The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-05-21


mined that the spies shall not bring
you any of the Eschol grapes before
hand, and that you shall have nothing
but priekly pear and crab-apple. You
are just as good Christian now under
the cloud as you were when YOU were
accustomed to rise in the morning at
five o'clock to pray and sing, "Hallelu-
jah. It's doner'
My friend, Rev. DIR. Joseph Z. 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 the
Mincio in 1859 between the French and
the Sardinians 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 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 a beautiful and luxuriant
country during the day, and at night
encamping were they are supplied
with an abundance of the best pro-
visions and all sorts of rural dainties.
There is nothing of war about the
proceeding except its stimulous and
excitement. On the side of the poor
Austrians it 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-
thence and disgust existing around
him. What was pleasant to the for
mer was intolerable to the latter
What made all this difference? asks
the author. One condition only: the
French are victorious, the Austrians
have been defeated"
So, my dear brother. the road you
are travelling is the same you have
been travelling a long while, but the
difference in your physical condition
makes it look different. and therefore
tt two reports you have given of
yourself are as widely different as
the reports in the London Times
from the two correspondents. Ed
ward PaysOn, sometimes so far up
on the mount that it seemed as if
the centripetal force of earth could no
longer hold him, sometimes through a
physical disorder was so far down that
it seemed as if the neither world would
clutch him. Poor William Cowper
was most excellent Christian, and
will be loved in the Christian church
as long as it sings his hymns begin
ming, There is a fountain filled with
blood" "Oh, for 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 of the cab
driver who took him to a wrong place,
instead of the river bank, that he did
not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so nightly af-
fected 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 needed he can give that,
and if spiritual counsel is needed ne
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 bed
side, one that can not only count out
the right number of drops, but who
can also pray. That is the kind of
doctor have had in my house, when
sickness or death came. l do
not want any of your profigate or
atheistic doctors around my loved ones
when the balances of life are trem-
bling. 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
cannot doctor me or mine. But, oh,
the Christian doctors! What 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 or
dain you to the tender, healthful,
Heaven-descended work of a Christian
physician, and when you take your di-
ploma from the medical college to
look after the perishable body, be sure
also to get a diploma from the skies to
look after the imperishable soul. Let
all Christian physicians unite with
ministers of the gospel in 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 pious when he
called upon everything human and an
gelic, 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 he wrote his
prophecy than when he wrote his La
vvbaT no said.