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lie Believes That Most 02 the Warld's
Floral Depresshons Are Dub to That Hard -
worked Organ ana Urges His Hearers to
Take Care of It. -
Washington, May- 16.-"Ibr. Talmage's
sermon of to -day has mare to do with
this life than the life to Oome and will
be a warning against all forms, of dis-
sipation, Text, Proverbs YU, 28, "Till a
dart strike through his liver."
- Solomon's anatomical iand physiolo-
gical discoveries were so very great that
he was nearly 8,000 year ahead of the
scientists of his day. He, more than
1,000 years before Chriet, seemed to
knew about the circulatioi of the blood,
which Harvey discovered 1,619 years
after Christ, for when Solomon, in
Ecclesiastes, describing the human body,
speaks of the pitcher at ,` the fountain,
he evidently meant the thee canals lead-
ing 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 our day, Drs. Mayo
and, Carpenter and •Dalton and Flint
and Brown-Sequard have experimented.
And Solmnon recorded Jill the Bible,
thousands of years before ' scientists dis-
covered it, that in his time the spinal
cord; relaxed In old age, producing the
tremors of hand and head, "or the
silver cord be loosed." e s
The Liver and Mtrallty.
In the text he reveals he fact that he
had studied that largeat gland of the
human system, the liver, not by the
electric light of the znodern dissecting
room, but by the -dim light of a com-
paratively dark age, an - yet had seen
its important functions in the God
built castle of the -humai body, its select-
ing and secreting power, 4ts curious cells,
its elongated btanch1ng tube, as divine
workmanship in centre and right and
left lobe, and the hepatic artery through
which flow the crimson iides. Oh, this
vital organ is like the ey of God in that
it never sleeps! - _
Solomon -knew-of it, d had noticed
either in vivisection ar post mortem
what awful attacks sin and. dissipation
make upon it, until the Lat of Almighty
God bids the body and soul separate,
and the one it commend to the grave
and the other it sends co judgment. - A
javelin of retribution, not glancing 'off
or making a slight woupd, but piercing
it from side to side "till a dart strikes
through his liver." Glen and Hippo-
crates ascribe to the iver the most of
• s
the world's moral depression, and the
word melanch,oly meanblack bile.
.1 preach- to you the gospel of health.
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In taking a diagnesis of disease of the
soul you must also tak a ' diagnosis of
diseases of the body. As if to recognize
this, one vrhcile book of the New Testa-
ment was written by a physician. Luke
was a medical doctor, and he discourses
much of the physical conditions; and he
tells of the good Samar tan's medication
of the wounds by p uring in oil and
wine, and recognizes h nger as a hind-
rance to hearing the gospel, so that the
5,000 were fed. He also records the sparse
diet of the prodigal way from home,
and. the extinguished eyesight of the
beggar ,by the wayside, and lets us know
of the hemorrhage of Ihe wounds of the
dying Christ and the miraculous post
mortem resuscitation. Any estimate of
the spiritual condition that does not
include also the physical condition is
incomplete.
When the doorkeeper of congress fell
• dead frorn excessive joy because Burgoyne
had surrendered at Saratoga, and Philip'
V. of Spain dropped dead at the news of
his country's defeat iti battle, and Car-
dinal Wolsely faded away as the result
of Henry VIII's anathema, it was
demonstrated that the body and. soul are
Siamese twins, and when you thrill the
one with, joy or sorrow you thrill the
other. We may •as well recognize the
tremendous fact that there are two
mighty fortresses in the human 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 filled with all intellectualities, and
the ear with all musical appreelation,
and the mouth with all eloquence, and
the hand with all industries, and the
. heart with all generosities, and yet ‘‘ia
dart strike through the liver."
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A. Rebellion* Liver.
