Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21

slashed away. But it is not the out
side ear thathears. That is only fun
mel for gathering sound and pouringit
into the hidden and more elaborate
ear. On the beach of Lake Galilee
our Surgeon found a man deaf and
dumb. The patient dwelt in perpetual
silence, and was speechless. He could
not heara note of music or a clap of
thunder. He could not call father or
mother or wife or children by name.
What power can waken that dull
tyrnpanum or reach that chain of small
bones or revive that auditory nerve or
open the gate between the brain and
the outside world? The Surgeon put
his fingers in the deaf ears and agl-
tated them, and kept on agitating
them until the vibration gave vital
energy to all the dead parts, and they
responded, and when our Surgeon
withdrew 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 Through the desert of pain
full silence had been built a kings
highway of resonance and acclama-
ton. But vet he was dumb. No word
had ever leaped over his lip. Speech
was chained under his tongue. Vocal
ization and accentuation were to him
an impossibilty. He could express
neither love nor indignation nor wor-
ship.
Our Surgeon, having unbarred his
ear, will now melt the shackle of his
tongue. The Surgeon will use the
same liniment or salve that he used on
two occasions for the cure Of blind peo-
u, <@f hi
mouth. The application is made.
And. 10, the rigidity of the dumb
tongue is relaxed, and between the
| vocabulary, and words flew into ex-
preston. He not only heard, but he
talked One gate Of his body swung
| in to let sound enter, and the other
gate swung out to let sound depart.
Why is it that while other surgeons
used knives and fOrceps and probes
and spectroscopes this Surgeon used
only the ointment of his own hpss 10
show that all the curative power we
ever feel comes straight from Christ.
| And if he touches us not we shall be
| deaf as a rock and dumb as tomb.
| Oh, thou greatest of all aurists, COM
pei US to hear and help us to speak!
| WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT PRICE.
But what were the Surgeons fees for
| all these cures of eyes and ears and
tongues and withered hands and
crooked backs2 The skill and the
painlessness of the operations were
worth hundreds and thousands of dol
lars. Do not think that the cases he
took were all moneyless. Did he not
treat the nobleman's son2 Did he not
doctor the rulers daughter? Did he
not effect cure in the house of cen
turion of great wealth, who had out of
his own pocket built a synagogue2
They would have paid him large fees
| if he 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
as he could effect.
For critical cases in our time great
surgeons have received a thousand dol
| lars, five thousand dollars, and, in one
case [ know of, fifty thousand dollars,
but the Surgeon of whom I speak re-
ceived not a shekel not a percy, not
a farthing. In his whole earthly life,
we know of his having had but sixty
two and half cents When his taxes
were due, by his omniscience he knew
of a fish in the sea which had swal-
lowed piece of silver money, as fish
are apt to swallow anything bright,
and he sent Peter with hook which
brought up that fish, and from its
mouth was extracted a Roman slater,
or sixty-two and half cents, the only
money he ever had, and that he paid
out for taxes. This greatest Surgeon of
all the centuries gave all his services
then, and offers all his services now,
free of all charge.
without money and without
price" you may spiritually have your
blind eyes opened, and your deaf ears
unbarred, and your dumb tongues
Ioosened. and your wounds healed,
and your soul saved. If Christian
people get hurt of body, mind or soul,
let them remember that surgery is apt
to hurt, but it cures, and you can af-
ford present pain for future glory.
Beside that, there are powerful an
aesthetics in the divine promises that
soothe and alleviate. No ether OF
chloroform or cocaine ever made one
so superior to distress as a few drops
of that magnificent anOdyne: "All
things work together for good to those
who love Cod" ''Weeping may en-
dure for night, but joy cometh IN
the morning"
THERE WILL THEN BE NO MORE HOS
PITALS.
What a grand thing for our poor
human race when this Surgeon shall
have completed the treatment of al
the worlds wounds! The day will
come when there will be 10 more hos
pitfalls, for there will be no more sick
and no more eye and ear lntirmarles
for there will be no more blind or deaf
and no more deserts, for the rounC
earth shall be brought under arbori
| culture and no more billiards. or sun
strokes, for the atmosphere will be eX
| purgated of scorch and chill, and NJ
| more war, for the swords shall come
out of the foundry bent into pruning
hooks. While in the heavenly coun
try we shall see those who were the
victims of accident or malformation
or hereditary ills on earth, become thu
| athletes in elysian fields.
Who is that man with such brilllan
eyes close before the throne? Why
that is the man who, near Jericho
was blind, and our Surgeon cured hi
ophthalmia! Who is that erect ant
graceful and queenly woman befor'
the throne? That was the one whom
| ourSurgeon found bent almost double
; and could in no wise lift up herself
and he made her straight. Who i
: that listening with such rapture to thu
, music of heaven, solo melting int
: chorus, cymbal responding to trumpet
t and then himself joining in the an
2 them? Why, that is the man W hon
5 our Surgeon found deaf and dumb OF
? the beach of Galilee, and by tw'
touches opened ear gate and mouth
, gate.
f Who is that around whom tn,
crowds are gathering with admirinG
t look and thanksgiving, and cries o
3 ooh, what he did for mel Oh, VIVA
l he did for my family Oh, what h
/ did for the world'' That is the Sur
geon of all the centuries, the Oculist
the Aurist, the Emancipator, the Say
i Jour. No pay he took on earth. Come
now, and let all heaven pay him will
l worship that shall never end, and
love that shall never die. On his heaC
/ be all the crownsl In his hands b.
e all the sceptersl and at his feet be al
the worlds!
g More High Waves.