Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-05-01

eight years Is more than the average 81
human life! Nothing but the grave
will cure you,
But Christ the Surgeon walks along
these baths, and have no doubt passes
by some patients who have been only
six months disordered, or year, or i've
years, and comes to the mattress of the
man who has been nearly four decaoes
helpless, and to this thiFty-eight years
invalid said: ''Wilt thou be made
whole3" The question asked, not be-
cause the Surgeon did not understand
the protractedness the desperateness of
the case, but to evoke the mans pathetic
narrative. ''Wilt thou be made Whole?"
Would you like to get well?" 20
yes" says this man, that is what /
came to these mineral baths for; have
tried every thing. All the surgeons have
failed and all the prescriptions have
proved valueless, and have got worse
and worse, and l can neither move hand
or foot or head o, if l could only be
free from this pain of thirty-eight
years" Christ the Surgeon could not
stand that Bending over the man on
with all sympathy, but strong with all
omnipotence, He says, ''Rise!" And the
invalid instantly scrambled to his knees
and then puts out his right foot, and
then his left foot and then stood up
right as though he had never been pros
trated. While he stands looking at the
Doctor with a Joy too much to hold the
Doctor says: shoulder this mattress!
for you are not only we'll enough to
walk, but well enough to work. and
start out from these mineral baths. Take
up thy bed and walk" o what Surgeon
for chron c cases then and for chronic
cases now!
This is not applicable so much to those
who are only little hurt of sin, and
only for a short time, but to those pros
trated of sin twelve years, eighteen
years, thirty-eight years. Here is q
Surgeon able to give immortal health.
90" you say, Il am 50 completely over
thrown and trampled down of sin that !
can not rise" Are YOU hatter down
than this patient at the mineral baths?
No Then rise. In the name Of Jesus of
Nazareth, the Surgeon who offers you
his right hand of help, bid thee rise.
Not cases of acute sin, but of chronic
sin-those who have not prayed for
thirty-eight years, those who have not
been to church for thirty-eight years,
those who have been gamblers, or liber-
tines, or thieves, or outlaws, or BIAS
phemers, or infidelS, or atheists, or all
these together, for thirty-eight years.
A Christ for exigencies! A Christ for
dead lift! A Surgeon who never loses
case!
In speaking of Christ as a surgeon, l
must consider Him an oculist or eye
doctor, and an aurist or ear doctor.
Was there ever such another oeulist?
That He was particularly sorry for the
blind folks, | take from the fact that
the most OF His work was with the dis
eased 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 was born
blind; so that il was not removal of a
visual obstruction, but the creation of
the cornea, and ciliary muscle, and crys-
talline tense, and retira, and optic
nerve, and tear gland; also the blind
man of Bethsaida, cured by the saliva
which the Surgeon took from the tip of
His own tongue and put upon the eye
lids; also two blind men who sat by the
wayside. In our civilized lands we have
blindness enough, the ratio fearfully in
creasing, according to the statement of
Boston and New York and Philadel-
phia occul;sts, because of the read
ing of morning and evening newspa-
pers on the jolting cars by the multi
tudes who live out of the city and come
in to business. But in the lands where
this divine Surgeon opcrat ted 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
tops 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 vision
less people what work for an Occulist!
And do not believe that more than one
out of hundred of that surgeons cures
were reported. lie went up and down
among those people who were feeling
slowly their way by staff or led by the
| hand of man or rope of dog, and intro
| duciHg them to the faces of their own
/ household, and 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! l see. Thank God, /
see!' That is the occulist we all need.
/ Till lie 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 can not see 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 the future,
time bigger than eternity. Or we are
/ color blind and can not see the differ
! ence between the biackness of darkness
/ forever and the roseate morning of an
everlasting day. But Christ the Sur
/ geon comes in, and though we shrink
( back afraid to have Him touch US, yet
lie puts II 5 fingers or the closed eye
lids of the soul and midnight becomes
mid noon.
/ 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 not to get on this or tina;
side of you when they sit, or walk or
ride with you, because they have one
disabled ear. Many have both ears dam
aged and what with the constant racket
/ of our great cities, and the catarrhal
troubles that sweep through the land,
/ it is remarkable that there are any good