DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Gospel of Health.
“Til! & dari strike through his liver.” I'rov,
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SoroMon’s anatomical and physiolog-
ical discoveries were 20 very great that
he 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 circu-
ation of the blood, which Harvey dis-
sovered sixteen hundred and nineteen
rears after Christ, for when Solomon in
Ecclesmstes, describing the human
body, speaks of the pitcher at the foun-
tain, he evidently means the three can-
als leading from the heart that receive
he blood like pitchers, When he speaks
clesiastes of the silver cord of life,
we evidently means the spinal marrow,
1bout which in. our day doctors Mayo
ud Carpenter and Dalton and Ilint
ind Brown-Sequard have experimented,
\ind Soloman recorded in the Bible
ousands of years before scientists dis-
vered it, that in his time the spinal
! relaxed old age, producing the
remors of hand and head: “Or the
silver cord be loosed.”
In the text he reveals the fact that
nad studied that largest gland of the
man system, the liver, not by the
Jecirie light of the modern dissecting
room, but by the dim light of a com-
paratively dark age, and yet had seen
ts important function in
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THE GOD-BUILT CAS
pf the human body, its
secreting power, its curious cells,
elongated branching tubes, a
workmanship in central and
aft lobe, and the hepatic artery th
which God conducts ti
Ob, this vital organ i
tod In that it never
knew of it, and had noticed
vivisection or postmortem wh
attacks: i dissipation 1
fiat of Almighty God
St parate, and
0 crimson Li
3 like the eye
sleeps. Solomon
ithot
iLAIUE
at
i BETAve, ali
gment, A
not glancing
but j
sands to Jud
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With
wound
to sid«
waking a slight
from sido
throngh the liver.’
pocrates ascribe to
world's moral d
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t he ep
nmean
YOu
word melat
| preach to
rospel of Liealth,
f the diseases of the
As if to recognize
ie bowek of New
written by a physician,
tor, and he discourses much of th
ical effects, and he tells of the good
Samaritan’s medication of the wound
by pouring in oil and wine, and recog-
as a hindrance to hearing
the five tho
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r 1
3
060 Barse dist
a pal {
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nizes hunge:
the Gospel, sot
vere fed; and records t
he prodigal away from hole, ar
izuished eyesight of the bege
¢ wayside, and lets us know of
rrhage of the wounds of the dying
rist and the muraculous postmo
iscitation. And any estimate o
n that d t
col
Liat
pvt
FHS
spiritual condit 8 No
tha ahve it
31
tha doar-keenor
~ : i Pei
lead froin excessive
irgoyne had surrendered at 8
ifth of Spa n
! at the neva of his country’s defy
attle, and Cardinal Wolsey expired
is a result of Henry the Eighth's an-
ithema, it was demonstrated
hody and soul are Siamese twins,
when vou thrill the one with joy or
w you thrill the other. We ight
a well recognize the tremendous fact
that there are two mighty fortresses in
the human body, the heart and the
ver; the heart ti
graces, the liver
THE FORTRESS OF 1
Y cu may have the head
niellectualities, and the all
musical appreciation, and mouth
with all eloquence, and the hand with
industries, and the heart with
.generosities, and yet *‘a dart strike
through the liver."
First, ist Christian people avoi
uistake that they are all wrong
because they suffer from
of spirits, Many a consecrated
man has found his spiritual sky befog-
reed and his hope of lieaven blotted out
iimself plunged chin deep in the
dough of despond, and has said: “My
heart is not right with God, and 1 think
I must have
ead of being a child of light I am a
id of darkness, No one can feel as
gioomy as I feel and be a Christian.”
And he has gone to his minister for
onsolation, and he has collected Flav-
el's books and Cecil's books and Bax-
ter's books, and read and read and
read, and praved and prayed and pray-
ed, and wept and wept and wept, and
My
the
Philip the ¥
and
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16 fortre w i
HE Fi
RIES,
filled with all
with
tha
ear
ali
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with
{yori
sion
ah
groaned and groaned and groaned,
brother, your trouble is not with
heart, it is a gastric disorder or
A REBELLION OF THE LIVER,
You need a physician more than you
do a clergyman, It is not sin that
blots out your hope of heaven, but bile.
It not only yellows your eéye-ball, and
furs your tongue, and makes your head
ache, but awoops upon your soul in de.
jections and forebodings, The devil is
after you, He has failed to despoil your
character, and he does the next best
thing for him-—he ruffles your peace of
mind, When he says that you are not
a forgiven soul, when he says you are
not right with God, when he says that
vou will never get to heaven, he lies,
You are just as sure of heaven as
though you were there already, But
Satan finding that he cannot keep you
out of the promised land of Canaan,
has determined that the spies shall not
bring you any of the Eschol grapes be-
forehand, and that you shall have noth-
ing but prickly pear and crab-apple.