First, let Christian people avoid the
mistake that they are all wrong with,
God because they suffer from depression
of spirits. Many a consecrated man has
found his spiritual Ski befogged and his
hope of heaven blotted out and himself
plunged chin deep in the slough of
despond. and has said: "My heart is
not right with God, and I think I must
have made a , mistake, and instead of
being a child of light I am a child of
darkness. No one can teel as gloomy as I
feel and be a Christian." And he has
gone to his minister for consolationand
he has collected Fievel's books, and
Cecil's books, and Baxter's books, and
read and read and read, and prayed and
prayed and prayed, and wept and-weut
and. wept, and groaned and groaned and
groaned. My brother, ;your trouble is not
with the heart. It is a gastric disorder
or a rebellion of the' liver. You need a
physician more than , you do a clergy-
man. It is not sin that blots out your
hope of heaven, but rlaile. It not only
yellows your eyeballs, and rues your
tongue, and makes ycnr head ache, but
swoops upon your soul in dejections and
forebodings. The dein is after you. He
has failed to despoil your character, and
be does the next bestl thing for hini-he
ruffles your peace of mind. When he
says that you are nbt a forgiven soul,
when he says you are not right with
God, when he says that you will never
get to heaven, he lies. If you are in
'Christ, you are jut as sure of heaven
as though you were there already. But
eaten, finding that he cannot keep you
out of the promised land of Canaan, has
determined that the epies shall not bring
you any of the Esch°1 grapes befoaahand
and that you shali have nothing but
prickly pear and crabapple. You are just
as much a Christian now under the
cloud as you were when you were accus-
tomed to rise in the Morning at 5 o'clock
to pray and sing "Halleluiah, lis done!"
My friend Rev. Dr i Joseph F.- Jones of
Philadelphia, a. translated spirit now,
wrote a book entitled "Man, Moral and
Physical," in whieh he shows how
different the same things may appear to
,
different people. He says: "After the
great battle on the Mincio in 1859 be-
tween the French and the Sardinians on
the' one side and the Austrians on the
other, so disastroue to the latter, the
defeated army retreated, followed by the
viotort. A description of the march of
each army is given:, by two correspond-
ents of the London Times, one of whom
traveled with the isuccessful host, the
other with the defeated. The difference
in views and statements of the same
place, scenes and events is remarkable.
h a beautiful rid luxuriant coup:
The former are sa;'cl to be marching
throug
try during the day and at night encamp-
ing where them' Are zunielie with an
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sorts of rural dainties. There is nothing petiole Let a Hook of sins settle OD your
et war about the proceeding except its liver before you get to 25 years of age, •
Stimulus and excitement. On the site of and they will in all probabilty keep pool -
the poor Austrians it is just the reverse. :eeesiove of it by an infernal squatter
In hie letter of the Santa date, describing sovereignty. 4 1/ promise to pay at the bank
the same 'places and march eiter the 1000 six months from date," says the
same road, the writer can scarcely find
weds to set forth the suffering, impati-
ence and disgust existing around him.
What was pleasant to the former was
intolerable to the latter. What made all
this difference? asks the author. One
condition only -the -French are r victori-
ous the .Austrians have been defeated."
' go, ray dear brother, the road you are
traveling is the same you have been
traveling a long while, but the diffetenoe
in your physical eonditions makee 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 correspondents.'
Edward Payson, sometimes so far up on
the mount that it seemed as if the ten-
tripetal force of earth could no, longer
hold hira, somethnes through a physical
disorder was so far down that it eeemed
as if the nether world would clutch
him. Poor William Cowper was a most
excellent Christian, and wjll be toyed
in the Christian 'church as long 0.44 it
sings his hymns beginning: "There is a
fountain filled with blood." "Oh, fora
closer •wrilk with God," "What various
hindrances we meet" and "God moves
In a mysterious way." Yet was be so
overcome by snelancholy or black bile,
that it was only through the Mistake of
the cabdriver who took him to a wrong
place instead of the river bank that he
did not commit suicide.
