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

disgust existing around him. What
was pleasant to the former was intol.
cradle to the latter. What made all
this difference? asks the author. One
condition only 1.-THE French are victor
ious. the Austrians have been de-
feated.'"
So my dear brother, the road you are
travelling Is the same one you have
travelled long while, but the diff
ference 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 of the London Times, from
the two correspondents. Edward
Payson, sometimes so far up on the
Mount that it seemed as il the cen
tipetal force of the earth could no
longer hold him. sometimes through
a physical disorder was SO far
down that it seemed as if the
neither world would clutch him. Poor
William Covper was a most excellent
Christian. aud will he loved in the
Christian Church as long as it sings his
hymns, beginning, There is foun-
tain filled with blood, "Oh, for IA closer
walk with God. God moves in n mys-
terious way" Yet was he so overcome
of melancholy, or black bile, that il
was only through the mistake o: the
cab driver who took him To n wrong
place, instead of the river bank. that
he did not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition SO nightly af-
fected by the physical state, what n
great opportunity this gives to the
Christian physician, for he can feel at
the same time both the pulse of the
body and the pulse of the soul, and he
can minister to both at once, and it
medicine is needed he can give that
an earthly and a divine prescription at
the same timc-and call on not only the
apothecary of earth, but the pharmacy
of Heaven! All, that is the k nd of n
doctor l waat at my bedside, one
that can not only count cut the
right number of drops, but who can
also pray. hat is the kind of a doe
tor have had in my house when sick
ness or death came. | do not want
any of your profligates or atheistic doc
tors around my loved ones when the
balances of life are trembling. A doc
tor who has gone through the medical
college, and in dissectinE room has
travcrscd the wonders OF the human
mechanism, and found no God in any
of the laby rinths, is fool, and can not
doctor me or mine. But, oh. the Chris
tian doctorsl What a comfort they
have been in many Of our households.
And they ought to have a warm pl ac
in our prayers, as well as praise on our
tongues.
| bless God that the number of Chris
tian physicians is multiplying and
some of the students of the medical
colleges are here to-day and hail you
and ordain you to the tender, beauti-
full, heaven descended work of u Chris
tian physician, and when you take
your diploma from the medical college
to look after the perishable body, be
sure also to get diploma from the
skies to look after the imperishab!e
soul. Let all Christian physicians
unite with ministers of the gospel in
pcrsuading good people that it is not
because God is against them that they
sometimes feel depressed, but because
of this diseased body. suppose
David, the psalmist, was no more
pous when he called on everything
human and angelic, animate and imam
innate, even from snowflake to hurri-
cane, to praise God, than when he
said, out of the depths of hell have |
cried Anto thee, o Lord" or that Jerc-
Diah was more pious when he wrote
his prophecy than when he wrote his
lamentations or job when he said,
Il know that my Redeemer liveth, "
than when covered over with the pus-
tulcs of clephantiasis as he sat in the
ashes scratching the scabs off with n
broken piece OF pottery; or that Alex
ander Crpdep. the concordist, was n
better man when he compiled the
book that has helped 10000 stu
dents of the Bible, than when
under the power of physical
disorder he was handcuffcd and strait
waistcoatcd in Bethnal Green insane
asylum. ''Oh," says some Christian
man, mo one ought to allow physical
disorder to depress his soul lie ought
to live SO near TO God as to be always
in the sunshine" Yes, that is good
advice; but l warrant that you, the
man who gives the advice, has a sound
liver. Thank God for n healthful
hepatic condition, for, as certainly as
you lose il, you will sometimes, like
David, and like Jeremiah. and like
Cowper, and like Alexander Cruden,
and like 10. 900 other invalids, be play
ing a Dead March on the same organ
with which you now play staccato.
My object at this point is not only to
emolliatc the criticisms of those in
good health against those in poor
health, but to show Christian people
who are atrabilious what is the matter
with them. Do not charge against the
heart the crimes of another portion of
your organism. DO not conclude that
because the path to Heaven is not ar
bored with as fine a foliage. or the
banks beautifully showed with ex-
quisite chrysanthemums as once. that
therefore you are on the wrong road.
The road will bring you out at the
same gate whether you walk with the
stride OF an athlete or come up on
crutches. Thousands of Christians,
morbid about their business, and NOR
bid about the present, and morbid
about the future, need the sermon l am
now preaching.
Another practical use of this subject
is for the young The theory is abroad
that they must first sow their wild
oats, and afterward Michigan wheat
Let me break the delusion. Wild oats
are generally sown in the liver, and
they can never be pulled up They SO
preoccu ~ that organ that there is no
room for the implantation of a right
eous crop. You see aged men about us
at eighty, erect, agile, splendid, grand
old men. How much wild oats did
they sow between Is years and 80?
None, absolutely none. God does
not very often honor with old age
those who have in early life sacrificed
swine on the altar of the bodily tenn
pie. Remember, oh, young man, that
while in aftcr-life, and after years of
dissipation, You may perhaps have
your heart changed. religion does not
change the liver. Trembling and stag
gering along these streets to-day are
all In,apal nd