Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-21

or reacli that chain Of small bones or revive
that auditory nerve or open the gate between
the brain and the outside worldl The Sur
geon put his fingers in the deaf ears and agi-
tated chem and kept on agitsting them until
the vibration gave vital energy to all the
dead parts, and they responded, and when
our Surgeon withdrew his fingers from the
ears, the two tunnels of sound were clear for
all sweet voices Of music and friendship For
the first time in his life he heard the dash of
the waves of Galilee. Through the desert of
painful silence had been built kings high
way Of resonance and reclamation. But yet
he was dumb. No word had ever leaped over
his lip. Speech was chained under his tongue
Vocalization and accentuation were to him
an impossibility. He could express neither
love nor Indignation nor worship. Our Sur
geon, having unbarred his ear, will now melt
the shackle of his tongue. The Surgeon will
use the same Eminent or salye that he used
on two occasions for the cure Of blind people,
namely, the moisture of his own mouth. The
application is made. And 10, the rigidity of
the dumb tongue is relaxed, and between the
tongue and teeth were born whole vocabu-
larry, and words few into expression. He not
only heard but he talked. One gate of his
body swung in to let sound enter, and the other
gate swung out to let sound depart. Why is
it that while other surgeons used knives and
forceps and probes and spectroscopes, this
Surgeon used only the ointment of his own
lipss To show that all the curative power
we ever feel comes straight from Christ.
And if he touches us not, we shall be deaf
as rock and dumb as a tomb Oh thou
greatest of all aurists compel us to hear and
help us to speak
HIS SERVICES ARE FREE.
But what were the Surgeons fees for all
these cures of eyes and ears and tongues and
withered hands and crooked backs! The
skill and the painlessness of the operations
were worth hundreds and thousands of dol
lars. Do not think that the cases he took were
all moneyless. Did he not treat the noble
mans soma Did he not doctor the rulers
daughter2 Did he not effect cure in the
house Of a centurion of great wealth, who
had out of his own pocket built a synagogue2
They would have paid him large fees if he
had demanded them, and there were hun.
dreds Of wealthy people In Jerusalem, and
among the merchant castles along Lake III
berias, who would have given this Surgeon
houses and lands and all they had for such
cures as he could effect. For critical cases in
sand dollars, five thousand dollars, and, in
one case I know of, fifty thousand dollars,
but the Surgeon of whom l speak received
not a shebel, not penny, not farthing.
In his whole earthly life, we know of his
having had but sixty-two and half cents.
When his taxes were due, by his omnis-
cience he knew of fish in the sea which had
swallowed piece of silver money, as fish are
inf 70 H,.tC l, .
Peter with hook which brought up that
fish, and from its mouth was extracted a
Roman slater, or sixty-two and half cents,
the only money he ever had; and that he
paid out for taxes. This greatest Surgeon of
all the centuries gave all his services then,
and offers all his services now, free of
charge. Without money and without
price, you may spiritually have your blind
eyes opened, and your deaf ears unbarred,
and your dumb tongues loosened, and your
wounds healed, and your soul saved. If
Christian people get hurt Of body, mind or
soul, let them remember that surgery is apt
to hurt, but it cures, and you can afford
present pain for future glory. Beside that,
there are powerful anesthetics in the divine
promises that soothe and alleviate. No ether
or chloroform OF cocaine ever made one so
magnificent anodyne: Gan things work to-
gether for good to those who love God;n
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
cometh in the morning"
What a grand thing for our poor human
race when this Surgeon shall have completed
the treatment of all the worlds wounds!
The day will come when there will be no
more hospitals, for there will be no more sick,
nd f,.Gr 60.
there will be no more blind or deaf, and no
more deserts, for the round earth shall be
brought under arboriculture, and no more
billiards or sunstrokes, for the atmosphere
will be expurgated of scorch and chill, and
no more war, for the swords shall come out
of the foundry bent into pruning hooks
While in the heavenly country we shall see
those who were the victims of accident or
malformation, or hereditary ills on earth, be-
come the athletes in elysian fields.
Who is that man with such brilliant eyes
close before the throne9 Why, that is the
man who, near Jericho, was blind, and our
Surgeon cured his ophthalmial Who is that
erect and graceful and queenly woman before
the throne7 That was the one whom our Sur
geon found bent almost double, and could in
no wise lift up herself, and he made her
hLIhlBhp' w no IL CuuJ listening WITH SUCH
rapture to the music Of heaven, solo melting
into chorus, cymbal responding to trumpet,
and then himself joining in the anthemf
Why, that is the man whom our Surgeon
found deaf and dumb on the beach of Galilee,
and by two touches opened ear gate and
mouth gate. Who is that around whom the
crowds are gathering with admiring look and
thanksgiving, and cries of ooh, what be did
for me! Oh, what he did for my family
Oh, what he did for the world" That is the
Surgeon of all the centuries, the Oculist, the
Aurist, the Emancipator, the Saviour. No
pay he took on earth. Come, now, and let
all heaven pay him with worship that shall
never end, and love that shall never die
On his head be ali the crownsl In his hands
be all the sceptersl and at his feet be all the
worldsl
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