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Steamer Har binger, will .leave Eizabeth City for Hertford W'edneSiUys and Saturdava at 9. SO a: m.: Elizabeth City for Nor to'.k Thursdays and Mondays P- Why will you buy bitter nauseating tonics when Grove's TnwfeleNS Ctiill Tonic is as pleasant-as Ieinon tyruiv Your dragist Is authorized to refund th money in every case where it fails to cure. Price 50 cents. i its OUIt ABUSED LIVERS. REV. DR. TALMAGE CF THE ON THE HEALTH BODY. Sernoa Th&i Mostly Concern Thli Life, Yet Spiritual vml rhyicl Condi tions Axe Largely Dependent Upon Each Other. . Washisotox, May 16. Dr. Tal mage's sermon cf today has more to do with this life than the life tp come and will te a warning against all forms of dissipation. Teit, Proverbs Yii, 23, "Till a dart strike through his liver." Solomon's anatomical and physiolog ical discoverie were so very great that he was nearly 3,000 years ahead of the scientists of bis day. He, moro than 1.000 years before Christ, seemed to know about the circulation of the blood, which Harvey discovered 1,619 years after Christ, for ihen- Solomon in Ec- clcsiastes, describing the human body, speaks of the pitcher at theiountain he evidently means the three canals lead ing from the heart that receive the blood like pitchers. When he speaks in Ecclcsiastes 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 Solomon recorded in 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 tho sil ver cord be loosed." In the text ho reveals thofact that he had studied that largest- gland of the human system, the liver, not by tho electric light of tho modern dissecting room, but by tho dim light of a com parativcly dark age, and yet had seen its important functions 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 tho hepatic artery through which flow tho crimson tides. Oh, this vital orcan is like tho eve of God in that it never sleeps 1 Solomon knew of it and had noticed either in vivisection or post mortem what awful attacks sin and dissipation muko upon it, until tho fiat of Almighty God bids tho body and soul separate, and tho ono it commends to the grave and the other it Fends to judgment. A javelin of retribution, not glancing off or making a slight wound, but piercing it from side to side "till a dart strike through his liver. "I Galen and Hippocrates ascribe to the liver tho most of tho world's moral de rression. and tho word melancholy means black bile. I preach to you the gospel of health In taking a diagnosis of diseases of the soul you must also tako a diagnosis of diseases of the body. As if to recognize this, one whole book of the 1m ew Testa ment was written by a physician. Luke was a medical doctor, and he discourses much of the physical conditions, and ho tells of the good Samaritan's med ication of tho wounds by pouring in oil and wine, and ; recognizes hunger as a hindranco to hearing tho gospel, so that the 5.000 wero fed. He also records the 3parso diet of the prodigal away from homo and the extinguished eyesight of tha beggar by the wayside, and lets us know of the hemorrhage of the wounds of tho dying Christ and tho miraculous post mortem resuscitation. Any esti mate of the spiritual condition that does net include also the physical condition is incomplete. " lleart and Liver. When tho door keeper of congress fell dead frcm excessive joy because Bur- goyno had surrendered at Saratoga, and Philin V of Spain 'dropped dead at the news of his country's defeat in battle, and Cardinal Wolsey 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. Wo 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 for tress of tho graces, the liver the fortress of tho furies. -You may have the head filled with all intellectualities, and the ear with all musical appreciation, and the ear with all musical appreciation, and the mouth with all eloquence, and tho hand with all industries, and the heart with all generosities, and yet "a dart strike through the liver." 1 First, let Christian people avoid the mistake that they are all wrong with God because they suffer from depres sion of spirits. Many a consecrated man has found Jais spiritual sky 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 be ing a child cf light I am a child of darkness. No one can, feel as gloomy as I feel and be a Christian." And he has gone to his minister for consolation, and ho has collected Flavel's books and Ce cil's books and Baxter's books and read and read and read and prayed and pray ed and prayed aud wept and wept and wept and groaned and groaned and groaned. My brother, your trouble is net with the heart; ,it is a gastric disor der or a rebel lien of the liver. I 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 eyeballs, and) furs your tongue, and makes your headache, but swoops upon your 60ul in dejections and forebodings. The devil is after you. He has failed to despoil your character, and be does the next best thing for him be 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 you will never get to heaven, he lies. If you are in Christ you are just as sure of heaven as though you were there already. But sa tan, finding that he cannot keep you cut of the promised land of Canaan, has determined that' the spies shall not bring yon any of the Eschol grapes be- i luicuoiju, uu iu juu bumii unto uuui r i - j a u n i ii- I ing but prickly pear and crabappla. Yen are jutt as xnnch a Christian now nnder the clond as yon were when you were accustomed to rise in the morning at 5 o'clock to pray and sing ' 'Hallelu iab. 