The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-04-24

! no doubt passes by some patients who have
Teen only six months disordered. or a year.
| or hye years, and comes to the mattress of
the man who had been nearly four decade,
| helpless and TO this thirty eight years in.
valid said: "Wilt thou be made wholeF'
The question asked. not because the Surgeon
did not understand the protractedneSs the
dcsperatcneSs, of the case. but To- evoke the
mans pathetic narrative wilt thou ba
made wholeF Would you like 20 get welly'
'Dh, yes, says the man, THAT is what |
came to these mineral baths for: | have
tried everything All ths surgeons have
tailed and all the prescriptions have proved
valuuelesS, and have got wors, and worse
and l can neither move hand or
foot or head Oh. If | could only
be free from this pain of thirty-eight years.
Christ the Surgeon could not stand that
Bending over the man on the mattress, and
IN a voice tender with all sympathy. hut
strong with all omnipotenca He says. Rise r
And the invalid instantly scrambles TO his
knees, and then puts out his right foot thcn
his left foot and then stood upright as though
he had never been PROSTATE While ha
stands looking At the Doctor with "A iny 10,
much tn hold, the Doctor SAYS: shoulder
this mattress for you arr not only well
enough To- walk. bus well enough To- work
and start Dut from TN asc miurral baths. Take
upthy bci and walk" On what n surgeon
for chronic cases then. anl for chronic case,
now,
This is not applicable :, much to those who
are only little hurt vt sin aud only tor a
snort time, but 70 thps" prbstraiai vt sin
twelve years eighteen wears. thirty-'iyht
years. Here Is aSursoon able To give i'm.
mortal health "Dh. you >1y. II am 80
completely ovprthrpwn and trampled down
~ sin that ! cannot rise Arc you fiatter
down than this patient at the mineral baths
No. Then rise. III the nlm' ~ Jesus of
Na.Wa I'll.
right hand ~ help, | Ibid thee rise No va.Ns
of acute sin, but OF chronic sin-tho,, who
have not prayed for thirty-oiyht years. thls,
who have not been II church for thirty eight
years those who have been gamblers. or
libertines, or thieves, or outlaws or bias.
phemcrs or iuhdnls. or nthaist. or all These
together. for thirty-cisht years 4 Christ
for eHigencio' \ Christ for daai lift \
Surgeon who never loses u cass'
In speaking Of Christ ~ n surgeon I must
consider Him as an oculist. or aye doctor aui
an aurist urelr Doctor Was there over suri
another oculist, That He was particularly
sorry for the blind folks, | takatrpm the TACT
that the most Of His works was with TIN dl,-
eaSci optic nerves. have not time T. count
up the number OF blind people mentioned
who got His cure. Two blind men in one
house, also one who was born blind: So that
IL was not removaiof a visual obstruction
but the creation Of the cornea ani cliary
muscle and crystalline lens ani retnn
and optic nerve. anI taIr gland. also tha
blind man of Be,hsaiip cured hv the saliva
which the Surgeon took from tho tip of His
own tongu" anl put upon tn" cv'lidS alSl
two blind men who Sat by the way-idp. In
our civilized ianll, we have bliniuns, enough
TIA" ratio lcarfully increasing, according to
the statement of Boston AMI New York ant
Philadelphia p"uliSts. b''ausn Of thcrealus
of morning aui evening newspaper, pu tn
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tha city and come in 10 business,
But IN the lauds where this Divine Surgeon
operated the eases of blindness were multi
piled beyond everything 10y the particles of
snn1 floating IN tn" air, anl th' night dews
falling On the nyelilS OF those who slppt on
the top ot their houses. and IN some of those
lands II j. estimated that twenty out OF u
hundred people are totally blind. Amid all
that crowd OF vlSOnlas, people, what work
for an orulst! Aud | do not believe that
more than one out Of a hundred of that Sur
geOnS curoS were reported. He went up AMI
down among those people who were feeling
slowly their way bY stair. or l"l by the hand
ot man or rope of dog, aud intro iurlng them
To the faces of their own household to the
sunrise and the sunset, AMI the evening star.
Hr just ran Hi, hand over IN" expres,lonleS,
face, and the Shutt'rs of both windows were
swung open, aud the restored went home,
crying: II sea | see Thank God. | SEQ"
That is the oculi>t W. all mead. Till lie
touches our eyes we ara blind. Ven, we wer.
born blind By nature wn see thiny, wrong
il we SEQ them AZ all our best eternal inter.
e>ts are put before rs, and we cannot sea
thnm. The gloriss of "A loving aud pardnning
Christ are projected and We do not behold
them. Or we have A defective sight which
makes the things OF thi, world larger than
the things of the future, time bigger than
eternity. Or we ar, color blind ani cannot
Sae the iifrerenc, between the blackras, uf
dar knnS, forever an IA, rOssats morning of
an everlasting day But Christ the SURGEON
comes in, and though we shrink back. afraid
to hav. Him touch Us. vet He nut,
His finger, on the closed ey,lid, ~ the ,lul
and midnight become, mil-noon: aul We
something ot the jog oi the young
,Man of tho Bible, who, though h, had meyer
before been able 70 see his hlnl betor" his
ih'e. now, by tha touch ot Christ, mai two
headlights Nndlet under his hroV, criei put
~ Language that contouni"t tht Je'rng
rrnwd who were derillng the Christ that
hal effected ths cure, aud wanted t. max"
Hlm out "A bal man: Wv neither Hn h"a sinner
or no, know not: one thing | know, that
whereas was blind, now | see.
But this Surgeon was Just aS won ierful aN
an aurlst. Very few people nave two good
ears. Nm" out ot ten people are particular
To- get on this or tina. side of You when thny
1t ~ walk or ride with you, bccausH they
nave one disabled ear. Many have both ears
damaged, and what with TN" constant rack
ct of our great cities, and the catarrhal
troubles that sweep through the land, it /,
that there are any good ear, at
all. Most wonderful instrument is the hu