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

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ton only: the French are victorious,
the Austrians have been defeated
So my dear brother, the road you
are travelling is the same you have
been travelling long while, but the
difference 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 correspondents. Edward Payson,
sometimes so far up on the Mount that
it seemed as if the centripetal force
of earth could no longer hold him,
sometimes through a physical disorder
was so far down that it seemed as II
the neither world would clutch him.
Poor William Cowper was a most eX-
cellent Christian, and will be loved in
the Christian church as long as 1t
sings his hymns beginning There Is
a fountain filled with blood" ION,
for a closer walk with God" What
various hindrances we meet" and
God moves in a mysterious way.
Yet was he so overcome of melan-
choly, or black bile, that it was only
through the mistake of the cab driver
who took him to wrong place, IN
stead of the river bank, that he did
not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so nightly al
fected 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, ana
he can administer to both at once, an"
if medicine is needed he can give that
and if spiritual counsel is needed ne
can give that-an earthly and a d.
vine prescription at the same time
and call on not only the apothecary OF
earth, but the pharmacy of heaven
All, that is the kind of doctor l want
at my bedside. one that cannot only
count out the right number of drops
but who can also pray. That is the
kind of doctor l have had in my mouse
when sickness or death came. l 40
not want any of your profiigate or athe-
istic doctors around my loved ones
when the balances of life are trem-
bling 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 doctor me or mine. But, on
the Christian doctors! What COM
fort they have been in many OF our
households And they ought to have
warm place in our prayers as well as
praise on our tongues.
My object at this point is not only to
emoliate the criticisms of those in good
health against those in poor health,
but to show Christian people who are
atrabilious what is the matter with
them Do not charge against the heart
the crimes of another portion of your
organism. Do not conclude that be-
cause the path to heaven is not arbored
with as fine a foliage, or the banks
beautifully showed with exquisite
chrysanthemums as once, that there
fore you are on the wrong 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 Christians, morbid
about their experiences, and morbid
about their business, and morbid about
the present, and morbid about the fu-
ture need the sermon 1 am now
preaching.
Some years ago a scientific lecturer
went through the country exhibiting
on great canvas different parts of the
human body when healthy, and the
same parts when diseased. And what
the world wants now is some eloquent
scientist to go through the country
showing to our young people on blaz-
ing canvas the drunkard's liver, the
idler's liver, the libertines liver, the
gamblers liver. Perhaps the spec
tacle might stop some young man be-
fore he comes to the catastrophe, and
the dart strike through his liver.
NV nearer. this is the first sermon
Won have heard on the Gospel Of
Health, and it may be the last you will
ever hear on that subject, and
charge you, in the name of God, and
Christ, and usefulness, and eternal des-
tiny. take better care of your health,
When some Of you die, if your friends
nut on your tombstone truthful cpl
taph, it will read: Here lies the vic
tim of late suppers;" or it will be:
Behold what lobster salad at mid
night will do for man." or it will be:
Ten cigars a day closed my earthly
EXISTENCE" or it will be: Thought l
could do at seventy what l did at
twenty, and l am here" or it will be:
Here is the consequence of sitting
half day with wet feet" or it will be:
This is where l have stacked my har-
vest of wild oats" or, instead of words,
the stone-cutter will chisel for an cpl
taph on the tombstone two figures
namely, dart and liver.
There is a kind of sickness that is
beautiful when it comes from over
work for God, or ones country, or
ones own family. l have seen wounds
that were glOriOus 7 have seen an