You are fust as good now under the
cloud as you were when you were ac-
customed to rise in the morning at five
o'clock to pray and ting **Hallelujab,
‘tis done!"’
My friend, Rev, Dr. Joseph 11, Jones,
of Philadelphia, a translated spirit now
wrote & book entitled: ‘Man, Moral
and Physical,” in which he shows how
different the same things may appear
to different people, He says: “After
the great battle on the Mincio in 1830,
between the French and Sardinians 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 successful host, the
other with the defeated. The differ-
ence in views and statements of the
same place, scenes and events is remark-
able,
ing through a beautiful and luxuriant
country during the day, and at night
encamping where they are supplied
with an abundance of the best provi-
sions, and all sorts of rural dainties,
There is nothing of war about the pro-
ceeding except its stimulous and excite-
ment, On the side of the poor Austrians
it is just the reverse, In his letter 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 dis-
gust existing around him, W
pleasant to the former was intolerable
to the latter.
terence? asks the author, ‘One condi
tion only: The French are victorious,
the Austrians have been defeated,”
hat
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travelling is the same you have been
travelling a long while, but the
DIFFERENCE IN YOUR PHYSICA
DITIONS
+ Yond
makes it look different, and therefore
the two reports you have
different
ports in th HOundon
as the re-
Timee, from
Edward Payson
on the Mount
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petal
the
force
hymn begim
come of melan
that it was only
driver who t
tend oO
ism, and f{
latsyrintl
ge or mane,
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miles
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face
said
chil-
- BS
saw him ent he house, |
pronounce «d a beatitude before
a word, He welcomed all of
dren into life, and
ol»
iis
he
us
h he closed the old
red the last
what Christ
they ents
alse 5 kre
slumber, nk I kuow
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I thi
said to h tl
W hen Laie old
work. I )
withh the w rds; in,
I was sick and he visited me!”
number of Chris.
multiplying, and
f the medical col-
bail you,
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doctor K
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greeted
doctor,
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al nder,
leges, are here to-day, a
n
to the ¢
BEAUTIFUL, HEAVEN-DESCENDED
WORK
of a Christian physician, and when vou
take your diplowa from the Long Island
able body, be sure also to get a diploma
able soul, Let all Christian physicians
that it
sometimes feel depressed, 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 inanimate,
and from snow flake to hurricane, to
praise God, than when he said: **Out
of the depths of hell have 1 cried unto
HEE
Alexander Cruden, and like ten thou. |
sand 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 toshow
Christian people who are atrabilous
what is the matter with them. Do not
charge against the heart the crimes of
another portion of your organism. Do
not conclude that because the path to
heaven is not absorbed with as fine a
foliage, or the banks beautifully snowed
under with exquisite 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 mor-
bid about the present, and morbid about
the future, need the sermon 1 am now
preaching,
WILD
tical use of this subject
ing, The theory is abroad
must first sow their wild oats,
Michigan wheat, let
OATS GROW,
Another prac
is for the vou
that they
afterwards
| me break the delusion.
| generally sown in the liver, and they can
never be pulled up. They so preocccupy
You
y erect,
{ow
mplantation of a righteous crop.
ged men about us at eighty
old men, I
Douglas gave the
vereignty’’ to th
est and took posse
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Maps {1
irrection body
go limping thro
ef the liver thoro
stav 1
glay «da
A DIS
SIPATED EARLY
pecking
clawing away at the liver
year out, and Death
cules who can break the powes
or unclench its claw
Homer wrote
ferocity
S80.
fables
the whon
de, but a terrific reality.
That young man smoking
and smoking cigars has no idea
is getting for himself smoked
That voung man has no idea that he
by early dissipation so depleted his ener
re are those here with
¢ batth only
half armed. Napoleon lost Waterloo
days before it was fought, Had he at-
tacked the English army before it was
reinforced, and taken it division by divi
sion, he might have won the dav, but he
waited until he had only one hundred
thousand men against two hundred
thousand. And here i8 a young man
who, if he put all his forces against the
his Lamenta-
Job was any better
he wrote
that
than when
tions,”’ or
when he said:
deemer liveth,” covered
than when
when all these
massed
tions, and
forces are
combined
scabs off with a broken piece of pottery;
or that Alexander Cruden, the con-
cordist, was any better man when he
compiled the book that has helped ten
thousand students of the Bible, than
when under the power of physical dis-
order he was handcuffed and strait.
walstcoated in Bethnal Green Insane
Asylum,
“Oh,” says some Christian man, “no
one ought to allow physical disorder to
depress his soul. He ought to live so
near to God as to be always in the sun-
shine,” Yes, that is good advice; but
I warrant that you, the man who gives
the advice, has a sound liver, Thank
God for
HEALTHFUL HEPATIC CONDITION.
for, just as certainly as you losa it, you
will sometimes, like David snd lke
Jeremiah, and like Cowper, and lke
.
mortal defeat can await him?
