The Iola register., 1890-05-02


poor man; if you have been lame and
helpless thirty-eight 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 the Surgeon walks along
these baths, and have no doubt passes
by some patients who have been only
six months disordered, or 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?" The question asked, not be-
cause the Surgeon did not understand
the protractedness the desperateness OF
the case, but to evoke the mans pathetic
narrative. wilt thou be made whole?'
Would you like to get well?' 20,
yes" says this man, ''that is what
came to these mineral baths for; have
tried every thing. All the surgeons have
failed and all the prescriptions have
proved valueless, and have got worse
and worse, and can neither move hand
va Aool VI ASau ", IL COuAu Ouiy oc
free from this pain of thirty-eight
years." Christ the Surgeon could not
stand that Bending over the man on
the mattress, and with voice tender
with all sympathy, but strong with all
omnipotence, He says, ''Rise!" And the
invalid instantly scrambled to his knees
and then puts out his right foot and
then his left foot and then stood up
right as though he had never been pros.
trated. While he stands looking at the
Doctor with joy too much to hold the
Doctor says: shoulder this mattress
for you are not only well enough to
walk, but we'll enongh to work, and
start out from these mineral baths Take
up thy bed and walk!" o what Surgeon
for chronic cases then and for chronic
cases now!
This is not applicable SO much to those
who are only little hurt of sin, and
only for short time, but to those pros
trated of sin twelve years, eighteen
years, thirty-eight years. Here is a
Surgeon able to give immortal health.
90" you say, 81 am so completely over
thrown and trampled down of sin that
can not rise" Are you fiatter down
than this patient at the mineral baths:
No. Then rise. In the name of Jesus oi
Nazareth, the Surgeon who offers you
his right hand of help. bid thee rise.
Not cases of acute sin, but of chronic
sin-those who have not prayed fol
thirty-eight years, those who have not
been to church for thirty-eight years
those who have been gamblers, or liber
tines, or thieves, or outlaws, or bias
phemers, or infidels, or atheists, or all
these together, for thirty-eight years.
A Christ for exigencies! A Christ for q
dead lift. A Surgeon who never loses .
case,
In speaking of Christ as surgeon,
must consider Him an oculist, or eye
doctor, and an aurist, or ear doctor
Was there ever such another oculist:
That He was particularly sorry for the
blind folks, l take from the fact thai
the most of His work was with the dis
eased optic nerves. l have not time tC
count up the number of blind people
mentioned who got His cure. Two blind
men in one house, also one was borr
blind; so that it was not removal of 9
visual obstruction, but the creation oi
the cornea, and ciliary muscle. and crys
talline lense, 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 eye
lids; also two blind men who sat by the
wayside. In our civilized lands we have
blindness enough, the ratio fearfully in
creasing, according to the statement oi
Boston and New York and Philadel
phia occulists, because of the read
ing of morning and evening newspa
pers on the jolting cars by the multi
tudes 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 multiplied beyond every
thing by the PARTICLES of sand floating
in the air and the night dews falling OF
the eyelids of those who slept on the
tops of their houses, and in some o.
these lands it is estimated that twenty
out of hundred people are totally
blind. Amid all that crowd of vision
less people what work for an occulist
And do not believe that more than one
out Of hundred of that surgeons cure:
| were reported He went up and dowr
among those people who were feeling
slowly their way by staff or led by the
hand of man or rope of dog, and intro
| ducing them to the faces of their owl
! household. and to the sunrise and the
sunset and the evening star. He JUS
ran his hand over the expressionless fact
and the shutters of both windows wer,
swung open and the restored went home
crying: 81 see! / see! Thank God,
see"' That is the occulist we all need
Till He touches our eyes we are blind
Yea, we were born blind. By nature W,
see things wrong if we see them at all
Our best eternal interests are put be
fore US and we can not see them. Tn,
glories OF loving and pardoning Chris
are projected and we do not behold
them. Or we have a defective sigh
| which makes the things of the future
time bigger than eternity. Or we ar,
color blind and can not see the differ
ence between the blackness Of darkness
forever and the roseate morning of al
everlasting day. But Christ the Sur
geon comes in, and though we shrinl
back afraid to have Him touch US, We
He puts His fingers or the closed eye
lids of the soul and midnight become
mid noon.
But this Surgeon was just as wonder
full as an aurist Very few people hav'
two good ears. Nine out of ten peopl,
are particular not to get on this or tina
side of you when they sit, or walk o
ride with you because they have ont
disabled ear. Many have both ears dam
aged. and what with the constant racke