National Republican., 1888-04-29
lHE HARVEST 0F DEATH.
REV. DIR. TALNftGE TALKS ON
TIE DEMISE OF GREAT MEN.
He Finds I'm the bulletins from Sick
Rooms Much to Educate the World
About Human Anatomy-The Kuowl-
edge VIII Benefit the World.


Of this date at the Tabernacle was on "Doc-
tors Bulletins" ana "Are Things Ont Of
JointT lie said:
What is the matter with this old world
Recent occurrences make some people think
that the times are out Of joint Did you
ever know Of so many great men sick or
dying or deady Within a week Conliling
among lawyers, Agnew among DOCTORS
Mathew Arnold among authors, Abel
among editors, Andrews among college cX-
presidents, Rev. DR. Hopper among pastors,
while the daily journals arc depressed by
the bulletins from the sick room Of Emperor
Frederick, and the nations Of Europe at the
possible political changes that may be Just
ahead, are crying "What nextY When IL Is
not sickness or death It is blizzard or cy.
clone. The widest elements are let loose
| and Off 90 church steeplcs and down 90
Villages. My friends, there are no more Of
these dcvastations in proportion TO the
worlds number of inhabitants than there
always have been, but the tee-
graph and the American Press
Association and the Pictorial Associated
Press gather them all up, and put them be-
fore our eyes with all the particulars. In
stead Of knowing only that which goes on
In one ncghborhood, as In olden time, we
have through wire and type scm-omni-
presence and we are informed OF all the
important things that happen within ten
thousand miles. As to hurricanes, Satan
always was the prince of the power of the
| air. and when he wishes to ride horseback
he gets astrido a cyclone and with red spur
| Of lightning urges on the wild courser until
| forests and villages are prostrated. But
when vast regions of this country were un-
inhabited q cyclone might capcr around for
| q week and nobody heard Of IL. In the year
| 11iG n whole convention of billiards met in
| Dakota and not one breath of their utter
ranprtpl N 1910 n birpi1apn
| flew thousand miles through the north
| west and only ruliled the fur OF buffalo and
| sank an Indians canoe and wrecked bevy
ofwild pigeons. But now this country is get
ting so thoroughly peoplcd that tornadoes
have no room to play without upsetting
something. If some evening whrlwind
takes a little circuit after tea IN Georgia,
the next morning we all know about it. A
cyclone can have no privacy, and It's every
move is reported.
Every morning and evening we feel the
sick pulse in the palace at Berlin, while the
old German cmperors like Otho and Conrad
and Amulf might have been sick ten years,
and except handful Of people the world
know nothing about IL. Now the harncssed
lightning is by wire bride and bit turned
this way and that and compelled to carry
all kinds of tidings. No wonder the over
worked and tyrannizcd lightnings some
times out of revenge strike, and consume
men anu uNtlllUIS. DuGt IlcuHJ Dp-
ing known by fifty thousand people. Fame
now means being known by fifty million.
Charlcmagne was not so widely spoken of
IN his time as now is Sullivan the fighter.
Ii Is not because there are more accidents,
or more sicknesscs. or more deaths, or more
occurrences, or more hcrosms, or more
suicides, or more catastrophes, but because
such things are Immediately reported, tele-
graphed, and published. All this is bring
ingthe whole human family In sympathy.
We used to think that senators and
kings and emperors were something differ
cnt. But now when the temperature and
pulse of senatorial and royal invalids are
reported every day, and we hear the groau
and see the rcstlessness of distinguished
sufferers, we find they are Just like our
selves and that anguish In palace is like
anguish in u cabin aud that the lancet hurts
us much when 1t feels for royal blood as for
plebeian blood. do not join In the repre-.
hension Of the bulletins from the German
palace, or from the Elbcron at Long Branch,
or the annex of the Hoffman House. Let
>us know all about those in whose recovery
/ T'arture We have profound interest.
| or del lie the human race IN
such reports oduch-. AZ consequence
anatomy and physiology. Nletins from the
of these daily and hourly bu. "er before
famous sick rooms, there has ut Nration,
been SO much known about RESP WI
| HuOui uDOub ltlbltTuLuIt uDDt.sH
febrile rise, about digestion, about conva-
| loscepce. The vast majority Of the race
have hitherto wandered about stupidity ig-
| norant of this masterpiece of God, the hu-
man mechanism. The last few weeks have
educated ten thousand nurses for the
sick. Theinvalids of all lands for this ex-
| perience viii have better attendance, more
Kindness more opportunity Of restoration.
| Never has there been such examination of
dictionaries to find the meaning of medi-
| cal phrase. One new word on the morning
| bulletins has set the leaves of all the leXi-
cons In Europe and America a.ilutter
Since the time when David the psalmist
| probably returned from an oriental disect-
ing room, wrote the autopsy "We are fear
fully and wonderfully made,n and Solo
mon, who was wise in physiology as well as
in everything else, called the spinal marrow
the silver cord Tor ever the siyer cord
be loosedn), and called the head
the golden BOWL because the
skull Is round like a bowl, and
the membrane which contains the brain
is yellow like gold (or "the golden
bowl be broken'') and called the veins Of
the human body pitcher, because they
carry the crimson liquid from the heart, the
fountain, all through all the organs of the
body Tor ''tne pitcher be broken at the foun
cause they draw to themselves
and let go again like II well
bucket, and called the stomach the
| cistern (the 'wheel broken ut the cistern'),
and showed that he knew what Harvey
thought he was discovering thousands Of
years after concerning the circulation of the
| blood. say since those obscure times down
TO these days when all physicians are busy
instIucting the people, and all medical col
lcges aud all high schools are scattering
physiology and anatomical information,
there has never been so much wisdom on
these subjects as to-day. And most of the
popular intelligence is a result Of the bulle.
tins from the rooms Of the Emperor Fred
erick, and Conkling, and Grant, and Gar
field, and Lincoln. "Indelicate % DO you
cry, ''arc such health reports" Then you
must have hounds skill If you can lind
anything indelicate In q room of anguish
around which nation stands wringing its
hands In prayer. Besides that, this close
acquaintance with all that goes on In the
sick room deyelopslthe feeling of brother
hood and sisterhood in all.
Suffering from the same ills, piled by the
same motives, lifted up by the same means,
depressed by the same griefs.
The same sadness that we saw at our
| dcpots In 1862 when the troops left for the
war saw in 1879 in England, Ireland, and
Scotland as the troops departed for the Zulu
| contest.
The same widowhood and orphanage that
sat down In despair after the battles OF
| shiloh and South Mountain poured their
grief that summer In the Shannon and the
Clyde; and the Dee and the Thames. Oh,
ye men and women who know how to pray,
never get up from your knees until you
| have implored God In behalf OF the fourteen
HUNDRED millions OF the race just like your
selves finding life Il tremendous struggle;
for who knows hut that as the sun to-day
drew up drops of water from the Caspian
and Black seas, and from the Amazon and
Mississippi, after awhile to distil the rain,
these very drops on the ilelds--who knows
but the Sun Of Righteousness may draw up
the tears of your sympathy, and then rain