Connecticut western news., 1897-05-20

 ter of the same date, describing the tame places and a march over the same road, the writer can scarcely find words to set forth the suffering, impatience and disgust existing around him. What was pleasa nt to the former was intoler- able to the latter. What made all this difference? asks the author One condi. tion only. The French are victorious, the Austrians have been defeated. '''
 Result of Black Bile.
 So, my dear brother, the road you are travelling is the same you have been travelling long while, but the differ ence 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 in the London Times from the two cor respondents. Edward Payson, some times so far up on the mount that it seemed as if the centripetal force of earth could no longer hold him, some- times through physical disorder was so far down that it seemed as if the neither world would clutch him. Poor William Cowper was most excellent Christian and will be loved in the Christian church as long as it sings his hymns beginning, "There is fountain filled with blood, '" "Oh, for a closer walk with God,'' What various hin drances we meet" and "God moves in a mysterious way" Yet was he so over come of melancholy or black bile that it was only through the mistake of the cab driver who took him to a wrong place, instead of the river bank, that he did not commit suicide.
 Spiritual condition so nightly affect ed by the physical state, what 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 administer to both at once, and if medicine is need ed he can give that, and if spiritual counsel is needed he can give that-an earthly and divine prescription at the same time-and call on not only the apothecary of earth, but the pharmacy of heaven. An, that is the kind of doc tor want at my bedside, one that can- not only count out the right number of drops, but who can also pray. That is the kind of doctor I have had in my house when sickness or death came. I do not want any of your profigate or atheistic doctors around my loved ones when the balances of life are trembling A doctor who has gone through the medical college and in dissecting room has traversed the wonders of the human mechanism and found no God in any of the labyrinths is fool and cannot doc tor me or mine. But, oh, the Christian in many of our householdsl And they ought to have warm place in our pray CTS as we'll 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 today, and hail you and or dain you to the tender, beautiful, heav en descended work of Christian phy sician, 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 imperishable soul. Let all Christian physicians unite with min isters of the gospel in persuading good people that it is not because God is against them that they sometimes feel depressed, but be- cause of their diseased bodies. suppose David the psalmist was no more pious when he called on everything human and angelic, animate and inanimate, even from snowflake to hurricane, to praise God than when he said, "Out of the depths of hell have I cried unto Al- n sr l. more pious when he wrote his prophecy than when he wrote his Lamenta- tions, or Job when he said, "I know that my Redeemer iveth," than when covered over with the pustules of ele- phantiasis as he sat in the ashes scratch ing the scabs off with broken piece of pottery, or that Alexander Cruden, the concordist, was a better man when he compiled the book that has helped 10, 900 students of the Bible than when under the power of physical disorder he was handcuffed and strait waistcoated in Bethnal Green Insane asylum. "Oh, says some Christian man, mo one ought to allow physical disorders to depress his soul. He ought to live so near God as to be always in the sunshine. Yes, that is good advice, but warrant that you, the man who gives the advice, has a sound liver. Thank God for health full hepatic condition, for as certainly as you lose it you will sometimes, like David, and like Jeremiah, and like Cowper, and like Alexander Cruden, and like 10, 1000 other invalids, be play ing a dead march on the same organ with which now you play staccato.
 Atrabilious People.
 My object at this point is not only to emolliate the criticisms of those in good health against those in poor health, but to show Christian people who are atra- bilious what is the matter with them. Do not charge against the heart the crimes of another portion of your organ ism. Do not conclude that because the path to heaven is not arbored with as fine a foliage or the banks beautifully showed with exquisite chrysanthemums as once, that therefore you are on the wrcng 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 Chris tians, morbid about their experiences and morbid about their business and morbid about the present and morbid about the future, need the sermon I 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 preoc- cupy that organ that there is no room for the implantation of righteous crop
 You see aged men about us at 80 erect, agile, splendid, grand old men. How l much wild oats did they SOW between
 years and 30? None, absolutely none God does not very often honor with old age those who have in early life sacri- feed swine on the altar of the bodily toypn1o O uor,,r ,,,ay fbot