Connecticut western news., 1897-05-20
OUR ABUSED LINERS.
REV. OR. TAlMAGE ON THE HEALTH
 OF THE BODY.

A sermon Thab Mostly concerns This
 Life, Yet Spiritual and Physical Condi-
 tlons Are Largely Dependent Upon Each
 Other.
 WASHINGTON, May 16. = Dr. Tal- mage's sermon of today has more to do with this life than the life to come and will be warning against all forms of dissipation. Text, Proverbs vii, 2S, 'Till dart strike through his liver. !"
 Solomon's anatomical and physiolog ical discoveries were so very great that he was nearly 5000 years ahead of the scientists of his day. He, more than 1000 years before Christ, seemed to which Harvey discovered 1,6l9 years after Christ, for when Solomon in Ec- clesiastes, describing the human body, speaks of the pitcher at the fountain he evidently means the three canals lead ing from the heart that receive the blood like pitchers. When he speaks in Ecclesiastes of the silver cord of life, he evidently means the spinal marrow, about which in our day Drs. Mayo and Carpenter and Dalton and Flint and Brown-SeQuard have experimented. And Solomon recorded in the Bible, thousands of years before scientists dis covered it, that in his time the spinal cord relaxed in old age, producing the tremors of hand and head, Tor the sil- yer cord be loosed."
 In the text he reveals thefact that he had studied that largest gland of the human system, the liver, not by the electric light of the modern disseoting room, but by the dim light of com paratively dark age, and yet had seen its important functions in the God built castle of the human body, its selecting and secreting power, its curious cells, it's elongated branching tubes, divine 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 1t never sleeps!
 Solomon knew of it and had noticed either in vivisection 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. A javelin of retribution, not glancing of or making Q slight wound, but piercing it from side to side ''till 8 dart strike through his liver :"
 Galen and Hippocrates ascribe to the liver the most of the worlds moral de- pression, 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 if to recognize this, one whole book of the New Testa- ment was written by physician. Luke was a medical doctor, and he discourses much of the physical conditions, and he tells of the good Samaritan's med ication of the wounds by pouring in oil and wine, and recognizes hunger as hindrance to hearing the gospel, so that the 5, 900 were fed. He also records the sparse diet of the prodigal away from home and the extinguished eyesigbt of the beggar by the wayside. and lets us know of the hemorrhage of the wounds of the dying Christ and the miraculous post mortem resuscitation. Any esti- mate of the spiritual condition that does not include also the physical condition is incomplete.
 Heart and Liver.
 When the door keeper of congress fell dead from excessive joy because Bur goyne had surrendered at Saratoga, and Philip V of Spain dropped dead at the news of his country's defeat in battle, and Cardinal Wolsey faded away as the result of Henry WITS anathema, it was demonstrated that the body and soul are Siamese twins, and when you thrill the one with joy or sorrow you thrill the other. We may as well recognize the tremendous fact that there are two mighty fortresses in the human body, the heart and the liver, the heart the for tress of the graces. the liver the fortress of the furies. You may have the head filled with all intellectualities, and the ear with all musical appreciation, and the ear with all musical appreciation, and the mouth with all eloquence, and the hand with all industries, and the heart with all generosities, and yet "a dart strike through the liver"
 First, let Christian people avoid the mistake that they are all wrong with God because they suffer from depres- sion of spirits. Many consecrated man has found his spiritual sky befogged and his hope of heaven plotted out and himself plunged chin deep in the slough of despond and has said: My heart is not right with God, and think must have made mistake and instead of be- ing child of light am child of darkness. No one can feel as gloomy as I feel and be Christian. And he has gone to his minister for consolation, and he has collected Flavel's books and Ce- oils books and Baxter's books and read and read and read and prayed and pray ed and prayed and wept and wept and wept and groaned and groaned and groaned. My brother, your trouble is not with the heart; it is gastric disor- der or a rebellion of the liver. You need physician more than you do a clergyman. It is not sin that blots out your hope of heaven, but bile. It not only yellows your eyeballs. and furs your tongue, and makes your head ache, Uub bWOOpc upOh youA 6ooh kh UCJOoeiOAAS' and forebodings. The devil is after you. He has failed to despoil your character, and he does the next best thing for him he rufles your peace of mind. When he says that you are not a forgiven soul, when he says you are not right with God, when he 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 sa- tan, findiAg 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 noth- ing but priokly pear and crabapple. You are just as much a Christian now under the cloud as you were when you were accustomed to rise in the morning at 5 o'clock to pray and sing "Hallelu-