The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22

Udln, lie eNlOChIly
means the three canals leading from
the heart hat receive the blood like
pitchers. When he speaks in Ecclesi-
astes of the silver cord of life, he evil
IDENTIFY means the spinal marrow, about
which, in our day, Drs. Mayo and Car
penter and Dalton and Flint and
Brown-Sequard have experimental.
And solomon recorded in the Bible,
thousands of years before scientists
discovered it, that in his time the
spinal cord relaxed in old ge, produc-
ing the tremors of hand and head: O
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 dis
secting room, but by the dim light of
a comparatively dark age, and yet had
seen its important functions in the
God-built castle of the human body, its
elongated branching tubes, a divine
workmanship in central and right and
left lobe, and the hepatic artery
through which flow the crimson tides.
Oh, this vital organ is like h 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 h fiat of AL
mighty God bids the body and soul
separate, and the 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 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 melan-
choly means black bile.
L preach to o 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 if to recognize
this, one whole book of the New Testa-
ment was written by a physician. Luke
was a medical doctor, and he
much of the physical conditions, and
he tells of the good Samaritan's medi-
cation of the wounds by pouring in oil
and wine, and recognizes hunger as a
hindrance to hearing the gospel, so
that the 5000 were fed; he also records
the sparse diet of the prodigal away
from home, and the eXtinguished eye
sight of the beggar by the wayside,
and lets us know of the hemorrhage of
the wounds of h dying Christ and
the miraculous post-mortem resuscita-
ton. Any estimate of the spiritual
condition hat does not include also
the physical condition is Incomplete.
When the doorkeeper of congress
fell dead from excessive joy because
Burpovne had surrendered at Sara
toga, and Philip ", of Spain, dropped
dead at the news of his country's de-
f-.A - haA41A aud Inr1inn ANAlcnU
faded away as the result of Henry
Wills anathema, it was demonstrated
hat the body and soul are Siamese
twins, and when you thrill the one
with Joy or sorrow you thrill the other.
We may as well recognize h 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
e~loquence, and the hand with all in
Industries. and the heart with all gen.
erosities, and yet a dart strike
through the liver"
First, let Christian people avoid the
hAAoS bA$J nv 20 wing -
God, because they suffer from depres-
sion of spirits. Many a consecrated
man has found his spiritual sky be-
logged and his hope of Heaven blotted
out and himself plunged chin deep in
the slough of despond, and has said:
''My heart is not right with God, and
! l think 1 must have made a mistake,
and instead of being a child of light l
am a child of darkness. No one can
feel as gloomy as l feel and be a Chris
tian." And he has gone to his minister
| for consolation, and he has collected
Flayel's books and CeciPs books and
Bakers books. and read and read and
read, and prayed and prayed and
prayed, and wept and wept and wept,
and groaned and groaned and
groaned. My brother, your trouble
is not with the heart, it is n gastric
| disorder or a rebellion of the liver
You need q physician more than
you do a clergyman. 1t is not sin that
blots out your hope of Heaven, but
bile. 1t not only yellows your eye
balls, and furs your tongue, and makes
your head ache, but swoops upon your
soul in objections and f~orebodings.
The devil is after you. He has failed
to despoil your character, and he does
the next best thing for him-he rntt1es
your peace of mind. When he a y you
are not a forgiven soul, when he say
you are not right with God, when he
says that you will never get to Heaven,
he lies. If you are in Christ you are
Just as sure of Heaven as though you
were there already. But Satan, finding
that he cannot keep you out of h
promised land of Canaan, has deter
mined that the spies shall not bring
you any of the Eschol grapes before
hand, and that you shall have nothing
but prickly pear and crab-apple. You
are just as good a Christian now under
the cloud as you were when o were
accustomed to rise in the morning at
five o'clock to pray and sing, "Hallelu-
jah, tits done?'
My friend, Rev. DIR. Joseph f. Jones.
of Philadelphia, a translated spirit
now, wrote a book entitled, Man,
Moral and Physical" in which he
shows how different the same things
may appear to different people. He
says: AFTER the great battle on h
Aincio in 1859 between the French and
the Sardinians on the one side and Ia
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 h
London Times, n of whom Travelled
with the successful 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 marching
through n beautiful and luXuriant
country during the day, and at night
encamping were they are supplied
with an abundance of the best pro-
gisiops and all sorts of rural dainties.
There is nothing of war about the
proceeding except it's stimulous and
excitement. On the side of the poor
Austrians it is just the reverse. In
his letter of the hnme dnte- describing