The Monitor-register., 1897-05-21
Result of Black BILE.

WALK Will 0Od, Nhuu ottOu hIA
ORANGES we meet" and God moves in
a mysterious way" Yet was he so over
come of melancholy OR black bile that 1T
was only through the mistake OF the
cab driver who took him to a wrong
place, instead of the river bank, that
he did not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so nightly affect
ed by the physical state, what a great
opportunity this gives to the Christian
physician, for he can feel at the same
time both the pulse of the body and the
! pulse of the soul, and he can administer
to both at once, and if medicine is need
ed he can give that, and if spiritual
counsel is needed he can give that-an
| earthly and a divine prescription at the
| same time-and call OIL not only the
apothecary of earth, but the pharmacy
| of heaven. All, that is the kind OF doc
| tor I want at my bedside, II that can
not only count out the right number OF
| drops. but who can also pray. That is
the kind of doctor 1 have had in my
house when sickness or death came. 1
do not want any of your proiigate or
| atheistic doctors around my loved ones
when the balances of life are trembling.
A doctor who has gone through the
medical college and in dissecting o
has traversed the wonders OF the human
mechanism and found no God in any OF
the %labyrinths is a fool and cannot doc
tor me or mine. But, oh, the Christian
| doctorsl What a comfort they have been
in MANY of our h%ouseholdsl And they
ought to have a warn place in our pray
ers as we'll as praise on our tongues.
1 bless God that the number of Chris
tian physicians is multiplying and SOM
of the students of the medical colleges
are here today, and 1 hail you and Or
dain you to the tender, beautiful, heav-
en- descended work of a Christian ply
stefan, and when you take your diploma
from the medical college to look after
the perishable body be sure also to get a
diploma from the skies to look after the
imperishable soul. Let all Christian
physicians unite with ministers of the
gospel in ~persuading good people that it
is not because God is against them that
they sometimes feel depressed, but be-
cause of their diseased bodies. Isuppose
David the psalmist was no more p1ous
| when he called on everything human
| and angelic, animate and lnanlmate,
even from snowflake to hurricane, to
praise God than when he said, "Out OF
the depths of hell have l cried unto
thee, o Lord" Or that jeremiah was
more pious when he wrote his prophecy
than when he wrote his Lamenta-
tions, or Job when he said, 81 know
that my Redeemer liveth," than when
covered oyer with the pustules of ele-
phantiasis as he sat in the ashes scratch
ing the scabs off with q broken piece of
pottery, or that Alexander Cruden, the
concordist, was a better man when he
complied the book that has helped
10, 600 students of the Bible than when
under the power of physical disorder he
was handcuffed and strait waistcoated
in Bethnal Green Insane asylum. "Oh,"
says some Christian man, "no n ought
to allow physical disorders to depress
his soul. He ought to live so near God
as to be always in the sunshine" Yes,
that is good ADVICE, but l warrant that
you, the nan who gives the advice, has
a sound liver. Thank God for a health
full hepatic condition, for as certainly
as you lose it you will sometimes, like
David, and like jeremiah, and like
Cowper, and like Alexander Cruden,
and like 10, 900 other invalids, be play
ing a dead march Oh the same organ
with which now you play a staccato.
Atrabilious People.
My object at this point is not only to
emolliate the criticisms of those in good
health against those in poor health, but
to show Christian people who are atra-
bilious what is the matter with them.
Do not charge against the heart the
crimes of another portion of your organ
ism. Do not conclude that because the
path to heaven is not arbored with as
fine a foliage or the banks beautifully
showed with exquisite chrysanthemums
as once, that therefore you are on the
wrong road. The road will bring you
out at the same gate, whether you walk
with the stride Of an athlete or come
up on crutches. Thousands of Chris
tians, morbid about their experiences
and morbid about their business and
morbid about the present and morbid
about the future, need the sermon I am
now preaching.
Another practical use of this subject
is for the young. The theory is abroad
that they must first sow their wild oats
and afterward Michigan wheat. Let
me break the delusion. Wild oats are
generally sown in the liver, and they
can never be pulled up. They so preoc-
cupy that organ that there is no room
for the implantation of a righteous crop.
You see aged men about us at 80 erect,
agile, splendid, grand old men. How
much wild oats did they SOW between
IS years and 80? None, absolutely none.
God does not very often honor with old
age those who have in early life sacri-
feed swine on the altar of the bodily
temple. Remember, o 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 staggering
along these streets today are men, all
bent and decayed and prematurely old
for the reason that they are paying for
liens they put upon their physical estate
before they were 80. By early dissipa-
ton they put ca their body a first mort
| gage and a second mortgage and a third
mortgage to the devil, and these mort
| cages are now being foreclosed, and all
that remains of their earthly estate the
undertaken will soon put out of sight.
Many years ago, in fulfillment of my
text, a dart struck through their liver,
and it is there yet. God forgives, but
outraged physical law never, never,
never. That has a Sinai, but nc CAL
vary. Solomon in my text knew what
he was talking about, and he rises up
on his throne of worldly splendor to
shrek out a warning to all the CEN
turies.
Stephen A. Douglas gave the name
of "squatter sovereignty" to those who
went out west and took possession of
lands and held them by right of preoc-
cupatiop. Let a flock of sins settle on
| your liver before you get to 25 years of
age, and they will in all probability
keep possession of it by an Internal
squatter sovereignty. 81 promise to pay
at the bank $500 six months from
date" says the promissory note. Il
promise to pay my life 30 years from
date at the bank of the grave" says
| every infraction of the laws of your
physical being.
Liver Complaints.
What? Will a mans body never COM
pletely recover from early dissipation
in this world? Never. How about the
| world to come? Perhaps God will nx it
up in the resurrection body SO that it
will not have to go limping through all
eternity. But get the liver thoroughly
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