Connecticut western news., 1890-04-23

Illdu Or rope Ol uOg, anu luIrOuuCllk them to the faces of their own house. 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 swung open, and the restored went home, crying, II see! see! Thank God, I see!''
 TILL HE TOUCHES OUR EYES WE ARE
 ALL BLIND.
 That is the oculist we all need. Till he touches our eyes we are blind. Yea,
 we were born blind. By nature we see things wrong if we see them at all. Our best eternal interests are put be-
 fore us and we cannot sec them The glories of loving and pardoning Christ are projected, and we do not behold them. Or we have defective sight which makes the things of this world larger than the things of the future, time bigger than eternity Or we are color blind, and cannot see the difference between the blackness of darkness forever and the roseate morn ing of an everlasting day. But Christ the Surgeon comes in, and though we shrink back, afraid to have him touch us, yet he puts his fingers on the closed eyelids of the soul, and midnight be- comes mid noon; and we understand something of the joy of the young man of the Bible, who, though he had never before been able to see his hand
 before his face, now, by the touch of Christ, had two headlights kindled under his brow, cried out in language that confounded the jeering crowd
 who were deriding the Christ that had effected the cure, and wanted to make him out bad man, "Whether he be a sinner or no, l know not; one thing l know, that whereas I was blind, now
 see." ..
 But this surgeon was just as wonder
 full as an aurist. 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 damaged, and what with the constant
 racket of our great cities and the ca
 tarrhal troubles that sweep through
 are any good ears at all. Most won-
 derful instrument Is the human ear.
 It is harp and drum and telegraph and
 telephone and whispering gallery all
 in one. So delicate and wondrous is
 its construction that the most difficult
 of all things to reconstruct is the au- ditory apparatus The mightiest of
 scientists have put their skill to it's re-
 turning, and sometimes they stop the
 progress of its decadence. or remove temporary Instructions, but not more
 than one really deaf ear out of hun dred thousand is ever cured. It took
 God to make the ear, and it takes q
 God to mend it. That makes me curi- ous to see how Christ the surgeon suc
 ceeds as an aurist.
 We are told of only two cases he op- erated on as an ear surgeon. His friend Peter, naturally high tempered, saw Christ insulted by man by the name of Malchus, and Peter let his sword fly, aiming at the mans head, but the
 sword slipped and hewed off the out side ear, and our Surgeon touched the laceration and another ear bloomed in the place of the one that had been slashed away. But it is not the out
 side ear that hears. That is only fun
 nel for gathering sound and pouring it into tine hidden and more elaborate ear. On the beach of Lake Galilee our Surgeon found man deaf and dumb. The patient dwelt in perpetual silence, and was speeches.. He could not hear 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 tynlpanum or reach that chain of small
 bones or revive that auditory nerve or open the gate between the brain and the outside world2 The Surgeon put his fingers in the deaf ears and agi- 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 kings highway of resonance and acclama- tion But yet 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. lie could express neither love nor indignation nor wor- ship. Our Surgeon, having unbarred his ear, will now melt tho shackle of his tongue. The Surgeon will use the same liniment or salve that he used on two occasions for tine cure of blind peo- pie, namely, the moisture of his own
 mouth. The application is made. And, To. the rigidity of the dumb tongue is relaxed, and between the tongue and teeth were born a whole v.n abulary, and words flew into ex- presSsiun He not only heard, but he talked One gate of his body swung in to let sound cutter, and the other gate swung out to let sound depart. Why is 1t tlut whir cther iurgcons used knives and forceps and probes and spectioscopes this Surgeon used only ti.c ointment of his own lips2 To show that all the curative power we ever feel comes straight from Christ. And if he touches us not we shall be d. f as a rock and dumb as ;, tomb. Oiu tilou 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 daughter9 Did he
 not effect a cure in the house of a cen
 turion of great wealth, who had out of
 his own pocket built synagogue9
 They would have paid him large fees if he had demanded them, and there
 were hundreds of wealthy people in