The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-05-20

choly or black bile that ii was only through
the mistake OF the cab driver who took him
to wrong place, instead OF the river bank,
that he did moi, commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so nightly affected
by the physical state, what u great oppor-
tunity this gives to the Christian physician,
Tor 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
IL medicine is needed he can give that, and
II 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. Ah that Is the kind Of doctor I
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 have had in my house when sick
ness or death came. i do not want any OF
your profiigate 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 doctor me
or mine. But, oh, the Christian doctorsl
What comfort 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.
Another practical use of this subject Is
for the young. The theory is abroad that
they must first sow their wild oats and af-
terward Michigan wheat. Let me break
the delusion. Wild oats are generally sown
in the liver, and they can never, be pulled
up. They SO preoccupy that organ that
there Is no room for the implantation of
righteous crop. You see aged men about
us at eighty erect, agile. splendid, grand
old men. How much wild oats did they
sow between eighteen years and thirty?
None absolutely none. God does not very
often honor with old age those who have In
early life sacrificed swine on the altar of
the bodily temple. Remember, o young
man, that, while in after life and after
years OF dissipation you may perhaps have
your heart changed, religion does not
change the liver. Trembling and stagger-
ing along these streets to-day are men, all
bent and decayed and prematurely old for
the reason that they are paying for lines
they put upon their physical estate before
they were thirty. BY early dissipation they
put on their body first mortgage and
second mortgage and third mortgage to
the devil, and these mortgages are now be-
ing foreclosed and all that remains OF their
earthly estate the undertaken will soon put
out OF sight. Many years ago, in fulfill
ment OF my text, Il dart struck through
their liver, and it IL there yet. God for
gives, Dut outraged physical law never,
never. never Solomon in my text knew
what ne was talking about, and he rises mp
on his throne OF worldly splendor TO shrek
out warning TO all the centuries.
ON, my young brother, do not make tho
Hlsluhe that tnousanus ara making IN
opening the battle against sin too late, for
TINS world too late, and Tor the world to
come too late! what brings that express
tram from st. Louis into Jersey city three
holrs late! They lost iiftecn minutes early
on the route, ana that Affected them all the
way, ana they had to be switched OIL here
ana switched on there ana detained here
ana detained there, ana the man who loses
time ana strength in the earlier part OF tho
Journey OF life Will suffer for it all the way
through, the Nrst twenty years OF life dam
aging the following hfty years.
some years ago scientific lecturer went
through the country exhibiting on great
canvas different parts OF the human body
Wheh healthy ana the same parts when
diseased. And what the world wants now
Is some eloquent scientist TO so through
the country, showing to our young people
on blazing canvas the drunkards liver, the
lulerS hVer, the llDertihes liver, the
gamblers IVer. ferhaps the spectacle
might stop some young man before he
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