The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-05-22
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through the liver


A Eehelli0us Liver.
First, let Christian people avo,d the mis-
take that they are all wrong with God be
cause they suffer from deIra scion 81
spirits. Many q consecrated man has found
his spiritual sky befogged and his hope OF
heaven blotted out and himself plunged
chin deep in the slough of GespoDd, and
has said: my heart is Eot right with
God, and I think / must have made q
mistake, and instead IF being a child OF
light 1 am u child of darkness No one
can feel rs gloomy as feel and be "a
Christian And he has gone to his min
lister for consolation, and be has collected
Flavel's 6coks. and Cecil's books, and
Baxter's books, and read and read and
read, and prayed and prayed ana Ira!ed,
ard wept and wept and wept, and groaned
and groaned and groaned. My brother,
your trouble is not with the heart 1t is q
gastric disorder or rebellion of the liver
You need a physician more Than yon do q
clergyman 1t is not sin that blots out
your hope of heaven, but bile. 1t not only
yellows your eyehalls, and fuIs your
tongue, and makes your bead ache, but
swoops upon your soul in objections and
forebodings- The devil is after yon. He
has failed TO despoil your character, and
he does the next best thing for h1ln-he
ruf1ies your peace of mind. When he says
that you are not forgiven soul, when be
says you are not right with God, when be
says that you will never get to heaven, be
lies II you are In Christ, you are just ~
sure Of heaven as though you were there
already. But satan, finding that he can
NOT keep you out OF the promised land OF
Canaan, has determined that the spies
shall not bring You any OF the Eschol
grapes beforehand and that yon shall have
nothing but prickly pear and crahapple.
You are Just as much q Christian now
under the cloud Is you were when you
were accustomed to rise IN the morning at
8 O'Clock to pray and sing Halleluiah,
tbs doneP'
My friend Rev. DR.. Joseph F. Jones OF
Philadelphia, a translated spirit DOW,
wrote q book entitled Man, Moral and
PHYSICAL" in which he shows how differ
ent the same things may appear TO differ
ent people. He says: After the great
battle ON the Mincio in 1859 between the
French and the Sardinians on the one
side and the Anstrians on the other, SO dis
astrous TO the latter, the defeated army re
treated, followed by the victors- A descrip-
ton 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. nh.
difference in views and statements OF the
same place, scenes and events is remark
nble The former are said to be marching
through a beautiful and 1uxuriant coun-
try during the dsy and at night encamp-
ing where they are supplied with an abun-
dance of the best provisions and all sorts OF
rural dainties. There is nothing of wax
about the proceeding except its stimulus
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 tc
Get forth the suffering, impafience and
/ disgust existing around bira. What wal
| pleasant to the former WAS intolerable tt
| the h1tter. What made all this difference
| asks the author. One condition only-ths
| French are victorious, the Austrians have
| been defeated -
| So, my dear brother, the road you ars
| travelling is the same you have been travel
/ Ing a long while, but the difference in youl
/ physical conditions makes 1t look differ
1 enS, and therefore the two reports yor
| have given OF yourself ara as widely differ
| emit as the reports In the London Times
fwoY,, tho fxra forrasroD5epts Edward