The Forrest City times., 1890-04-26

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 But what wore the Surgeons fecs for all these cures of eyes and ears and tongues and withercd hands and crooked backsi The skill and the painlessn ness of tho opera tions wero worth hundreds and thousands of dollars Do not think that the cases He took were all monoyless. Did he not treat the noblemans soni Did he not doctor tho rulers daughtcri Did ho not effect Q euro in ths house of centurion of great wealth, who had out of his own pocket built a synagogue, They would have paid Him largo fees if He had demanded them, and thero wore hundreds of wealthy peo- ple in Jerusalem, and among the merchant castles along Lake Tiberas, 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 dollars five thousand dollars, and in one case know of. fifty thousand dollars, but the surgeon of whom spe K received not shelSel. not a penny, not farthing. In His whole earthly life, WIG know of Ills having had but sixty two and a half cents. When His taxes wero due, by His omnisciencc He knew of fish in the sea which had swallowed picc, 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 Roman stater, or sixty-two and a half cents, tho only money He ever had; and that He paid out for taxes This. greatest Sur geon of all tho centuries gave all His services then, and offers all His ser vices now free of all charge "Without money, and without price, you may spirit ually have your blind eyes opened, and your deaf ears uuoarrcd, and your dumb tongues lo1sencd, and your wounds healed, and your soul saved If Christian people got hurt of body, mind, or soul, let them remember that surgery is apt to hurt but 1t cures, and you can afford present pain for future glory Beside that there arc powerful apesthetics in tho divine prom ises that socthe and alleviate. No ether or chloroform or cocaine ever mado ono so superior to distress as few drops of that magnificent anodyne: ''Al things work together for good to those who love God;" "Weeping may endure for night but joy cometh in tho morning
 What u grand thing for our poor human race when this Surgeon shall have com pleted tbe treatment of all the worlds 8 woundsl Tho day will como whom there will be no more hospitals, for there will be no more sick, and no more eye and car in frnarios, for there will bo no moro blind or deal, and no more deserts, for the round earth shall be brought under ar5oricuture, and no more bizzards or sunstrokes for the atmosphere will be expnrgated of scorch and chill, and no moro war for the swords shall come out Of tho foundry bent into pruning hooks. While in tho heavenly country we shall see those who woro the
 
 | hereditary ills on carth, become the athletes In Elysian fields, Who is that man with such brilliant eyes close before tho throne. Why, that is the nun who, near Jericho, was blind and our Surgeon cured his ophthalmiai Who is that erect and graceful and qnoenly woman before the thronat That was the one whom our surgeon found beat almost double, and could in no wise lift up herself, and He made her straight. N ho Is that listening with such rapture to tho music ot heaven, solo melting iuto chorus, cymhai respond. Ing to trumpet, and then himself Joining in the antheml Why. that Is the man whom our Surgeon found deaf and dumb on the beach of Galilee, and by two touches opened olr-gat, and mouth gate, Who is that around whom tho crowds are gathering with ad- mirluc look and thanksgiving, aud cries of "Oh, what He did for mol Oh, what he did for my family Oh, what He did for the worldrs That is tho Surgeon of all tho centuries, the Oculist tho Aursst tho Emancipator the Saviour. No pay He took oa earth. Como. now, and let all heaven pay Him with worship that shall | never eud, and love that shall never die. On His head b all tho crowns In His hands bo all tho sceplres and at His feet bo all the worldsl