The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-17
DIRE DANGER IN DISSIPATION.
TALMAGE breaches A SERMON on
THE GOSPEL or HEALTH.

coveries-A Diagnosis OF the Dis
eases of the soul Must BE Accom-
panied by Diagnosis of the Dis
eases OF the Body-Body and soul
siamese Twins.
Washington May 15.-Dr. Talmage's
Sermon OF to-day has more 20 do with this
lie than the lie 70 come and Will be
warning azalus, an forms OF dissipation.
Tx. PROV. 3. q. TIL a dart strike through
ais liver.
s5Iomon's anatomical and physiological
discoveries were so very great that he was
nearly three thousand years ahead Of the
scientists OF bis day. He. more than one
thousand years before Christ seemed 70
know about the circulation Of the blood,
which Harvey discovered sixteen hundred
and nineteen years after Christ, for when
Solomon. in Ecclesiastes describing the
human body. speaks Of the pitcher at the
fountain. he evidently means the three ca
mails leading from the heart that receive
the blood like pitchers. When he speaks
IN Ecc.esiastes Of the silver cord of life.
he evidently means the spinal marrow,
about which. in our day, Doctors Mayo
and Carpenter and Dalton and Flint and
Brown-sequari have experimental And
Solomon recorded in the Bible, thousands
of years before scientists discovered 1t,
that in his time the spinal cord relaxed in
old age. producing the tremors Of hand
and head. "Or the silver cord be loosed-
In the text he reveals the fact that he
had studied that largest gland Of the hu-
man system. the liver. not by the electric
light of the modern dIssecting- room, but by
the dim light Of a comparatively dark age,
ana yet had seen its important functions
in the Cod-built caste Of the human body,
its selecting and seereting power, its Gu
rious cells. its elongated branching tubes,
a Divine workmanship in central and right
and left lobe, and the hepauc artery
through which flow the crimson tides. On,
this vital organ is like the eye Of God In
that it never sleeps.
Solomon knew Of it, and had noticed
either in vivisection of post-mortem what
awful attacks sin ana dissipation make
upon il, until the fiat Of Almighty God
bids the body and soul separate, and the
one il commends to the grave, and the 9TH
er it sends to judgment javelin Of
retributio1l. not CHANGING of or making a
slight wound. but piercing il from side to
eide eth "A dart strike through his liver
Galen and HippOcrates ascribe to the liver
the most of the worlds moral depression,
ana the word melancholy means black bile.
1 preach TO you the Gospel OF Health.
In taxing diagnosis of diseases Of the
soul you must also take diagnosis Of
disea ses Of the body. AS il to recognize
this. one whole book of the New Tesla
ment was written by a physician. Luke
was a medical doctor, and he dlscourses
much OF tine physical conditions, ana ne
tolls Of the good Samaritan medication
81 tile WOUNDS by pouring in oil and wine,
ami recognizes hunger as hindrance 10
hearing the gospel, 50 that the five thou
sand were fed; ne also records the sparse
diet OF the prodigal away from home, and
the eNtinguished eyesight Of the beggar
by the waysde, ana lets US know Of the
hernorrhage Of the wounds of the dying
Christ and the miraculous post-mortem
rosCscitation Any estimate Of the spirit
nal condition that does not include also
the physical condition is incomplete.
When the doorkeeper Of congress fell
dead from excessive joy because Bur
goyne had surrendered at Saratoga, and
Philip the Fifth of Spain dropped dead at
the news of his country's defeat in battle,
T.
result OF Henry the Eighth's anathema,
il 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 well recognize the
tremendous fact that there are two mighty
fortresses in the human body, the heart
and the liver; the heart the fortress Of the
graces, the liver the fortress Of the furies.
You may have the head filled with all in
tellectuauties, and the ear with all musical
appreciation, and the mouth with all elo-
ouence. 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 depression Of
spirits Many a cOnsecrated man has
found his spiritual sky befOgged and his
hope Of heaven blotted out and himself
plunged chin deep in the slough Of de-
spond and has said, My heart Is not
right with God, aud I think l must have
made a mistake, and instead Of being a
child of light I am "A child Of darkness.
No one can feel as gloomy as / feel and
he a Christian" And he has gone to his
minister for consolation. and he has col
lected Flayefs books, and Cecils books
and Bakers books, and read and read
ana read. and prayed and prayed and
prayed, and Wept and Wept and Wept, and
groaned and groaned and groaned. My
brother. your trouble is not with the heart.
Il is gastric disorder or a rebellion Of
the liver. You need a physician more
than YOU do a clergyman. II il not sin
that blOts out your hope OF heaven, but
bile II not only yellOws your eyeballs
and furs your tongue. and makes your
head acne. but swoops upon your soul in
objections ana forebodings. The devil Is
after you. lie has failed 10 despol your
character and be does the next best thing
Tor him-he ruities your peace Of mind.
when he says that you are not a forgiven
soul when he says you are not right
with God. when he says that you will
never get 20 heaven. he lies. II you are in
Christ your are just as sure Of heaven
Hs though you were there al
seady. But satan. finding that he
cannot keep you out Of the prom
iaed lard NJ Canaan. has determined
takt Obs ..al zoos baus SOU amy of
tae Esll1 sraIes beforehand. and that
SOU shall have nothing but prIeky pear
oud crlb-app.e You are just as much "a
Christian now under the cloud as you were
when you were accustomed to rise in the
morning at o'clock % pray nd sing
"Hallelujau els dOueH'
Hrs HnH d.