Christian Physicians. '
Spiritual condition so mightily affected
by the physical stateavhat a great oppor-
tunity this gives to the Christian physi-
cian, for he can feel at the same time
both the pulse of the body and the pulse
of the soul, and he can administer to
both at once, and if medicine is needed
he can give that, and if spiritual counsel.
isneeded be can give that -an earthly
and a divine prescription at the same
time -and call on not only the apothecary
of earth, but the 'pharmacy of heaven!
Ale that is the kind of doctor 1 want at
my bedside -one that can not Only count
out the right number of drops but who
can also pray. That is the kind of doctor
I have had in my house when sickness
or death came. I do not want any of
your 'profligate or astheistio 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 traversed the
wonders of the human mechanism, and
found no God M any of the labyrinths, is
a fool, and. cannot doctor me or mine.
But, oh, the Christian doctors! What a
comfort they. have been in manly of our
households! And they ought to have a
warm place in our prayers, as well 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 to -day, and I hail you and
ordain you to the tender, beautiful,
heaven descended work of a Christian
physician, and when you take your
diploxna from the medical college to
look after the perishable body be sure
also to get a diploma from the skips to
look after the imperishable soul. Let all
Christian physicians unite with niinisters
of the gospel in persuading good people
that it is not because God is against
them that they sometimes feel depreased,
but because of their diseased body. I
suppose David, the psalmist, was no
more pious when he called on everything
human and angelic, animate and lean-
imate, even from snowflake to hurricane,
to praise God than when he said, "Out
of the depths of hell have I cried unto
• thee, 0 Lord;" or that Jeremiah was
more pious when he wrote his prophecy
than when he wrote his "Lamentations;"
or Job when he said, 'I know that my
Redeemer' liveth," than when covered
over with the pustules of elephantiasis
-promissory note. "I promise to pay my
life 80 years from date at the bank of
the grave," says every infraction of the
laws of your physical being.
Solomon's Diagnosis.
What? Will a man's body never com-
pletely recover from early dissipation in
this world? Never. How sibout the world
to come? Perhaps God will fix it up In
the resurrection body so that it will not
have to go limping through all eternity.
But get the liver thoroughly damaged,
and it will stay damaged as long as you
are here. Physicians call it cirrhosis of
the liver, or: inflammation of the liver,
or fatty degeneration of the liver, but
Solomon puts . all these pangs into one
figure and says, "Till a dart etrikes
through his liver."
Hesiod seemed to have some hint of
this when he represented Promethemefor
hie mimes, fastened to a pillar and an
eagle feeding on his liver, which was
renewed again eau* night so that the
devouring went on Until finally Hercules
slew the eagle and rescued Pronaetheus.
And a dissipated early life assures& fero-
city pecking away and clawing away at
the liver year in and year out, and death
Is the only Hercules who can break the
power of its beak or unclench its claw.
So also others wrote fables about vultures
preying upon the liver. But there are
those here with whom it is notfable, but
a terrific) reality.
That young man smoking cigarettes
and smoking cigars has no idea that he
Is getting for hinisel( smoked liver. That
young man has no idea that he has by
early dissipation to depleted his energiea
that he will 'go into 'the battle only half
armed. Here is another young man who,
if he put all his forces against the regi-;
merit of youthful temptations, in the
etrength of God, might drive them back,
but he is allowing them to be re -enforced
by the whole army of inidlife temptie-
, tions, and what but immortal defeat can
await him? .
Oh, my young brother, do not make
the mistake that thousands are making,
in opening the battle Against sin too
late, for this world too late, and for the
world to come too late. What brings that
express train from St. Louis into Jersey
City three hours late? They lost 15
minutes early on the route, and that
affected them all the way, and they had
to be switched off here and switched off
there, and detained here and detained
there, and the man who loses time and
strength in the earlier part of the
journey of life, will suffer for it all the
way through -the first 20 years of life
damaging the following 50 years.
