The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-05-28

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My friend, Rev. DR.. Joseph F. Jones
of Philadelphia, a translated spirit
row, wrote a book entitled, ''Man
! Moral and Physical, in which he shows
how differ ent the same things may ap-
pear to different people. He says
After the great battle on the Mincic
i'll 1859 between the French and the
Sardiniahs on the one side and the
! Austrians on the other, so disastrous
to the latter, the defeated army re-
treated, followed by the victors. A
| description of the march of each army
/ is given by two correspondents of the
| London Times, one of whom trav Eed
with the successful host, the other
with the defeated. The difference in
views and statements of the same
place, scenes and events is re-
markable. The former are said to be
marching through beautiful and lux.
uriant country during the day, and al
night encamping where they are 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
CAClISLucnO. On JIC sue Oh JUe poor
Austrians 1t Is just the reverse. In his
letter of the same date, describing the
same places and a march over the same
road, the writer can scarcely find
words to set forth the suffering, impa-
tience and disgust existing around him.
What was pleasant to the former was
intolerable to the latter. What made
all this difference? asks the author.
One condition only: the French are
victorious, the Austrians hare been de-
feated.'"
So, my dear brother, the road you
are travelling is the same you have
been travelling a long while, but the
difference in your p ysical condition
makes it look different, and therefore
the two reports you have given of your
self are as widely different as the re-
ports in the London Times from the
two correspondents. Edward Payson,
sometimes so far up on the mount that
it seemed as If the centripetal force of
earth could no longer hold him, some
times through a physical disorder was
SO far down that it seemed as if the
neither world would clutch him. Poor
William Cowper was a most excellent
Christian, and will be loved in the
Christian church as long as it sings his
hymns beginning, There is a foun-
tain filed with blood" "Oh, for a
closer walk with God, " What various
hindrances we meet" and ''God moves
in a mysterious way" Yet he was so
overcome of melancholy. or black bile,
that it was only through the mistake
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wrong place, instead of the river bank,
that he did not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so NIGHTLY af-
fected 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 needed 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 doctor l want at
my bedside, one that can not only
count out the right number of
drops, but who can also pray. That
is the kind of doctor l have had in my
house when sickness or death came. l
do not want any of your prohigate 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 room
has traversed the wonders of human
mechanism, and found no God in any
of the labyrinths, is fool, and can not
doctor me or mine. But, oh! the
Christian DOCTORS, What a comfort
they have been in many of our house
holds. And they ought to have a warm
place in our prayers, as well as praise
on our tongues.
l bless God that the number of Chris
tian physicians is multiplying, and
some of the students of the medical
colleges are here to-day, and l hail you
and ordain you to the tender, health
full, Heaven-descended work of Chris
tian physician, and when you take
your diploma from the medical college
to look after the perishable be sure also
to get diploma from the skies to look
after the imperishable soul. Let all
Christian physicians unite with minis
ters of the Gospel it persuading good
people that it is not because God is
against them that they sometimes
feel depressed, but because of their
diseased body. L suppose David,
the psalmist, was no more pi-
Gus when he called upon everything
human and angelic, animate and imam
innate, even from snowflake to hurri-
cane, to praise God, than when he
said, "Out of the depths of hell have
cried unto thee, o Lord" or that Jere-
miah was more piouS when he wrote
his prophecy than when he wrote his
Lamentations" or Job when he said,
''I know that my Redeemer iveth,"
than when covered over with the pus-
tuleS of elephantiasis as he sat in the
ashes scratching the scabS off with a
broken piece of pottery; or that Alex
ander Cruden, the concordist, was a
better man when he compiled the
book that has helped ten thou
sand students of the Bible, than when
under the power of physical disorder
he was handcuffed and strait-waist-
coated in Bethnal Green insane asy-
lum. oh" says some Christian man,
mo one ought to allow physical disor-
der to depress his soul. He 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 n sound liver.
Thank God for a healthful hepatic con-
dition, for, as certainly as you lose it,
you will sometimes, like David, and
like jeremiah, and like Cowper, and
like Alexander Cruden, and like 10000
other invalids, be playing dead march
on the same organ with which now you
play a staccato.
My object at this point IS rot only to
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