Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-17
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An Intellectual Treat to Hundreds
 of CiSissns-Physieal Ailments and
 their Rsmeay-ypiritual Blight and
 It's Remedy.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Rev. Dr. McChesney, pastor of Trinity Methodist church, Sunday evening preached discourse of great interest, and 1t will please many to see the following sketch of the ser- mon. He took fer his text "Is there no Balm in Gileadi is there no Physician thsre" Jeremiah viii:22. Topic, remedial sys- tenn seen in terrestrial nature. The doctor said, my position is that there is e revelation of God in terrestrial nature which goes far ther than we can possibly go as the result of the study of the stellar and planetary heavens. Nature in this world of ours teaches that we are living under . remedial system. The physical universe is charged with the mission of making Gods glory known to in- ful description of the land of Gilead and the trade in "balm, myrrh and oil.'D In the days of Jeremiah nothing was so renowned as @ universal remedy for almost every dis ease as balm. Sickness, disease and wounds are nature's types of sorer maladies of sin, and Gilead's balm was not too famous to stand for those ulVlu6E 1om6Qlob 10 DO 1OuuQ lu tue IoOc6u- ing grace. This parallelism between nature and grace must be by divine appointment. Nature everywhere is full of parables. and revealed religion, with its remedial agencies, is Gods interpretation thereof. Nature might properly be called the Old Testament; Revelation (the Bible), the New Testament, both coming from infinite mind should be studied together. It is from this standpoint that science receives its truest and highest inspiration and it is iron this standpoint that the Bible is to re- ceive it's unanswerable defense. The path of the scientist and that of the theologian lie along by the side of each other, and there is 8 wonderful resemblance in the fruit which grows in their respective fields. Natural science is the result of painstaking investiga- tion of nature's great book. Such studies are closely related to the things useful, but neces- sary. So that the sciences constitute great and important factor in civilization. Botany, chemistry, mineralogy and medicine are kin- dred and also tributary to the known wants of the world we inhabit.
 Human life on this planet is environed by countless natural evils. do not count them natural to intimate that they are ns- ceesary or that they properly belong to the natural course of things. A precipice is a fact in nature but that man should fall from that precipice and break his neck Is unnatural. The human body ia the natural body but that the human body should be covered from head to foot with the soab of smallpox is an unnatural condition. Hence when @ man is falling from @ precipics he intinctively clutches after something that will save him and 90 when man finds him. self attached with dangerous disease he in- stinctively i. @. naturally seeks for restora- lives or remedies curative.
 call sickness, pain, disease. physical ac- natural evils, to distinguish them from moral evil, such as sin and vice. These natural evils are kindred, because they are hostile to human happiness. The infringement of any natural law portends trouble and disaster. In nature law and penalty have direct con- nestion. And being under law means under government. If . man leaps from prscipice the law of gravitation will ensure him disas- trous physical results. If man takes few drops of hydro oyanie acid it will kill him ac- cording to law. In all such cases death is the penalty for the infringement of natural law.
 Now, then, we are prepared for another question:: Does the penalty for all such cases actually occur, or does nature herself recognize remedial element or force to in- terrupt the penaltyi know no better way to answer that question than by referring you to the science and practice of medicine. And remember, the medical profession is universal. The whole world recognizes the importance of medical treatment for the sick. Christ uttered an important truth when he said, "They that are whole need not physician, but they that are sick" When Christ sent forth the twelve apostles they were commissioned to "heal the sick" and Ss. Mark tells us that "they annointed with oil many that were sick and healed them" Though they were endowed with miraculous powers, they used the standard remedy of their time. They used natural means. And 1t Is safe to affirm that from time i'm memorial 1t has been understood that this world contains remedies for its natural evils. And is there no remedy for souls diseaseda Yes. Blessed be God; He has put out his sign as 6 physician; and OA.sA-t A-- 5~.~. <->.~. -<s.. l-sa vsne and travelled in human attire that He might reach this world of souls. To heal the bodies He has given minerals, bark, roots and balms, in countless number and variety, but for the healing of souls He has given Himself. He, Christ, is the remedy ''sent to heal the broken-hearted." "I will heal their back slidings."
 If you slight Gods remedy for souls, what chance is there for youa Obey the voice of that Great Physician and be healed of tEe disease sin has made upon your souls. man