The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-05-21

NalS kEASAlHNNbody, speaks OF the
-''-l-''', pitcher at the foun-
REV. TALMAGE. tain. he evidently
means the three canals leading from
the heart that receive the blood like
pitchers. When he speaks in Ecclesi-
astes of the silver cord of life, he evil
IDENTIFY means the spinal marrow, about
which, in our day, Drs. Mayo and Car
penter 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, produc-
ing the tremors of hand and head: "Or
the silver cord be loosed."
In the text he reveals the fact that
he had studied that largest gland of
the human system, the liver, not by
the electric light of the modern dis
secting room, but by the dim light of
comparatively dark age, and yet had
seen its important functions in the
God-built castle of the human body, its
elongated branching tubes, a divine
workmanship in central and right and
left lobe, and the hepatic artery
through which flow 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 attacks sin and dissipation
make upon it, until the fat of AL
mighty God bids the body and soul
separate and the one it commends to
the grave, and the other it sends to
Judgment. A javelin of retribution,
not CHANGING off or making a slight
wound, but piercing it from side to
side It'll a dart strike through his
liver" Galen and Hippocrates ascribe
to the liver the most of the worlds
moral depression, and the word melan
choly means black bile.
preach to you the gospel of health.
In taking a diagnosis of diseases of the
soul you must also take diagnosis of
diseases of the body. AS if to recognize
this, one whole book of the New Testa-
ment was written by a physician. Luke
was a medical doctor, and he discourseS
much of the physical conditions, and
he tells of the good Samaritan's medi
cation of the wounds by pouring in oil
and wine. and recognizes hunger as
hindrance to hearing the gospel, so
that the 5000 were fed; he also records
the sparse diet of the prodigal away
from home. and the extinguished eye
sight of the beggar by the wayside,
and let's us know of the hemorrhage of
the wounds of the dying Christ and
the miraculous post-mortem reSuscita-
ton. Any estimate of the spiritual
condition that does not include also
the physical condition is incomplete.
When the doorkeeper of congress
fell dead from excessive joy because
Burgoyne had surrendered at Sara
toga, and Philip ", of Spain, dropped
dead at the news of his country's de-
feat in battle, and Cardinal Wolsey
faded away as the result of Henry
Wills anathema, it was demonstrated
that the body and soul are Siamese
twins, and when you thrill the one
with Joy or sorrow you thrill the other.
We may as well recognize the ire
mendous fact that there are two
mighty fortresses in the human body,
the heart and the liver; the heart the
fortress of the graces, the liver the
fortress of the furies. You may have
the head filed with all intellectuali-
ties, and the ear with all musical ap-
probation, and the mouth with all
eloquence, and the hand with all in
industries, and the heart with all gen
erosities, and yet a dart strike
through the liver"
First, let Christian people avoid the
mistake that they are all wrong with
God, because they suffer from depres-
sion of spirits. Many a consecrated
man has found his spiritual sky be-
logged and his hope of Heaven blotted
out and himself plunged chin deep in
the slough of despond, and has said:
my heart is not right with God, and
think l must have made a mistake,
and instead of being a child of light
am child of darkness. No one can
feel as gloomy as feel and be Chris
tian." And he has gone to his minister
for consolation, and he has collected
FlaveFs books and Cecil's books and
Baxter's books, and read and read and
read, and prayed and prayed and
prayed, and wept and wept and wept,
and groaned and groaned and
groaned. My brother, your trouble
is not with the heart, it is a gastric
disorder or a rebellion of the liver.
You need a physician more than
you do clergyman. 1t is not sin that
blots out your hope of Heaven, but
bile. 1t not only yellows your eye
balls, and furs your tongue, and makes
your head ache, but swoops upon your
soul in objections and forebodings.
The devil is after you. He has failed
to despoil your character, and he does
the next best thing for him-he ruffles
your peace of mind. When he says you
are not forgiven soul, when he says
you are not right with God, when he
says that you will never get to Heaven,
he lies. If you are in Christ you are