Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-05-21


on the one side and the Austrians on
the other, so disastrous to the latter,
the defeated army retreated, 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 success
full 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 lux
uriant country during the day and at
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 ex-
citement. On che side Of the poor Aus
/ uians it Is just the reverse. IN his let.
ter 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, impatience
and disgust existing around him. What
was pleasant to the former was intoler-
able to the latter What made all this
difference: asks the author One condi-
ton only. The French are victorious,
the Austrians have been defeated. }"
Result of Black Bile.
So, my dear brother. the road you are
travelling is the same you have been
travelling a long while, but the differ
ence in your physical conditions makes
it look different, and therefore the
two reports you have given Of yourself
are as widely different as the reports in
the London Times from the two cor
respondents. Edward Payson, some
times so far up on the mount that It
seemed as if the centripetal force Of
earth could no longer hold him, some
times through physical disorder was
so far down that it seemed as if the
neither world would clutch him. Poor
William Covper was a most excellent
Christian and will be loved in the
Christian church as long as it sings his
hymns beginning, There is a fountain
filed with blood. "Oh, for closer
walk with God, What various him
ORANGES we meet" and God moves in
a mysterious way. " Yet was he so over
come Of melancholy or black bile that it
was only through the mistake Of the
cab driver who took him to wrong
place. instead of the river bank, that
he did not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition So nightly affect
I'd 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 tine body and the
pulse of the so4l, and he can administer
to both at once, and if medicine Is need
ed 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. Ah, that is the kind Of doc
tor want at my bedside, one that can
not only count ont 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 profiigate 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 traversod the wonders Of the human
mechanism and found no God IN any OF
the labyrinths is a fool and cannot doc
tor me or mine. But, oh. the Christian
doctorsl What a comfort they have been
in many Of our households And they
ought 10 have Il warm place in our pray
ers as we'll as praise on our tongues.
bless God that the number Of Chris
tian physicians is multiplying and some
of the students Of the medical colleges
are here today, and hail you and Or
dain YOU to the tender, beautiful, heay-
en- descended work Of a Christian ply
sician. and when you take your diploma
from the medical college to look attel
the perishahlc body be sure also to get
diploma from the skies to look after the
imperishable soul Let all Christian
phvsicians unite with ministers Of th'
GOSPEL in rersuading good people that Il
is NOT because God Is against them thai
tbev sometimes feel depressed, but be-
cause of their diseased bodies lsuppos'
David the psalmist WAS no moro piou'
when he called ON everything humai
and angelic. animate ard lnaIlmd'e
even from snowflake to hurricane. e
praise sod than when be said, Out G.
the depths of hell have ! cried unit
thee. O Lord, or that jeremiah WA
more pious when be wrote bis prophecy
than when he wrote his Lamenta
, tions. or Job when be said, II KNOW
that nv Redeemer liveth, than whei
covered over with the pustules OF ele
, phautiasis as he sat in the ashes scratch
mo the scabs off with a broken piece O
I potterv. or that Alexander Cruden, tn
, concordist. was "a better man when n
: comniled the hook that has helpe'
: 10 GOO students Of the Bible than whel
under the power Of physical disorder n
9 was bandcuHcd and strait waistcoate'
8 in Bethnal Green Insane asylum. ION,
: saws some Christian man, mo one ough
/ to allow physical disorders to depres
his soul. He ought TO live so near CO.
1 as to be always in the sunshine. Yes
that is GOOD advice. but | warrant tina
4 Won. the man who gives the advice, ha
4 sound liver. Thank God for health
: eul hepatic condition, for as certainl
J.. :. Won lose it you will sometimes, lik
n David. and ike jeremiah, and hk
a Cowper. and like Alexander Cruden
Il and like 600 other inyalids, be play
It ing dead march ON the same orga
: With which now you play a staccato'
). Atrabilious People.
IS My object at this point Is not only
/. emolliate the criticisms Of those in goo
= health against those in poor health, bV
II 10 show Christian people who are atr'
d bilious what is the matter with then
l. Do not charge against the heart II
h crimes Of another portion Of your organ
i ism. Do not conclude that because Il
II path to heaven is not arbored with
IS fine a foliage or the banks beautiful
l. showed with exquisite chrysanthemun
u as once, that therefore you are on Il
}, wrong road. The road will bring yc
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