Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-17


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 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 clutches. 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 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-
oupy that organ that there is no room
! for the inplantation Of righteous crop.
| You see aged men about us at so erect,
| agile, splendid, grand old men. How
much wild oats did they SOW between
18years 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 so. By early dissipa-
ton they put on their body a first mort
gage and a second mortgage and 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, i'll fulfillment of my
text, dart struck through their liver
and it is there yet God forgives, but
outraged physical law never, never,
never. That has Sinai, but no 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 warning to all the CEN
turtles.
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-
cupation. Let flock of sins settle on
your liver before you get to % years Of
age, and they will in all probability
keep possession of it by an Internal
squatter sovereignty. "I promise to pay
at the bank $500 six months from
date" says the promissory note. 81
promise to pay my life 80 years from
date at the bank of the grave" says
every infraction of the laws of your
physical being.
Liver Complaints.
What? Will mans body never COM
pletely recover from early dissipation |
in this world? Never. How about the |
world to come? Perhaps God will iix it |
up in the resurrection body so that it |
will not have to go limping through all |
eternity. But get the liver thoroughly I
damaged, and it will stay damaged as
long as you are here. Physicians call it |
cirrhosis of the liver or inflammation
of the liver or fatty degeneration of the /
liver, but Solomon puts all these pangs
into one figure and says, "Till dart
strike through his liver.
Hesiod seemed to have some hint of
this when he represented Prometheus
for his crimes fastened to a pillar and
an eagle feeding ON his liver, which
was renewed again each night, so that
the devouring went on until finally
Hercules slew the eagle and rescued
Prometheus And dissipated early life
clawing away at the liver year in and
year out, and death is the only Hercules
who can break the power of it's beak or
unclench its claw. So, also, others
wrote fables about vultures preying
upon the liver, but there are those here
with whom it is no fable, but terrific
reality.
That young man smoking cigarettes
and smoking cigars has no idea that he
is getting for himself smoked liver
That young man has no idea that he
has by early dissipation SO depleted his
energies that he will go into the battle
only half armed. Here is another young
man who, if he put all his forces
against the regiment of youthful temp
tations in the strength of God, might
drive them back, but he is allowing
them to be REINFORCED by the whole
army of midlife temptations, and what
but immortal defeat can await him?
Oh, my young brother, do not make
the mistake that thousands are making
in opening the battle against sin too
late, for this world too late, and for the
world to come too late! What brings
that express train from ST. Louis into
Jersey City three hours late? They lost
Is minutes early on the route, and that
affected them all the way, and they had
to be switched off here and switched off