Some years ago a scientific lecturer,.
went through the country exhibiting on
great eanyaeLdifferent parts of the human
body when ealthy, and the same parts
when diseased. And what the world
wants now it some eloquent scientist to
go through the country, showing to our
young people on blazing canvas the
drunkard's liver, the idler's liver, the
libertine's liver, the gambler's liver.
Perhaps the 'spectacle might stop some
young man before he conies to the catas-
trophe and the dart strikes through his
liver.
A Pew Epitaphs.
as he sat in the ashes scratching the
scabs off with a broken piece of pottery;
or that Alexander Cruden, the concord-
ist, was a better rnan when he compiled
the book that has helped 10,000 students
of the Bible than when under the
power of physical disorder he Was hand-
cuffed and strait waistcoated In Bethnal
Green Insane asylum. Oh," tays some
Christian man, "no one Ought to alrow
physical disorder to depress his soul. He
ought to live so near to God as to be
always in the sunshine." Yes, that is
good advice. But I warrant that you,
the man who gives the advice, has a
sound liver. Thank Goct for a healthful
hepatic condition, for as certainly as yhu
lose It pou will sometimes, like David,
and like Jeremiah, and like Cowper.
and like Alexander Cruden and like
10,000 other invalids, beseplaying a dead
march on the same orgSn with which
now you play a staccato
issi patio ns.
My object ate this point is not only to
emolliate the criticisms of those in good
health against those In poor health, but
to Show Christian people who are atrabil-
Mus what is the matter with them. Do
not charge against the heart the crimes
of another portion of your organism. Do
not conclude because the path to heaven
is not arbored with as fine a foliage, or
the banks beatifully snowed with ex-
quisite chrysanthemums as once, that
therefore you are on the wrong road.
The road will bring you out at the same
gate whether you walk with the stride
of an athlete or come up on crutches.
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 I am now preaching.
Another practical use of this subject 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
generally sown in the liver, and
they can never be pulled tip. They so
preoccupy that organ that there is no
room for the iniplantation of a righteous
crop. You see aged men about us at 80,
,erect, agile, splendid, grand old men.
How much wild oats did they sow be-
tween 18 years and 30? None, absolutely
none. God does not very often honor
with old age those who have in early life
sacrificed swine on the altar of the bodily
temple. Remember, 0 young man, that
while in after life and after years of dis-
sipation you _ may perhaps have your
heart changed, religion does not change
the liver. Trembling and staggering
along these streets to -day are men, alt
bent, and decayed, and prematurely old -
for the reason that they are paying for
liens they put upon their physical estate
before they were 30. By ea ly dissipation
t mortgage,
and a third
they put on their body a 11
and a second mortgage,
mortgage to the devil, an these mort-
gages are now being foraclosed, and all
that remains of their earthly estate the
undertaker will .soon put out of sight.
Many years ago, in fulfillment of my
text, a dart struck through their liver,
and it is there yet. God forgives, but
outraged physical law never, neher,
never. That has a Sinai, but no Calvary.
Solomon in my text knew what he was
talking about, and he rises up on his
throne of worldly splendor to shriek out
a warning to all the centuries.
Stephen A. Douglas gave the name of
"squatter sovereignty" to those who
went out west and took mossession of
My hearer; this is the first sermon you
have heard on the gospel of health, and
it may be the last you will ever hear on
that subjel, and t [charge you,. in the
name ot Go and Christ and usefulness
and eternal destiny, take better care of
your health. When some of you. die, if
your friends put on your tombstone a
truthful epitaph, it will read, "Here lies
the victim of late • suppers"; or it will
be, "Behold what lobster salad at mid-
night will do for a man"; or it will be,
"Ten -cigars a day closed my earthly
existence"; or . it will be, "Thought
could do at 70 what I did at20,yend I am
here"; or it will be, "Here is the con-
sequiince of sitting a half day with wet
feet;" or it will be, "This is where II
have stacked my harvest of wild oats";
or instead of words the stonecutter will
chisel for an epitaph on the tombstone
two.figures-namely, a dart and a liver.
