The Washington weekly post., 1899-05-16
DR.. Talmage's DiscOurseOn the
Sinfulness of Disease.
SOLOMON'S WONDERFUL SMILE
The Heart L. Celebrated in Poetry ana
Song. but IL Is Not More important ihah
the Liver-Bodiiy Ailments DIN our
Spiritual Insisht-wiid Oats sown IN
Younger Days Take Root In the fhysiesi
Well as ia the Moral Nature.

. ages OF Scriptures when annOuhctu a
I the opening OF sermons, Immediately di
[ vide themselves into old discussions ina
We have heard from boyhOod. and tn'
effect on US is sOporific. The audltol
gUesses at the start just what th'
preacher Will say There are very I'M
pOTtant chapters and verses Jh2J nav
never been preached from. For instance
We talk about the heart and sing about
[ the heart, but if you refer 10 the physic
/ al organ that We call the heart, II has
not half 50 much 10 do with spiTltud
health or spiritual disease, moral exalta
tion or mental depression, as the organ
10 the consideration of which Solomon
calls us in the text when he describes
sin progressing Till dart strike through
his liver
'Solomon's anatomical and physiological
I discoveries were so very great that hf
was nearly three thousand years ahead
of the scientists of his day. He, more
than one thousand years before Christ
seemed to know about the circulation OF
the blood. which Harvey discovered six
teen hundred and nineteen years afteI
Christ for wher Solomon, in Ecclesiestes
describing the human body, speaks of the
pitcher at the fountain, he evidently
means the three canals leading from the
( heart that receive the blood like pitchers
When he speaks in Ecclesiastes OF the
silver cord of life, he evidently means
the spinal marrow. about which in oul
day Drs. Mayo and Carpenter and Dal-
ton and Flint and Brown-SequaTd have
experimental. And Solomon recorded in
the Bible thousands of years before sci
entists discovered il, that in his time
the spinal cord relaxed in old age, pro-
ducing the tremors of hand and head: or
the silver cord be lOosed.'
Solomon as a Scientist.
''In the text he reveals the fact that
he had studied that largest gland of the
human system, the liver, not by the cleo
trio light of the modern dissecting room,
but by the dim light of d comparatively
dark age, and yet had seen its important
function in the God-built castle OF the
human body, its selecting and secreting
power. its curious cells, its elongated
branching tubes, a divine workmanship
IN central and right and left lobe, and
the hepatic artery through which God
conducts the crimson tides. Oh this vital
organ Is like the eye of COG in that il
never sleeps. solomon knew of il, and
mad noticed, either in vivisection or post
mortem, what awful attacks sin and dis
Slpatlon make upon it, until with the
nat OF Almighty God, IL bids the body and
soul separate, end the one il commands
TO the grave, and the other it sends TO
judgment. A javelin of retribution, not
glanCing off or making a slight wound
but piercing IL from side to side. till a
dart strike through the liver Galen
and Hippoeratas ascribe TO the liver the
most Of the worlds moral depression.
ana the word melancholy means black
bile.
preach to you the gospel of health.
In taking diagnosis of the diseases of the
SOUL you must also take the diagnosis of
the diseases OF the body. As if to recog-
nlze this, one whole book of the New Tas-
lament was written by a physician. Luke
was doctor, and he discourses much of
physical conditions, and he tells of the
good Samaritan's medication of the
wounds by pouring in oil and wine. and
recognizes hunger as hindrance to hear
ing the gospel, SO that the five thousand
were led: and records the sparse diet of
the prodigal away from home, and the
eXtlnsuished eyesight OF the beggar bv
the wayside, and lets us know of the
hemorrhage &C the wounds of the diving
Christ and the miraculous post morteT1
resusciration. And any estimate of the
spiritual condition that does not include
also the physical condition is incom-
plete.
Soul and Body Allied.
when the door-keeper of Congress fell
dead from excessive joy because Burgoyae
had surrendered at Saratoga, and Philip
of Spain dropped dead at the news OF
MS country's defeat in battle. and Car
dlnaI Nolsey expired as a result OF Henry
Wits anathema, il was demonstrated
that the body and soul are Siamese twins.
ana when you thrill the one with joy or
sorrow you thrill the other We might as
well recognize the tremendous fact thai
there are two mighty fcrtresses in the hu-
man 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 intellectualties.
and the ear with all musical appreciation.
and the mouth with all eloquence, and
the hand with all industries, and the heart
with all geneTOsiJies. and yet "A dart
strike through the liver
First, let Christian people avoid the
mistake that they are all wrong with Coo.
because they suffer from depression OF
spirits. Many a conseCrated man has
found his spiritual sky befogged and hi;
hope Of heaven blotted out and himself
plunged chin deep in the slough of de-
spOnd. and has said: Ny heart is not right
with God, and / think must have made
mistake, and instead of being a child os
light | am child of darkness. No sne
can feel as gloomy as i am and be a
Christian. And he has gone 10 his MIN
lister for consolation, and he has collected
Flayel's books and Cecirs books and Rax
ter's books, and read and read and read
and prayed and prayed and prayed. and
wept and wept and wept, and groaned and
sroaned and groaned.
Bile Instead of Sin.
MY brother. your trouble IS not with
the heart; II Il gastric disorder, or
rebellion OF the liver. You need a physi-
clan more than you do clergyman. II Is
not sin that blOts out your hope OF heaven
but bile II not only yellows your eve-bsU
and turs your tongue. and makes your
head ache, but swOops upon your soul
in OBJECTIONS and forebOdings. The devil
= after YOU he had failed 10 despoil YOUR
character, and he does the next best thing
for him-he rufties your peace Of mind.
When he says that you are not a forgiven
>ouls NLlcA ne says you are not y-ghI with
God, when he says thai you VIII never
get TO heaven, he lies You are inst as
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 Escbo1
grapes beforehand. and that YOU shall
have nothing but priekly pear and crab
apple. You are just as good now under
IN cloud as you were when YOU were ac-
customed 10 rise In the morning al :
Q clock 10 pray and sing 'Halleluiah. 'tis
3oner
Two Views of Same Thing.
My friend. Rev. DR. Joseph II. Jones
OF Philadelphia, a translated spirit now.
wrote book entitled Man, Moral ana
Physical In which he shows how differ
ent the same things may appear 10 DIFF
irrent people He says. After the great
battle on the MlneiO in ls59, between the
French aid Sardinians on the one side anl
the AustrieRs CT the other. so disastrous
10 he latter the defeated army retreated
followed By the vicICrs. A description OF
the march Of each army IS given by tWo
correspondents Of the London Times. one
of whom Travelled With the successful
hest. the other with the defeated. The
difference II views ana statements Of the