Telegram-herald., 1890-04-21


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vkakas .l1hoagt tAs waters eAvs aisappa~rsd,
prohshlv throuxb souas oons cLslou y nassrs.
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f.s-rv fsst wias ana ssg6t fesS eesp Al.
taor aasu. yog hAss t~en lau.s AID kslplsSS
Llrty -elxat yesTs. tAAs EniBsrzi h&ta csanot
restore ,ea Why, tEIrty-sight sssvS Is more
thsn ne average II human lfsi NotelEg
but ne grave NJ cure you bat Chriss tie
Slreee.4 walks along tk1ss baths aSd I Asss
ne doubt p4ssss ~ sons p4i.euts ~ao have
hesn oals 81 months olsordered, or = yesr,
or I've years, aud ooHes 20 the mattress u
L. usa who kAd besa nearly four decGdss
helpless. and 10 tsis thirts-eigtt yezrs'
Invalid ssid: "WiI thou be made
uholeF fns Question asksd, nos bscsuss
ths Surgeon did not understand tie pro
traetedness. the desperateness, Of ths case,
but 10 evoke The mans pathetic usT-
rarive. "Wlt thou be made h0lsi
Would YOU Ike % get wsliF ''Oh, yes,
saws ne man, 'tsat Is What | came 10 these
miasral baths for, ! have tried every thing
AL the surgeons have failed ana al the pre-
scriptions have proved vSluslsss add ! have
got worse and worse. and can neither move
hand or foet or hesd On, II could Only be
fres nom this pain OF thirty eight years.
Christ the Surgeon could not stand that
Bending over tbs man on the mattress and
In voice tender with al sympathy but
strong with ali onnip0tsncs, he says, "Risei"
And the invalid instantly scrsmblss 10 his
knees, and then puts out his right foot, then
his left foot, and then stood upright as though
he had never been prostTated While be
stands looking at the Doctor with a JOY too
much 20 hold, tue Doctor says: Shoulder this
mattressi for you are nog only well enough %
walk. but well enough % work. and start out
from these mineral baths. Take up toy bed
and walk Oh, what Surgeon for oaronic
+ cases then, and for chronic cases now!
JESUS THE sURGEoN
| This Is not applicable SO much 10 those who
/ arr only little hurt ot sin and only for a
/ short time, but to those prostrated Of sin
twelve years. eighteen years, thirty sht
years Here Is "a surgeon able % give inmor-
( tai health "Oh, you say, Il am 50 com
/ petely overthrown and tramplsd down Of sin
that | cannot rise" Are you fatter down
than this patient at the mineral bathsi No.
/ Then rise. In the name OF Jesus OF Nazareth
the Surgeon who offers you his right hand Of
! help bid thee rise. Not cases Of acute sin,
/ but Of chronic sin-those who have not prayed
for thirty-eight years, those who have not
been 20 church for thirty-eight years, those
who have been gamblers, OF llbertines or
thieves, or outlaws, or blasphemers, or inf
I des. or atheists. or all these together, for
/ thirty-eight years A Christ for eXigencies
A Christ for dead lift! A Surgeon who
/ never loses a easel
III speaking Of Christ as a surgeon, must
consider him as an ocuist, or eye doctor, and
J an auriSt. OF ear doctor. Was there ever
such another oculsti That ne was particu-
larly sorry for the blind folks, ! take from
the fact that the most Of his works was with
the diseased optic nerves / nave not time 20
count up the number Of blind people men
toned who rot his cure. Two blind men ia
one house, also one who was born blind; so
that il was not removal Of a visual obstruc-
ton but tie creation Of the cOrnea. and cili-
cry muscle, and crystalline lens, and retina,
and optic nerve, and tear gland; also the
blind nan-of Bethsasda, cured 10y tho SALIVA
which the Surgeon took from the tip Of his
own tongue and put upon the eyelids; also
two blind men who sat by the wayside Ia
our civilized lands we have blindness enough.
the ratio fearfully incrsasing. according 10
the statement Of Boston and New York and
Philadelphia oculists, because OF the reading
o. morning and evening newspapers on tho
joltingecsrs ~ tbefnultitudes vho live out Of
the city and come IN TO business.
But ia the lands where this Divine Surgeon
operated. the cases Of blindness were multi
piled beyond everything by the particles Of
sand floating in the air, and the night dews
falling on the eyellds OF those who slept on
the top Of their houses; and in some Of these
lands it is estimated that twenty ont Of a
hundred people are totally blind Amid all
that crowd Of visionless people, what work
for an oculist Ard / DO not believe that
more than one out OF a 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, OF Jed by the hand
Of man or rop9 Of dog, and introducing them tC
the faces Of their own bOuiehOld, 10 toe sunrls'
and the sunset, and the evening star H'
just ran bis hand over the expressionless face
and the shutters OF both windows were swuns
open. and the restored went home, crying
Il seel =ee! Thank Cod ] seel'
We WE'RE ALL BORN BLIND.
That is the oculist we all need. Till b'
touches our ewes we are blind Yea. we wcr,
born blind. By nature we se> things wrons
if we see them at all Our best etornal inter
ests are put before us and we cannot -
taem. The glories Of loving and pardonius
Christ are projected, and va DO not bebok
them. Or we have defective sight which
makes the things of this world large'
than the things OF tie future. time bigger
than eternity. Or we are color blind anc
cannot see the difference between the black
ness II darkness forever aud tho roSeat'
morning of an everlasting day. But Chris
tho Surgeon CONES in, and though we shrins
hack afraid = have him touch us. yet he put
his fingers on the closed eyelids of the soul
and midnight becomes mid-noOn. and we an
derstand something ~ the JOY q tie youn.
man Of the Bible. who, though be bad neve'
before been able 10 see his hand before ht
face now. By the touch Of ChriSt, had tx
hesdKghts kindied under his brow, cried on
in language that coufounde3 The jeerins
crowd who we're deriding the ChTist that ha(
Effected the cure. and wanted ~ make hin
out a bad man. "Whstbar he - q sinner o'
no. I know not. one thing ] know, tts
where's was blind. nov see,
Bat this Surgeon va Just as wonderful q
az suris- Very few people bsvs t-o ZOO
earx yins cut II tsn peopls are psrticulsi
20 get on this or that SIDE Of yvg when tbe'
sit or vaR or ride Nth voz, hs>cr1se theI
hAv. one disabled ear Mary have both ear
damaged. snd uhat vith The instant rsc xs
q cur great eities. ard the cs'srrhs- tTerbie'
hat sweep through the lard. it is rsrnsrksol'
tbat there srs any god ssTs 81 al No
uonderfsI instrument IL tbs buEnsn sT-
is hsrp aoi drum snd telegraph sni tee
80. ~ In ~~e &.