Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-17
OUR ABUSED LINERS.
REV. DR.. TALMAGC ON THE HEALTH
OF THE CODY

n sermon That N oS-!y Concerns This
Life, Yet Spiritual and Physical Condi-
tions Are Largely Dependent Upon Each
Other.
WASHINGTON, May 1G. = DR.. Tai
IMAGES sermon Of today has more to do
with this life than the life to come and
viii be warming against ali forms Of
dissipation. Text, Proverbs vii, %,
It'll dart strike through his liver. -
Solomon's anatomical and physiolog-
ical discoveries were SO very great that
he WAS nearly 5000 years ahead of the
scientists of his day. He, more than
1000 years before Christ, seemed to
know about the circulation Of the blood,
which Harvey discovered 1,619 years
after Christ, for when Solomon in Nc
clesiastes, describing the human body,
speaks of the pitcher at the fountain he
evidently means the three canals lead
ing from the heart that receive the
blood like pitchers. When he speaks in
EccIesiastes Of the silver cord of life, he
evidently means the spinal marrow,
about which in our day Drs. Mayo and
Carpenter and Dalton and Flint and
Brown-Sequard have experimental.
And Solomon recorded in the Bible,
thousands Of years before scientists dis
covered it, that in his time the spinal
cord relaxed in old age, producing the
tremors of hand and head, cor the sill
yer cord be loosed. -
In the text he reveals thefact that he
had studied that largest gland Of the
human system, the liver, not by the
electric light of the modern dissecting
+l,n RI icyht Of
paratively dark age and yethad seen its
important functions in the God built
castle of the human body, it's selecting
and secreting power, its curious cells,
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 Almighty
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 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 the worlds moral de-
preston, and the word melancholy
means black bile
preach to you 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 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 med
ication of the wounds by pouring in oil
and wine, and recognizes hunger as a
hindrance to hearing the gospel, so that
the 5, 900 were fed. He also records the
sparse diet Of the prodigal away from
home and the extinguished eyesight 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 resuscitation. Any esti-
mate of the spiritual condition that does
not include also the physical condition |
Is incomplete.
Heart and Liver.
dead from excessive joy because Bur
goyne had surrendered at Saratoga, and |
Philip V of Spain dropped dead at the |
news of his country's defeat in battle, |
and Cardinal Wolsey faded away as the |
result of Henry Wits 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 we'll recognize the
tremendous fact that there are two
mighty fortresses in the human body, the
heart and the liver, the heart the for
tress of the graces, the liver the fortress
of the fuHies. You may have the head
filled with all intellectualities, and the
ear with all musical appreciation, and
the ear with all musical appreciation,
and the mouth with all eloquence, and
the hand with all industries. and the
heart with all generosities, 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 consecrated man
has found his spiritual sky befogged
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 l think l must
have made a mistake and instead of be-
ing a child Of light I am child of
darkness. No one can feel as gloomy as
I feel and be Christian. . And he has
gone to his minister for consolation, and
he has collected Flavel's books and Ce-
ellis books and Baxter's books and read
ind read and read and prayed and pray
I'd and prayed and wept and wept and
wept and groaned and groaned and