The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-17

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verse. In his letter of the same date. de-
scribing the same places and a march
over the same road, the writer can scarce
IS ind words to set forth the suffering,
Impotence, and disgust existing around
MIN. What was pleasant 10 the former
was intOlerable 10 the latter. What made
all this difference? asks the author. one
condition only the French arc victorious,
the AustTians have been defeated. "
So. my dear brother. the road YOU are
travelling is the same you nave been tray-
cling a long while. but the difference in
your physical conditions makes il 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. Ed
ward Payson, sometimes so far up on the
Mount that It seemed as II the centri-
petal force of earth could 10 longer hold
him, sometimes through a physical dis
order was so far down that It seemed as
II the neither world would clutch him
Poor William Cowper was a most excel
lent Christian and will be loved in the
Christian church as long as IL sings his
hymns beginning, There is a fountain
filed with blood" "Oh. for a closer walk
with God" What various hindrances we
meet" and God moves in a mysterious
way" Yet was he so overcome Of mel
ancholy or black bile. that it was only
through the mistake of the cab-driyer
who took him 10 a wrong place, instead
Of the river bank. that he did not commit
suicide
Spiritual condition so nightly affected
by the physical state. what a great OPP
portunity this gives 10 the Christian ply
stefan. for he can feel the same time
both the pulse of the body and the pulse
Of the soul, md he can administer 10 both
a once, and II medicine is needed ne can
give that, and II spiritual counsel is need
ed 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 heavenl All that Is
the kind OF doctor I want al 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 sickness or death came. 7
do not want any of your prOhigate or
atheistic doctors around my loved ones
when the balances Of life are trembling
A doctor who has gone through the medi-
cal college, and in dissecting room has
traversed the wonders of the human me-
chanism and found no God in any OF the
labyrinths, is fool and cannot doctor me
or mine. But on, the Christian doctors!
What a comfort they have been in many
of our households And they ought to
have a warm place in our prayers, as well
a praise on our tongues.
I bless God that the number of Chris
tian physicians is multiplying and some
of the students of the medical colleges
are here to-day, and l hail you and ordain
YOU TO the tender. beautiful heaven
descended work of a Christian physician,
and when you take your diploma from the
medical college, to look after the perish
able body, be sure also to get a diploma
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able soul. Let all Christian physicians
unite with ministers of the gospel in per-
suading good people that it is not because
God Is against them that they sometimes
feel depressed but because of their dis
eased body. I suppose David, the psalmist,
was no more pious when he called on
everything human and angelic. animate
and inanimate, even from snowflake to
hurricane, to praise God, than when he
said, "Out of the depths of hell have 1
cried unto thee o Lord or that Jere-
mlah was more pious when he wrote his
prophecy than when he wrote his Lam
entations;" or job when he said. Il know
that my Redeemer liveth," than when
covered over with the pustules of elephan-
tiasis as he sat in the ashes scratching
the scabs off with broken piece of pot
terry; or that Alexander Cruden, the con-
cordist, was a better man when he COM
piled the book that has helped ten thou
sand students of the Bible, than when
under the power of physical disorder he
was hand-cuffed and strait-wais located in
Bethnal Green Insane Asylum "Oh,"
says some Christian man, mo one ought
TO allow physical disorder 10 depress his
soul He ought TO live so near 10 God as
to be always In the sunshine" Yes that
is good advice; but I warrant that YOU
the man who gives the advice, has a
sound liver. Thank God for a healthful
10 g-,Hr~
lose it. you will some times. like David.
and like jeremiah. and like Cowper, and
like Alexander Cruden. and like ten thou
sand other invalids, be playing a Dead
March on the same organ with which now
you play staccato.
My object at this point Is not only to
emolliate 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 because the path TO heaven
Is not arbored with as fine a foliage, or the
banks beautifully showed with exquisite
chrysanthemums as once, that therefore
you are on the wrong road. The road will
bring You out az the same gate whether
YOU walk with the stride Of an athlete or
come up on crutches. Thousands of Chris
tians, morbid about their experiences, and
morbid about their business, ana morbid
about the present and morbid about the
future, need the sermon / am now preach
ing.
Another practical use Of this subject is
for the young. The theory Is abroad that
they must first sow their wild oats and
afterward Michigan wheat. Let me break
the delusion. Wild oats are generally sown
IN the liver. and they can never be pulled
up They so prcoccupy that organ that
there is no room for the implantation OF
2 righteous crop. You see aged men about
us at eighty crest. agile splendid grand
old men, How much wild oats dil they
sow between eighteen years and thirty?
None absolutely none. God does not very
often honor with Old age those who have
10 early life sacrificed swine on the altar
OF the bodily temple Remember. o young
man. that while ia after-lfc, and after
years Of dissipation, you may perhaps
have your heart changed. religion does not
change the liver. Trembling and stagger-