The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-05-01

rhage of twelve years, and He stopped
1T. Another was n curvature of cigh |
teen years, and He Strengthened it, |
Another was u cripple of thirty eight !
years, and he walked out we'll. The |
eighteen year patient was u woman |
bent almost double. II you could |
oall convention of all the surgeons |
OF all the centuries, their combined
| skill could not cure that body SO |
drawn out OF shape. Perhaps they |
might stop it from being any worse,
perhaps they might contrivo braces
by which she might be made moro
| comfortable. but it is, humanity speak
| ing, incurablo. Yet this divine Sur
| gcon put both His hands on hor, and
from that dOublod-up posture sho be-
| gan to rlSc, and the cmpurplcd face
| began to take on u healthier huo, and
the muscles began to relax from their
rlgldlty, and the spinal column began
to adjust itself, and the cords of the
neck began to be moro supple, and
the eyes, that could SEQ only the
ground before now, looked into tho
taco of Christ with gratitude, and up
toward heaven i'll transport. Straight!
After eighteen weary and exhaustive
years, straight. The poise, the grace
fulurss, the beauty ofhealthy woman
hood rcinstatcd
The thirty eight years case was u
man W ho lay on mattress near the
IMMORAL baths at Jerusalem. The
were five apartments whore lame pco-
pie wero brought SO that they could
get tho advantage of these mineral
baths. The stone basin Of the bath
is still visible although the waters
have disappeared, probably through
somc convulsion of nature; tho bath
120 feet long, 40 feet wide and s foct
deep. All, poor man; if you have
been lnmo and helpless thirty eight
years, that mineral bath cannot re-
store you. Why, thirty eight years is
moro than the avcraG" Of human life.
Nothing but the grave will euro YOU
But Christ tho Surgeon walks along
these baths, and have no doubt part-
Sos by Somo patients who have been
f only six months lisordcrcd, ora year.
or iiv" years, and comes to the
mattress of the man who had been
nearly fonr I"ca'lcs helpless, and to
tins thirty eight years invalid said:
"Mllt thou b" made whole" The
question asked, not because the Sur
G"un did not understand the protrac-
t"dneAs,tho dcspcratonoSs, OF tho case,
to evoke tn" mans pathetic narrative.
"Nllt thou be made wholc| "Would
you like to .;rt wclH' "Oh yes, SAYS
the man. THAT is what came to thcse
mineral bath for; have tried every
thing. All the surgeons have failed,
and all the prescriptions have proved
valuclcss, aud | have got worse and
worse, and | can neither move hand
or foot or head. Oh, if / could only
be free from this pnin OF thirty eight
years" Christ. the Surgeon, could
not stand thni. Bending over The
man on tho mattress, and in IL voice
tender with all sympathy, but strong
wlthnll 0mmpotcncr, Hr says, "RiSc.'
Aud the invalid instantly scramblrs
to his knees. and then puts ont his
right fooi. then his lrr; foot. and
then stood upright aS though he had
never been prostratcd. While he
stands looking at the Doctor with Il
Joy too much to hold, The Doctor SAYS:
"Shoultirr This mattress! for YOU arc
not only well enough to walk hut
| we'll enough to work. and start out
from these mineral baths. Take up
thy bed and walk. Oh, what Sur.
gron for chronic cases then. anL - jfor
\ chronic cases now.
fHsI'G4AAains II sI'GAains q 45ifftent 9tiEst as surgeon,
| ! must consifcr Him as an oculist, or
eye doctor, and an aurist, or ear doe
tor. Was there ever such another
oculist? That He was particularly
sorry for tho blind folks, take from
the fact that tho most of His works
was with the diseased optic nerves. I
have no time to count up tho number
Of blind people mentioned who got
his euro. Two blind men in one
! house, also one who WAS born blind;
so that it was not removal Of visual
obstruction, but the creation of the
cornea, and ciliary muscle, and crys-
: tMllnc lens, and rctina. and optic
nerve, and tear gland; also the blind
man of BcthSaidu, cured by the saliva
which the Surgeon took from the tiD
, OF His own tongue and put upon the
cyclidS; also two blind mon who sat
by tho waySdc. In our civilizoungo we
| have blindness enough, the ratio
fcarfully increasing, according to the
statement of Boston and New York
!; and Philadelphia Oculists, because of
: the reading OF the morning and even
ing &ncwspapcrs on the jotting cars by
the multitudcS who live out Of the
city and come in to business. But H.
the lands where this Divine Surgeon
operated, tho cases Of blindness were
multiplied bcyoud everything by the
particles of sand floating i'll the air,
and the night dues falling on the
cyolids of those who slept on the top
of their houses: and in some of these
lands it is estimated that twenty out
of q hundred people arc totally blind.
Amid all that crowd of visionlcss
people, what work for an oculist! And
l do not believe that more than one
out of IL hundred of that Surgeons
cures wore reported. He went up
and down among those people who