'tis done!" My friend, Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Jones of Philadelphia, a translated spirit now, wrote a book entitled, "Man, Moral and Physical," in which he shows how dif ferent the same things may appear, to different people. He says: 'After the j great battle on the Mincio in 1859, be tween the French and the Sardinians on the one side and the, Austrians 'on the ' ether, so disastrous to the latter, the 'defeated army retreated, followed by tho victors. A description of the march of each- army is given by two correspondents of the London Times, one of whom traveled with the success ful host, the other with the defeated. The difference in views and statements of the same place, scenes and events is remarkable. The former are said to be marching through a beautiful and lux uriant country during the day and at night encamping where they are sup plied with an' abundance of the best provisions and all sorts of rural dain ties. There is nothing of war about the proceeding except its stimulus and ex citement. On the side of the poor Aus-' trians it is just the reverse. In his let ter : 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 disgust existing around him. What was pleasant to the former was intoler able to the latter. What, made all this difference? asks the author. 'One condi tion only. The French are victorious, the Austrians have been defeated.' " Result of Black Bile. So, my dear brother, the road you are traveling is the same you have been traveling a long while, but the differ ence in your physical conditions makes it look different, and therefore tho two reports you have given of yourself are as widely different as the reports in the London Times from the two cor- , respondents. . Edward Payson, some times so far up on the mount that it seemed as if tho centripetal force of earth could no longer hold him, some times through a physical -disorder was so far down that it seemed as if the nether world would clutch him. Poor William Cowper was a most excellent Christian and will be loved m the Christian church as long as it sings his hymns beginning, "There is a fountain filled with blood," "Oh, for a closer walk with God, " "What various hin drances we meet" and "God moves in a mysterious way. " Yet was he so over come of melancholy or black bile that it was only through the mistake of he cab driver who took him to a wrong place, instead of tho river bank, that he did not commit suicide. Spiritual condition sq mightily affect ed by the physical state, what a great opportunity this gives to the Christian physician, for he can feel at the same time both the pulse of the body and tho pulse of the soul, and he can administer to both at .once, and if medicine is need ed ho can give that, and if spiritual counsel is needed he 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. Ah, that is the kind of doc tor I 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 atheistic doctors around my loved ones when the balances of life are trembling. A doctor who has cone through the medical collego and in dissecting room has traversed the wonders of the human mechanism and found no God in any of the labyrinths is a fool and cannot doc tor me or mma But, oh, the Christian doctors 1 What a comfort they have been in many of our households 1 And they ought to have a warm place in our pray ers as well as praise on our tongues. I bless God that the number of Chris tian physicians is multiplying and some of the students of the medical colleges are here, today, and I hail you and or dain you to the tender, beautiful, heav en descended work of a Christian phy sician, and when you take your diploma from the medical college to look after the perishable 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 be cause of their diseased bodiea I suppose David the psalmist was no more pious when he called on everything human and angelic, animate and inanimate, . , x even irom snownase io nurricane, w praise God than when he said, "Out of the depths of hell have I cried unto thee, O Lord," or that Jeremiah was more pious when he wrote his prophecy than when he wrote his Lamenta tions, or Job when be said, I know that my Redeemer liveth," than when covered over with the pustules of ele phantiasis as he sat in the ashes scratch ing the scabs off with a broken piece of pottery, or that Alexander Cruden, tne concord ist, was ' a better man when he compiled the book that has helpep 10,000 students of the Bible than when under the power of physical