The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-06-17

will never be independent of physical
condition. ! feel l am uttering most
practical, useful truth here, one that
may give relief to a great many Chris
tians who are worried and Respondent
at times
DR.. Rush, monarch in medicine,
after curing hundreds of cases Of mental
depression, himself fell sick and lost his
religious hope, and he would not believe
his pastor when the pastor told him
that his spiritual depression was only
consequence of physical depression. An
drew Fuller, Thomas Scott, William
Cowper, Thomas Boston, David Brain
erd Philip Melanchthon were mighty
men for God, but all of them illustra-
tions of the fact that mans soul is not
independent Of his physical health An
eminent physician gave as his opinion
that no man ever died a greatly tri-
umphant death whose disease was below
the diaphragm. Stackhouse, the learned
Christian commentator, says he does not
think Saul was insane when David
played the harp before him, but it was
hypochondria coming from infamna-
ton of the liver Oh, how many good
people have been mistaken in regard to
their religious hope, not taking these
things into consideration!
The dean of Carlisle, one of the best
men that ever lived, and one Of the
most useful, sat down and wrote:
Though l have endeavored to discharge
my duty as we'll as could, yet sadness
and melancholy of heart stick close by
and increase upon me- l tell nobody,
but am very much sunk indeed, and /
wish I could have the relief of weeping
as I used to. My days are exceedingly
dark and distressing. In a word, AL
mighty God seems to hide his face, and
/ intrust the secret hardly to any earthly
being I know not what will become of
me. There is doubtless good deal of
bodily affliction mingled with this, butt it
is not all So I bless God. however, that
I never lose sight of the cross, and
though should die without seeing any
personal interest in the Redecmer's
merits, hope that shall be found at
his feet. will thank you fer a word at
your leisure. Ny door is bolted at the
time l am writing this, for am full of y
tears.
The East Wind.
What was the matter with the dean
of Carlisle? Had he got to be a worse
man? No. The physician said that the
state of his pulse would not warrant his
living minute. Oh, if the cast wind
affects the spleen, and affects the lungs,
and affects the liver, it will affect your
immortal soul Appealing to God for
help, brace yourself against these with
ering blasts aud destroying influences,
lest that which the psalm;st said broke
the ships of Tarshish shipwreck you
But notice i'll my text that the Lord
controls the east wind: "TEe Lord
brought the east wind" He brings it
for especial purpose; it must sometimes
blow from that quarter. The east wind
is just as important as the north wind,
Or the south wind, or the west wind,
but not so pleasant Trial must come.
The text does not say you will escape
the cutting blast. Whoever did escape
it? Especially who that accomplished
anything for church or state ever escaped
it? l was in the pulpit of John Wesley,
in London, a pulpit where he stood one
day and said, II have been charged
with all the crimes III the catalogue ex-
cept one-that Of drunkenness, and a
woman arose in the audience and said.
John. you were drunk last night. " So
John Wesley passed under the fail
l saw in foreign journal 4 report OF
one of George Whitcfeld's sermors-a
sermon preached a hundred and twenty
or thirty years ago. 1t seemed that the
reporter stood to take the sermon, and
his chief idea was to caricature it, and
these are some Of the reportorial inter
Innings of the sermon Of George White
field. After calling him by q nickname
indicative of q physical defect in the
eye, it goes On TO say: "Here the preach
er clasps his chin Oh the pulpit cushion.
Here he elevates his voice. Here he
lowers his voice. Holds his arms ex-
tended. Bawls aloud. Stands trembling.
Makes frightful face. Turns up the
whites Of his eyes. Clasps his hands be-
hind him. Clasps his arms around him
and hugs himself. Roars aloud. Halioos,
jumps, cries Changes from crying
Halloos and jumps again" Well, my
brother, if that good man went through
all that process, i'll your occupation, III
Your profession, i'll your store, in your
shop, at the bar, in the sickroom, in
the editorial chair, somewhere, you will
have to go through a similar process
You cannot escape it.
Keats wrote his famous poem, and
the hard criticism of the poem killed
him-literally killed him. Tasso wrote
his poem, entitled Jerusalem Dellv
ered," and it had such a cold reception
it turned him into 4 raying maniac.
Stillingfeet Was slain by his literary en-
emics. The frown Of Henry VIII slew
Cardinal Wolsey The Duke of Wei
hngton refused to have the fence around
his house, which had been destroyed by
an excited mob, rebuilt, because he
wanted the fence to remain as it was, a
reminder Of the mutability and unccr-
tainty of the popular favor.
In Time of Trial.
And you will have trial of some sort.
You have had it already. Why need l
prophcsy? L might better mention all
historical fact IN your history. You arc
a merchant. What time you had with
that Old business partner! How hard it
was to get rid Of him! Before you
bought him out, Or he ruined both of
you, what magnitude Of annoyance!
Then after you had paid him down a
certain sum of money to have him go
out and to promise he would not open
a store of the same kind CT business III
your street, did he rot open the very
same kind cf business us near to you as
possible and take all your customers as
far as lie could take them: And then,
knowing all your frailtics and weak
nesses, after being i'll your business firm