Oh, my young brother, do not make
in opening
THE BATTLE AGAINST SIN
the world to come, too late, What
brings that express train from St. Louis
into Jersey City three hours late? They
lost fifteen minutes early on the route
and that offected them all the way ; and
they had to be switched off here and
switched of 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 twenty
years of life damaging the following
fifty years,
Some years ago a scientific lecturer
went through the country exhibiting on
great canvas different parts of the
human body when healthy and the same
parts when diseased, And what the
world wants now is some eloquent scien.
tist 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 comes to the catas-
trophe, and the dart strike through his
liver,
My hearer, this is the first sermon you
have heard on the Gospel of Health, and
it may be the last vou will ever hear on
that subject, and I charge you, in the
name of God, 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 chicken salad at midnight will do
for a man ;’’ or it will be: “Ten cigars
a day closed my earthly existence ;”’ or
it will be: “Thought I eould do at
seventy what I did at twenty, and I am
here ;’? or it will be: “Here is the con-
sequence of sitting a hall day with wet
feet 1” or it will be; **This is where I
have stacked my harvest of wild oats ;"’
or, instead of words, the stone-cutler
will chisel for an epitaph on the tomb
a dart and
namely, a
liver.
There is;
irom on
for rod, or one's
I have
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wot
After the ba
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L on hi
train to go
i lic service
he died
11 hacked up
we, they list for
h-mett valry
1 spurred into many a cay
mmping bit and flami
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ith « I
Kk clothed with thunder, is worn
1 spavined and ring-boned and
walt, he rides up to the great Cag
our Salvation on the white horse
f | When such
Ty nan
Oilers his Services
might
tir
A life
th ough
they are spend’
i
axe tl
in dsc ussing breaking
up their indigestion, and quieting their
jangling nerves, rousing their lag-
gard appetite, and trying to extract the
dart from their outraged liver,
converted late than never! Oh, ves;
for they will get to heaven. ut 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 meet.
ing-house when I wasa boy, and 1 re.
and
bled with emotion while they sang it.
those lines are the peroration of my
sermon
“Twill save us from a thousand snares
To mind religion young.”
IY AI
AA
An Irish gentleman Invited an Eng-
lish nobleman to shoot on his place on
The Eng-
lishman was placed in charge of the
| gamekeeper, an old servant, who saw
to it that the Saxon should be favorably
| impressed with the game on the estate,
so far 08 words could impress him,
There was nothing that ever ran or
| flew that the nobleman inquired about
but the gamekeeper asserted conld be
found on the place by hundreds and
thousands,
The nobleman was amused, and asked
scores of questions about beasts and
birds, whose homes were in Asia and
Africa, But of everyone the game-
| keeper asserted that it could be found
in abundance somewhere on the place,
At last the nobleman asked, ‘‘Are
there any paradoxes here?’
The keeper scratched his head at this
poser, and after a moment's hesitation,
answered, *Bedad, then, your lordship
may find two or three of them some-
times on the sand when the tide's out. *’
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
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The Parable of the Tares.
LESSON TEXT.
(Mutt, 13: 24-30. Memory vorses, 27390)
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LESSON PLAN,
Toric or THE QUARTER: Jesus the
King tn Zion.
GOLDEN TEXT YOR THE QUARTER:
Thine, O Lord, ia the greatness, and the
power, ond the glory, and the victory,
13
oh
earth (s thine; thine is
the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted
as head above all.—1 Chron, 20 : 11,
Lesson Toric: The King's Decla-
rations Concerning His Enemy,
(1. The Enemy’s Autagonism, ve, 24, 25.
<1. The Enemy's Detection va. 26 2s, Le
(4. The Bunemy's Defeat, va. 28, i, c.-%0
Lesson
Outitne :
(*OLDEN 1EX1 The harvest 1s the
end of the world; and the reapers are the |
angels. — Matt, 13 : 39
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Home READINGS:
Matt. 13: 24-30.