disorder he was handcuffed and strait waistcoated in Bethnal Green Insane asylum. "Oh," says some Christian man, "no one Ought to allow physical disorders to depress his souL He ought to live so near God as to be always in the sunshine, " Yes, that is good advice, but I warrant that you, tne man wno gives ine auvice, una a sound liver. Thank God for a health ful hepatic condition, for as certainly as you lose it you will' sometimes, like David, and like Jeremiah, and like Cowper.1 and like Alexander Cruden, and like 10,000 other invalids, be play ing a dead march on the same organ with which now you play a staccato. Atrabilious People". My object at this point is not only to emolliate the criticisms of thote la good health against those in poor healtla, but to show Christian people who are: atra bilious what is the matter with hcm. Do not charge against the heaijt the crimes of another portion of your organ ism. Do not conclude that because the path to heaven is not arbored with , as fine a j foliage or the banks beautifully snowed 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 ofan athlete or j come up on crutches. Thousands of Chris tians, 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., j ; j Another practical use of this subject is for the youngj Tie theory is abroad that they must first tow their wild oats and afterward! Michigan wheat f Let me break the delusion. Wild oats are I generally sown in the liver, and they j can never be pulled Up. They so preoc cupy that organ that there is no jroora for the implantation of a righteous crop. You see aged men about us at 80 erect, agile, splendid, grand old, men.' How much wild oats didj they sow between 18 years and 30? None, absolutely none. God does not very often honor with old age those who have in early life sacri ficed swine on the altar of the bodily temple. Remem ber, p young man, that, while in after life and after yeirs of dissipation you may? perhaps have? your heart changed, jreligipn does not change the liver. Trembling and staggering along these streets jtoday are men, all bent and decayed and ' prematurely old for the reasons that they are paying for Hens they put upon tjieir physical Estate before they were 30.j By early dissipa tion they put on their body a first iaort gage and a second mprtgage and a fthird mortgage to tBe devil, and these mort-. gages are now being foreclosed, 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 strpek through their liver, and it is there yet God forgives! but outraged physical law never, n.ever, never. That has a I Sinai, but ncf Cal vary. Solomon in my text knew what he was talking about, and he risjes up on his throne of worldly splendor to shriek out a. warning to all thej cen turies. ' 1 " ' -' u Stephen A. Douglas gave the name of "squatter sovereignty"; to those who went out west and took possession of lands and held them jby right of preoc cupation. Let a flock of sins settjle on your liver before yott get to 25 years of age, and they will jin all probability keen possession of It by an infernal squatter sovereignty.! "I promise to pay at the bank f 500 six , months from date," says the promissory nptej "I promise to pa'yj my lite 30 years "from date at the., bink of the grave,' says every infraction of ithe laws of ryour physical being. j ' Liver Complaints. I What? Will a man's body neverjeom pletely recover from early dissipation in this world? Never. How-about the world to come?! Perhaps God willlfix it up in the resurrection body so th'at it will not have to go limping through all eternity. But iget the liver thoroughly damaged, and it will stay damaged as long as you are here; Physicians qall it cirrhosis of the liver; or inflammation of the liver or fatty degeneration of the liver, but Solomon puts all these pangs into one.fieure and Bays, "Till a dart KtriWo thrnnerh his liver. " 1 . Hesiod seemed to jbave some hjnt& this when he represented Prometheus for his crimes fastened to a pillar and an eagle feeding dh his liver, f hich was renewed again each night", so j that the devouring, went1 on until finally Hercules slew! the ; eagle and rescued Prometheus. And a dissipated early life assures a ferocity pecking away! and clawing away at the 5liver year in; and year out, and death is the only Hercules who can break j the power of its beak or unclench its rclawi So. also, others wrote, fables about! vultures prfeying upon the Kverj but there are those here with whom it is no'jf able, but a terrific reality. That young man Smoking cigarettes and smoking cigars has no idea that he is getting for himseii smoxea iiyer. That young man has no idea that he has by nearly dissipation so depleteii his energies that he willjgo into the attle only half armed.' Heje is another young man who. if i he put all his forces against the regiment of youthful temp tations in the ! strength of God, night, drive them back, but he .is allojwing them to be re-enf orced ' by the -rhole army of midlife, temptations, and what but immortal defeat can await