The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-05-22
HEALTH OF THE BODY
REV. Or. rALMAGE breaches UPON
ovERWORkED LINERS.

Ke Beasevss That Most Of the werlAs
Moral Depressions Are Due TO Thas
Hsrdvozked Organ and Urges HA
Hearers 70 Take Caro- o6 It.
WAsHINoToN, May 16.-Dr. Talmage'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, 81, 'Tiu dart strike
through his liver"
Solo1non's anatomical and physiological
discoveries were SO very great that he was
nearly 1000 years ahead Of the scientists
az his day. He, more than 900 years be.
fore Christ, seemed TO know about the cir
culation OF the blood, which Harvey dis
covered ,e19 years after Christ, for wheD
Solomon, In Ecclesiastes describing thu
human body, speaks of the pitcher at the
fountain, he evidently means the thres
canals leading from the heart that receive
the blood like pitchers When be speaks
In Ecclesiastes Of the silver cord of life, he
esidenfly means the spinal marrow, about
which, In our day, Drs- Mayo and Carpen'
fer and Dalton and Flint and Brown-Se.
cnard have experimental And Solomon
reoorded IN the Bible, thousands Of years
before scientists discovered 1t, that In his
time tho spinal cord RELAXED In old age,
producing the tremors OF hand and head,
s.or the silver cord be loosed-"
The Liver aad Morality.
In the text he reveals the fact that be
had stul.sed that largest gland of the bu-
man system, the liver, not by the electric
Gxht OF the modern dissecting room, but
By the dim light Of Q comparatively dark
90, and yet had seen its important fuDc-
taons In the God built castle OF the human
bo3y, its selecting and secrettng power,
1T curious cells, its elongated branching
tubcs, q divine workmanship IN central
and right and left lobe, and the hepatic
ax4esy through which fow the crimson
tadea Oh, this vital organ 10 Hike the eye
Il God In that 1t never sleepsi
Solomon knew Of 1t, and had noticed
either In viyisection on post mortem what
awful attacks sin and dissipation make
upon At, until the Eat of Almighty God
bids the body and soul separate, and the
one It ccn,mends TO the grave and the 9th
er 1t sends to Judgment A javelin OF ret
xfbution, not CHANGING OF or making q
sliRht wound, but piercing 1T from side to
side sttiu o dart strike through his liver.
aaJen and Hippocratez aecribe to the liver
the most Of the worlds moral depression,
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 q diagnosis OF diseases
Of the body. As II 20 recognize this, ont
whole book Of the New Testament WA
written by physician. Luke WAS q med
1cnl doctor, and he discourses much OF TIT
physical conditions, and be tells Of thu
rood Samaritan's medication Of ths
wounds by pouring In oil and wine, and
recognizes hunger As hindrance to hear
ing the gospel, 30 that the s, 900 were fed
He also records the sparse diet OF the prod
igal away from home, and the extinguisbed
cycsight Of the beggar BY the wsyside, and
Nets ns knew Of the hemorrhage of tht
wounds Of the dying Christ and the mirac
uious lost lnortem resuscitation. ANY
estimate OF the spiritual condition that
docs not include also the physical condi
t1on Is Incomplete
When the doorkecper Of congress fell dead
from excessive JOY because Burgoyne had
surrendered ut Saratoga, and Philip Y o'
Spain dropped dead at the news of hi
country's defeat in battle, and Cardinal