Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-21

He tOuones our eyes we are DllHus 1edf
we were born blind. By nature we see
things wrong il we see them at all. Our |
best eternal interests are put before us
and we cannot see them. The glorles or |
a loving and pardoning Christ are pro-
jeeted and we do not behold them. OF |
we have defective sight which makes |
the things of this world larger than the |
things of the future
TINE BIGGER THAN ETERNITY.
Or we are color-blind, and cannot see |
the difference between the blaokness OF
darkness forever and the roseate morning
of an everlasting day. But Christ the
Surgeon comes in, and though we shE5pk
back, afraid to have Him touch US, YET
He puts His fingers on the closed eyellds
of the soul, and midnight becomes
mid moon; and We understand some
thing 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, erled
| out in language that confounded the
! jeeriug crowd who were deriding the
! Christ that had effected the cure, and
! wanted to make Him out bad man,
"'Whether H0 be sinner OF no, know
!
was blind, now I see.
| But this surgeon was just as wonder tui
as an aurist. Very few people have TWO
| good ears. Nine out of ten people are
particular to get Oh this or that side or
| you when they sit or walk or ride with
| YOU, because they have one disabled ear.
! Many have both ears damaged, and what
with the constant racket of our great
cities, and the catarrhal troubles that
| sweep through the land, it is remark
able that there are any gooo ears
at all. Most wonderful lnstrument
is the human ear. 1t is harp ana
drum and telegraph and telephone ana
whispering gallery all in one. SO dell
cate and wbndrous is its construction
that the most difficult of all thugs to re-
construct is the auditory apparatus.
The mlghtiest of scientists have put their
skill to it's returning, and sometimes they
stoD the progress of its deoadence, or
remove temporary distractions, but not
more than one really deaf ear out OF
100. 900 is ever cured. 1t took God to
make the ear. and it takes God to mend
it. That makes me curious to see now
Christ the surgeon succeeds as an aurlst.
We are told of only two cases He oper-
ated on as an ear surgeon, his friend
Peter. naturally hgh-te tempered, saw
Malchus, and Peter let his sword hy =,
aiming at the mans head, but the sword
slipped and hewed off the outside ear,
and our Surgeon touched the liberation
? and another ear blOomed in the place or
the one that had been slashed away. But
it is not the outside ear that hears. Ihat
is only a funnel for gathering SOUND anu
= mourning into it the hidden and more clad
: crate ear, On the beach of Lake Galllee
l our Surgeon found man deaf ano
dumb The patient dWelt IN per-
Detual silence, and was speechless
He could rot hear a note of music OF
q clap of thunder. He could not call
3 father or mother or wife or children by
name What power can waken that
d dull tympanum or reach that chain OF
o small bones or revive that auditory nerve
d or omen the gate between the brain and
IL the outside world? The Surgeon pu'
! His fingers in the deaf ears and agitatet
:, them, and kept on agitating them untl
u the vibration gave vital energy to all tnE
u dead parts, and they responded, ant
II when our Surgeon withdrew HIS fingers
20 from the ears, the two tunnels or sounC
were clear for all sweet voices or MUSIC
~ and friendship. For the hfsI tilAe III III
10 life he heard the
DASH OF THE WAVES OF GALILER.
l. Through the desert of painful silenc
S, had been built a kings highway Of reson
III anoe and reclamation. But yet he wa:
a. dumb. No word had ever leaped over hi
or lip. Speech was onalped under n
or tongue. MOBILIZATION and accentuatlo
)u we're to him an impossiblllty. lie coui
Ut express neither love nor indignation no
m worshiD. Our Surgeon having unbarre
oh I hn hoR Z
or his tongue. The Surgeon will use tn
es same liniment or salve that he used o
two occasions for the cure OF bin
se ueoDle, namely, the moisture of b
nd own mouth. The application Is made
Is And 10, the rigldity of the dumb tOngu
en- is relaxed, and between the tongue an
r. teeth were born a whole vocabulary
h. and words flew into expression. He NJ
9ly only heard but he talked. One gate
sin his body swung in to let sound enter
ter and the other gate swung out
raj let sound depart. Why IS it that viii
OF other surgeons used knives ana forcel
If and probes and spectroscopes, TINS su
peon used only the ointment of His on
Inns? To show that all the curative pow
IN. er we ever feel comes straight fro
lot Christ. And if He touches us not, Y
ho | shall be deaf as q rock and dumb as
rht | tomb. Oh thou greatest of all aurlst
or compel us to hear and help US to speal
or But what were the Surgeon 8 fees Il
all all these cures of eyes and ears al
A tongues and withered hands and crooks
d. backs? The skill ard the painlessness
se! the operations were worth hundreds an
thousands of dollars: Do not thu
I'VE that the cases He took we
OF. all moneyless. Did He not treat t
st? nobleman's son? Did He not doctor t
The rulers daughter? Did he not effect
the cure in the house of centurion of gre
sed wealth, who had out of his own pook
int built a synagogue? They would ha
led paid Him large fees if He had demand
me them, and there were hundreds
so wealthy people IN Jerusalem, and amo
m the merchant castles along Lake Tiberl
ca. who would have given this Surge
rs, houses and lands and all they had
md such cures as He could effect. For CT
of zeal cases in our time great surgeo
ieh have received a thousand dollars, fl
of thousand dollars, and, in one case
We know of, fifty thousand dollars, but =
nnd not