Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-04-18
Talmage

BY Rev.
Frank De ~nf
Tain age. ID. ID.

Los Angeles, Cal, April 10.-In this
sermon the preacher shows that in
sickness, as well as in health, God re-
Quires our cooperation and the ex-
ercfse Of our faith. and that the divine
blessing follows this union of faith
and works. The text is Genesis xxx,
80, And the fiocks brought forth cat
tie, r~ingstraked, speckled and spotted
Laban. though a man of wealth and
influence among the Hebrews OF his
day, was yet, like many rich men in
our time, mean and unprincipled where
a bargain was involved. In his COM
pact with Jacob the weak points or
his character were ~strikingly revealed.
He had two daughters. Leah was
tender eyed. but Rachel was very beau
tiful;" in other words, the elder sister
was homely and unattractive. she
was q maiden lady whom no one cared
to marry; her eyes were inhamed, or
watery. or cast her disposition was
evidently as much askew as her eyes.
Jacob was deeply in love with the
u sister, but after he had served
seven lOllE NCdtS lOl LII ONN
cheated him out of his promised BRIDE
and palmed off upon the young man
the unattractive elder sister. Then,
In order to win the younger sister,
Jacob had to serve seven more long
years. and as a result he had two
wives instead of II
"a er of the Mind.
-. of G;r fp,rtaan porS of
service Jacob prepared to leave his ia
ther-in-law's employ. He wanted TO
take his two wives Il go off and
build a home of his own somewhere.
This. however, Laban did not wish him
to do. SO the crafty Laban made a con-
tract with Jacob that if he would stay
and continue in charge of his herds of
cattle and 1ocks of sheep he, Laban,
would give to the young man as pay
ment for his services all the calves and
the lambs and the kids that were born
ringstraked or speckled or spotted.
Jacob agreed to the bargain. But
when he agreed the young man was
c%raftier than the old man. AS the IA
ther-in-law had been unprincipled with
IaCOD, So JdCOD DIS ullpl 1lN1DlCo hO"
with Laban. What did Jacob do? Did
he allow nature to simply take its usual
course? No. He began to scheme n
to cunningly influence the colors OF
the calves, the kids and the lambs
about to be born. He took some rods
of green poplar and hazel and chestnut
and laid those rods of white and black
- H. --n+arinn trnIJOhS of tho herds
and the focks. Then, when the COWS
and the sheep and the goats came to
drink out of the watering trOughs the
black and white rods reflected IN the
water made such q startling impress
sion upon them that the calves, kids
and lambs born thereafter were inffu
enced by that prenatal shock, and most
of them were ringstraked and spotted
and speckled. Thus Jacobs herds
grew larger than Laban's, and the
craft of the INSCRIPTIONS son-in-laN
overreached the dishonesty of the ia
ther-inlaw.
After Jacob placed the rods of greer
poplar and hazel and chestnut in th'
watering troughs the startling and IA
reaching effect produced upon the ami
mails is not to be wondered at. 1
you place a stick in the water, by tn
laws of reelection that wood may seer
to become a creature of life. l remen
Der when a lad one dropping my isl
ing pole, and as it lay at the botto1
of the brook the ripples made that 70
look like a long serpent wriggling III
stream. AS these cattle stoop to drin
I see them start back as though a vel
emous kissing snake was lifting u
his fatal fangs to strike. My text pr
SCENTS one of the best instances to [
found in literature of the far reachin
effect of the mind oyer the physic;
body.
Mental HaIIucinations.
We may grant today the infuenf
of the mind over the body, but we {
not go so far as TO assert that all phy
icaI diseases or a~bnormalities are tt
direct results of mental h~allucinatioI
as the straked, spotted and speckle
progeny of the COWS. sheep and goa
were the result Of Jacobs wicked &C
we do not advocate the theory that
surgeons knife is only another nan
for q butchers ak. that a modern no
pitaI is only a Satanic incubator. tn
q medicine bottle is only fools poisc
and that, sickness is only a synony.
for sin as there are thousand
and tens Of thousands of men and W
men who honestly believe in 'fait
cure" pure and simple, as we ter
that definition. l nave chosen in tn
sermon to preach on Jesus Christ
the Divine Healer and to show boz
from a Biblical and a common sen
standpoint that the surgeons KIM
and the physicians prescription ma
a part in the worlds Christlanizau'
and civilization as we'll as the min
4er's pulpit and the consecrated scho
teachers desk. -.
The Bible teaches US that TAI
ahould always go hand in hand wi
works. The same divine laws VIII
apply to men in ordinary walks Of