Connecticut western news., 1897-05-20


 squatter sovereignty. II promise to pay at the bank $500 six months from date," says the promissory note. II promise to pay my life 80 years from date at the bank of the grave, says every infraction of the laws of your physical being.
 Liver Complaints.
 What? Will mans body never com pletely recover from early dissipation in this world? Never. How about the world to come? Perhaps God will fix it up in the resurrection body so that it will not have to go limping through all eternity. But get the liver thoroughly damaged, and it will stay damaged as long as you are here. Physicians call it cirrhosis of the liver or inflammation of the liver or fatty degeneration of the liver, but Solomon puts all these bangs into one figure and says, "Til a dart strike through his liver"
 Hesiod seemed to have some hint of this when he represented Prometheus for his crimes fastened to pillar and an eagle feeding on his liver, which was renewed again each night, so that the devouring went on until finally Hercules slew the eagle and rescued Prometheus. And dissipated early life assures 8 ferocity pecking away and clawing away at the liver year in and year out, and death is the only Hercules who can break the power of its beak or unclench its claw So, also, others wrote fables about vultures preying upon the liver, but there are those here with whom it is no fable, but terrific reality.
 That young man smoking cigarettes and smoking cigars has no idea that he is getting for himself smoked liver. That young man has no idea that he has by early dissipation so depleted his energies that he will go into the battle only half armed Here is another young man who, if he put all his forces against the regiment of youthful temp tations in the strength of God, might drive them back, but he is allowing them to be re-enforoe6 by the whole army of midlife temptations, and what but immortal defeat can await himY
 Oh, my young brother, do not make the mistake that thousands are making in opening the battle against sin too late, for this world too late, and for the world to come too latel What brings that express train from St. Louis into Jersey City three hours late? They lost 5 minutes early on the route, and that affected them all the way, and they had to be switched off here and switched off there and detained here aud detained there, and the man who loses time and strength in the earlier part of the jour ney of life will suffer for it all the way through, the first 90 years of life dam aging the following 50 years
 Some years ago scientific lecturer went through the country exhibiting on great canvas different parts of the hu- man body when healthy and the same parts when diseased. And, what the world wants now is some eloquent sci enlist to go through the country, show ing to our young people on blazing can vas the drunkard's liver, the idler's liv- CT, the libertine's liver, the gamblers liver. Perhaps the spectacle might stop some young man before he comes to the catastrophe and the dart strikes through his liver.
 My nearer, this is the first sermon you have heard on the gospel health, and it may be the last you will ever hear on that subject, and charge you in tlse name of God and Christ and use- fulness and eternal destiny take better care of your health. When some of you die, if your friends put on your tomb stone truthful epitaph, it will read, 'Here lies the victim of late suppers," or it will be, Behold what lobster sal ad at midnight will do for man," or it will be, "Ten cigars day closed my earthly existence or it will be, Thought could do at 70 what did at 90, and I am here,'' or it will be, Here is the consequence of sitting a half day with wet feet" or it will be, 'This is where have stacked my har- vest of wild oats," or instead of words the stone cutter will chisel for an epi- taph on the tombstone two figures l namely, dart and a liver.
 There is kind of sickness that is beautiful when it comes from overwork for God, or one's country, or one's own family. I have seen wounds that were glorious. I have seen an empty sleeve that " s more beautiful than the most muscular forearm. have seen green shade over the eye, shot out in battle, that was more beautiful than any two eyes that had passed without injury. I have seen an old missionary, worn out with the malaria of African jungles, | who looked to me more radiant than l rubicund gymnast. have seen a moth | CT, after six weeks watching over a forr lx rf oh a~la ak fever, with glory around her pale and wan face that surpassed the angelic. It all depends on how you got your sick ness and in what battle your wounds. If we must get sick and worn out, let | it be in Gods service and in the effort to make the world good. Not in the service of sin. No, mol One of the most | pathetic scenes that I ever witness, and 1 1 often see it, is that of men or women | converted in the flfties or sixties or sew | enties wanting to be useful, but they so served the world and satan in the ear Her part of their life that they have no physical energy left for the service of God. They sacrificed nerves, muscles, lungs, heart and liver on the wrong all tar. They fought on the wrong side, | and now, when their sword is all hack | ed up and their ammunition all gone, they enlist for Emmanuel. When the high mettled cavalry horse, which that man spurred into many cavalry charge with champing bit and flaming eye and neck clothed with thunder, is worn out
 and spavined and ringboned and spring | halt, he rides up to the great Captain | of our salvation on the white horse and | offers his services When such persons might have been, through the good hab- its of lifetime, crashing their battle ax through the helmeted iniquities, they are spending their days and nights in discussing the best way of curing their indigestion. and quieting their | dangling nerves, and rousing their lag | nard anrnotito arnd Kru;,,rr k<, ox4-o,4 4ln