
was the teaching of the disciples in hui
mility. When he had finished speaking
to them he departed from Gallilee and
came into the coasts of Judea, beyond
Jordan. And multitudes followed him
and he healed them there. These multi
tudes followed because there was healing
to be found. Not vain promise, or a
base deception. Here was the one ply
sician who could cure every i'll the human
flesh was heir to-just as great many
people now claim to be able to do-and
the people believed on him.
1t is not difficult matter to see multi
tudes following a physician. We heard a
street doctor remark, some time ago: 81
met with such pleasant reception up in
- that after had finished my lecture
and started for the hotel, the people all
followed me-" But he gave the true
character of the physician by adding:
Next morning, when L left the hotel at
an early hour, the landlord followed me!'
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street quack indicates very great weak
ness in the human character, which
ought to be carefully guarded against.
1t has become such a prevalent feature
of human experience as to seem almost a
fixed law or trend of human character, to
follow any deception which may be pre-
sented with a reasonable amount of flash
q sacks
diversion, occasionally, from fixed or set
tied paths or lines of conduct. At such
times any attraction is sufficient. Any
such demonstration which will serve to
break in upon the routine of ordinary
life, will have temporary run OF popu-
larity. Who has not seen the street doc
tor, with his immense crowd of hearers
standing closely packed about him, and
listening with an eagerness which seemed
to indicate belief that life or death
was dependent upon his words, while
he discoursed to them in eloquent Ian
| guage of the wonderful cures he perform
ed. And when he opened his cases and
began to offer for sale his fiery decoctions,
how eagerly the crowd would rush for
ward and buy-many of them taking
draughts of the horrible stuff, just be-
cause they could get drink of the great
| life-saver for nothing. Of course the
public may not know of the immense
pressure put upon the physical system
afterward by these complimentary
drinks, but upon the surface of things
the effe ct seems to be wonderfully sooth-
| ing and helpful. We have seen men COM
planning of the headache, or aches or
pains in some part of the system, who
would go up to the stand of a street doc
tor, rub their heads with some of his
stuff, or take little of it inwardly, then
stand up and solemnly assert that "the
pain was all gone" This assertion arose
from a great human failing, the seeming
desire to be humbugged. They may have
| believed, at the time, that they were
really cured, but they bravely took it
back shortly afterward. And all this nom
sense will be practiced in neighborhood
filled with physicians of standing and OF
known skill and learning. And the same
may be said of persons needing dental
| services. We have seen persons stand
up like heroes and have tooth after tooth
| jerked out, without wincing, and after
| ward declare, with all apparent earnest
ness, that "there was no hurting Yet
| these same persons would be seen, after
| the disappearance of the quack, going
slylY to some reputable dentist to have
the fractured jaw-bones dressed up and
put in shape, though still claiming not to
have been hurt.
AS it is with these temporal ailments
and attendant deceptions, so it is with
spiritual life, and unspiritual deceptions.
Tne straight and narrow way" is brought
into contrast with the broad and easy
way-and each pathway presents some
attractions and some discouragements, at
least some seeming discouragements.
Human souls will rush headlong into the
midst of the noise, and confusion, and
whirl of pleasure, that line the broad
road, without a thought of the joy, and
peace, and calm enjoyment of the narrow
way. whats wrong in it?" asks the
soul, sit don't hurt!" So it was with the
temporal deception. But the soul will
find, after the excitement, and passing
Joy, begin to wear away,in fact when it
is too late, that there has been some
thing hurt, that there has been fatal
mistake made. Then comes the realiza-
tion that the only safety is in turning
toward the great physician, whose sign
has been in view all the time, and at
tempting to have the evil effects that
have been brought upon the soul blotted
out, and the spiritual system cleansed
Mankind will be humbugged in spiritual
as well as temporal matters. The world
is full of spiritual quacks, who claim to
be disciples of the great physician, and
who are ever thrusting their wonderful
arguments upon the people. These create
diversion from the path of righteous
ness, and bring great following, but the
time must come when the followers of
the quacks must turn about and seek
better treatment. The following of the
spiritual quack must lead down to the
level of the great fraud, Satan, and by
him to spiritual destruction. The tenn
! poral relief-which is only deception
must soon fade into nothingness and
| leave the soul alone in its darkness.
Souls should fall into line and follow
Ine great physician Jesus, IL Gney Woulu
be healed of spiritual infirmities. All
other methods of relief-so-called-
delusions and snares. There is little diff
ference in the temporal and spiritual life.
The man who is imbued with the spirit
of God will manifest it in his daily walk.
The man who is following false physi-
clans will live an irregular, dangerous
lifa of tho cOul fix ifs faith fullV and
firmly upon this Great Physician, and be
healed in time, and kept strong and safe
through all eternity.
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