Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-05-26
REV, DIR. TALMAGB.
The Eminent Dvine's Sunday
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DS~Ou!S.
Serm IN Tha; Mostly Concerns This Life,
Net Spiritual and Physical Conditions
Ars Largely Dependent Upon Each
Other-A Warning Against Dissipation.
TEXT: Till dart strikes through his
liver" Proverbs vii, %.
Solomon's anatomical and physiological
discoveries We're 50 very great that he was
nearly 1000 years ahead of the scientists of
his day. He, more than 1000 years before
Christ, seemed to know about the circula
tion Of the blood, which Harvey discovered
1919 years after Christ, for when Solomon
in Ecclesiastes, describing the human body,
speaks of the pitcher at the fountain he
evidently means the three canals leading
from the heart that receive the blood like
pitchers. When he speaks in Ecciesiastes
of the silver cord of life, he evidently means
the spinal marrow, abou. which in our day
Drs. Mayo and Carpenter and Dalton and
Flint and Brown-Sequard have experiment
ed. And Solomon recorded in the Bible,
thousands of years before scientists discoy-
cred it, that in his time the spinal cord
laxed in old age, producing the tremors of
hand and head, ''or the silver cord be
loosed'
In the text he reveals the fact that he had
studied that largest gland OF the human
OF the modern dissecting room, but by the
dim light OF a comparatively dark age, and
yet had seen its important functions in the
God built castle of the human body, its Sc
lecting and secreting power, its curious
cells its elongated branching tubes II di-
vine workmanship in central and right and
left lobe and the hepatic artery through
which flow the crimson tides. Oh, this
vital organ is like the eye of God in that it
never sleepsl
Solomon knew of it and had noticed
either in yivisection or post mortem what
awful attacks sin and dissipation make
upon it, until the fiat of Almighty God bids
the body and soul separate, and the one it
commends to the grave and the other it
sends to judgment. javelin Of retribu-
ton, not glancing of or making slight
wound, but piercing it from side to side
It'll a dart strike through his liver"
Galen and Hippocrates ascribe to the
liver the most of the worlds moral depres-
sion, and the word melancholy means black
bile.
preach to you the gospel of health. In
taking diagnosis of diseases of the soul
you must also take diagnosis of diseases
OF the body. As il to recognize this one
whole book of the New Testament was
written by a physician. Luke was II
medical doctor and he discourses much of
the physical conditions, and be tells of the
good Samartans medication of the
wounds by pouring in oil and wine, and
recognizes hunger as a hindrance to hear
ing the gospel SO that the 5000 We're fed
He also records the sparse diet of the
prodigal away from home and the extin-
guished eyesight of the beggar by the way
side, and lets us know of the hemorrnage
of the wounds of the dying Christ and the
miraculous post mortem resuScitation. Any
estimate of the spiritual condition that
does not include also the physical condition
Is incomplete
When the doorkeeper of Congress fell
dead from excessive JOY because BurSoyne
had surrendered at Saratoga, and Philip
", of Spain, dropped dead at the news OF
his countrys defeat in battle, and Cardinal
Woisey faded away as the result of Henry
VIII. 5 anathema, it was demonstrate ed that
the body and soul are Siamese twins, and
when you thrill the one with joy sorrow
you thrill the other We may as well recog-
nize the tremendous fact that there are two
mighty fortresses in the human body, the
heart and the liver, the heart the fortress
of the graces the liver the fortress of the
furies. You may have the head filed with
all inteliectuaities, and the ear with all
musical appreciation, and the mouth with
all eloquence and the hands with all in
dustries and the heart with all generosities
and yet "a dart strike through the liver"
First let Christian people avoid the mis-
take that they are all wrong with God be
cause they suIler from depression of spirits.
Many consecrated man has found his
spiritual sky befogged and his hope OF
heaven blotted out and plunged chin deep
in the slough of despond aud has said: My
heart is not right with God, and | think
l must have made a mistake and in
stead of being a child of light am a child
of darkness. No one can feel as gloomy az
/ feel and be a Christian And he has
gone to his master for consolation and he
has collected Flavels books and Cecii-
books and BaXters books read and
read and read and prayed and prayed and
xraH wan xUan ant
and groaned and groaned and groaned. My
brother, your trouble is not with the heart;
, il Is a gastric disorder or a rebellion of the
liver. You need Il physician more than you
do clergyman. 1t is not sin that biots
out your nope of heaven, but bile. 1t not
only yeilows your eyebalis, and furs
your tongue, and makes your head ache.
but swoops upon your soul in objections
and forebodings. The devil is after you.
He has failed to deSpoil your character,
and he does the next best thing for him -
he ruffies your peace Of mind. When he
says that you are not a forgiven soul when
he says you not right with God. when
be says that you will never get to heaven,
he lies. If you are in Christ you are just as
sure of heaven as though you were there
already. But satan, finding that he cannot
keep you out of the promised land of
Canaan, has determined that the spies shall
not bring you any of the Eschol grapes be-
| forehand, and that you shall have nothing
but prickly pear and crabapple. You are
| just as much a Christian now under the
cloud as you were when you We're accus-
| toned to rise in the morning at O'Clock to
| pray and sing 'Halleluiah, it's donei''
MY friend. Rev. DR.. Joseph +. Jones, OF
Philadelphia translated spirit now wrote
book entitled, Man, Moral and Physi-
cal, in which he shows how different the
same things may appear to different peo-
| pie. He says: After the great battle on
the Mincio in 1859. between the French and
| the Sardinians on the one side and the Aus
| trians on the other, so disastrous to the
| latter, the defeated army retreated fol
| lowed by the victors. description of the
| march of each army is given by two CORE
| spondents of the London Times, OF
| whom travelled with the successful host the
| other with the defeated. The difference i'll
views and statements of the same place
| scenes and events is remarkable. The for
mer are said to be marching through q
beautiful and luxuriant country during the
day and at night encamping where they are
| supplied with abundance of the best
provisions and all sorts of rural dainties
There is nothing of war about the proceed
ing except its stimulus and excitement
On the side of the poor Austrians il is Just
the reverse. In his letter Of the same date
describing the same places and a marct
over the same road, the writer can scarcely
find words to set forth the suffering i'm
patience and disgust existing around him
What was pleasant to the former was in
tolerable to the latter. What made all thi:
difference? asks the author. One condi
tion only. The French are victorious, tn,
Austrians have been defeated.
so, my dear brother, the road you ar
travelling is the same you have been travel
ing long while, but the difference in you
physical conditions makes il look different
and therefore the two reports you havt
given of yourself are as widely different a
the reports in the London Times from tn
.wo correspondents. Edward Payson, some
lines so far up on the mount that il seemed
As if the centripetal force of earth coul,
no longer hold him, sometimes through
physical disorder was so far down tina
it seemed if the neither world wouit
clutch him. Poor William Cowper was
most excellent Christian and will be love
in the Christian church as long as it sing
IFS hymns beginning, ':There is "A fountai
died with blood, 'Oh, for closer wal
| gith God. WHAT various hindrances