The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-05-21

which Harvey discovered sixteen hun
dred and nineteen years after Christ,
for when Solomon, in Ecclesiastes.
describing the human body, speaks OF
the pitcher at the fountain, he evil
IDENTIFY means the three canals leading
from the heart that receive the blood
like pitchers When he speaks In Ec-
clesiastes of the silver cord OF life. he
evidently means the spinal marrow.
about which, in our day, Doctors Mayo
and Carpenter and Dalton and Flint
and Brown-Sequard have experiment.
ed. And Solomon recorded in the
Bible, thousands OF years before sci
entists discovered 1t. that in his time
the spinal cord relaxed in old age,
producing the tremors of hand ana
head: "Or the silver cord be loosed.'
In the text he reveals the fact that
] he had studied that largest gland oil
the human system. the liver, not by the
electric light of the modern dissectinS
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 Sc
| lecting and secreting power. its curl
Gus cells, its elongated branching
tubes, Divine workmanship in CEN
/ trail 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 AL
mighty God bids the body and soul
separate, one II commends TO the
grave. and the other it sends 70
| judgment. A javeln of retribution,
not glancing off or making a 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 depression, and the word mel
anchSly means black bile.
preach to you the Gospel OF Health
/ In taking a diagnosis Of diseases Of the
soul you must also take a diagnosis Of
diseases of the body. AS II to recog-
nize this, one whole book OF the New
! Testament was written by physician.
Luke was a medical doctor, and he
! discourses much of the physical con-
ditioEs, and he tells of the good Sa-
maritan's medication of the wounds by
pouring in oil and wine. and recog-
nizes hunger as a hindrance to hear
/ ing the Gospel, so that the FIVE thol-
sand were fed; he also records the
sparse diet OF the prodigal away from
! home, and the extnguished eyesight
| of the beggar by the wayside and lets
us know of the hemorrhage OF the
wounds OF the dying Christ ard the
miraculous post-mortem resuscitation.
Any estimate of the spiritual condl-
/ ton that does not include also the
physical condition is incomplete.
When the doorkeeper OF congress
fell dead from excessive JOY because
Burgoyne had surrendered at Saratoga
and Philip the Fifth OF Spain dropped
dead at the news of his country's de-
! feat in battle, and Cardinal Wolsey
faded away as the result OF Henry the
Eighth's anathema, Ii was demonstrate
ed that the body and soul are Siamese
twins. and when you thrill the one
with Joy or sorrow you thrill the 9TH
er. We may as we'll recognize the ire
mendous 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 intellectual-
ties. and the ear with all musical APP
probation, and the mouth with all elo-
uuerce, and the hand with all indus
tries. and the heart with all generos-
ties. and yet "a dart strike through the
liver"
My friend, Rev. DR.. Joseph F. Jones,
of Philadelphia, n translated spirit
now, wrote book entitled, Man, Nor
al and Physical" in which he shows
how different the same things may
appear to different people. He says:
after the great battle on the Mlncio
in 1859. between the French and the
Sardinians on the one side and the
AuStr1anS on the Olner, SO disastrous 10
the latter, the defeated army retreated
followed by the victors. A description
Of the march of each army is given
by two correspondents of the London
Times, one of whom travelled with the
successful host, the other with the de-
feated. The difference in views and
statements of the same place. scenes
and events, Is remarkable. The for
mer are said to be mar ring through
a beautiful and luxuriant country dur
ing the day, and at night encamping
where they are supplied with an album
dance of the best provisions. and all
sorts of rural dainties. There is moth
ing of war about the proceeding except
It's stimulus and excitement. On the
side of the poor Austrians II is just
tte reverse. In his letter Of the same
date, describing the Same places and
a march over the same road, the writ
er can scarcely find words to set forth
the suffering. impotence and disgust