Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21

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eighteen weary and exhaustive years,
straight! The poise, the gracefulness,
the beauty of healthy womanhood re-
instated.
The thirty eight years case was a
man who lay on mattress near the /
mineral baths at Jerusalem. There
were five apartments where lame peo- /
pie were brought, so that they could /
get the advantage of these mineral
baths The stone basin of the bath is
still visible, although the waters have
disappeared, probably through some
CONFUSION of nature, the bath, one
hundred and twenty feet long, forty
feet wide and eight feet deep. All. |
poor man; if you have been lame and
helpless thirty-eight years, that min
eral bath cannot restore you: Why,
thirty eight years is more than the
average of human lifel Nothing but
the grave will cure you. But Christ
the Surgeon walks along these baths,
and [ have no doubt passes by some
months disordered, or year, or live
years, and comes to the mattress of
the man who had been nearly four
decades helpless, and to this thirty
eight years invalid said: 'Wilt thou
be made whole?"
The question asked, not because the
Surgeon did not understand the pro-
tactedness, the desperateness of the
case, but to evoke the mans pathetic
narrative ''Wilt thou be made whole?"
'eWould you like to get well?" "Oh
yes" says the man, that is what l
came to these mineral baths for; have
tried everything. All the surgeons
have failed, and all the prescriptions
have proved valueless, and I have got
worse and worse, and [ can neither
move hand or foot or head Oh, if I
could only be free from this pain of
thirty-eight yearsw Christ the Sur
geon could not stand that. Bending
over the man on the mattress, and in
a voice tender with all sympathy, but
strong with all omnipotence, he says,
''Risel' And the invalid instantly
scrambles to his knees, and then puts
out his right foot, then his left foot,
and then stood upright as though he
had never been Frustrated. While he
stands looking at the doctor with a
iov too much to hold, the doctor says:
7'Shoulder this mattress! for you are
not only we'll enough to walk, but
well enough to work, and start out
from these mineral baths. Take up
thy bed and waikiki" Oh what Sur
geon for chronic cases then, and for
chronic cases now
ABLE TO GIVE IMMORTAL HEALTH.
This is not applicable so much to
| those who are only little hurt OF SIN,
and only for short time, but to those
Frustrated of sin twelve years, eighteen
years, thirty-eight years. Here is a
Surgeon able to give immortal health.
oh" you say, Il am SO completely
i n Il If
that cannot rise" Are you Halter
| baths? No Then rise. In the name
of Jesus of Nazareth, the Surgeon who
offers you his right hand of help, bid
| thee rise. Not cases of acute sin, but
| of chronic sin-those who have not
prayed for thirty eight years, those
who have not been to church for thirty
| eight years. those who have been
| gamblers, or libertines, or thieves, or
! outlaws, or blasphemers, or intidels,
or atheists, or all these together, for
thirty-eight years. A Christ for ext
gencIes A Christ for dead lift! A
| Surgeon who never loses a case!
In speaking of Christ as surgeon,
[ must consider him as an oculist, or
eve doctor, and an aurist, or ear doctor.
! Was there ever such another Ocul1st2
! That he was particularly sorry for the
! blind folks, [ take from the fact that
the most of his works was with the
diseased optic nerves. l have not time
to count up the number of blind peo-
pie mentioned who got his cure. Two
blind men in one house, also one who
was born blind; SO that it was not re-
moval of a visual obstruction, but the
creation of the cornea, and ciliary
muscle, and crystalline lens. and reti-
ma, and optic nerve, and tear gland;
also the blind man of Bethsaida, cured
by hesaliva which the Surgeon took
from the tip of his own tongue and put
upon the eyelids; also two blind men
who sat by the wayside In our civil
lied lands we have blindness enough,
the ratio fearfully increasing, accord
ing to the statement of Boston and
New York and Philadelphia oculists,
because of the reading of morning and
evening newspapers on the jol6ng cars
by the multitudes who live out of the
city and come in to business.
But in the lands where this Divine
Surgeon operated the cases of blind
ness were multiplied beyond every
thing by the particles of sand floating
in the air, and the night dews falling
on the eyelids of those who slept on
the top of their houses; and in some
of these lands it is estimated that
twenty out of a hundred people are to.
tally blind. Amid all that crowd of
visionless people, what work for an
oculist! And I do not believe that
more than one out of a hundred of
that Surgeons cures were reported.
He went up and down among those
people who were feeling slowly their
way by staff, or led by the hand of
man or rope of dog, and introducing
them to the faces of their own house
hold, to the sunrise and the sunset,
and the evening star. He just ran
his hand over the expressiOnless face,
and the shutters of both windows were
swung open, and the restored went
home, crying, II see! I see! Thank
God, [ see!'
TILL HE TOUCHES OUR EYES WE ARE
ALL BLIND.
That is the oculist we all need. Till
he touches our eyes we are blind. Yea,
we were born blind By nature we
see things wrong if we see them at all.
Our best eternal interests are put be-
fore us and we cannot see them. The
glories of a loving and pardon1ng
Christ are projected, and we do not
behold them. Or we have a defective
sight which makes the things of this
world larger than the things of the
future, time bigger than eternity. Or
we are color blind, and cannot see the
difference between the blackness OF
darkness forever and the roseate morn
ing of an everlasting day, But Christ
the Surgeon comes in, and though we
shrink back, afraid to have him touch
us, yet he puts his fingers on the closed
eye1ids of the soul, and midnight be,
comes mid-noon; and we understand
something of the joy of the young man
of the Bible, who, though he had
, never before been able to see his hand
before his face, now, by the touch OF
Christ, had two headlights kindled
under his brow, cried out in language
that COMPOUNDED the jeering crowd
who were deriding the Christ that had
effected the cure, and wanted to make
, him out bad man, whether he be 8
{ sinner or no, know not; one thing
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