There is a kind. of sickness that is
beautiful when it comes from overwork
for God, or one's country, or •one's
family. I have seen wounds that were
'glorious.. I have seen an empty, sleeve
that wasi more beautiful than the.most
muscular forearm. I have seen a green
shade over the eye, shot out in battle,
that was more beautiful than any two
eyes that had passed withouteinjury. I
have seen an old missionary worn out
with the malaria of African jungles,
who looked to me more radiant than a
rubicund gymnast. 1 have seen a mother
after six weeks' watching over a family
of children down with scarlet fever,
with a glory around her pale and wan
face that surpassed the angelic. It all
depends on how you got your sickness _
and in what battle your wounds.
If we must get sick and worn out, let
it be in God's Service and in the' effort
to make the world good. Not in the
service of sin. No, n�! One of ties most
pathetic scenes that I ever witness, and
I often see it, is that of men or women
converted in the fifties or sixties or
seventies wanting to be useful, but they
so served the world and eaten in the
earlier part at their life that. they have
no physical energy left for the service of
God. They sacrificed nerves, muscles,
lungs, heart and liver on the wrong
altar. They fought on the wrong side,
and now, when their sword is all hacked
up and their ammunition all gone, they
enlist for Emnaanuel. When the high
mettled calvary horse, which that man
spurred into many a calvary charge with
champing bit and flaming eye and neck
clothed with thunder, is worn out and.
spavined and ringboned and springhalt,
- he rides up to the great Captain of eur
° salvation on the white horse and offers
his services. When such persons might
have been, through the good habits of a
lifetime,erashing their battle axe through
She helmeted iniquities they are spending
their days . and nights in discussing the
best way of curing indigestion, and
quieting their jangling nerves, and
rousing their laggard appetite, and trying
to extract the dart from their outraged
liver. Better converted late than never!
Oh, yes, for they will get to heaven. But
they will go afoot when they might have
wheeled up the steep hills of the sky in
Elijah's chariot.. There is an old hymn
that we used to sing in the country
meeting house when I was a boy, and I
remember how the old folks' voioes
trembled with emotion while they sang
It. I have forgotten all but two lines, but:
those lines are the peroration of my
sermon: -
'Twill save us from a thousand snares
To mind religion young.
Fallacies Concerning Prayer.
'the question which some stip think.it
worth while to ask, "Why does a loving
God, who knows our needs, require us
to petition for their supply r both
revels the fundaznental miscoxiception
and brings into contrast the fundamental
truth in regard to the whole subject. Dr.
Edward Caird has noted, as a strange
survival of the pagan mode of thought
among Christians, that some ofethem
utill_uouceive of prayer tut an attempt to
get Ged to de Malin! "WM Naha than as ;
an inspiration to get God's will done by
man. Jenne has expressly 'cautioned us
not to think that either he prays or we
pray for the purpose of informing God
about our needs or inducing him to sup-
ply them. What end, then, is served by
petitionary-- prayer for the things God
knows we need and thathe wills to
bestow? Surely no thinker 18 unaware
that verbal expression has much to do
with both. clearness of thought and the
coneentration of attention and will. It
Is reason enough for engaging in peti-
tionw prayer that the confession' in
words of our want o to God- enables and •
pledges us in a clearer eonsolousness to
work out more reverently and patiently
the divine conditions of their supply.
Thus it is that through prayer the in-
dividual will strive toward unity with
the universal will. To impute to the
leaders of religious thought to -day the
crude, primitive fancy of bending the
divine will into line with the human is
unworthy of '.any who profess to keep
abreast of the world's advancing intelli-
gence. The true function of prayer is to
lift the will of man into, line with the
Will of God. This it does by its effect in
edarifying moral insight, deepening
reverent convictions of responsibility
and dedicating self more thoroughly to
divine ends, which can be accomplished
in the world no sooner or more fully
than men devote themselves to their
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Some of the cisterns peculiar to court-
ship and marriage among the race of
dwarfs who inhabit the Andaman Island
are, according to M. de Quatrefages, who
recently published a book called "The
Pygmies," about these people, very
peouliar. ',Not the least remarkable of
them is the procedure of courtship. The
young man who has made his thole°
addressee, himself to the parents, who
never refuse, but send the girl into the
forest, where, before day, she conceals
herself. The young man must find her.
