The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-21
!. TALMAGES SERMON.
sukDAY's DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

T4xT: 9TH a dart strikes through bis
liveH' Proverbs VIII, 20.
solomon's anatomical and physiological
discoveries were so very great that he was
his day. He, more than 1000 wears befoyr
Christ, seemed to know about the ~circula.
tton OF the blood, which Harvey discovered
1913 years after Christ, for when Solomon
In Erclesiastes, describing the human body.
speaks OF tho pitcher at the fountain he
evidently means he three canals leading
rom the heart that receive the blood like
pitchers. When he speaks Ia Ecclesiastee
OF the silver cord OF lite, he evidently means
the spinal marrow, abou. which In our day
Drs, Mayo and Carpenter and Dalton and
Flint and Brown-Seqnafd have experiment.
ed. And Solomon recorded In the Bible,
thousands OF years before scientists discoy.
cred ~, that In HIS time the spinal cord re-
Taxed In old age, producing the tremofa al
hand and head, Tor the silver cord BE-
loosed,n
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 dissecting room, but by the
dim light OF q comparatively dark age, and
yet had seen its important functions In the
God built castle OF the human body, Its Sc
Letting and secreting power, its curious
cells, its elongated branching tubes. a d.
vine workmanship in central n right and
left 0 and the hepatie artery through
which flow tho crimson tides. Oh, this
vital organ Is like tho eye Of God In that IL
never sleepsi
solomon knew Of Il and had noticed
either in yivisection or post mortem what
awful attacks sin and dissipation make
upon 1t, until the nat OF Almighty God bids
sthe body n soul separate, and the one it
commends to the grave and the other 1t
sends to Judgment. A ~jayelin of retribu.
wound, but piercing It from side to side
till a dart strike through his liver"
Galen and Hippocrates hscribe to the
liver the most OF the worlds moral depres-
sion, and che word melancholy means black
bile.
Ipreach, to you the gospel Of health. In
taking a diagnosis Of diseases OF the soul
you must also take a diagnosis Of diseases
OF the body. As II to recognize this, one
whole book Of the New Testament was
written by a physician. Luke was a
medical doctor, and he d~iscourses much Of
the physical conditions, and be tells OF tho
good Samaritan's medication of the
wounds by. pouring In oil and wine, and
recognizes hunger as a hindrance to hear
ing the gospel, so that the 5000 were fed.
He also records the sparse diet Of the
prodigal away from home and the extin-
guished eyesight of the beggar by the way
side, and let's us know Of the hemorrhage
Of the wounds OF the dying Christ and the
miraculous post mortem resuscitation. ANY
estimate OF the spiritual condition that
does not include also the physical condition
Is incomplete.
When the d~oorkeeper OF Congress fell
dead from excessive 10y because Bureoyne
had surrendered at Saratoga, and Philip
v. OF Spain, dropped dead at the news OF
his country's defeat In battle, and Cardinal
nIu Ia II ~ anwaw4 a. AL - - ---A
Wills anathema, 1t was demonstrated that
the body and soul are Siamese twins, and
when you thrill the n with Joy or sorrow
you thrill the other. We may as well recop-
nize the tremendous fact that there aretw
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 intellectualitles, and the ear with all
musical appreciation, and the mouth with
all eloquence, and the hands with all in
dustries, and the heart with all generosities,
and yet "a dart strike through the liver"
First, let Christian people avoid the mis-
take that they are all wrong with God be-
cause they suffer from depression o fnpirits,
Many a consecrated man has found his
spiritual sky hefogged and his hope OF
heaven blotted out and plunged chin deep
In the slough of despond aud has said: my
heart is not right with Gcd, and 1 think
l must have made a mistake and in
stead of being a child Of light I am a child
OF darkness. No one can feel us gloomy as
l feel and be a Christian" And he has
gone to his master for consolation, and he
has collected Flavel's books and Cecil's
books and Baxter's books and read and
read and read and prayed mi prayed and
prayed and wept n wept and wept
and groaned and groaned and groaned. My
brother,. your trouble is not with the heart;
II 10 n OaQfrfe afaor1or rR a rahalIfn1 ~ khA
liver. You need q physician more than you
do a Clergyman. 1t Is not sin that blots
out your hope Of heaven, but bile, 1t not
only yellows your eyeballs, 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 ruffies your peace of mind. When he
says that you are not a forgiven soul, when
he says you are not right with God, when
he says that you will never get to heaven,
he lies. II you are in Christ you are Just as
sure Of heaven as though you were there
keep you out Of the promised land of
Canaan, has determined that the spies shall
not bring you any of the Eschol grapes be-
forehand, and that you shall have nothing
but prickly pear and crabapple. YOU are
just as much a Christian now under the
cloud as you were when you were accus-
to rise In the morning at 8 o'clockto
pray and sing "Haleluiah. It's doney'
My friend, Rev. DR.. Joseph F. Jones, Of
q translated spirit now wrote
q book entitled, Man, Moral and Physi-
In which he shows how different the
same things may appear to different peo-
pie. He says: AFTER the great battle on
the Mineio in 1859. between the French and
the Sardinians on the one side and the Aus
trians on the other, 50 disastrous to the
latter. the defeated army reiterated, fol-
lowed by the yictors. A description of the
march OF each army 10 given by two CORE
spondents OF the London Times, n of
whom travelled with the successful host, the
other with the defeated. The difference In
views and statements of the same place,
scenes and events Is remarkable. The for
mer are said to be marching through a
beautiful and luxuriant country during the
day and at night encamping where they are
supplied with an abundance of the best
provisions and all sorts OF rural dainties.
There Is nothing of war about the proceed
ing except its stimulus and excitement.
On the side Of the poor Austrians 1t is just
the reverse. In his letter OF the same date,
describing the same places and a march
over the same road. the writer can scarcely
find words to set forth the suffering, i'm
patience and disgust existing around him.
What was pleasant to the former was in
TO tub lhtttr. Whdt hnt III hhio
difference? asks the author. One condi-
ton only. The French are victorious, the
Austrians have been defeated
So, my dear brother, the road you are
travelling is the same you have been travel
ing a long while, but the difference in your
physical conditions makes it look different,
and therefore the two reports you have
given OF yourself are as widely different as
the reports in the London Times from the
two correspondents. Edward Payson, some-
so far up on the mount that 1t seemed
as II the centripetaI force of earth could
no longer hold him, sometimes through a
disorder was so far down that
1t seemed as II the neither world would
clutch him. Poor William Cowper was
most excellent Christian and will be loved
in the Christian church as long as it sings
his hymns beginning, 'eThere is a fountain
flled with blood" '0h, for a closer walk
with Cod "What various hindrances we
meet" and "God moves in mysterious
way" Yet was he SO overcome OF melan-
eholy or black bile that 1t was only through
the mistake OF the cab driver who took him
to a wrong place, instead OF the river bank,
that he did not commit suicide.