The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-21

the auditory apparatus. The might1eSt OF
scientists have put their skill to its retun-
ing, and sometimes they stop the progress
OF It's decadence, or remove temporary OBJ
structions, but not more than one really
deaf ear out of a hundred thousand is ever
cured, lt took God TO make the ear, and
1t takes a God to mend it. That makes me
curious to see how Christ the surgeon sue
ceeds as an aurist.
We are told of only two cases he oper-
ated on as an ear surgeon. His friend
Peter, naturally high-tempered, saw Christ
insulted by man by the name of Malchus,
and Peter let his sword fly, aiming at the
mans head, but the sword slipped and
hewed off the outside ear, and our surgeon
touched the laceration and another ear
bloomed in the place of the one that had
been slashe1 away. But it is not the oat-
side ear that hears. That is only funnel
for gathering sound and pouring it into the
hidden and more elaborate ear. On the
beach of Lake Galilee our surgeon found a
man deaf and dumb. The patient dwelt In
perpetual silence, and was speechless. He
could not hear q note OF music or
clap of thunder. He could not cali
father or mother or wife or children bv
name. What power can waken that dull
tympanum or reach that chain of small
bones or revive that auditory nerve or open
the gate between the brain and the outside
worlds The surgeon put his fingers in the
deaf ears and agitated them, and kept on
agitating them until the vibration gave
vital energy to all the dead parts, and they
responded, and when our surgeon with
drew 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 tho dash
Of the waves of Galilee. Through the
desert of painful silence had been built a
kings highway of resonance and acclama-
ton. But yet he was dumb. No word had
ever leaped over his lip. Speech was
chained under his tongue. Vocelization
and accentuation were to him an impossi-
bility. He could express neither love nor
indignation nor worship. Our surgeon,
having unbarred his ear, will now melt the
shackel of his tongue. The surgeon will
use the same liniment or salve that
he used on two occasions for the
cure OF blind people, namely, the
moisture of his own mouth. The appli-
cation is made. And 10, the rigidity of
the dumb tongue is relaxed, and between
the tongue and teeth we're born a whole
vocabulary, and words few into expression.
He not only heard but he talked One gate
Of his body swung in to let sound enter aud
the other gate swung out to let sound de-
part. Why is it that while other surgeons
used knives and forceps and probes and
spectroscopeS this surgeon used only the
ointment OF his own lipsa 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 a rock and dumb as
a tomb. Oh thou greatest of all aurists,
compel us TO hear and help us TO speak
But what were the surgeons fees for all
these cures of eyes aud ears and tongues
and withered hands and crooked backsa
The skill and the painlessness OF the opera
tions were worth hundreds and thousands
of dollars DO not think that the cases he
took were all maneyless. Did he not treat
the nobleman's SOM Did he not doctor the
rulers daughters Did he not effect cure
in the house of a centurion of great wealth,
who had out of his own pocket built syna-
gogues They would have paid him large
fees If he had demanded them, and there
were hundreds of wealthy people in Jeru-
salem and among the merchant castles
along Lake Tiberias who would have given
this surgeon houses and lands and all
they had for such cures az he
could effect. For critical cases in our time
great surgeons have received thousand
dollars, five thousand dollars and, in some
cases / know Of, fifty thousand dollars, but
the surgeon of whom speak received not a
shekel, not penny, not a farthing In his
whole earthly life, we know of his having
had but sixDy-two and a half cents. When
his taxes were due, by his omniscience be
knew Oh u llSu IN UU0 seh WHICH 0dQ BWai-
lowed piece of silver money, as fish are
apt to swallow anything bright, and he sent
Peter with hook which brought up that
fish, and from its mouth was extracted a
Roman slater, or sixty-two and a 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 all charge. "Without
s,.sk
ually 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. Besides that, there are powerful an
aesthetics In the divine promises that soothe
and alleviate. No other or chloroform or
cocaine ever made one SO superior to distress
as few drops OF that magnificent ano-
dyne: "All things work together for good
to those who love God;n "Weeping may en-
dure for night, but joy cometh in the
morning.
What grand thing for our poor human
race when this surgeon shall have COM
pleted the treatment of the worlds wounds |
The day will come when there will be no
more hospitals. for there will be no more
sick, and no more eye and ear infirmaries,
for there will be no more blind or deaf, and
no more deserts, for the round earth shall
be brought under rarboriculture, and no moro
billiards or sunstrokes, for the atmosphere
will be exp lrgated of scorch and chilli aud
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 malforrna-
ton, or hereditary ills on ear th, become the
athletes in Elysian fields. Who is that man
with such brilliant eyes close before the
thronel Why, that is the man who. near
Jericho, was blind, and our surgeon cure
his ophthalmia. Who is that erect, aud
graceful, and queenly woman before the
thrones That was the one whom our sur
geon found bent almost double, and could
in nowise lift up herself, aud he made her
straight. Who is that listening with such
rapture to the music of heaven, solo melt
ing into chorus, cymbal responding
to trumpet, aud then himself joining in
the anthem? 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 gather
ing with admiring look and thanksgiving,
and cries of 10, what he did for mel o,
|, what he did for my family o. what he
did for the world" That is the surgeon of
all the centuries, the oculist, the aurist, the
emancipaUor, tine saviour. No pay be took
on earth. Come, now, and let all heaven
nay him with worship that shall never end,