If he does not succeed he must re-
nounce all claim to her. The wedding
ceremony of these people is equally ,ouri-
ous. M. Quatrefages thus describes it:
"The two parties cliinb •two flexible
trees growing near each other, which an
old man then makes to bend toward each
other. When the • head of the 'man
touches that of the girl they are legally
married." Turning from Asia to Europe,
we find a very curious custom prevail-
ing in Roumania. .A mong the peasantry
of this country, when a girl attains a
marriageable age her trousseau, which
has in the meanwhile been carefully
woven, spun and embroidered by her ,
nother and herself, is placed in a painted
wooden box. .
When a young man thinks of asking
to be allowed to pay his attention to the
girl he is at liberty to open the box,
which is always placed in a convenient
position, and examine the trousseau. If
he is satisfied with the quantity and
quality of the dowry he makes formal
application for the girl's hand, but, if
• not, he is quite at liberty to retire.
Te Light Fires.
This inventor may not get a monu-
ment in this generation, but in years to
come the new WOMMM Win be called upon
to subscribe the money that will in,
enduring bronze commemorate the vir-
tues of the man who removed from their
husbands' lives the great bugbear,- of
making a- fire in the cold range of the
chilly and draughty grate, says the New
York Journal. The new fLre-lighting fan,
does away with the treacherous kind-
ling that gayly burns out and leaves no.
impression upon the stubborn coal.
It is a simple mechanical contrivance
this "fan," shaped as its name. It fits
close .to the stove front or the grate.
.Within its sheet -irons walls is a main
spring and, clock -wheels to work it. It is
wound up by turning a handle at the
side and set going or stopped by a lever.
When the apparatus is to be used a small
quantity of paraffin° oil is poured into
a cavity in the blow pipe, 'which is
filled with asbestos fiber. When the fiber
is thoroughly soaked a light -is applied,
and the fan set going, thus forcing from
the outlet into the grate an oxidizing
flame which quickly spreads through and
thoroughly ignites the coal with which
the grate has already been filled. The
machine' is also used for blowing up a
dead fire, the spring being wound up
and the fan set in motion -for from three
to ten minutes.
• Vanity.
There are times when provisional
vanity even keeps watoh in the place of
principle and acts as servant to consci-
ence. The complaint is kept back, the
murmur cheoked, the hardship endured,
beeause vanity will not let , us seem to
be‘ less hatdy than others. And when
• there are so many things to be struggled
against it is sonaewhat comforting to
know there is . something which
rather an imperfection than a- fault, an
imperfection which, may be left to time's
correcting. For, in all wholesome natures
this youthful vanity is little more than
part and parcel of youth Mien. It has its
Province and its sphere, and should not
be hardly dealt with nor hastily con-
demned. If capable of realizing life at
all, the time oomes when life is realized,
and self stands out in approximately true
proportion's; but in the meantime efforts
have been put forth, admirable habits
formed, character built up. And much
of the effort achieved is due to that
quality we all blush for Vanity. -Ellen
Duval.
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-While Mr. John ° Dietrich,. of Ellice,
was unloading grain at one of the store
houses at Stratford station, Monday after-
noon of last week, the horses took fright and
ran away, causing Mrs. Dietrich, who 'was
holding the reins, to fall out in front of the
wagon and at the horse's heels. The wagon
passed over her, but miraculously she
escaped further injuries than a severely
le Weed lei.
No other oil and no other
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place of Cod-liver Oil in all
conditions ofwasting. New'
remedies come, live their
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