The Washington weekly post., 1899-05-16

| the AustranS have been defeated. 30
the road you sre travelling Is the, SANE
you have been travelling long while. but
| the difference IL your physical conditions
make II look different and therefore the
| tW1 reports you have given OF yOursell
| ara as widely different aS the reports IN
the London Times. from the TWO CORE
| spCndents.
Men who suffered.
Edward Parsou. sometimes go far up
or the Mount that il seemed as II the
Centripetal force OF earth could no longer
hold him, sometimes through physical
disorder vas so far down that II seemed
as II the neither world would clutch him.
| Glorious William Cowper was as good as
good could be. end Wiz he loved IN the
Christian Church as long as IL sings MS
hymn. beginning. There is fountain
filed with blood and his hymn begia-
ming, oh, for closer walk with God,
and his hymn beginning, What various
| hjEdrances we meet and his hymn be
ginning, God moves in a mysterious way
Yet so was he overcome of melanenoly'
or black bile, that il was only through
the mistake of the cab driver, no TOOK
him to a wrong place. instead of the river
bcfk. that he cid not commit suicide. 80
powerfully does the bodily condition
dominate the mental that an eminent
Christian physician declared that ne never
| kl.ew q triumphant death when the as
| ease Of the pious patient WIS Delo" ''S
! diaphragm.
Spiritual condition so nightly affected
by the physical state. what great OPP
pOrtunity this gives to the Christian physl-
| clan for he can feel at the same tiine
both the pulse Of the body ana the pdise
! of the soul, and he can administer 70
| both at once, and If medicine Is needed
he can give that and If spiritual cOGnset
! is needed he can give that-an carthlE
| and a divine prescription at the Same
| time-and call on not only the apolhe.
| cary of earth but the pharmacy or
! heaven. All. that is the kind OF doctor L
| want at my bedside when / get sich' one
! that cannot only count out the rlsht num-
! Der of drops but who can also pray
| That is the kind of doctor 1 have mad IN
nv house when sickness or death came.
| / do not want any Of your profiigate or
| atheistic doctors around my loved ones
| when the balances of life are trembling.
| A doctor who had gone through the medl-
| cal college. and in dissecting-room has
| traVerSed the wonders or 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
| doctors, What a comfort they have been
| in manv OF our households. And they
| ought to have a warm place in our
prayers, as well as praise on our tongues.
The Family Phy sician-
"Dear old Doctor Skillman! My fathers
| doctor. my mothers doctor, in the village
| home He carried all the condolences Of
all the families for ten miles around. We
/ all felt better as soon as We saw him enter
| the house. His face pronounced a beati-
| tude before he said a word. He welcomed
| all of us children into life, and he closed
| the Old peoples eyes when they entered
| the last slumber | think | know what
Christ said to him when the old doctor got
| through his work. | think he was greeted
with the words: Come in, doctor. | was
sick and We visited mer l bless God that
the number of Christian physicians is
multiplying, and l hail all such, and l or
| dain you to the tender, beautiful. heaven
descended work of Christian physician,
and when you take your diploma from
the medical college, to look after the
perishabe 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. | suppose David. the psalmiSt, vas
nc more piouS when he called on every
thing human and angelic, animate and in
animate, and from snowflake to hurri-
cane, TO praise God than when he said:
out of the depths of hell have | cried
unto Thee, o, Lord or that jeremiah
was any better when he wrote his proph-
ecy than when he wrote his Lamenta-
tOns.' or that Job was any better when
he said: L know that my Redeemer liV-
eth than when covered all over with the
pustules of elephantiasis us he sat in he
ashes scratching the scabs off with a
broken piece of pottery or that Alexander
Cruden, the concordiSt. was any better
man when he complied the book that has
helped innumerable students of the Bible
than when under the power OF physical
disorder he was handcuffed and straight
Walstcoated in Bethnal Green Insane
Asylum.
Infiuence of a Sound Liver.
But says some Christian man, no
one ought 10 allow physical disorder 10
6epress his soul. He ought 10 live so near
TO God as to be always in the sunshine
Yes, that is good advice; but / warrant
that the man who gives the advice has
a sound liver Thank God for healthful
hepatic condition, for just as certainly as
you lose il you will sometimes like
David, and like jeremiah, and like Cow
per. and like Alexander Cruden, and like
ten thousand other invalids, be playing
a dead march on the same organ with
which now You play a toccata
My object at this point is not only TO
emOlliate the criticisms of the well
against those in poor health. but 10 show
Christian people who are atrabiliOuS what
is the matter with them. Do not cha .se
against the heart the crimes of anot ler
portion Of your organism. Do not CON
clude that because the path 10 heaven
is not arbOred with as fine foliage
or the banks beautifully showed under
with exquisite chrysanthemums as once.
that, therefore, you are on tn wrong
road. The road will bring you out al
the same gate whether you walk with the
sITidc OF an athlete or come up on crut,h-
eS. Thousands OF Christians. morbid about
their experiences. and morbid about their
business, and morbid about the present,
and morbid about the future, need the
sermon / am now preaching.
Sowing uf Wild Oats
Another practical use Of this sub act
is for the young. The theory Is abroad
that they must first SOW their wild oats |
and afterward Michigan wheat Let me
break the delusion. Wild oats are gem
orally sewn in the liver. and they can
never be pulled up. They so preOccupv
that organ that there is no room for The |
implantation OF a righteous crop You
see aged men about US at eighty years /
erect, agile, splendid, grand old men. Eou,
much wild oats did they SOW betv cen ]
eighteen and thirty? None; absolutely I
Eaoit- t-'1u uoes not very OFTEN honor ;
with ola age those who have in early pfe
sacrificed swine on the altar OF the bodfIy 4
temple Remember, Young man. that I
while in after life. and after years OF 4
dissipation. and may perhaps have your 1
heart changed: religion does not chan.e 4
the liver Trembling and staggerI NJ 1
along these streets to-day are men. All 4
bent. and decsyed. and premaluFely o'd i
for the reason that they are paying for 4
liens they put upon their physical estate
before they were thirty.
BY early dissipation they put on their
body first mortgage. and second mort
gage. and a third mortgage 10 the devil.
and these mortgages are now being fore
closed, and all that remains OF their
earthly estate the undertaken Will soon
put cut Of sight. Many years ago. in
fulhllment or my text. q dart struck
through their liver. ard IL Is there YET
God fOrgives. but outraged physical lag.
never. never. never That has a Sinai
but no Calvary. Solomon in nv texr
knew what he was talking about He
had in early life been pIofigate. and he
rises up on his throne OF worldly sLlen-
dor 10 shrek out warning 10 ali the
centuries.