THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH
The Gospel Of Health
T. DeWitt Talmage
There is a fashion in sermonics. A comparatively Small part of the Bible is called on for texts. Most of The passages of Scripture, when announced at the Opening of sermons, immediately divide themselves Into old discussions that we have heard from boyhood, And the effect on us is soporific. The auditor guesses At the start just what the preacher will say. There are Very important chapters and verses that have never Been preached from. Much of my lifetime I am devoting To unlocking these gold chests and blasting Open these quarries. We talk about the heart and Sing about the heart, but if you refer to the physical Organ that we call the heart, it has not half so much To do with spiritual health or disease, moral exaltation Or spiritual depression, as the organ to the consideration Of which Solomon calls us in the text when He describes sin progressing "till a dart strike through His liver." The Gospel of Health is a theme we all Need more to study and practise.
Solomon's anatomical and physiological discoveries were so 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 circulation of the blood, which Harvey discovered sixteen hundred and nineteen years after Christ, for when Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, describing the human body, speaks of the pitcher at the fountain, he evidently means the three canals leading 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 Doctors Mayo and Carpenter and Dalton and Flint and Brown-Sequard have experi- nmenited. And Solomon recorded in the Bible thou- sands of years before scientists discovered 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."
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T. DeWitt Talmage
There is a fashion in sermonics. A comparatively Small part of the Bible is called on for texts. Most of The passages of Scripture, when announced at the Opening of sermons, immediately divide themselves Into old discussions that we have heard from boyhood, And the effect on us is soporific. The auditor guesses At the start just what the preacher will say. There are Very important chapters and verses that have never Been preached from. Much of my lifetime I am devoting To unlocking these gold chests and blasting Open these quarries. We talk about the heart and Sing about the heart, but if you refer to the physical Organ that we call the heart, it has not half so much To do with spiritual health or disease, moral exaltation Or spiritual depression, as the organ to the consideration Of which Solomon calls us in the text when He describes sin progressing "till a dart strike through His liver." The Gospel of Health is a theme we all Need more to study and practise.
Solomon's anatomical and physiological discoveries were so 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 circulation of the blood, which Harvey discovered sixteen hundred and nineteen years after Christ, for when Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, describing the human body, speaks of the pitcher at the fountain, he evidently means the three canals leading 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 Doctors Mayo and Carpenter and Dalton and Flint and Brown-Sequard have experi- nmenited. And Solomon recorded in the Bible thou- sands of years before scientists discovered 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."
In the text he reveals ...
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