Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-05-22

the defeated army reiterated, followed
by the viclors A description of the
march Of each army is given by two
correspondents of the London Times,
one of whom travelled with the success
full host, the other with the defeated.
The difference in views and statements
of the same place, scenes and events is
remarkable The former are said to be
through beautiful and lux
uriant country during the day and at
night encamping where they arc sup
piled with an abundance of the best
provisions and all sorts Of rural dain-
ties There is nothing of war about the
proceeding except its stimulus and ex-
citement. On the side of the poor Aus
trians it is just the reverse. In his let
ter of the same date, describing the
same places and march over the same
road, the writer can scarcely find words
to set forth the suffering, impotence
and disgust existing around him. What
was pleasant to the former was intoler-
able to the latter What made all this
difference? asks the author. Ono condi-
ton only. The French are victorious,
the Austrians have been defeated. :"
Result OF Black Bio.
So, my dear brother, the road you are
travelling is the same you have been
travelling a long while, but the differ
cnce i'll your physical conditions makes
it look different, and therefore tho
two reports you have given of yourself
are as widely different as the reports in
the London Times from the two cor
respondents. Edward Payson, some
times so far up OIL the mount that it
seemed as if the centripetal force of
earth could no longer hold him, some
times through physical disorder was
so far down that it seemed as if the
neither world would clutch him. Poor
William Cowpcr was most excellent
Christian and will be loved i'll the
Christian church us long as it sings his
hymns beginning, "Thcro is fountain
filled with blood, "Oh, for a closer
walk with God, "What various hin
ORANGES we meet" and God moves in
mysterious way" Yet was he so over
come of melancholy or black bile that it
was only through tho mistake of the
cab driver who took him to wrong
place, instead of the river bank, that
he md not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so nightly affect
ed by the physical state, what 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 divine prescription. at the
same time-and call on not only the
apothecary of earth, but the pharmacy
of heaven. All, that is the kind OF doc
tor want at INV bedside, one 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 i'll my
house when sickness or death came. |
do not want any Of your profigate or
atheistic doctors around m. loved ones
when the balances of life are trembling.
A doctor who has gone through the
medical college and i'll dissecting room
has traversed the wonders of the human
mechanism aud found no God i'll any of
the labyrinths is fool and cannot doc
tor me or mine. But, oh, the Christian
doctors! What comfort they have been
in many of our households! And they
ought to have warm place i'll our pray
ers as well as praise Oh our tongues.
I bless God that the number of Chris
tian physicians is multiplying and some
of the students of the medical colleges
are here today, and hail you and Or
dain you to the tender, beautiful, heav-
en- descended work of 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
imperishablc soul. Let all Christian
physicians unite with ministers of the
gospel in rersuading good people that 1t
is not because God is against them that
they sometimes feel depressed, but he
cause of their diseased bodies. Isuppose
David the psalmist was no more plous
when he called Oh everything human
and angelic, animate and inanimate,
even from snowflake to hurricane, to
praise God than when he said, "Out OF
the depths of hell have cried unto
thee, O Lord, - Or that Jeremiah was
more pious when be wrote his prophecy
than when he wrote his Lamenta-
tons or Job when he said, 1 know
that my Rcdeemer liveth, than when
covered over with the pustulcs OF ele-
phantiasis as he sat III the ashes scratch
ing the scabs off with broken piece OF
pottery, or that Alexander Cruden, the
concordist, was better man when ne
compiled the book that has helped
10000 students of the Bible than when
under the power of physical disorder he
was handcufTed and strait waistcoated
in Bethnal Green Insane asylum. "Oh, "
says some Christian man, mo one ought
to allow physical disorders to depress
his soul. tie ought to live so near God
as to be always in the sunshine. " Yes,
that is good advice, but warrant that
you, the man 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
Cowpcr, and like Alexander Cruden,
and like 10, 900 other invaiids, be play
ing a dead march OH the same organ
with which now you play q staccato.
Atrabilious People.
My object ut 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.