Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

Jesus OlrlSJ, IhO Ho =. ..o,o,,
gentIest and most sympathetic surgeon
fbe world ever saw, or ever Will See'
and He deserves the confidence ana love-
ond worship and hosanna OF all the
earth and hallelujahs of all Heaven
"The blind receive their sight, ana the
lame walk; the lepers are cleaned and
the deaf hear"
notice this Surgeon had a fondness
for chronic cases. Many surgeon
when he has lad a patient brought 10
him, has said: "Why was not TINS az
tended to five years ago? You Orlng
him TO me after all power of recupera,
tion is gone? You have waited until
there is complete contraction OF tne
muscles, and false ligatures are 1ormeq'
and ossi ifcation has taken place. IL
oncht TO have been attended to long
apo," But Christ, the Surgeon, seemed
TO prefer inveterate cases. one was
hemorrbage of twelve years, and lie
stonned it. Another was curvature Oh
eigbteen wears, and He Strengthened It,
Another was cripple OF thirty
eight years, and he walked out
we'll The eighteen-year patien'
was a woman bent almost double
If you could call convention
of all the surgeons of all the centuries,
their combined skill could not cure that
body so drawn out of shape, PeFhapS
they might stop it from getting any
worse, perhaps they might contrlve
braces by which she might be maze
more comfortable, but it is, humanly
speaking, incurable. Yet this DIVINE
Surgeon put both His hands on her, ana
from that doubled-up posture she began
to rise, and the empurpled face began
to take on a healthier hue, and the
muscles began to relax from their rigid
ity, and the spinal column began to al
Just itself, and the cords of the neck be-
gan to be supple, and the eyes, thaV
could only see the ground before no"
looked up into the face of Christ with
gratitude, and up toward Heaven IN
transport. Straight! After eighteen
weary and exhaustive years, straight
The poise, the gracefulness, the beauty
of healthy womanhood reinstated.
The thirty-eight years case was a
man who Law on a mattress near the
mineral baths at Jerusalem. There
were five apartments where lame peo-
pie were brought so that they could get
the advantage of the mineral baths.
The stone basin of the bath is still vlsl-
BILE, although the waters have dlSap-
peared, probably through some convul-
sion of nature, the bath, one hundred
and twenty feet long, forty feet wide
and eight feet deep. All, poor man; if
you have been lame and helpless thir-
ty-eight years, that mineral bath can
not restore. But Christ, the Surgeon,
walks along these baths, and | have no
doubt passes by some patients who have
been only six months disordered, or a
year, or five years, and comes to the
mattress of the man who had been near
ly four decades helpless, and to this thir-
ty-eight years invalid said: "Wilt thou
be made whole?"
In speaking OF Christ as Surgeon,
must consider Him as an dculis6, or eye
doctor, and an aurist, or ear doctor
Was there ever such another oculist?
That He was particularly sorry for the
blind folks, | take from the fact that
the most of His work was with the
diseased optic nerves. have not time
to count up the number of blind people
mentioned who got His cure. Two
blind men in one house, also one who
was born blind; 50 that it was not re-
moval of visual obstruction, but the
creation of the cornea, and ciliary
muscle, and crystalline lens, and
retina, and optic nerve, and
tear gland; and the blind man
of Bethsaida, cured by the 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 way
side. In our civilized lands we have
blindness enough, the ratio fearfully in
creasing, according to the statement of
Boston and New York and Philadelphia
oCulists, because of the reading of morn
ing and evening newspapers on the
jolting cars by the multitudes who live
out of the city and come in to business
But in the lands where this Divine Sur
geon operated, the cases of blindness
were multiplied beyond every thing by
the PARTICLES of sand floating in the
air, and the night dews falling on the
eyelids of those who slept on the top
of their houses; and in some of these
lands it is estimated that twenty out of
a hundred people are totally blind.
Amid all that crowd of visionless peo-
Pile, what work for an oculiSt! And do
not. believe that more than one out of a
hundred of that Surgeons cures we're
reported. He went up and down among
those people who where feeling slowly
their way by staff, or led by the hand
of man or rope of dog, and introducing
them to the faces of their own
household, to the sunrise and the sun
set 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: Il see! I see! Thank
God, seer'
But this Surgeon was just as wonder
full as an aurist. Very few peonle bave