The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-04-26

hold, to the sunrise, and the sunset, and the
evening star. He just ran His hand over
the expressionless face, and the shutters OF
both windows were thrown open, and the
Thank God, 1 seel'' That 10 the oculist we
all need.
Till He touches our eyes we are blind.
Yea, we are very blind. BY nature we see
things wrong il We zee them ut all. Our best
eternal interests are pnt before Us and We
cannot ace them. The glories Of loving and
p%Grdoning Christ are protected, and We do
not behold them. Or We hare d detective
sight which makes the things OF this world
larger than the things of the future, time big
ger thar eternity. Or We are color-blind and
cannot see the difference between the black
morning OF everlasting day. But Christ the
Surgeon comes in, and though we sink hack
afraid to ave Him touch US, yet He puts
His finger on the closed eyeiids Of the soul,
and midnight becomes mid-noon; and we UNI
derstand something of the JOY OF the young
before been able to see his hand before his
tace. now, by the touch of Christ, had two
headlights kindled under his brow, cried out
in languagethat COMPOUNDED the Steering crowd
who were deriding the Christ that had effect
ed the cure, and wanted to make Him out a
bad man, whether He be o sinner or no, l
know not; one thing | know, that whereas ]
was blind, now I see"
But this surgeon was just as wonderful as
an auriat. 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
trouble that sweeps through the land, it is
remarkable that there are any good ears ut
all. Most wonderful instrument is the hu-
man eur. 1t is harp and drum md telegraph
and telephone and whispering-gallery oil in
one. So delicate and wondrous is its con-
struction that the most difficult of all things
to reconstruct is the auditory apparatus.
The mightiest OF scientists have put their
Skill to it's returning, and sometimes they
stop the progress of it's decadence. orremove
temporary distractions, but not more than
one really deaf ear out of a hundred thousand
ia ever cured. It took q God to make the
ear. and it takes q God to mend it. That
makes me curious to see how Christ the sur
geon succeeds as an aurist.
We are told OF only two cases He operated
on as an ear surgeon. His friend Peter,
naturally high tempered, saw Christ insulted
and Peter let password fly, aim,
ing at the mans head, but the sword
slipped and hewed off the outside ear, and
other ear bloomed in the place Of the one
that had been slashed away. BUT it is not
the outside ear that hears. That is only a
funnel tor gathering sound and pouring it in
to the hidden and more elaborate ear. On
the beach of Lake Galilee our Surgeon found
@ MAI deaf and dumb. The patient dwelt in
perpetual silence, and was speechless. He
could not hear q note of music or q clap OF
thunder. He could not call father or mother
or wife or children by name. What power
can awaken that dull tympanum or reach
that chain OF small bones or revive that audi.
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brain and the outside world? The Surgeon
put His fingers to the denf ears and agitated
them. and kept on agitating them until the
vibration gave vital energy to all the deaf
parts, and they responded, and when our
Surgeon Withdrew His fingers from the ears,
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 sul silence had been built a kings high
way of resonance and reclamation. But yet
he is dumb. No word has ever leaped over
his lip. Speech was chained nnderhis tongue.
Vo~caization and accentuation were to him
an impossibility. He could express neither
love nor Indignation nor worship. Our
Surgeon, having unba:red his ear, will now
melt the shackle Of his tongue. The Surgeon
will use the same IMMINENT or salve that He
used on two occasions for the cure of blind
people, namely, the moisture of His own
mouth. The application is made. And 10,
the rigidity if the dumb tongue Is relaxed,
and between the tpngne and the teeth were
born o whole vocabulary, and words few in
to expressions. 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 1T that other sur.
geons use knives and forceps and probes and
spectroscopes, this Surgeon used only the
ointment of His own lips? To show
that all the curative power We ever feel
comes straight from Christ. And If He
touches ns not, We shall be deaf as q rock
and dumb as a tomb. Oh thou greatest OF
all a~nrists, compel.us to hear and help us to
speak,!
But what were the surgeons fees for all
these cures of eyes and ears and tongues and
whithered hands and crooked backs? The
skill and tho palnlessness Of the operations
lars. Do not think that the cases He took
We're oil moneyless. Did He not treat the
rulers dauehterf Did He not effect q cure
in the house Of q centurion 5Af great wealth,
who had out q! his own pocket built n syna-
gogue? They would have paid Him large
fees i He had demanded them, and there
were hundreds of wealthy people in Jerusa-
lem, and among the merchant castles along
Lake Tiberias, who would have given this
Surgeon houses and lands and all they had
for such cures a. he could effect. For criti
Cul fH1Cc - VII StAAF iS0P CAtt5CO4tb udtO It-
ceived $1,000, $5, QOOy and, in one easel know
Of, $4,000, but the Surgeon Of whom
] speak received not a shekel, not q penny, |
not q farthing. In His whole earthly lie, we
know Of His having had but 62h cents.
When His taxes were due, by His omuiscience
lowed a piece Of silver money, as fish are apt
to swallow anything bright, and He sent Pc
ter with q hook which brought mp that fish, |
and from its mouth was extracted a Roman
slater, or 62h cents the only money he ever
had: and that He paid out for taxes. This
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, apd your deaf ears
unbarred, and your dumb tongues loosened,
and Your wounds healed, and your soul saw
mind, or soul, let them remember that sur.
gerry Is apt to hurt. hut it cures, and you can
afford present pain Tor future glory, Be.
sides that, there are powerful IL nRstheties in
the divine promises that soothe and alleviate.
No ether or chloro 'orm or cocaine ever made
few drops q that magnificent anodyne:
things work together for good to those
WHO love Gpd;'' Weeping may endure for q
night, but joy cometh in the morning"
What Q grand thing for our poor human
race when this Surgeon shall have completed
day will come when there will be no more
hospitals, for there will be no more sick, and
no more eye and err ~infrmaries, for there |
will be nj more blind or deaf, and no more
deserts, for the round earth shpll he brought |
under arboriculture. and MP more blizzarda
or sunstrokes, for the atmosphere will BIZ ex-
purgatsd OF scorch and no chill. and more
war for the sword shall come out Of the
foundry bent into prpninghQoks. While ii
the heavenly country We shall sea those who