The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-06-26

aiming aG the mans hoaQ, DuE Ln6
sword slipped and hewed OF the outside
ear, and our Surgeon touched the LAGER
ration AID another ear bloomed in the
place of the one that had been slashed
| away. But it is not the outside ear
that hears. That is only funnel for
gathering sound and pouring it into the
hidden and more elaborate ear. On the
beach of Lake Galilee our Surgeon
found man deaf and dumb. The pa
tient dwelt in perpetual silence and was
speechless. He could not hear note
of music or clap of thunder. He could
| not call father or mother or wife or chill.
dren by name. What power can waken
that dull tympanum or reach that chain
of small bones or revive that auditory
nerve or open the gate between the
brain and the outside world? The Sur
geon put His fingers in the deaf ears
and agitated them, and kept ON agitat.
| ing them until the vibration gave vital
energy to all the dead parts, and they
responded, and when our Surgeon with
drew His fingers from the ears the two
tunnels of sound were clear for all
sweet voices of music and friendship.
| For the first time in his life he heard
the dash of the waves of Galilee.
| But what were the Surgeons fees for
all these cures of eyes and ears, and
| tongues, and withered hands and
crooked backs? The skill and painless
ness of the operations were worth hun
dreds and thousands of dollars. Do not
think that the cases He took were all
moneyless. Did He not treat the noble
mans son? Did He not effect cure in
! the house of a centurion of great
wealth, who had out of his own
pocket built a synagogue? They would
have paid Him large fees if lie
had demanded them, and there
were hundreds of wealthy people in
Jerusalem, and among the merchant
castles along Lake Tiberias, who would
have given this Surgeon houses and
lands and all they had for such cures az
He could effect. For critical cases ia
our time great surgeons have received
one thousand dollars, five thousand
dollars, and, in one case 1 know of,
fifty thousand dollars, but the Surgeon
of whom l speak received not shekel,
not penny, not farthing. In His
whole earthly life we know of His hav-
ing had but sixty-two and a half
cents When His taxes were due,
by His omniscience, He knew of
a fish in the sea which had swal-
| lowed a piece of silver money, as fish
are apt to swallow any thing bright,
and he sent Peter with a hook which
! brought up that fish, and from its mouth
was extracted Roman slater, or sixty
two and a half cents, the only money He
ever had; and that He said out for taxes.
This greatest Surgeon of all the cent
uries gave all His services then,
and offers all His services now,
free of all charges. ''Without money
and without price" you may spiritually
have your blind eyes opened, and your
deaf ears unbarred, and your dumb
tongues 1oosened, and your wounds
healed, and your soul saved. If Chris
tian people get hurt of body, mind or
soul, let them remember that surgery is
apt to hurt, but it cures, and you can
afford present pain for future glory.
Besides that, there are powerful an8s-
!
and alleviate. No ether or chloroform
or cocaine ever made one so superior to
distress as few drops of that magnifi-
cent anodyne: ''All things work together
for good to those who love God;" ''Weep-
ing may endure for a night, but joy
cometh in the morning"
What grand thing for our poor hui
man race when this Surgeon shall have
completed the treatment of all the
worlds wounds! The day will come
when there will be no more hospitals,
for there will be no sick, and no more
eye and ear infrmaries, for there will
be no more blind or deaf, and no more
deserts, for the round earth shall
be brought under arborlculture,
and no more billiards. or sun
strokes, for the atmosphere will
be expurgated of scorch and
chill, and no more war for the swords
shall come out of the foundry bent into
pruning-hooks. While in the Heav-
emily country we shall see those who
were the victims of accident or malfor-
nation, or hereditary ills on earth, be-
come the athletes in Elysian fields.
Who is that man with such brilliant
eyes close before the throne? Why,
that is the man who, near Jericho
was blind, and our Surgeon cured
his ophthalmia! Who is that erect and
graceful and queenly woman before the
throne? That was the one whom our
Surgeon found bent almost double, and
could in no wise lift up herself, and He
made her straight. Who is that listen
ing with such rapture to the music of
Heaven, solo melting into chorus, Gym
bal responding to trumpet, and then
himself joining in the anthem? Why,
that is the man whom our Surgeon
found deaf and dumb on the beach
of Galilee, and by two touches opened
ear-gate and mouth-gate. Who is that
around whom the crowds are gathering
with admiring look and thanksgiving,
and cries of ''Oh, what He did for me!
Oh, what He did for my family Oh,
what He did for the worldp' That is
the Surgeon of all the centu, les, the
oculist, the aurist, the emancip.4tor, the
Saviour. No pay He took On ear tn.
Come, now, and let all Heaven Him paw