Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-04-21
.CHRIST'S SURGERY.
TIE GREAT HEALER FOR BODY AND MIND
AND SOUL.
Wonderful Cures Which lie Effected Christ as an
Aurisi and an 0cllist-Ihe Diseases Of
the Soul Cared-The Physi-
clans Fee.

every part. The popular preacher dis
courSed ou the profession of healing.
His text was Matthew ll:5. The blind
receive their sight. and the lame walk,
the leperS are eleansed. and the deaf
hear" He said:
"DoCroR. l said To "a distinguished
surgeon, ''dO YOU not get worn out with
constantly seeing SO many wounds and
broken bones and distortions of the hui
man bOdy?" ''Oh. no." he answered.
"all that is overcome by my JOY i'm cur
ing them" A Sublimer or more mcrci-
ful art never came down from heaven
than the art of surgery. Catastrophe
and disease entered tine earth 50 early
that one of the first wants of the world
was a doctor. our crippled and agon-
lied human race called for surgeon and
family physician for many years before
they came. The first surgeons who
answered this call were ministers of re-
ligion. namely, the Egyptian priests.
And what q grand thing if an clergy
men were also doctors. all ID. ID. : We're
NJ. ID. =. for there are So many cases
where body and soul need treatment al
the same time. consolation and medi-
ciac. theology and therapeutics. As
the first surgeons of the world were also
ministers of relirion may tbese two
rrofossiops al,vovs be I'm fnil svmr,tb,.,
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dissection of tine human body was for
hidden srsr Inv the nooans and tben h,.
the carly CHRISTIANS Anes bcinr rbe
brutes most fl,. The human racc were
diSsectad but mo- buman bodv MIGHT he
unfolded for physiological and opatomi-
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WORLDS GREAT PHYSICIANS.
Hut tlp World from the very bcein-
MING kcrf calling for surgeons. and
fboir FIRST skill is spoken of I'm Genesis.
whore tbcv cmnloyed their art for the
incisions of "a sacred rite. God making
surgery the predecessor OF baptism:
and we see it again iu II. Kings. where
Ahaziah. tine monarch, stepped on some
cracked attice-work in the palace. and
10 broke. and he fell frum the upper 20
the lower floor. and hc was So hurt that
hc sent to the village OF EkrOn for aid;
and Esculapius. who wrought such Won
ders of surgery that hc was dcited, and
temples were built for his worship az
PcrgamoS: and Epijaurus and podelir-
ms introduced for the relief OF the
world phcbotomy; and DamoccdcS
cured the di>located ankle OF King Da-
rius. aud the cancer of his queen; and
HinpocrateS put successful. hand ON
fractures. and introduced amputatioH:
and PraNagoras removed distractions;
and Herophilus began dissection: and
Erasistratus removed tumor>; and
CELSIUS. Tine Roman surgeon,
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Ii,l,,iorr. I,,~ ,rr.staJ disease of The
LIT. o.5 Alexander of Trallcs.
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Sidercd so far beyond an human cure
tb,t instead of calling I'm the surgeons
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GREATEST OF ALL SURGEONS
Bnt tine world wanted surgery witL-
.our main. Doctors Parrc and Hickman
and Simpson and Warner and jackson.
with their amazing genius. came on
and with their anTStheticS bcnumOed
tbe paticnt with narcotics and ethers as
the aueicnts did with haShecSh and
mandrake. and Quictcd him Tor a Whlle.
hrt no the return of consciousness dis
trc,> returned. The world has never
seen but one surgeon who could
,traichtcn tine crooked limb, cure the
blind eye. or reconstruct the drum OF %
s0undlcSs ear. or reduce a dropSy' Win
ont anv pain at the time, or any pam
after. and that surgeon was Jesus Christ,
tbe michticst. grandcst. gcutleSt. and
most svmuathetic surgeon the world
ever saw. or ever will see; and lie de-
serves tine confidence and love and wor-
Shin and hosanua OF all the earth, and
balIcluiahS of AN heaven. The Diind
receive their sight. and the lame walk;
the lcpcrs are clcanScd, and the deal
hear
notice this Surgeon had % fondncSS
for chronic cases. Many surgeon
when he has had patient brought 20
him. has said: "Nhy was not tins al
ta,5ed ro five years ago? You bring
him To- ME after all power of rccupera--
tion is gone. You have waited un1H
there is complete contraction OF ihe
muscles. and false ligaturcS are formed
and osSifcation has taken place.
ourht to have been attended 10 long
AGO. But Christ the Surgeon seemed
to prefer invetcratc cases. One was
bemorrhaee of twelve years, and lie
STONED it. Another was "a curvature of
eighteen years. and He Strengthened ll'