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Malignant
11. THE }
IL. The Manifestation
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NEMY'S DETES
of Evil
© Lares a
Jas, 3: 15.
Il. The Mystery of Evil:
W hence
old thee that
3
i 4 yr
then bath it tares? (2
4
{
thou wast naked?
The Source of
An enemy hath dor
Ie Wolnan ix
{1 Tim, 3:
I.ust,
sin (Jas, 1:
1. “Then appeared the tares
1) Temporary concealment :
Final manifestation.
9 “Wnpen then hath it tares?”
The evident existence of il:
The perplexing origin of e
The ultimated fate of evil,
3. “An enemy hath done this, ”’
Lord's enemy :
2) His perversity : (3) His powers ;
4) His limitations ; (5) His doom.
THE ENEMY'S DEFEAT,
I. Evil Tolerated :
Wilt thon then that we gather
them up? But he saith, Nay (28, 29).
If 1 find in Sodom fifty righteous,
I will spare (Gen. 18: 26),
Lord, let it alone this year
13: 8).
The Lord... .is longsuffering, . not
wishing that any should prrish (2 Pet.
3:9.
How long, O Master, dost thou not
avenge our blood (Rev, 6: 10),
11. Evil Restricted :
1.4t both grow together until the har
vest (30),
The day of their calamity is at hand
{ Deut. 32 : 35).
He seeth that his day is coming (Psa.
37: 13). i
He... .shall suddenly be broken, and
that without resnedy (Prov, 29: 1),
He hath appointed a day, in which he
will judge the world (Acts 17: 81),
11 Evil Doomed :
Bind them in bundles to burn them
(30).
As for transgressors, they shall be de.
stroved (Psa, 37 : 38),
The chaff he will burn up with un
auenchable fire (Matt, 3: 12), }
14
14).
it hath co
15).
when
also {Luke
They. ...cast them into the
they are burned (John 15: 6).
And the devil, . . . was cast into the lake
of fire (Rev. 20 : 10).
1. “Wilt thou then that we go and
gather them up?” (1) A seeming
good ; (2) Aprofiered service ; (5)
A premature zeal,
“let both grow together until the
harvest.” (1) A permission ; (2) A
limitation ; (3) An application.—(1)
The growing-time ; (2) The harvest.
time. {1} Permitied now ; (2) Pro-
hibited then,
8, “Bum them ; but gather the wheat
into my barn,” (1) The tares and
their burning ; (2) The wheat and
ILS garnering,
fire, and
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LESSON BIBLE READING
BEATAR ARND HIS WORKS,
. Titles of Satan :
ga. 27:1: Matt. 4:3
11 : 15: John 8
4: Eph, 2:9: 1
2:9 10,
Works of Satan :
Matt. 13 : 38, 89).
{John
; 13: 38, 80; Luke
44:14: 30,2 Cor. 4 :
Pet. 5: 8; Rev. 9 : 11;
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Liat
out to retire,
ir had
servant disappeared, only to re-
turn with the message froma the Com-
th
the business was of the
ance,
ulmost import.
The Bostonian followed the ser-
ani A 1d room,
where stood the Commodore wrapped
in a fannel garment of the night, He
got out of bed to receive
up ie dressing
** ‘Well, young man, what do you
was the Commodore's impatient
question,
“Commodore Vanderbilt, I have
recently come into possession of $20,000,
and have come on 10 New York to ask
you for information about the slock
markets,’
* ‘What the blank-blank do you come
me about the stock market for?
Why don’t you go to some stock bro-
ker?’
** ¢ Because you are the stock market
yourself, Commodore,’
“Look bere, Mr, Smith,’ said the
mollified Commodore, I sdmire your
cheek, I think it deserves encourage-
ment, Go down to Wall street to-mor-
row morning early. Put your $20,000
and as much more as you can raise into
the New York Central. Don’t ask me
why, but go and do it. Its a sickly
thing now, but it ain't going to ba long.
Lock up your stock and jet it alone;
never mind what anybody tells you,
Now get out.’
“That young man came back to Dos.
ton and narrated his experience,
“Did be follow the Commodore's ad-
vice? Neo. He said he wasn't going
to let Vanderbilt gobble up his $30,000,
He put it into mining stocks and Jost
every cent of it.”
Feem a mining report of the colony
of Victoria it appsars that the quan
of gold ralsed last was
ounces as agains 380
in the year nexs heecading, ®
dala shalt is deepest in the
1t i# sunk 2,400 feet, and 1 is
near Siawell,