The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-29
TALMAGE's SERMON.
A Practical Sermon on the Gospel
of Health.
Effects of Disease Upon Our surroundings
The Spiritual Condition Affected by
the Physical state-Cost OF
Sowing Wild Data

lowing sermon, gives words Of warn
ing 10 young men in relation 10 the
sowing of wild oats. 1t is based OF
the text:
TIL! dart strike through his llyer.--ProTerb'
VII, 3
SolomOn's anatomical and physiolo
gical discoveries were so very great
that he was nearly 300 years ahead
OF the scien fists OF his day. lie, more
than 1000 years before Christ, seemed
70 know about the circulation Of the
blood, which Harvey discovered 1915
years after Christ, for when Solomon,
in Ecclesiastes. describing the human
body. speaks of the pitcher at the foun'
tain, he evidently means the three ca
mails leading from the heart that re-
ceivc the blood like pitchers. When
he speaks IN Ecclesiastes of the silver
cord Of life, he evidently means the
spinal marrow about which, in our
day. Drs. Mayo and Carpenter and Dali
ton and Flint and Brown-Sequard have
experimental. And Solomon recorded
in the Bible, thousands OF years before
scientists discovered it, that in his time
the spinal cord relaxed in old age, pro-
ducing 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 human system, the liver, not by the
electric light Of the modern dissccting
rOom9but by the dim light of com
parativcly dark age. and yet had seen
its important functions IN the God
built castle of the human body, its
selecting and sccrcting power; its curl
Gus cells. its elongated branching tubes,
Divine workmanship in central ana
right and left lobe. and the hepatic
artery through which flow tho crimson
tides. Oh. this vital organ is like the
eye 81 God in that it never sleeps.
solomon knew of it, and had noticed
either in giyisection or post-nOrtem
what awful attacks sin and dissipation
naEe upon it. until the fat OF AL
mighty God bids the body and soul
separate. and The one it commcnds 70
the grave. aud the other it sends TO
Judgment a jsve,in OF retribution.
rCc g.ancing of or making q slight
wound. but piercing il from side TO
SIDE Till a dart strike through his
Eyer.- Galcn and Hippocrates ascribe
10 the liver the most Of the worlds
mora. depression. and the word mel
sucholy means black bile.
preach 10 you the gospel of health.
In taking diagnosis Of diseases of the
soul you must also take diagnosis of
4 = 81
! ognize this, one whole book Of the New
Testament was written by physician.
Luke was q medical doctor. and ne dis
courses much Of the physical condi-
tions, and he tells of the good Samari-
tan's medication of the wounds bv
pouring in oil and wine. and recog-
Mes hunger as hindrance to hearing
the Gospel. 50 that the 5000 were fed:
he also recognizes the sparse diet of
the prOdigai away from home, and the
eNtinguisnrd evesight of the beggar by
the "ays!de. and lets us know Of the
hc:aprrhagc OF the dying Christ and
the miraculous pDst-mOrtcm resuscita-
ton. Any estimate of the spiritual
conditions that does not include also
the phyaiea! condition is incomplete.
When the doOrkcePer of congress
fc.. dead from excessive JOY because
Bu:goyne had surrendered at Saratoga.
Ind Philip Y. Of Spain dropped dead az
the news OF his couutrv's defeat in
battle. and Cardinal Wolsey faded
away as the result Of Henry VILE
ana,hcma, i 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
ma as wei! recognize the tremendous
fact that there are two mighty for
tresscs in the human body. the heart
and the liver: the heart the fortress of
the graccs, the liver the fortress Of the
fur.es. You may have the head filed
with all intelicctualities. and the ear
with all musica. appreciation. and the
mouth with all cloquence, and the
hand with all industries, and the heart
with all gcncrosities. 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 a consccrated
man has found his spiritual sky be.
logged 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
j think | must have made a mistake.
and instead of being child of light !
am a child of darkness. No one can
feel as gloomy as ! feel and be Chris
tian." And he has gone TO his minis
ter for consolation, and he has col
lectcd Flave!'s books and Cecil's books
and Baxter's books and read and read
and 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, it is a gastric disorder or q
rebellion of the liver, You need a
physician more than you do clergy
man. 1t is 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
ache, but swoops upon your soul in de.
jections and forebodings. The devil is
after you. He has failed TO despoil
your character, and he does the next
best thing for him-he ruffies your
peace of mind When he saws that yor