Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21
SERMON BY DR.. TALMAGE.
CHRIST THE ALL POWERFUL SUR
GEON OF THE WORLD.

An Eloquent Discourse Preached in Brook
lynn Sunday Evening, April 2O-No Phy-
stefan but Jesus Can Heal the Human
Soul That Is sick of Sin.
BROOKLYN, April 2O.-The audiences
DR.. Talmage has had on Sunday even
ings, since the burning of the Taber-
nacle drove his congregation to the
shelter of the Academy of Music, have
been something phenomenal. This
evening the spacious building was
filled in every part The popular
preacher discoursed on the profession
of healing His text was Matthew xi, s:
THE blind receive their sight, and the
lame walk, the lepers are cleansed,
and the deaf hear" He said:
THE MERCIFUL ART OF THE SURGEON.
Doctor" [ said to a distinguished
surgeon, do you not get worn out
with constantly seeing so many
wounds and broken bones and distor-
tions of the human body?" "Oh, no."
he answered, ''all that is overcome
by my joy in curing them" A sub
liner or more merciful art never came
down from heaven than the art OF sur
gerry. Catastrophe and disease entered
the earth so early that one of the first
wants of the world was a doctor. Our
crippled and agOnized human race
called for surgeon and family ply
stefan for many years before they
came The first surgeons who an
swered this call were ministers OF re-
ligion, namely, the Egyptian priests
And what a grand thing if all clergy
men were also doctors, all D. d. s
were NJ. s, for there are SO many
cases where body and soul need treat
ment at the same time, consolation and
medicine, theology and therapeutics.
As the first surgeons of the world were
also ministers of religion, may these
two professions always be in full
sympathy But under what disad-
vantages the early surgeons worked,
| from the fact that the dissection of the
| human body was forbidden, first by
| the pagans and then by the early
| Christiansl Apes, being the brutes
most like the human race, were dis
sected. but no human body might be
unfolded for physiological and ana
| tomical exploration, and the surgeons
! had to guess what was inside the tenn
| pie by looking at the outside of it. If
they failed in any surgical operation
! they were prosecuted and driven out
of the city, as was Archagathus be-
cause of his bold but unsuccessful at
tempt to save patient.
But the world from the very begin
| ming kept calling for surgeons, and
their first skill is spoken of in Genesis,
where they employed their art for
the incisions Of a sacred rite, God max
ing surgery the predecessor Of bap-
tism; and we see it again IL Kings,
where Ahaziah, the monarch, stepped
on some cracked lattice work in the
palace, and it broke, and he fell from
the upper to the lower floor, and he
was so hurt that he sent to
the village of Ekrcn for aid; and
| Esculapius. who wrought such won
ders of surgery that he was deifed,
and temples were built for his worship
at Pergamos; and Epidaurus and Po-
delirius introduced for the relief of the
world phlebotomy; and Damocedes
cured the dislOcated ankle of King Da-
RUS. and the cancer of his queen; and
HippOcrates put successful hand on
fractures, and introduced amputation;
and PraXagoras removed distractions;
and Herophilus began dissection; and
Erasstratus removed tumOrs; and
CELSIUS. the Roman surgeon, removed
cataract from the eye, and used the
Spanish fly; and Heliodorus arrested
disease of the throat; and Alexander, of
Tralles, treated the eye; and Rhazas
cauterized for the prevention of by
drophobia; and Percival Pott came
to combat diseases of the spine; and
in our own century we have had
Roux and Larray in France, an Asst
lev Cooper and an Abernethy in Great
Britain, and a Valentine Mott and
Willard Parker and Samuel ID. Gross
| a111 y O119XU of I-vIf Or
surgeons as brilliant as their predeces-
sors. What mighty progress in the
battling of disease since the crippled
and sick of ancient cities were laid
along the streets, that people who had
ever been hurt or diSOrdered III the
same way might suggest what had bet
ter be done for the patients; and the
priests of olden time, who were con-
stantly suffering from colds received
in walking barefoot over the temple
pavements, had to prescribe for them
selves, and fractures were considered
so far bevOnd all human cure that in
stead of calling in the surgeons the
people only invoked the gods!
THE PAINLESS SURGERY OF JESUS.
But notwithstanding all the surgical
and medical skill of the world, with
what tenacity the old diseases hang on
to the human race, and most OF them
are thousands of years old, and in our
Bibles we read of them: the car
buncles of Job and Hezekiah; the pal
pitation of the heart spoken of in
Deuteronomy the sunstroke of a child
carried from the fields of Shunem,
, CRYING. My headl my head!' King
t Asa's disease of the feet, which was
5 nothing but gout; detection of teeth,
= that called for dental surgery, the
skill of which, quite equal to anything
5 modern, is still seen in the filled mo-
4 lars of the unrolled Egyptian mum
/ mics; the ophthalmia caused by the
Juice of the newly ripe fig, leaving
the people blind at the roadside; cpl
iepsv. as in the case of the young man
often falling into the fire. and oft into
the water; hypochondria, as of Nebu-
chadnezzar. who imagined himself an
OK. and going out to the fields to pas
ture: the withered hand, which in
Bible times, as now, came from the
destruction of the main artery, or from
paralysis of the chief nerve; the
wounds of the man whom the thieves
left for dead on the road to Jericho,
and whom the good Samaritan nursed
pouring in oil and wine-wiDe to
cleanse the wound, and oil to soothe
1t. 1hank GOu Tor what surgery mas
done for the alienation and cure Of
human suffering.
But the world wanted a surgery
without pain. Drs. PARE and Hick
man and Simpson and Warner and
jackson, with their amazing genius
came on, and with their anasthetic
benumbed the patient with narcotic
and others as the ancients did will
hasheesh and mandrake, and quiete'
him for awhile, but at the return o
consciousness distress returned. Th
world has never seen but one surgeon
who could straighten the crooked limb
cure the blind eye, or reconstruct tn
drum of a soundless ear, or reduce
dropsy, without any pain at the time
or any pain after, and that gurgeo5
was Jesus Christ, the mightiest, Crane
est, gentlest and most sympathetic SUI
geon the world ever saw or ever WI
see; and he deserves the confidenc
and love and worship and hosanna {
all the earth, and hallelujahs OF a
heaven 1.-The blind receive thel
: sight, and the lame walk; the Iepe1
orc o1aaOcad aod tho deaf hear "