The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-07-11


= sunset, and the evening STAR
Est ran His hand over the expressionless
ace, and the shutters of both windows were
swung open, and the restored went home,
crying: Il seel I seei Thank God, seer'
That is the oculist we all need. TIL 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 inter-
| ests are put before us, and we cannot see
them. The glories Of loving and pardoning
Christ are projected and we do not behold
them. Or we have a defective sight which
makes the things Of this world larger than
the things of the futurs, time bigger than
eternity. Or we are color blind and cannot
see the difference between the blackness of
darkness forever and the roseste morning of
an everlasting day. But Christ the Surgeon
comes IN, and though we shrink back, afraid
70 have Him touch us, yet He puts
bis fingers on the closed eyelids of the soul
ana midnight becomes mid-nOon; and We
understand something of the ioy of the youns =
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 kindleB under his brow cried out
IN language that COMPOUNDED the ieering
crowd who were deriding the Christ that Z
had effected the cure, and wanted to make
Him out a bad man: whether He be a sinner
or no, l know not; one thing l know, that
whereas was blind now 1 seq
But this Surgeon was Just as wonderful as J
an aurist. Very few people have two go, bu
ears Nine out of ten people are particuli
TO get on this or that side Of you when the CO
sit or walk or ride with you, because thew
have one disabled ear. Many have both
damaged, and what with tue constant rltes'
ct Of our great cities, and the cataranae-
troubles that sweep through the land. .
remarkable that there are any good cary
all. Most wonderful instrument is the hi
man ear. It is harp and drum and telegraph 1
and telephone and whispering gallery all in !
one So delicate and wondrous is It's con-
struction that the most difficult of all things 7
to reconstruct is the auditory apparatns.,.
The nightiest of scientists hs)lly to 20
skill to its returning and sometirlife with MI
the progress Of its decadence, ST,
temporary distractions, but not NJ, --as
one really deaf ear out of a hundred thou
sand is ever cured. It took a God to make
the ear, and it takes God to mendit. That
makes me curious TO see how Christ the Sur
geon succeeds as an aurist.
We are told of only Two cases He oFerat.,>----
on IN ear surgeon ms tri',.-- Psts go, A.
uralIy high tempered, saw Christ ins4. led by
a man Nv the; -9s,.-of Malchus and refer
let his SWORD tsaer i 6aeac 81 nlaa tSa ne op
but the sICord rs IlerA a,,ad - t,s w u.
sids ear and ga, - ars =
he one THAN had been, We fsci ttal S
S not the o outside ear th..eiro no'V CO.., A2e
lnlv funnE for gathering s. dlstso 70 oar,.
ng it into fthe hidden and morS@1ces 5lpeJ
ar. On thee beach Of Lake Galllee oas Fe ;
,eon foundta man deaf and dumb Inc p
lent dwelA in perpetual silence and was
\ He could not hear a note OF mu,
ic or a clad Of thunder. he could not can
ather or motsller or wife or children by name.
What noyver IAN Faken that dull tympanum
+ reach that cAaain of small bones or revive /
hat auditory Dle or open the gate %, 4etw ss,
he brain ana the oHlssS{de world me our
con put HIS fingers IN tiise<dsaI ears anu 1s
ated them. and kept on agitatnssS them untll
he vibration gave vital energy ~ all the
cad parts. and they responded, anV wh:
mr. SURGEON withdrew His fingers frCNs MI III
ars. the two tunnels of sound were clear az.
II sweet voices of music and friendship. Fdioi
he first time in his life he heard the dash Oh
he waves Of Galilee Through the desert OF
,ainful. silence had been built kings high
yav of resonance and reclamation Busyet =
"a was dumb No word had ever 4eaped over 1
rs lin Speech was chained under his tongue. '
yocalization and accentuation were TO MN
m irnpossibility. He could express neltner
owe nor indignation nor worship. Our our
geon, having unbarred ms ear VIII now ilis ;n
ne shackle Of his tongue. The Surgeon VII
Ise the same IMMINENT or saive that he usee
IN two occasions for the cure of blind people
namely, the moisture Of His own mouth. INT
pplicStion is made. And 10, the rigidity OF
he dumb tongue is relaxed, and between the
ongue and teeth were born a whole Tocapu-
ary. and words flew into expression: heno
nlv heard but he talked. One gate OF nus
,ody swung in to let sound enter, ana tne
ther gate swung out to let sound depart
Fhv Is II that while other surgeons used s.
,nives and forceps and probes and spectre
copes, this Surgeon used only the ointment
f His own lipss To show that all the cura-
i've power we ever feel comes straight from
christ. And if He touches us not, we shall be
leaf as a rock and dumb as tomb. On,
hon greatest of all aurists, compel US to hear
md help us to speak,
what were the Surgeons fees for all
-. Of 49, and nars and tnngnes and L