him? Oh, my young .brother, do not pake the mistake that thousands are making in opening the bafjthr against sih too late, for this world too late, and fdr the world to come Jtpo Jtate ! What brings that express train from St. Louis? into Jersey City three houri late? Thet lost 15 minutes early on the route, and that affected them all thetWay, and they had to be switched; off hete and switched off there and cetained;fhere ana oeiamea there, and the man vbo loses time and strenetrin the earlier part cf the jour ney of life will suffer for it air the way through,' the first 20 years of life dam aging the following 50 years. . Some years ago as scientific lecturer went through the country exhibiting on great canvas different parts or tne nu- man body when healthy and the same parts When diseased. And what the world wants now is some eloquent sci entist 'to go through the country, show ing to our young people on blazing: can vas the drunkard's liver, the idler's liv- ... . . ' a. I : 1. 1 f . er, tne iiDerune s iiver, me guuauiei o liver. Perhaps the spectacle might stop some young man bef6re he comes tp the catastrophe and the dart strikes through i i U i ms nver.. . f r Epitaphs. : ! My hearer, this ii the first sermon - . . !n. l I Ilk you have neara on we - gospej. ikm. and it may be the last you wiu3 ever hear on that suhiectl and I charge you in the name of God and Christ and ue- KEEP YOUR Surely if the word REGLJLA TOR is not on a package Nothing else is the same. been put up by any one except tD. M. ZEQLDH & GO . And it can be easily told by their Trade Mark- THE R For Sale ly Dr. W. fulness and eternal destiny take better care of your health. When some of you die, if -your friends put on your tomb- stone a truthful epitaph, it will read. "Here lies the victim of late suppers," or it will be, "Behold what ad at midnight will do for lobster sal- la man, or it will be, "Ten cigars a day closed my earthly existence" or it will be, "Thought I could do at 70 vhat I did at 20, and I am here, ' ' oij it will be, "Here, is the consequence of sitting a half I day with wet feet," or it will be, "This is where I have stacked my har vest of wild oats," or instead of words the stone cutter will chisel j for. an epi taph! on the tombstone two figures namely, a dart and a liver, j There is a kind of sickness that is beautiful' when it comes from' overwork for God, or one's country, or one's own family. I have seen wounds that were glorious. I have seen an empty sleeve thatV s 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 without injury. I have; seen " an old missionary, worn out with1 the malaria of African jungles, who looked to me more radiant than a rubicund gymnast. " I have seen a moth er, after, six weeks watching over a family of children . down with scarlet feveri with a glory around her pale and wan face that surpassed the angelic. It all depends on. how you got your sick ness 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, no I One of the most pathetic scenes that I ever witness, and I of ten see it, is that of men or women converted in the fifties or sixties or sev enties wanting to be useful, but they so served the world and satan in the ear lier part of their life that they have no physical energy left for the seryice of God. They sacrificed nerves, muscles, lungs, heart and liver' on the wrong al tar. They fought on the wrong side, and how, when their sword is all hack ed up and their ammunition all gone, they enlist for Emmanuel. When the high mettled cavalry horse, which that man spurred into many a cavalry charge'; with champing; bit and flaming eye and neck clothed with, thunder, is .worn 'out and spavined and ringboned and springs halt he rides up to the great Captain of our salvation on the white horse and offers his services. When such persons might have been, through the good hab its of a lifetime, crashing their battle ax through the helmeted iniquities; they are spending their days and nights in discussing' the , best way of curing their I indigestion, and quieting their jangling nerves, and rousing their lag gard 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 remem ber how the old folks' voices trembled with emotion while they Sang it. I bavo forgotten all but two - lines, but those lines are the peroration of my sermonr 'Twill save ua from a thousand snare To mind religion young. .' 1897 Lucky Tear. . This ought to be a lucky year, for it has so few eclipses. In fact only two of these shadowy phenomena occur during 1897, and both affect the light of the sun, but in each case the moon happens to be so far from the earth at the time she crosses the sun's face '. that the eclipse is. not tctaL 1 One of these "annular" eclipses, so called because in those places on the earth where the moon appears crossing directly over' the center of the sun .the edge of the Intctr projects from behind the moon c:? all sides, like a blazing ring or anr.ulu", occurred Monday aft ernoon, Feb. 1 But tsven if the sky had been clear at s; c time very little of the eclipse wquit.' 