Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-05-26
NO. 24

pulse of the body and the pulse OF the soui,
and he can administer to both at once, and
il medicine is needed he can give that, and
il spiritual counsel is needed he can give
that-an earthly and II divine prescription
AZ 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 have had in my house when sick.
ness or death cams- . do not want any oi
your profigate or atheistic doctors around
my loved ones when the balances of life aro
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 doctors!
What IA comfort they have been in many or
our householdsl Aud they ought to have u
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 al
terward Michigan wheat. Let me break
the delusion. Wild oats 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 a
! 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 ia
/ early life sacrificed swine on the altar OF
/ the bodily temple. Remember, 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 "A first mortgage and "A
! second mortgage and "A third mort gage to
| the devil, and these mortgages are now be-
! ing forecosed 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, a dart struck through
! their liver, and it is there yet. God for
gives, but outraged physical law never,
/ never, never. solomon in my text knew
/ what he was talking about and he rises up
! on his throne of worldly splendor to shrek
out warning to all the centuries.
On, my young brother, do not MAKE tho
mistake that thousands are making in
| opening the battle az ainst sin too late, for
this world too late, and for the world to
! come too latei What brings that express
! train from st Louis into Jersey City three
| hours late? They lost fifteen minutes early
! on the route, and that affected them all the
way, and they hal to be switched on herd
/ and switched OF thar. and detained here
! and detained there, AID tle man who Ioss3
time and strength in the earlier part of the
! journey of life will suffer for it al the way
| through, the first twenty years of life dam
aging the following ifty years.
! Some wears ago a scientific lecturer wels
through the country exhibiting great
! canvas different parts Of the human body
when healthy and the same parts when
diseased. And what tn. world wants now
il some eloquent scientist to go through
the country, showing to our young people
on blazing canvas the drunkards 5 liver, the
! idiers liver, the libertine's liver the
| gamblers liver. Perhaps the spectacle
| might stop some young man before ne
| comes to the catastrophe aHt the dar;
| strikes through his liver.
My hear-r, this Is tis first sermon you
have heard on the gospel health, and it
may be the last you Will ever hear on that
| subject, and / charge yol in the name OF
God and Christ AMI usefulness and eternal
destiny take better c9rr of you. health.
! When some of you die. il your friends put
| on your tombstone Il truthful epitaph, it
| will read, Here lies the victim of late sup
pers," or it will be, Behold what lobster
! salad at midnigh: Will do for man, or 1t
will be, Ten cigars day closed my earth
/ ly existence" or ii will be, Thought l
could do at seventy what | did at twenty,
and am here, or i: viii. be, Here IL the
consequence OF sitting half day with wet
| feet or it Will b., 'rLis l. where have
| stacked my harvest OF wild oats, or in
| stead of words the stone cutter will chiSal
for al epitaph Oh the tombstone two 3g'
| uras- namely, dart and liver.
Tdere is kind of sickness that IL 5eauti
ful when it comes from overworG for God,
OF ones country, or ones own family. 1
have seen wounds that were glorious. l
| have seen an empty sleeve t1at was more
! beautiful than tle most mus :uiar f1rea-m.
| L have seen a green shade over tle eye, shot
out in battle, that WAS more beautiful than
any two eyes that had passed without in
| jury. l have seen old missionary, worl
| out with the malaria of African juhgles,
| who looked to me more radiant thal Il ru5i-
I cIld gymnaSt. | have seen mother, astei
six weeks watching over a family of chill
drea down with scarlet feTer, with glory
around her pale ald waa face that su!'-
passed the angelic. Ii al depends on ho3
you got your sickness ac1 in VIA bs:.1e
your wounds.
II We must get sick ami worn out, let il
be in Gods service and il the Effort to -naks
the world good. Not in the service OF sin.
No mol Oae of the most pathetic scenes
that ever witness, and | often see it, /.
that Of men or women converted in the
fifties sixties seventies wanting to be
useful but they so served the world and
satan in the earlier 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 altar. They fought on the wrong
side, and now. when their sword is all hack
ed up and their ammunition al gone they,
enlist for Emmanuel. When the higI met
tied cavalry horse which that man spurred
into many Il cavalry charge with cha ing
bit and haniIg eye and neck clothed with
thunder is worn out and spawned and
ring boned ami 5pringhait, he rides
up to the great Captain Of our sal
vatioD ON the white horse and offers
his services. When such persons might
have been, through the good hsb-
its of lifetime, crashing their battle-aXe
through the helnetei iniluities, they arc
spending their days and nights is discuss
ing the best way of curing their indiges-
ton, and quieting their janglng nerves,
and rousing their iaggari appetite, and
trying to extract the dart from their out
ragged liver. Better converted late than
never. Oh, yes for they will get to heaven.
But they will go afoot when they might
. have wheeled up the steep hills Of the sky
, in Eiijah's chariot. There is an old hymn
that we used to sing in the country meet
ing house when / was a boy, and | remem-
/, ber how the old folks voices trembled with
. emotion while they sa.6 ii. ] have for
. gotten all bur two lines, but those lines are
the peroration of nv sermon
Twill save US from thousand snares
To mind religion young.
, If a man has kin il is eouiyalent