The Red Cloud chief., 1890-04-25
II DIVINE HEALER.
Dr. Telmsge on Christ ID the Great
Physician.
THE 10 vtour's Cures Always the Moot Won
dssta,-A Physician Whose Treatment
Wss without Money wr 1'ree-timsl
tSsthesiUg 0t The waved.

In q late sermon at brooklyn Rev. 7.
Dewitt Talmagc discoursed on the pro-
fcssion Of healing. His text was Mat.
thew II, B: Tho blind receive their
sight. and the lame walk, the lcpers
are cicansed, and the deaf hear" lie
said:
Doctor" said to . distinguished
surgeon. do you not get worn out with
constantly seeing 10 many wounds and
broken bones and distortions Of the
human body?" 20. no." he answered,
AL that Ii overcome by my JOY In cur.
ing them" A sublimcr or more merci.
full art never came down from Heaven
than the art Of surgery. Catastrophe
and disease entered the earth 80 early
that one 81 the first wants Of the world
was q doctor. Our crippled and ago.
nized human race called for urgcon
and family physician for many years be-
fore they came. The first surgeons who
answered this call were ministers Of re-
ligion. namely. the Egyptian priests.
And what q grand thing II all clcrgymcn
were also doctors, all ID D.'s were NJ.
D.'s, FOR there are 81 many cases where
body and soul need treatment Mt tho
same time, consolation and medicine.
theology and therapeutics. As the
first surgeons Of tho world we're also
ministers Of religion. may these two
professions always be In full sympathy.
But under what disad vantagcs the
early surgeons worked, from the fact
that tho dissection 81 tho human body
was forbidden, first by the pagans and
then by the early Christians! Apes. be.
Ing the brutes most like the human race.
we're dissectcd. but no human body
might be unfolded for physiological and
anatomical OK plorat!On. and tho urgeOn
lad To guess what was inside the temple
by looking al tho outside 81 It, II they
failed in any surgical operation they
wore prosecuted and d.iven out OF tho
city. rs vas ArchagathuS. because of his
told tut unsuccessful cmpt To save .
patient
But the world from the vcry beginning
kept calling for surgeons. snd thoir first
skill IN spoken al in GeMesix where
they employed their art for tho incision
OF . sacred rite. God making surgery
the predecessor Of baptism: and ws see
IL again in II. Kings where Aaahiah. tho
monarch. stepped on some cracked lat.
ti"c-work In tho palace. and IL broke
and he fell from tho upper to the lower
floor, n he was M hurt that he srnt To
The village of Ekron for aid; and E.scu.
,psus, who wrought such wonders NJ
surgery that no was dcificd. and tenn pies
wcrc built for his worship at I'crgamos
What mighty progress In the batiing
OF disease since the crippled and sick
of ancient cities wore laid along the
streets. that people who had ever been
hurt or dtsoricrcd In the same way
might suggest what had better be done
for tho patients; and tho priests Of oldcn
time, who were constantly Suffering
from colds received In walking barefoot
over tho tempt" pavcmcnts. had to pro.
= ribc for themselves, and fractures
were considered so far beyond all human
tJrc that instead Of calling In tho sur.
g"ons the people only invoked tho gods:
Nu notwithstanding all tho surgical
ard medical skin Of tho world. with
what tcnacity the old diseases hang on
~ the human race. aud most Of them
arc thousands OF years old, and In our
Bibles We read ~ them: the carbunclcs
al Job and li"hckiah: tho palpitation of
h heart spoken Of In deuteronomy:
the snnstroke OF child carried from
tho fields OF Shuncm. crying: "My
head my head" King Asa'x disease %
tho feet, which was nothing but govt:
dCfNction Of teeth. which called for
dental surgery, tho skill OF which. quite
equal 10 any thing modorn. il still seen
in tho filled molars Of the unrollcd
Egyptian mummiCs: tho O%phtha,min
cauaod by the juice OF tho newly ripe
Nv. leaving tho people blind at tho road.
side; epilepsy. ~ In tho case Of tho
young man often falling into tho tr.
and oftinto the water; hyparhondria. ~
of Ncbuchadnezxar. who imagined him
sclf an OK and going out " tho Fields to
pasture.
Tho world has never sccn but ono
surgeon who could ~stratxhton the crook
al limb. cure tho blind eyc. or rss,pN-
s,-urt tho drum ~ . sasnd'c sS ea-. ~
r"dur" q dropsy. without any pain nj
The tim", or any pain after. and that
Surgeon WAS Jesus Christ, the mighticst.
%GvaWdcst, g"ntles' and nos sympath",.
:c surgeon III" world EVER saw nj eve,
will see. aud Tie deserves the roniiIe nee
and love and worship and hosanna al all
the earth and bA'ioluiahs 81 al, li"assn
THE blind receive their sight, AMI tho
lam" walk: the lcpers are clcan~si, aud
tho deaf hear"
notice this surgeon had q fondnes.
for chronic cases. Many u surgeon, when
he has had u patient brought to him, ha,
said: why vas not his attended I,
fve years ago. Won bring him Ia me
after all power of Incorporation Is gone
You have waited until ,hcrc ~ u com
plcte contraction ~ tho mssclcs and
false ligaturcs are formed and ossiica
ton has taken plar". II ough, Ia have
been attended to long ago" HIT Chris
tho Surgeon seemed To prefer invctcrau
cAseA One WAS . hcmorrhage ~ twclv,
years and lie stopped II. Another ~a'
Q curvature Of eighteen years and H.
Strengthened H. Another a u cripple ~
thirty.cight years and he walked ON
yell, The eighteen year patient Vas