The Red Cloud chief., 1890-04-25

tutO Wv toCc W NuTibt WIN kEosst"uVs
and up toward Heaven in transport
Straight! After eighteen weary and
exhaustive years, straight The poise.
the graceful ness, the beauty of healthy
~womsnhood reinstated.
The thirty.eight years case was a
man who lay on . mattress near the
mineral baths at Jerusalem. There
were five apartments where lame pro-
pie were brought. so that they could get
the advantage Of these mineral baths
The stone basin OF the bath IL still Wis.,
iblc. although the waters have disap-
peared. probably through some convul.
sion Of nature, the bath. i:O feet long.
20 feet wide and eight feet deep. Al,
poor man; II you have been lame and
helpless th%irty.cight years that mineral
bath can not restore you. Why, thirty.
eight years Is more than the average Of
human life! Nothing but the grave
will cure you.
But Christ tho Surgeon walks along
these baths, and have no doubt passes
by some patients who have been only
six months disordered, or a year, or five
years, and comes TO the mattress Of the
man who has been nearly four decades
helpless, and To this thirty.eight years
invalid said: ''wilt thou be made
whole?" Tho question asked, moi lr.
cause the Surgeon did not understand
the protractcdncss tho dcspesatcness Of
the case. but to evoke tho mans pathetic
narrative. "Wilt thou be made wholeT'
"Would you like to get wcIl?" 20.
yes" says this that is what ]
came to these mineral baths for: ! have
failed and all ths prescriptions have
proved valuclcss, and ! have got worse
and worse. and ! can neither move hand
or foot or head. q. IL ! could only 10
FREQ from this pain Of thirty eight
years." Christ the Surgeon could not
stand that Icnding over tho man ON
.he mattress, and with . voice tender
with all sympathy. but strong with all
OmnipOtcncc, Nc says. Rise" And the
invalid instantly scrambled 10 his knees
and then puts ont his right foot, and
,haD his left foot and then stood up.
right as though he had never been pros.
tratcd. While me- stands looking at tho
Dss'tOr With a joy too much to hold the
Doctor says: shoulder this mattress!
for W" are no. only we'll enough to
walk. but we'll enough to work. and
start out from these mineral baths Take
M thy bed and walk" q what q Surgeon
for chronic eases then and Tor chronic
eases now!
This Is not applicable 80 much To those
who ar" only \ little hurt Of sin. and
Osiy for n short time, but TO those pros
trated ~ sin twelve years. eighteen
years. thirtv.oight years, Here Is a
Surgeon able 10 give immortal hoalth
20" you say. u am : q completely over.
thrown and iramplcd down Of sin that
can not risc." Arc you iiatter down
than this patient Mt the mineral hathsp
No Then rise. In the name Of Jesus Of
Nazareth, the Surgeon who offers you
his right hand Of hclp ] bid thee rise.
Not cases Of acute sin. but ~ chronic
sih-thosc who have not prayed for
thirty-eight years, those Who have not
been tn church for thirty.cight years.
those who have been gamblers. or liher.
tines, or thieves. ~ outlaws, or bias
phemcrs, ~ inidcls, or atheists. or all
these together. for thirty eight years
4 Christ for exigcncies! a Christ for .
dead lih! a surgeon who never loses a
case
In speaking Of Christ a. q surgeon. !
must consider Him an oculist. or eye
doctor. and an auris,, or ear doctor.
Was thcC ever such another Oculist?
That Tie was particularly sorry for the
blind folks. ! take from the fact that
tho most Of His work was with the dis.
eascd optic nerves. have u time TO
count up tho number Of blind people
mentioned who got Ills cure, Two blind
men In n house. also n was BORN
blind; so that II was not removal OF a
visual obstruction, but the creation Of
the cosnca, and ciiiary muscle, and crys.
tallinc lcnsc, and retina. and optic
nerve. and ear gland; also tho blind
man ~ iRthsaida. cured by tho saliva
which the Surgeon took from the tip Of
His own tongue and put upon tho eye.
lids: also two blind men who sat by the
wAyslde. In our civilized lands We have
blindness enough. tho ratio fcarfully In.
creasing. according IN the statement OF
liS~ton and New York and lhiladcl.
phia OcculiSts, because Of the read
Ing ~ morning and evening ncwspa.
prs an the jolting cars by tho multi.
tsdes who live out NJ tn" city and como
IN ,o business. But In the lands whore
this divine Surgeon operated the cases Of
blindness wore multiplied beyond every
thing Nv iho PARTICLES III sand floating
In III" air and the night ae~s falling On
the cyclids Of those who slept On the
tops ~ their houses, and in some oi
these lands IL il estimated thai twenty
out ~ a hundr"d people arc totally
blind Amid all that crowd Of vision.
less people what work for an or,ulis,.
Aud ! do not hclieve that more than ono
ont 81 \ hundred Of that surgeons cures
wore reported lie went up and down
among thos" people who wcr feeling
slowly their Nay 10y stan or led hy the
hand of man or ropc OF dog, AMI intro.
ducing them Ia tho faces ot their own
household. and Ia the sunrise and tho
sunset and the evening star. lie Jos,
ran his hand over tho . xpres>.onlc>> .Acc