Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-21

Iurgeon who offers you His right hand of help,
L bid thee rise. Not cases of acute sin, but of
chronic sin-those who have not prayed for IS
years. those who have not been to church for
| IS years, those who have been gamblers, or lib
or infidels or atheists. or all these together,
| for 3S years. A Christ for exgencies! Christ
for dead-lifti A Surgeon who never loses
case!
| MAKING THE BLIND SEE.
| In speaking of Christ surgeon, I must
| consider Him as an oculist or eye doctor, and
| an aurist or ear doctor. Was there ever such
| another oculst? That He was particularly
| sorry for the blind folks take from the fact
that the most of His works 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 who was born blind: so that it was not re-
| moyal of a visual obstruction, but the creation
of the cornea, and ciliary muscle, and crystal
line lens, and retina, and optic nerve, and tear
gland; also the blind man of Bethsaida, cured
| by the saliva which the Surgeon took from
the tip 0 His S0 aa a6d pq5 uP6o P6o
| sat by the wayside. In our civilized
| lands we have blindness enough, the ratio fear
fully increasing, according to the statement of
| Boston and New York and Philadelphia ocu-
lists, because of the reading of morning and
evening newspapers on the jolting cars by the
multitudes who live out of the city and come in
to business. Butin the lands where this Divine
Surgeon operated, the cases of blindness were
multiplied beyond everything 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
1t is estimated that twenty out of a hundred
people are totally blind.
Amid all that crowd of visionleSs people, what
work for an oculst. And do not believe that
more than one out of a hundred of that Sur
geoI's cures were reported. He 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 introducing them to |
the faces of their own household to the sunrise |
and the sunset, and the evening star. He Just |
ran His hand over the expressonless face, and |
the shutters of both windows were swung open. |
and the restored went home crying, II see! |
see! Thank God. seer
That is the ocuist we all need. Till He
touches our eyes we are blind. Yea, we are
born blind. By nature we see things wrong II
see them at all. Our best eternal interests
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 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
morning 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
becomes mid-noon: and We under
stand 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
ki1dled 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 sinner or no. know not;
one thing know, that whereas 1 was blind,
now l see''
But this Surgeon was just as wonderful 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 or walk
or ride with you. because they have one dis | :
abled ear. Many have both ears damaged and | {
what with the constant racket of our great
cities and the catarrhal troubles that sweep | .
through the land, ii is remarkable that there |
are any good ears at all. Most wonderful in |
is the human ear. 1t is harp and
drum and telegraph and telephone and whis- | q
pering-gallery all in one. So delicate and won | i
drous its construction that the most difficult :
of all things to reconstruct is the auditory ap-
paratus The mightiest of scientists have put {
their skill to Its returning, and sometimes they I
stop the progress Of its decadence, or remove | I
obstructions, but not more than one | i
really deaf ear out of hundred thousand is s
ever cured. 1t took God to make the ear | +
and it takes God to mend it. That makes me
curious to see how Christ the surgeon succeeds a
is an aurlst I
We are told of only two cases He opersted q
IN as an ear surgeon. His friend Peter, natur- n
lilly high-tempered, Christ insulted by a | +
nan by the name of Malchus and Peter let his g
,HOTU uy, dL Iu0 nedu, Dut the a
word slipped and hewed off the outside ear,
md our Surgeon touched the laceration and | n
mother ear bloomed in the place of the one t
hat had been slashed away. But it is not the | i
outside ear that hears. That is only funnel il
or gathering sound and pouring it into the | n
hidden and more elaborate ear.
NO FEES DEMANDED, I
On the beach of Lake Galilee our Surgeon | i:
ound man deaf and dumb. The patient ]
lwelt in perpetual SILENCE and was speechless.
The Surgeon put His fingers in the deaf ears
nd agitated them. and kept on agitating them
Until the vibration gave vital energy to all the
lead parts. and they responded, and when our 4
surgeon withdrew His fingers from the ears
he two tunnels of sound were clear for all -
weet voices OF music and friendship For the n
rst time in his life he heard the dash of tho ii
raves of Galee. Through the desert Of pain D
ul silence had been built kings highway of G.
and acclamation But vet he was t
umb. No word had ever leaped over his lip. t.
speech was chained under his tongue. Vocal -
zatlon and accentuation were to him an i'm
He could express neither love nor
nor worship. Our Surgeon, having
nbarred his ear. will now melt the shackle of il
lis tongue. e
The Surgeon will use the same liniment or e
alive that He used on two occasions for the | 81
ure of blind people, namely, the moisture OF | a.
lis own mouth. The application is made. And | b
D, the rigidity of the dumb tongue is relaxed | a!
nd between the tongue and teeth were born a | b.
'hole vocabulary, and words flew into express | o.
ion. He not only heard but he talked. One | a
ate of his body swung in to let SOUND enter | W
nd the other gate SWING out to let sound de- Il
art Why is it that while other surgeons used | 81
nlves and forceps and PROBES and spectre | e
copes, this Surgeon used only the ointment of al
lis own lips? To show that all the curative | it
over we ever feel comes straight from Christ al
md if He touches us not, shall be deaf as a CT
ock and dumb as a tomb Oh thou greatest
I all aurlSts, compel us to hear and help US TO
peak! =
But what were the Surgeons fees for all
hese cures of eyes and ears and tongues and
Uttered hands and crooked backs? The skill
nd the painlessness of the operations were
Torth hundreds and thousands of dollars. Do
OF think that the cases He took were all l.
loneyless. Did He not treat the nobeman's
IN? Did he not doctor the rulers daughter?
nd He not effect a cure in the house of a GEN.
lrion of great wealth. who had out of his own
ocket built synagogue?
THE GREAT PHYSICIAN,
They would have paid Him large fees if he
Id demanded them, and there were hundreds
wealthy people In Jerusalem, and among the
erchant castles along Lake Tiberias, who
ould have given this Surgeon houses and
nds and all they had for such cures as He
'uld effect. For critical cases in our time
eat surgeons have received a 81 600 S. OO0
i'd, in one case L know of, $4,000, but the fa
lrgeon of whom / speak received not a l =
ekel, not penny, not farthing. In His L
hole earthly life, we know of His having had
It 625 cents. When His taxes were due by -
is omniscience He knew of a fish in the sea |
1lch had swallowed piece of silver money
hsh are apt to swallow anything bright and
e sent Peter with a hook which brought up
at fish, and from its mouth was extracted a
'man slater, or 6213 cents the only money He
er had; and that He paid out for taxes. This
eatest Surgeon of all the centuries gave all
s services then. and offers all His services
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