The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-04-23

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And ! do not believe that more than
one out Of hundred Of that Sur
geon's cures were reported. He went
up and down among those people who
were feeling slowly their way by staff,
or led by the hand of man orrope Of dog,
and introducing them to the faces OF
their own household, to the sunrise and
the sunset, and the evening star. he
lust ran His hand over the expression
less face, and the sh utters Of both win
dows were swung open and the restored
went home crying, 81 seel ! see! Thank
God / seep
That is the oculist we all need. TIL
He touches our eyes we are blind. Yes,
we we're born blind. BY nature we see
things wrong II we see them at all
Our best eternal interests are put before
US and we can not see them. The glories
of loving and pardoning Christ are
projected, and we do not behold them.
Or we have defective sight which
makes the things Of this world larger
than the things of the future, time big
ger than eternity. Or we are color
blind and can not see the difference be-
tween the blackness OF darkness for
ever and the roseate morning OF
an everlasting day. But Christ the Sur
geon comes in, and though we shrink
back afraid to have Him touch US, yet He
puts His fingers on the closed eyelids
Of the soul, and midnight becomes mid
noon; and we understand something 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 head
lights kindled under his brow, cried out
in language that confounded the jeering
crowd who were deriding the Christ that
had effected the cure, and wanted to
make Him out bad man, whether He
be a sinner or no, know not one thing
know, that whereas was blind, now
l see."
But this surgeon was just as wonder
full as an aurist. Very few people have
two good ears. Nine out Of ten people
are particular to get on this or that side
OF 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, 1t is remark
able that there are any good ears
at all. Most wonderful instrument
ia the human ear. 1t is harp and
drum and telegraph and telephone and
whispering-gallery all in one. So deli
cate and wondrous is its construction
that the most difficult Of all things to
reconstruct is the auditory apparatus.
The mightiest of scientists have put
their skill to its returning, and some
times they stop the progress OF Its
decadence, or remove temporary obstruc.
tions, but not more than one really deaf
ear out Of a hundred thousand l. ever
cured. 1t took God to make tn. ear
and 1t takes God TO mend 1t. Thai
makes me curious TO see how Christ the
Surgeon succeeds as an aurist.
We are told of only two cases HI
operated on as an ear surgeon. Hi
friend Peter, naturally high-tempered
saw Christ insulted by man by thu
name Of Malchus, and Peter let hi
sword fly, aiming at the mans head, bu
the sword slipped and hewed of thu
outside ear, and our Surgeon touches
the laceration and another ear bloomeC
in the place Of the one that had beef
slashed away. But 1t is not the OUTSIDE
ear that hears. That is only funne
for gathering sound and pouring l
into the hidden and more elaborate
ear. On the beach OF Lake Galilee ou
Surgeon found q man deaf and dumb
The patient dwelt in perpetual silence
and was speechless. He could not hea
a note OF music or clap Of thunder. HI
could not call father or mother or wifi
or children by name. What power ca
waken that dull tympanum or reacl
that chain Of small bone or revive tina
auditory nerve or open the gate betweeI
the brain and the outside worlds. Tn
Surgeon put his fingers in the deaf ear
and agitated them, and kept on agitatin
them until the vibration gave vita
energy TO all the dead parts, and the
responded, and when our Surgeon with
drew His fingers from the ears, the tw
tunnels Of sound were clear for all swee
voices Of music and friendship. For tn
first time in his life he heard the dss
7 Of the waves Of Galilee. Through tn
, desert OF painful silence had been bull
, kings highway Of resonance and Q,
! clamation. But yet be was dumb. N
, word had ever leaped over his liz
Speech was chained under his tongue
, VocaliEation and accentuation were
!. him an impossibility. He could exprei
q neither love nor indignation or worship
= Our Surgeon, having unbarred his ca
: will now melt the shackle OF b
!, tongue. Tho Surgeon will use th
|. same liniment or salve that He use
|, on two occasions for the cure Of blin
4 people, namely, the moisture OF His ow
!. mouth. The application Is made. An
lol the rigidity Of the dumb tongue
relaxed, and between the tongue On
: teeth were born whole vocabulary, IN
4 words few into expression. He not onl
4 hoard but he talked. One gate Of b
4 body swung In 70 let sound enter, Al
A the other gate swung QUIT TO letthe sour
\ depart. Why 10 it that while other su
!. geons used knives and forceps N
4 probes and spectroscopes this Surget
: used only the ointment Of HIS own lip
I, To show that all the curative power
: ever feel comes straight from Chris
a And IL He touches Us not we shall !
i : deaf as rock and dumb as stone.
a thou greatest OF all Aurists, compel