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

polse, the gracefulneSs, the beauty OF healthy
womanhood reinstated.
The thirty years case was man who
lay ON mattress near the mineral baths at
Jerusalem. There were five apartments
where lame people were brought, so that they
could get the advantage of these mineral
baths. The stone basin Of the bath is still
visible, although the waters have disappeared,
probably through some CONFUSION of nature,
the bath, one hundred and twenty feet long,
forty feet wide and eight feet deep All,
poor man, If you have been lame and helpless
thirty-eight years, that mineral bath cannot
restore you. Why, thrty-eight years is more
than the average OF human lifel 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 a year,
OF five years, and comes to the mattress Of
the man who had been nearly four decades
helpless, and to this thirty eight years
invalid said: 'Wilt thou be made
wholeg' The question asked, not because
the Surgeon did not understand the pro-
tractedness, the desperateness, of the case,
but 10 evoke the mans pathetic mar
rative. wilt thou be made wholep'
Would you like to get well9" "0h, yes"
says the man, that is what came to these
mineral baths for; l have tried everything.
All the surgeons have failed, and all the pre-
scriptions have proved valueless and have
got worse and worse, and l can neither move
hand or foot or head. Oh, if could only be
free from this pain Of thirty-eight yearsl''
Christ the Surgeon could not stand that.
Bending over the man on the mattress, and
in voice tender with all sympathy, but
strong with all omnipotence, he says, "Risel"
And the invalid instantly scrambles to his
knees, and then puts out his right foot, then
his left foot and then stood upright as though
he had never been Frustrated. While he
stands looking at the Doctor with joy too
much to hold, the Doctor says: Shoulder this
mattressl for you are not only well enough to
walk, but well enough to work, and start out
from these mineral baths Take up thy bed
and waikiki" Oh, what Surgeon for chronic
cases then, and for chronic cases now
JESUS THE SURGEON
This is not applicable so much to those who
are only a little hurt of sin and only for a
short time, but to those Frustrated Of stu
twelve years, eighteen years, thirty-eight
years. Here is a surgeon able to give immor-
tai health. 'Oh," you say, II am so COM
pletely overthrow and trampled down of sin
that cannot rise.n Are you fatter down
than this patient at the mineral baths2 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 sim
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 hbertines or
thieves or outlaws, or blasphemers, or inf
dels, or atheists or all these together, for
thirty-eight years. A Christ for exigenciesl
A Christ for dead liftl A Surgeon who
never loses easel
In speaking of Christ as a surgeon, must
consider him as an oculist, or eye doctor, and
an aurist, or ear doctor. Was there ever
such another oculisti That he was particu-
larly sorry for the blind folks, take from
the fact that the most of his works was with
the diseased optic nerves. / have not time to
count up the number of blind people men
toned who got his cure Two blind men in
one house, also one who was born blind; SO
that it was not removal of a visual obstruc-
ton, but the creation Of the cornea, and Gill
airy muscle, and crystalline 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 of his
own tongue and put upon the eyelids; also
two blind men who sat by the wayside. In
our civilized lands we have blindness enough,
the ratio fearfully increasing, according to
the statement Of Boston and New York and
Philadelphia oculists, because of the reading
Of morning and evening newspapers on the
jolting cars by the multtudes who live out of
the city and come in to business
But in the lands where this Divine Surgeon
operated, the cases of blindness were multi
piled 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 top of their houses; and in some of these
lands it is estimated that twenty out of
hundred people are totally blind. Amid all
that crowd of visionless people, what work
for an oculistI And l do not believe that
more than one out of hundred of that Sur
geon'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 houS ehold 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 seol Thank God, seel"
WE WERE ALL BORN BLIND.
That is the ocuist we all need. Till he
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 inter-
ests are 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 black
ness 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 midnight becomes mid-noon; and we un-
derstand 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 kindled under his brow, cried out
in language that COMPOUNDED the jeering
crowd who were deriding the Christ that had
effected the cure, and wanted to wake him
out bad man, whether he be a sinner or
no, know not; one thing l know, that
whereas l was blind, now 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
sit or walk or ride with you, because they
have one disabled ear Many have both ears
damaged, aud what with the constant racket
Of our great cities and the catarrhal troubles
that sweep through the land, u is remarkable
that there are any good ears at all Most
wonderful instrument is the human ear 1t
is harp and drum and telegraph and tele-
phone and whispering gallery all in one. So