The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-07

lame walk; tito .epcrs arc clcansed and
the deaf hear
/ notice this surgeon had fondness
for chronic cases. Many surgeon when
he has had a patient brought to him,
has said: "Why was not this attended
to Ave years ago? You bring him to me
after all power Of recuperation is gone.
You have waited until there is q com.
plete contraction of the muscles, and
false ligatures are formed, and ossifica-
ton has taken place. 1t ought to have
been attended to long ago." But Christ
the Surgeon seemed to prefer inveterate
cases. One was Q hemorrhage of
twelve years, and He stopped it. Anoth-
or was q curvature Of eighteen years,
and He Strengthened it. Another was
cripple of thirty-eight years, and walk.
ed out we'll. The eighteen-year patient
was woman bent almost double. II
you call convention of all tho sur
geons Of all the centuries, their combin.
ed skilled could not cure that body so
drawn out Of shape. Perhaps they
might stop it from getting any worse,
perhaps they might contrive braces by
which she might be made more comfort
able, but it is, humanity speaking, incur
able. Yet this divine Surgeon put both
His hands on her, and from that
doubled-up posture she began to rise,
and the empurpled face began to take
on healthier hue, and the muscles be-
gan to relax from their rigidity, and the
spinal column began to adjusti itself, and
the cords Of the neck began to be more
supple, and the eyes, that could see only
the ground before, now looked into tho
face Of Christ with gratitude, and up
toward Heaven in transport. Straight!
After eighteen weary and exhaustive
years, straight! The pose, the graceful
ness, the beauty Of healthy womanhood
reinstated.
The thirty-eight years case was Q
man who lay on a 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, 100 feet
long. forty feet wide and eight feet deep.
All, poor man; If you have been lame and
helpless thirty-eight years, that miner
al bath can not restore you. Why, thir-
ty-eight years is more than the average
Of human life! Nothing but the grave
will cure you. But Christ the Surgeon
walks along these baths and have no
doubt passes by some patients who have
been only six months disordered or a
year, or five years, and comes to the
mattress Of the man who has been near
ly four decades helpless, and to this thir-
ty-eight years. invalid said: swift thou
be made whole?" The question asked, not
because the Surgeon did not understand
the prOtractedness, the desperateness
Of the case, but to evoke the mans pa
thetic narrative. "Wilt thou be made
whole?" would you like to get well%'
'Oh, yes,' says the man, shat Is what
l came to these mineral baths for;
have tried every thing. All the sur.
geons have failed, and all the prescrip
tions have proved valueless, and l have
got worse and worse, and I can neither
move hand or foot or head. Oh, If
could only be free from this pain Of
thirty-eight years." Christ, the sur
, geon, could not stand that. Bending
over the man on the mattress, and in 6
voice tender with all sympathy, but
strong with all omnipotence, He says
'Rise!" And the invalid instantly
scrambles to his knees, and then put:
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 joy too
, much to hold, the Doctor says: "Shoul
, der this mattress! for you are not only
we'll enough to walk, but we'll enough
| to work, and start out from these min
, eral baths. Take up thy bed and walk!
Oh what Surgeon for chronic case'
then, and for chronic cases now!
: This is not applicable so much t.
those who are only little hurt of sin
, and only for short time, but to thos'
Frustrated of sin twelve years, eighteen
years, thirty-eight years. Hence is I
Surgeon able to give immortal health
"Oh," you say, II am so completed,
| overthrow and trampled down of sill
that l can not rise" Are you fatte
down than this patient at the minera
: baths? No. Then rise. In the nam,
} of Jesus of Nazareth, the Surgeon VIII,
offers you His right hand of help, BIZ
; thee rise. Not cases of acute sin, but o
, chronic sin-those who have not prayet
! for thirty-eight years, those who hav'
3 not been in church for thirty-eigh
; years, those who have been gamblers
or libertines, or thieves, Or outlaws, o
| blasphemers, or infidels, or atheists, o
0 all these together, for thirty-eigh
n years. A Christ for exigencies!
0 Christ for a dead-lift! A Surgeon VIII
Q never loses case!
. In speaking Of Christ IS surgeon,
: must consider Him as an oculist, or ey
:; doctor, and an aurist, or ear doctor
Was there ever such another oculist
9 That He was particularly sorry for tn
4 blind folks, l take from the fact that tn
!, most of His works was with the disease
d optic nerves. have not time to coun
I up the number of blind people mer
Q toned who got His cure. Two bin
: men in one house. also one who wa
n born blind; so that it was not removal Q
Q a visual obstruction, but the creation Q
+ the cornea, and ciliary muscle, an
Q crystalline lens, and retina, and Opt
n nerve, and tear gland; also, the bin
man of Bethsaida, cured by the saliv