'Lava. been seen here, do more, in fa' -. t han the mere ; edge of the moon jut thatching the disk of the sun. One would have had to go to South Arherica or to the south Pacific ocean in order to see the sun turned in to a fiery circle. The second annular eclipse and the only other eclipse of the year occurs on the morning of July 29, when a better i opportunity will be afforded us be-j hold the black globe of the moon partly ' covering, the sun. ! On that occasion the ring Will be visible in Mexico and some of the West India islands. "Astronomers pay comparatively little attention to . annular eclipses, because they do not reveal those marvelous streams and banners of glowing gas or electrified particles surrounding the sun which become visible only. during the darkness t)f a total eclipse. ; On the other hand, superstitious peo ple, who think total eclipses are por tents of evil, ought to rejoice over a year which has only annular eclipses, displaying their golden ring in the heavens as if for a real " bridal of the earth and sky" G P. S. in New York World. . EYES OPEN! ; it is not Liver Regulator! It cannot be and never has W. GRIGG9 & HON, HAUNTED PALACES. The Spirit of Anne Iloleyst IUmmms Throogh llauipton Court. All the older of Queen Victoria. palaces are supposed to 13 poioplod by supernatural oecutmhts. Thua nt Holyrood the ghoat of tbo mur dered It izzio is supposed to prom-, enade tha gloomy old galleries after; dark, and it is notoworthy that! whenever any member of the reign ing .family is forced to spend a nigbt in the capital of Scotland a hotel !U preferred to the royal palac. Hamil ton court palace on more than ono occasion1 during the hist few years has witnessed a wholesale exodus of the, numerous servants employed about the palace, in consequence of the antics of a specter which is al leged to bo that of Queen Anne Bo leyn, who was boheadedd by her. husband. King Henry VIII. . ; It is all very well to laugh at thi but servants do not give up fat places, nor do titled ladios of .limited means relinquish so great and high! ly prized a privilege as1 freo apart ments in a royal palace, for thenako of mere fancy or imagination, Fur ther, it may bo mentioned that Umto are official records to show that the reign of King Jaraos II tho cor poration of the city of London paid for 12,000 masses to bo said for tho repose of the soul -of Queen Anne Boleyn, with the object "of "laying' .V her ghcot. Unfortunately thei-e masses do not seem to havo been efficacious,, for Queen Anne's spec ter continues to haunt tho palaco to this day. . ' The most uncanny of all tho royn palaces in this respect is, however, that-of Stockholm, which has been haunted to such an extent since tij assassination within its precincts of King Gustavus III that twice it has been entirely razed jto tho ground and reconstructed, with tho objet of dislodging the supposed ghost, All. however, has been without avail. . " ; "'. '. : The "little red man." who use to haunt the Tuileries before it was destroyed by fire at the timo of thci commune, and his twin brother! who still appears periodically as the precursor of death at the grand ducal palace of Darmstadt, are too well known to need more than passing reference here, , a nd tho same may be said of the "white lady" of the imperial palace at Vienna and of her similarly attired sister at the ohil royal palace, of Berlin. Mucb has been written about this "whitn lady" of the Hohenzollerns, con cerning the authenticity of whoso appearances the late Emperor Fred erick collected a wonderful array of records of the most convincing nai ture. She is supposed to be tho spocj ter of Countess Agnes of Orlamunde, who murdered her first husband, as well as her two children in order to be able to marry the burgrave of Nuremberg, tho ancestor of the "electors of Brandenburg and of .tho house of Hohenzollernv The triple murder is asserted to have taken place within the precincts of' this palace, which was built 45Q years ago, is lighted by 1,000 windo ws and possesses as many rooms as the number of years of its existence. London Letter in Chicago Record. ; No. HT." White Knameled Btael Bed, solid brass trlmmln. . We har them M In. wide, 4ft in. wide, 4S in. wide and 80 in. wide. All size are ft In. lonr Special Prtew (any size) VIVHflt ' " f - Everywhere local dealers are saying unkind things about us. Their cu tomersare tired of paying them double prices; our Immense (free) money aaTlog catalogue la enllgbteolng the maasea. Drop . a postal now for com plete catalogue of Furniture, Matting. Carpet, Oil Clotha. Baby Carriage, Refrigerator. 8torea, ncy LaP Bedding, Spring, etc. The catalogue coats you nothing and we pay all post age. Get double value, for your dollar by dealing with the manulao- "JULIUS HIIIES & SON, ; BALTIMORE MP. !
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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May 21, 1897, edition 1
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