Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-05-20

date at the bank OF the grave" says
every inf action of the laws of your
ply ,lcal being.
What? Will a mans body never
completely recover from early dissipa-
ton in this worldP Never. How about
the world to come? Perhaps tod will
fix it up in the resurrection body so
that it will not have to go limping
through all eternity, but get the liver
| thoroughly DANA ed and it will stay
damaged as long as you are here.
Physicians call it cirrhosis o. the liver
or inflammation of the liver or fatty
| degeneration o; the liver, but solomon
puts all these plngS into one figure
| and says, Till Il dart strike through
| his liver"
Iiesioi seemed to have some hint of
| this when he re bresentei Prom ,theuS,
| for his Grim :, fastened 10 \ pillar AMI
an eagle feeling on his liver, WHICH
was renewed az lin each night, 50 that
| the devouring went on until finally
Hercules slew the eagle and rescued
Promcthcu,. And Il dissipated early
lie assures a ferocity pecking away
| aud clawins away at the liver year in
| and year out, and death Is the only
| Hercules who can break the power of
IS bsa< or unclcnch its claw. 30,
| alsp, others wrote fables aboIt vul-
| cures proving pom the liver; but there
| IRE those here with whom it is no
| fable, but a terrific reality.
That young man smoking cigarettes
| md smoking cigars has no idea that
lie is getting for himself smoked
| liver. That young man had no idea
hat he has 10y early dissipation 50 de-
| pletcd his energies that he will go in
20 the battle only half armed Here is
mother toung man who, if he put all
his forces against the regiment of
| ,outhful temptations, in the strength
| Of God, might drive them back, but he
is allowing them tn be REINFORCED by
The whole army of midlife temptations,
| md what bat immortal defeat can
| lwait him!
Oh. my young brother. do not make
| the mistake. that thous rnds are maxi
| NJ, il. opening the battle against N
too late, for this world, too late, and
or the world to come, too late. What
| brings that express train from St
Louis into Jersey City too late? They
lost IL minutes early on the route, and
| that affected them all the way; and they
hal To be switched off here and switch
| ii off there, and detained here and de-
| tanned there: and the man who loses
| time and strength in tn, earlier part
| Of the Journey of life will suffer for it
| Ill the way through-the first 20 years
| 4 life damag.n the followiny 80 years
| Some years ago scientific lecturer
| vent through the country exhibiting
| IN great canvas different parts of the
human body when healthy, and the
| same parts when disease l. And what
| the world wants now is some eloque Mt
| chemist to go through the country
showing to our young people on blaz-
ing canvas the drunkard's liver, gam
bler's liver. Perhaps the spectacle
might stop some young man before he
comes to the catastrophe, and the dart
strike throu IN his liver.
My nearer, this is the first sermon
you have heard on the Gospel of
Health, and charge you, in the name
Of Col, and Christ, and usefulness,
and internal destiny, take better care
of your health. When some of you
lie. if truthful epitaph, it will read:
Here lies the victim of late sup
pers;" or will it be: behold what
lobster salad at midnight will do
| for n mani" or will it be: Ten
cigars a day closed my earthly exist
ence;" or it will be: Thought could
do at seventy what l did at twenty,
and am here" or it will be: Here
is the consequence of sitting a half
day with wet feet:" or it will ~
This is where / have stacked my har-
vest of Wild OATS" or, instead of words,
the stone cutter will chisel for an ep-
itaph on the tombstone two figures
namely, dart and liver.