Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-05-20
OF THE BODY
REV. DR.. TALMAeE breaches UPON
ovERwoRKED LivERs.

Morh DepfessioHS 6he Duo W @-e
Hardworked Organ and Urges His
Hearers TO Take Care of 1t.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-Dr. Talmage's
sermon Of today has more to do with this
ife than the life TO come and will be a
warming against all forms Of dissipation.
Text, Proverbs vii, 90, "Till dart strike !
through his liver"
Solomon's anatomical and physiological !
discoveries wero SO very great that he was
nearly 5000 years ahead of the scientists
Of his day. He, more than 900 years be- |
fore Christ, seemed to know about the cir
culation of the blood, which Harvey dis
covered 1,6l9 years after Christ, for when
Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, describing the
human body, speaks of the pitcher at the
he evidently means the three
canals leading from the heart that receive
the blood like pitchers. When he speaks
in Ecclesiastes of the silver cord of life, he
evidently means the spinal marrow, about
which, in our day, Drs Mayo and Carpen-
ter and Dalton and Flint and Brown-Se-
guard 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,
producing the trenors of hand and head,
''or the silver cord be loosed."
The Liver and Morality.
In the text he reveals the fact that he
had studied that largest gland of the hui
man 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 func-
tions in the God built castle Of the human
body, its selecting and secreting power,
its curious cells, its elongated branching
tubes, divine workmanship in central
and right and left lobe, and the hepatio
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 fiat of Almighty God
bids the body and soul separate, and the
one it commends to tho grave and the 9TH
er it sends to Judgment. A javelin OF ret
ribution, not glancing off or making q
slight wound, but piercing it from side to
side "till dart strike through his liver. "
Galen and Hippocrates ascribe to the liver
the most of tho worlds moral depression,
and the word melancholy means black
bile.
preach to yo1 the gospel of health. in
taking 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 Testament was
written by physician. Luke was med
ical doctor, and he discourses much of the
physical conditions, and he tells of the
good Samaritan's medication of the
wounds by pouring in oil and wine, ano
recognizes hunger as hindrance to hear
| ing tho gospel, so that the 5000 were fed
He also records the sparse diet of the prod
igal away from home, and the extinguishet
eyesight of the beggar by the wayside, ant
| lets us know of the hemorrhage of th'
| wounds of the dying Christ and the mirac
| ulous post mortem resuscitation. An!
| estimate of the spiritual condition tina
| does not include also the physical condi
tion is incomplete.
| When the doorkeeper of congress fell deaf
from excessive joy because Burgoyne ha'
surrendered at Saratoga, and Philip V G
Spain dropped dead at tho news OF hi
country's defeat in battle, and Cardina
Wolsey faded away as the result of Henr
Wits anathema, it was demonstrated tha
the body and soul are Siamese twins, an
when you thrill the one with joy or sol
row you thrill the other. We may as we
recognize the tremendous fact that ther
are two mighty fortreses in the huma
body, the heart and the liver; the heart
the fortress of the graces; the liver, tn
fortress of the furies You may have tn
head filled with all intellectualities, an
the ear with all musical appreciation, an
the mouth with all eloquence, and til
hand with all industries, and the heal
with all generosities, and yet "a dart stril
through the liver"
A Rebellious Liver.
First, let Christian people avoid tho mi
take that they are all wrong with God b
cause they suffer from depression
spirits Many a ccnsecrated man has four
his spiritual sky befogged and his hope
heaven blottcd out and himself plunge
chin deep in the slough of despond, ar
has said: "My heart is not right wit
God, and I think l must have made
mistake, and instead of being a child
light I am child of darkness. No OF
can feel as gloomy as I feel and be
Christian" And he has gone to his mil
lister for consolation, and he has collectt
Flavel's books, and Cecil's books, al
Baxter's books, and read and read al
read, and prayed and prayed and praye
and wept and wept and wept and groan'
and groaned and groaned. My brothe
your trouble is not with the heart 1t is
gastric disorder OF rebellion of the live
You need physician more than you do
clergyman. 1t is not sin that blots o
your hope of heaven, but bile. 1t not on
yellows your eyeballs, and furs 20
tongue, and makes your head ache, b
swoops upon your soul in objections al
forebodings. The devil is after you.
has failed to despoil your character, al
he does the next best thing for him
ruffles your peace of mind. When he sa
that you are not forgiven soul, when
says you are not right with God, when
says that you will never get to heaven,
lies. If you are in Christ, you are just
sure Of heaven as though you were the
already. But satan, finding that he ca
not keep you out of the promised land
Canaan, has determined that the spi
shall not bring you any of the Esct
grapes beforehand and that you shall ha
nothing but prickly pear and crabapp
You arc just as much Christian nc
under the cloud as you were when y
were accustomed to rise in the morning
O'Clock to pray and sing "Halleluia
tits done!'
My friend Rev. DR.. Joseph F. Jones
Philadelphia, translated spirit no
wrote book entitled "Man, Moral a
Physical in which he shows how diff