The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-05-27

~ :, years before Christ,
seemed to know
about the circulation of the blood,
which Harvey discovered sixteen hum
dred and nineteen years after Christ,
for when Solomon, in Eccleslastes,
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 &c
c!esastes of the silver cord OF life, ne
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 it, that in his time
the spinal cord relaxed in old age,
producing the tremors of hand and
head: cor the silver cord be loosed
In the text he reveals the fact that
he had studied that largest gland OF
the human system, the liver, not by the
electric light of the modern dissectlng
room, but by the dim light of COM
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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 it 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 it commends to the
grave, and the other it sends to
Judgment. A javelin of retribution,
not glancing off or making a slight
wound, but piercing it from side to
side "till dart strike through his
liver" Galen and Hippocrates ascribe
to the liver the most of the worlds
moral depression, and the word mel
ancholy means black bile.
preach to you the Gospel of Health
8 In taking a diagnosis of diseases of the
soul you must also take diagnosis of
diseases of the body. AS if to srecog-
nize this, one Whole book of the New
Testament was written by physician.
Luke was medical doctor, and he
discourses much of the physical con-
ditions, and he tells of the good Sa-
pouring in oil and wine. and recog-
nizes hunger as a hindrance to hear
W ing the Gospel, SO that the five thou
sand were fed; he also records the
sparse diet of the prodigal away from
home, and the extinguished eyesight
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 estimate of the spiritual condi.
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 countrys de-
feat in battle, and Cardinal Wolsey
faded away as the result of Henry tn
Eighth's anathema, it was demonstrat
ed that the body and soul are Siames
twins, and when you thrill the ON
with Coy or sorrow you thrill the 9th
err We may as well recognize the ire
mendous fact that there are tw,
mighty fortresses in the human BODY
the heart and the liver; the heart tn
fortress of the graces, the liver tn
fortress of the furies. You may hav
the head flied with all intellectual
ties, and the ear with all musical an
probation, and the mouth with all elo
quence, and the hand with all indus
tries, and the heart with all generosi
ties, and yet "a dart strike through tn
liver"
Ny friend, Rev. DR.. Joseph F. Jones
of Philadelphia, translated spirj
now, wrote book entitled, MAN, Nor
al and Physical" in which he show
how different the same things ma
appear to different people,. He says
After the great battle on the Minci
in 1859, between the French and til
Sardinians on the one side and tn
Austrians on the other, so disastrous t
the latter, the defeated army retreate(
followed by the victors A description
OF the march of each army is give
by two correspondents of the Londo
Times, one Of whom travelled with til
successful host, the other with the de
feated. The difference in views an
statements of the same place, scene
and events, is remarkable. The fol
Jner are said to be marching throug
beautiful and 1uxuriant country dul
\ ing the day, and at night encampin
where they are supplied with an abuI
dance of the best provisions, and a
sorts OF rural dalnties. There is nOt1
ing of war about the proceeding excel
it's stimulus and excitement On th
side of the poor Austrians it is jul:
the reverse In his letter Of the sam
date, describing the same places an
march over the same road, the wri1
er can scarcely find words to set fort
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