The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-04-26
DIVINE HEALING.
Dr.. Talmage's Familiar Talk
About Christ as Q
Surgeon.
How He Made the Blind See,
the Lame Walk, and
the Dead Arise.

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the Dead Arise.
BROOKLYN SPEcIAL.-Dr. Talmage discourse
ed on the professional healing. His text was
Matthew 11:5. 1.-The blind receive their sight,
md the lame walk, thelepers are leansed, and
the deaf hear" lie said:
Doctor ! said to n distinguished SUR
geon, do You not get worn out with con.
stantly seeing SO many wounds and broken
bones and distortions Of the human body?"
"Oh, no." he answered, 'all and is overcome
by my joy in curing them A sublimer or
more beautiful art never came down from
heaven h tho art Of surgery. Catastrophe
and disease entered the earth SO early that
one of the first wants of the world was q doc
tor. Our crippled and agonized human race
called for surgeon and family physician or
many years before they came. The first sur
geons who anwered this call were ministers |
or religion, namely, the Egyptian priests.
And what q grand thing If all
ciergymen were also doctors, all D. DIS
were NJ. DIS, for there are SO many cases
where body and soul need treatment at
the same time, consolation and medicine.
theology and therapeutics. As the first sur.
geons of the world we're also ministers of re-
ligion, may these two professionals always
be in full sympathy But under what disad.
vantages the early surgeons worked, from
the fact that the dissection of the human
body was forbidden. first by the pagansa and
then by the early Christiansl Apes, being
the brutes most like the human race, were
dissected, but no human body might be un-
folded for physiological and anatomical ex-
plorations, and the surgeons had to guess
what was inside the temple by looking at the
outside OF it. II they failed in any surgical
operation they were prosecuted and driven
out of the city, as was Archagathus because
Of his bold but unsuccessful attempt to save
a patient.
But the world from the very beginning
kept calling for surgeons, and their first
skill is spoken OF i'll Genesis, where they en-
ployed their art for the missions of q sacred
baptism; and we see it again in ii. Kings,
where Ahaziah, the monarch, stepped OF
some cracked lattice-work in the palace, and
it broke, and he fell from the upper to the
lower floor, and he was 80 hurt that he sent
to the village of Enron for aid; and Esculu-
Plus, who wrought such wonders OF surgery
that he was deified, and temples were built
for his worship ut Pergamos; and Epidaurus
and Podelirius introduced for the relief oil
the world phlebotomy; and Damocedes cured
the dislocated ankle of King Darius, and the
cancer of his queen; and Hippocrates put
successful hand on fractures, and introduced
amputation; and Praxagoras removed OBJ
and Etasistratus removed tumors; and Ces-
lus, the Roman, surgeon, removed cataract
from the eye. and used the Spanish fly; and
| Heliodorus-arrested disease of the throat;
and Alexander. of Tralles, treated the eye;
and Rhazas cauterizcd for the prevention of
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combat disease OF the spine; and in our
" century we ave had q Roux and o Lar
ray in France, an Ashley Cooper and IN
Abernethy in great Britain, and Valentine
Mott and Willard Parker and Samuel D..
Gross in America, and O galaxy of living
surgeons hs brilliant az their predecessors.
What mighty progress in the battling o; dis
ease since the crippled and sick of ancient
cities were laid along the streets, that peo-
pie who had never been hurt or disorded in
the anne way might suggest what had
better be done for the patients: and the
priests OF olden time, who were constantly
suffering from colds received in walking bare
foot over he temple pavements, had to pre-
scribe for themselves, and fractures were COM
sidered SO far beyond all human cure that
instead Of calling in the surgeons the people
only invoked the godsl
But nat withdrawing aN the surgical and
medical skill of the world, with what tenac.
Ivy luS OlA uIStuSCS HuliS VI " NHc uutAuH
race, and most of them are thousands Of
years old, and in our Bibles We read of them;
the cnrbuncles of lob and Hezekiah; the pal
~pitation of the heart spoken of in Deuteron-
pmy; the sun-stroke of p child carried from
the'felds OF Shunenem, crying, my head! my
was nothing but govt; detection of teeth,
that called for dental surgery, the skill of
which, quite equal to anything modern, ia
still seen in the file 4 molars OF the unrolled
Egyptian mummies; the ophthalmia caused
BY the Juice Of the newly ripe fig, leaving the
people blind at the roadside; epilepsy, us in
the case Of the young man often falling into
the fire, and OF into tho water; hypochon-
dria, as OF Nebuchad nezzar, who imagined
himself an OK, and going out to the fields to
puisture; the withered hand, which in Bible
times, as now, came from the destruction Of
THE main artery. pr from paralysis Of the
thieves left for dead on the road to Jericho,
and whom the good Samaritan nursed, pour
Ing in oil and wine-Wine to cleanse the
would, and oil t. soothe it. Thank God for
what surgery has done for the alleviation
and cure Of human suffering. But the
tors Pare and Hickman and Simpson
and Warner and Jackson, with their amaz-
ing genius, came on, and with their nnms.
thetic benumbed the patient with NARCOTICS
and others as the a~ncients did with has
heesh and mandrake, and qpieted him for q
while, but at the return Of consciousness dis
but one surgeon WHO could straighten the
crooked limb, cure the blind eye, or recon-
stFuct the drum of q sopndless ear, or reduce
drppsy, without any pain ut the time, or
pain after, and that surgeon was Jesus
Christ, the mightiest, grnndest, geptlest.
and most sympathetic, surgeon the
world ever saw, OF, ever will seei Ha
deserves the confidence and love and
worship and hosannas OF. all the
earth. and hnllelujahs OF all heaven. "The
blind receive their sight, and the lang walk;
the lepers are eleansed. and the deaf hear"
notice this Surgeon had q .Ondness for
chronic cnses. Many q surgeon, when he
has had q patient brought to him has enid:
why was not this attended to ave years
ago? You bring him to me after all power
of recuperation is gone You have waited
muscles, and false ligatArcs ara formed, and
assiication has taken place. 1T ought to
have been attended to long ago But
Christ the Surgeon seemed to prefer i~nyeter-
nto cases. One was q ~hemorrhagf of IL
years, and He stopped IL. another was g.
Another was q cripple Of 8S years, and he
walked out well. The 16.year patient war q
woman bent almost double. IT you could
call d convention or all the surgeons OF all
the centuries, their combined skill could not
cure thai body 80 drawn out Of shape.
IN speaking OF CHRIST as a surgeon. I must
consider Him an an Oculiat, Or eye doctor,
eyer such another ocnlist? Tint He Eas par
ticularly sorryfofths blind folks, Itakefrom
the fact tint the most Of His works WINS with
the dieeased optic nerves. have not time to
count MP the nnmbersOfsb blind p~ecpleHn,pla-sl
tipned who got His cure. Two blind men IN