The Globe-republican., 1897-12-16


cribe to . slow liver. The body and
the soul are such near neighbors that
they often catch each others disease.
Those who never saw a sick day, and
who, like Hercules, show the giant in
the cradle, have more to answer for
than those who are the subjects Of life
long infirmities. He who can lift twice
as much as you can. and walk twice as
far. and work twice as long. will have
double account to meet in the judg-
ment.
How often is it that you do not find
physical energy indicative Of spiritual
power: If a clear head is worth more
than one dizzy with perpetual vertigo
If muscles with the play OF health
in them are worth more than those
drawn up in chronic "rheumatics"-if
an eye quick to catch passing objects
is better than one with vision dim and
uncertain-then God will require Of US
"f3ciency just in proportion to what
he has given us. Physical energy
ought to be type of moral power.
We ought to have as good digestion Of
truth as We have capacity to assimi-
late food. Our spiritual hearing ought
to be as good as our physical hearing.
Our spiritual taste ought to be as clear
as our tongue Samsons In body, We
ought to be giants in moral power.
But while you find a great many men
who realize that they ought to use
their money Alright. and use their In
tel!igence Alright. how few men you
find aware OF the fact that they ought
to use their physical organism Alright
With every thump Of the heart there
is something saying. Work! work.!
and, lest we should complain that We
have no tools 20 work with, God gives
US our hands and feet. with every
knuckle, and with every joint. and
with every muscle. saying to US. Lay
hold and do something.
But how often it is that men with
physical strength do not serve Christ.
They are like ship full manned and
full rugged. capable of vast tonnage,
able to endure all stress of weather.
yet swinging idly at the docks. when
these men ought to be crossing and re-
crossing the great ocean Of human suf-
fering and sin with Gods supplies OF
mercy. How often it is that physical
strength is used in doing positive dam
age, or in luxurious ease, when. with
sleeves rolled up and bronzed bosom.
fearless of the shafts OF opposition. it
ought to be laying hold with all it's
might. and tugging away to lift up
this sunken wreck OF world.
It is a most shameless fact that
much of the business of the church
and of the world must be done by those
comparatively invalid. Richard Bax-
ter. by reason of his diseases, all his
days sitting in the door OF the tomb.
yet writing more than hundred vol
umes, and sending out an influence
for God that will endure rs long as
the Saints Everlasting Rest. Ed
ward Payson. never knowing well
day. yet how he preached, and how he
wrote. helping thousands of dying souls
like himself to swim in sea OF
glory" And Robert MCheyne, walk
ing skeleton, yet you know what he
did in Dundee, and how he shook
Scotland with zsal for God. Philip
advised by his friends. be-
cause of his illness. not to enter the
ministry, yet you know what he did for
the rise and progress Of religion in
he church and in the world.
The trouble is that when people
write or speak upon this theme they
are apt TO cover Il up with the graces
Of bellies le.tres. so that the crime is
made attractive instead of repulSiye.
Lord Byron in Don Juan" adOrns this
crime until it smiles like May queen.
Michelet. the great French writer COW
ars 1t up with hewitching rhetoric, IN
Ill it CLOVIS like the rising sun. when
[ ought to be made loathsome as a
smallpox hospital. There are today
Influences abroad. which. if unresisted
~ the pulpit and the printing press. |
will turn our modern cities into So |
ION and Gomorrah, fit only for the |
storm of fire and birthstone that |
the cities Of the plain.
Yuu who are seated in your Chris |
ian homes. comprised by moral and |
eligious restraints. do not realize The |
,ulf Of iniquity that bounds you On
he north ard the south and the east |
nd west. While l speak there :rc |
ems of thousands of men and women |
,oing over the awful plunge of an I'm
,ure life; and while cry to God for !
mercy upon their souls call upon you |
O marshal in the defense Of your
ZONES. your church and your nation.
There is banquet!ng hail that You
lave never heard described. You
now all about the feast of Ahasuerus.
where thousand lords sat. You know
IL about Belshazzar's carorsal. where
he blood Of the murdered king squirt
d into the faces of the banqueters.
lou may know Of the scene of riot and
Vassail. when there was set before
.sopus one dish of food that cost $780,
10. But I speak now OF different
hall. It's roof is frettet
18th fire. Its floor is tesselated with