The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-14
TIE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
DR. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON
4 Few Timely Words IN Regard to
\ Spiritual Health.
TEXT: "TsW q dart strike tifouqA his Hrer..

paraClSely small part OF the Bible Is called or
1or texts Most of the passages OF Scripture
when announced at the op2u:ng Of sermons
Immediately divide themselves into old dis.
cuSsions that we have heard from bovhooI
and the effect on lis is soporitic Tie auditor
gueSSes at the start just what the preacher
VIII say. There are Very important chapters
ana verses that have never been prea ched
from. Much of my lifetime | an. devo,ing
to unlocking these gcll chests and hlaStin.
open these QUarrieS. We talk about the
heart, and sing about the heart. but if YOU
refer to the physical organ that We call the
heart, 1t has not half 50 much to do with
spiritual health or disease. moral eyaltation
or spiritual depression. rs the organ to the
consideration o; which Solomon calls us in
the text. when lie describes sin progressing
TIL dart strike through his liver.
Soiomons anatomical and physiological
discoveries were so very great that ne was
nearly 5000 Years ahead OF the scientists of
ms day. He, more than l,e0O years before
Christ, seemed 70 know about the circulation
OF the blood, which Harvey discovered l.G19
years after Christ, for when Solomon in
EcelesiaStes, describing the human body,
speaks of the pitcher at the fouatain. he evi-
IDENTIFY means the three canals leading from
the heart that receive the blood like pitchers.
When he speaks in EcclaSaSteS of thesilver
cord of life, he evidently II ans the spinal
marrow, about which III our day DrS. Mayo
and Carpenter, and Dalton, and Flint, and
Brown-Sequard have experimental And
Solomon recorded in the Bible thousands Of
years before scientists discovered it, that in
his time the spinal cord relaxed in old age,
producing the tremorS Of hand and head
''Or if the silver cord be looS.dS
In the text he reveals the fact that he had
studied that largest gland os the human Sys-
tenn, the liver, not by the electric light of the
modern diSSectinS room, bus by the dim light
OF comparatively dark age, and vet had
seen its important function in the God-built
castle of the human body, its selecting and
secretlng power, its curious cells. lis elon
gated, branching tubes. 4 divine workman
ship in central. and right. and left lobe, and
the hepatlc artery tarough which God con-
ducts the crimson tides Oh. this vital organ
is like the eye of God in that it never sleeps
Solomon knew OF it and had noticed either
IN vivISection or post mortem what awful at
cackS sin and dissipation make upon it. until
with the Sat of Almighty God it bids the
body and soul separate, and the one it COM
1aands to the grave and the other it sends to
judgnens-a javelin OF retribution, not
ganclng Off or making slight wounl, but
piercing it from side TO side till the dart
strike through the liver" Galen and Hippo
crates ascribe to the liver the most OF the
worlds moral depression, and the word
melancholy means black bile
preach to you this morning the gospel of
health. In taking diagnosis of the diseases
Of the soul You must also take the diagnoses
Of the diseases OF the body. AS if to fecoS-
nize this, one whole book of tire New Testl-
ment was written by physician. Luke was
a doctor, and he diScourceS much OF physical
effects, and he tells OF the gooGi Samaritan's
medication Of the wounds by pouring in OF.
and wine, and recognizes hunger as hin
drance to hearing the Gospel, so that the
500 were fed; and records the Spare diet of
the prodigal away from home. and the extin-
guished eyeSight of the beSgar 10y the way
side, and let's us know OF tie hemorrhage of
the wounds of the dying Christ and the
miraculous poSt-morte:n reSuScitatioa. And
any estimate OF the spiritual condition that
does not include a'So an estimate Of tae
physical condition is incomplete
First, let Christian people avoid the mis-
take that they are all wrong with God be-
cause they suffer from depression Of spirits.
Many a conSecrated man has found his spir-
itual sky befoggets. and his hope and heaven
blotted out, and himself plunged chin deep in
the Slough OF Despord. and hss said: My
heart is not right with Goo, and think ImuSt
have made mistake, and instead OF being
child Of light l am a child of darkness No
one can feel as gloomy as feel and be
Christian And lie has gone to his minister
for consolation, and he has collected Flavel's
books. and CecirS books, and Bakers books,
and read and read and read, and prayei and
prayed and prayed. and wept and wept and
wepr, and groaned and groaned and groaned.
My brother, Your trouble is not with
the heart; it is gastric disorder o. Z re-
bellion Of the liver You need 3 phyS;-
clan more than you do 4 clergyman. 1t is
not sin that blotS out vour hope of heiven,
h,,%h W. aho1
and furs your tongue, and makes Your head
ache. but swoops upon your soul in deiectionS
and forebo6ings. The devil is after YOU. He
has failed to despoil vour character, and he
does the next best thing for him-he ru:i!,s
your peace of mind When he says that you
are not a forgiven soul, when he says that
you are not right with God, when lie says
that you will never get to heaven, he lies.
You are just as sure Of heaven as though Won
were there already. But Satan. finding that
he cannot keep You out OF the promise LAM!
of Canaan, has determined that tie spies
shall not bring you any of tie ESt.aol grapes
beforehand, and that you shall have nothing
but prickly pear and crab apple. y Nou are lust
as good now under the cloud aS vop were when
you were accustomed to rise IL the morning
to pray and sing ''Halleiuiah, It's done.
Edward PaySon, sometimes so far up
on the mount that il seemed as il the
centripetal force of earth could no longer
hold him. sometimes through 4 phys cal dis
order was so far down that 1t seemed as # the
neither world wou!d clutch him. Glorious
William Cowper was as goo3 a. !,ooi cou.d
be, and will be loved IN the thr:Sti2n church
as long as it sings his hymn beginning
There is fountain flied with Hood, and
his hymn beginning: "Uh, for 4 closer walk
with God" and his hymn beginning: What
varionS hindranceS We meet. ara his hymn
beginning: God moves in 4 mysterious
way" Vet so was he overcome cf mc,an
choly, or black bile, that it WAS only tf1o ou1-h
the mistake OF tie cab driver. who took him
to-a wrong place, instead Of ,he river Gank,
that he diti not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so nightly affected by
the physical state, What 4 great oppcr
tunity this gives the Christian physician, for
he can feel at the same time bc;h the pulse OF
the body and the pulse OF the soul. and he
can administer to both IL onca, and II medl-
cine is needed he can give that, anl if spirit
ual counsel is needed he can Gi"e tiiat--@n
earthly and divine prescription al the same
time-and call no. oalv TIC apothecary OF
earth, but the pharmacy OF heaven. All,
this is the kind OF Doctor want 4: my bed
side when l get SICK. one that can not only
pour out the right Yunher Of drops. but one
who can also pray. That is the kind Of doc
tor have had in my house wllen sickness or
death came. l do not want any OF yoar prof
hgate or atheistic doctors arodNG my loved
ones when tie balances of life are trenl-
bling. A doctor who has gone through the
medical college. AMI III d:ssec:ing room
has traversed the wonders CT the human
mechanism, and found no God il any cf the
a5yrinths, is a fool and canEct doctor me or
mine. But, oh, the Christian doctors. What
q comfort they have been in many Of our
households. And they ought to have warm
place in our PRAYERS. as We'll rs praise on our
tongues. Dear o. DR.. Sil;l:.nan, Ny fathers