The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-29

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Ny friend. Rev. DIR. Joseph Z. Jones
of Philadelphia. a translated spiri
now, wrote a book entitled. Man
Moral and Physical. f" in which he show
how different the same things may ap
pear TO different people. he says
After the great battle on the MinciC
in 1859 between the French and the
Sardinians on the one side and the
Austrians on the other. SO disastrou:
10 the latter, the defeated army re
treated, followed by the yictors. 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 defeated. The difference in
views and statements of the same
place. scenes and events IS re-
markable. The former are said 10 Dc
marching through beautiful and lux
uriant country during the day, and al
night encamping where they are sup
piled with an abundance of the bes:
provisions and all sorts of rural daic-
ties. There is nothing 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 writer can scarcely ind
words to set forth the suffering, impa-
thence and disgust existing around him
What was pleasant To the former was
intolcrablc to the latter. What made
all this difference? asks the author.
One condition only: the French are
victorious, the Austrians have been de-
fcated.'"
So, my dear brother, the road you
are travelling is the same you have
been travelling long while. but the
difference in your p ysical condition
makes it look different. and therefore
the two reports you have given ofyour-
self are as widely different as the re-
ports in the London Times from the
two correspondents. Edward Payson.
sometimes 50 far up on the mount that
il seemed as if the centripetai force Of
earth could no longer hold him. some
times through a physical disorder was
so far down that it seemed as il the
neither world would clutch him. Poor
William Cowper was most excellent
Christian. and will be loved in the
Christian church as long as il sings his
hymns beginning. There is foun-
tain filled with blood" ''Oh. for a
closer walk with God, What various
hindrances we meet" and God moves
in mysterious way" Yet be was SO
overcome of melancholy. or black bile.
that il was only through the mistake
OF the cab driver who took him TO a
wrong place, instead of the river bank,
that he did not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition 50 nightly az
fected by the physical state, what a
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, and he
can administer TO both at once. and if
medicine is needed he can give that,
and II spiritual counsel is needed he
can give that-an earthly and divine
prescription AZ the same ti!ne-and call
on not only the apothecary Of earth,
but the pharmacy of Heaven. An,
that is the kind OF doctor | want az
nv bedside, one that can not only
drops. but who can also pray. That
is the kind Of doctor have had in my
house when sickness or death came.
do not want any of your protigate or
athri~tic doctors around nv loved ones
when the balances Of life are trembling.
\ doctor who has gone through the
medical college. aud in dlsscct.ng room
has traversed the wonders OF human
mechanism. and found no God in any
of the labyrinths. is fool, and can not
doctor me or mine. But, oh the
Christian doctors! What a comfort
they have been in many Of our house
holds. And they ought to have a warm
place in our prayers, as well as praise
on our tongues.
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 hail you
and ordain you TO the tender, health
ful. HeaTen-descended work of a Chris
tian physician. and when you take
your diploma from the medical college
to look after the perishable be sure also
to get diploma from the skies to look
after the imperishable soul. Let all
Christian physicians unite with minis,
tiers of the Gospel il persuading good
people that it is not because God is
against them that they sometimes
feel depressed, but because of their
diseased body. suppose David,
the psalmist, was no more pi-
Gus when he called upon everything
human and angelic, animate and imam
innate, even from snowflake to hurri-
cane, to- praise God, than when he
said, ''Out of the depths of hell have
cried unto thee, o Lord" or that Jere.
miah was more pious when he wrote
his prophecy than when he wrote his
lamentations" or Job when he said,
Il know that my Redeemer liveth.
than when covered over with the pus-
tules of elephantiasis as he sat in the
ashes scratching the scabs off with O
broken piece of pottery; or that Alex.
ander Cruden, the concordist was q
better man when he compiled the
book that has helped ten thou
sand students of the Bible, than when