The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21


about the circulation OF the blooa'
which Harvey discovered sixteen nun
bred and nineteen years after Christ
for when Solomon, in Eccleslastes,
describing the human body, speaks OF
the pitcher at the fountain, he evil
1ently means the three canals leadlhg
from the heart that receive the blood
like pitchers. When he speaks In &c
clesiastes of the silver cord of life, ne
evidently means the spinal marrow
about which, in our day, Doctors Mayo
and Carpenter and Dalton and Finn
and Brown-Sequard have experiment
ed. And Solomon recorded In the
Bible, thousands of years before SCI
entists discovered it. that in his time
the spinal cord relaxed in old age
producing the tremors of hand anu
head: Cor the silver cord be looseu'
In the text he reveals the fact that
he had studied that largest gland OF
the human system, the liver not by INC
electric light of the modern dlssectlhS
room, but by the dim light or COM
paratively dark age, and yet had seen
its important functions in the God
built castle of the human body, its Sc
Iecting and secreting power, its curl
Gus cells, its elongated branching
tubes, Divine workmanship in cen
trail 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 fiat of AL
mighty God bids the body and soul
separate, one it commends to the
grave, and the other it sends to
Judgment. A javelin of retribution,
not glancing off or making a slight
wound, but piercing it from side to
side "till a dart strike through his
liver" Galen and Hippocrates ascriDe
to the liver the most of the worlds
moral depression, and the word mel
ancholy means black bile.
preach to you the Gospel Of Health.
In taking a diagnosis of diseases of the
soul you must also take diagnosis OF
diseases of the body. AS if to recog-
nize this, one whole book of the New
Testament was written by physician.
Luke was a medical doctor, and he
discourses much of the physical con-
ditions, and he tells of the good Sa-
maritan's medication of the wounds by
pouring in oil and wine. and recog-
nzes hunger as a hindrance to hear
ing the Gospel, so that the five thou
sand 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 lets
us know of the hemorrhage Of the
wounds of the dying Christ and the
miraculous post-mortem resuscitation.
Any estimate of the spiritual condi-
ton that does not include also the
physical condition is incomplete.
When the doorkeeper of congress
fell dead from excessive joy because
Burgoyne had surrendered at Saratoga.
and Philip the Fifth of Spain dropped
dead at the news of his country's de-
feat in battle, and Cardinal Wolsey
faded away as the result of Henry the
Eighth's anathema, it was demonstrat-
ed that the body and soul are Siamese
nd xuho twill tha
with Joy or sorrow you thrill the 9th
er. We may as well recognize the ire
mendous 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 intellectuali-
ties, and the ear with all musical APP
probation, and the mouth with all elo
uuence, and the hand with all indus
tries. and the heart with all generosi-
ties. and yet "a dart strike through the
liver"
My friend, Rev. DR.. Joseph F. Jones,
of Philadelphia, translated spirit
now, wrote a book entitled, Man, Nor
al and Physical" in which he shows
how different the same things may
appear to different people. He says;
"After the great battle on the Mincio
in 1859, between the French and the
Sardinians on the one side and the
Austrians on the other, so disastrous to
the latter, the defeated army retreated.
followed by the victors. A description
of the march of each army is given
by two correspondents of the London
Times. one of whom travelled with the
successful host, the other with the de-
feated. The difference in views and
statements of the same place, scenes
and events. is remarkable. The for
mer are said to be marching through
a beautiful and luxuriant country dur
ing the day, and at night encamping
where they are supplied with an abun-
dance of the best provisions, and all
sorts of rural dainties. There is moth
ing OF war about the proceeding except
its stimulus and excitement. On the
side of the poor Austrians it is just
the reverse. In his letter of the same
date, describing the same places and
a march over the same road, the writ
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