The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-30

been attended to long ago. But
Christ the Surgeon seemed to prefer
inyettrate csses. One VAS 3 hcmoc-
s,hage Of twelve years, and He stopped
il. Another waa a curvature CT eish-
teen years, and He Strengthened it.
Another was cripple Of thrty-eight
years, and he walked out well. The
eighteer-year patient was woman
bent almost double. T you could
eall q convention Of all the surgeons
Of al the centuries, their combined
skill could not cure that body SC
drawn out Of shape Perhaps they
might stop it from being any worse.
perhaps they might contrive braces
by which she might be made more
comfortable. but it is, humanity speak,
ing, mcurable. Yet this divine Sur,
geon put bot, His hands on hec, and
from that doubled-u2 posture she be
gan to rise, and the eznpu1pled face
began to take on 8 healthier hue, and
the muscles began to relax rom their
rigidity, and the SPINAL column began
to adjust itself. and the cords Of Tie
neck began to be moro supple, and
the eyes, that could soc Only the
ground before now, looked ;nto Tie
face OF Christ with gratitude. and ~
toward heaven ia t,ansnort. Straight!
After eighteen weary and exhaustive
years, straight. The pcise, the grace
fuiness. the beauty ofhealthy woman
hood reinstated.
The thirty-aight years case was a
man VINO lay Oh q mattress near the
mineral baths at Jerusalem. The
were FIVE apartments ~hero lame PEG
pie were brought 50 that they could
gel the ad7antage Of these mineral
baths. The stone basin OF the bath
IS gtiu visible although the waters
have disappeared, probably through
some conyulsion Of nature; the bath
l20 feet long. 30 lest wide and S fees
deep. Ah, poor man: i you have
been lame and helpless thirttEv-eiglt
Years, that mineral bath cannot re-
store you. Why, thirty-2ight years IS
more than the average Of hu-nen Lis.
Nothing bu5 the grave vii cure you.
But Christ the Surgeon walks along
these baths, AID | have no doubt pas-
ses by some patiea5s Who rave been
only six months diso1dered, ora yea1.
or fye years, and comes to the
mattress OF the man who had been
nearly four decades helpless, and 20
This thirty+isht years invalid sad:
"Miit thou be made whole? The
question asked, not because tie Sar-
gaon did rot understand the protrac-
teGness;the dasperataness, of the case,
10 evoke tho mans pathetic narrative.
:'Wilt thou be made whole?' would
you ike to get walit,; ''On yes, says
the mar. that is what / came to these
mineral bath for; I hare tried every
thing. All the surgeons haya fsileG,
and al the prescriptions have proved
valueless, and / have got worse and
worse, ard I cen neither move hand
or foot or head. Oh, # ! could only
be froa from this pain Of thirty-a;gilt
ycars??" Christ, the Surgeon. could
not stand that. Bending o7sr TIE
man on the mattress. and IN = To;ca
tender With all sympathy, but strong
w-;;sE an omnipotcnce, He says, '<R;;sc!H
and the i0raid Instantly sc-smbles
to his knees, and tlea puts out his
richt loot. then his lett loot, and
then stood upright as though he had
never been prostrated. While he
stands looking at the Doctor with q
ioy 100 much to hold, The Doctor says:
shoulder this mattress. for you are
not Only well enough to walk but
well enough to work, and start cut
from these mineral baths. Take up
thy bed and walk" Oh, what Sur
geon Tor chronic cases then, snc for
chronic cases noT.
In speaking Of Christ as surgeon,
I must consider Him as an ocullst, or
eye doctor. and sn airist, or ear doe
tor. Was there ever such another
oculist? Th&t He vas particularly
sorry for the blind folks, I take from
the iact that the most OF His works
was with the diseased optic nerves. !
have no time to count up the number
OF blind people mentioned WHO got
his cure. Two blind men il one
house. also one Who was born blind:
SO that it was not removal O. a visual
obstruction. but tie creation Of the
colnea, and ciiiary muscle, and crys-
talline lens, and retlna, and opt,c
nerve, and tear gland; also the blI.G
man OF fDcthsaida, cured blythe saliva
which tie Surgeon took from the tip
OF E;s oan tongue and put upon The
eyaiiGs;: also two blind men who sat
by the wayside. In Gun ciyilizada age sc
have blindness enough, the ratio
fearG1ly increasing, according to tae
statement Of Boston and New Iork
and Philadelphia ocsdists, because OF
the reading CT the morning and eJen-
;;n- newspapers OF the jolting cars by
the multitudes who i've out OF sha
city and come Il to business. But IN
tie LANDS where this Divine Surgeon
operated. the cases Of blindness We're
multiplied beyond everything oy t."
PARTICLES Of sand floating n the AZ,
and the night dies falling on the
eyel;ds Of those who slcp: OF the TOP
c- their nouses; and IL some OF these
lands it is estimated that twenty out
Of hundred pecple are totally blind.
Amid all that crowd OF vislonless
people. wuatwork for AZ oellist! And
/ 10 rot believe thai more than oEe
out Of O hundred OF that Surgeon $
cures we're reported. he went I'D
and down among those Deopla mo
were feeling slowly their way by stall:
or led By the hand OF man OF rope Q;
dog, and introducing them to t2e
faces Of their own household to tie
sunrise and sunset, ana the cTenl45
z7..a,.. Hc iy.sv ran lis hNn3 ovec tas
ezpras5ionles5 face, and the shutters
ci both windows were swung open,
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