Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-21

blind receive their sight and the lame
walk; the lepers are cleansed. ana the
deaf hear. -
notice this Surgeon had fondness
for chronic cases. Many surgeon, |
when he has had q patient brought to |
him. has said: ''Why was not this at
tended to FIVE years ago! You bring nun |
to me after ali power OF recuperauon Is
gone, You have waited until there Is a !
complete contraction of the muscles, ana
| false ligatures are formed, and ossii-
| cation has taken place. 1t ought to
! have been attended to long ago.
! But Christ the Surgeon seemed to pre-
! fer inveterate cases. One was hem
! orrhage OF twelve years and He stop
ned It Another was a curvature or
eighteen wears, and He Strengthened it.
Another was a cripple of thirty eight
wears. and he walked out well. The
! eighteen year patient was woman bent
almost double. If you could call con-
yention of all the surgeons of ali the
centuries, their combined skill GOULD not
| cure that body so drawn out OF
shape. Perhaps they might stop 1t
from getting any worse, perhaps they
| might contrive braces by which she
might be made more comfortable, but 1t
is, humanity speaking, incurable. Yet
this divine Surgeon put both His hands
on her. and from that doubled-up post
ure she began to rise, and the empurpled
face began to take on q healthier hue,
and the muscles began to relax from
their rigidity, and the spinal column
began to adjust itself, and the cords of
the neck began to be more supple, and
the ewes, that could see only the ground
before, now looked into the
FACE OF CHRIST WITH GRATITUDE,
and I'D toward heaven in transport.
Straight! After eighteen weary and ex-
haustive years, straight! The polse, the
gracefulness, the beauty of healthy
womanhood reinstated.
The thirty eight years' case was man
who Law on a mattress near the mineral
baths at Jerusalem. There were five
apartments where lame people were
brought so that they could get the ad-
= vantage of these mineral baths. The
stone basin of the bath is still visible, al
, though the waters have disappeared,
probably through some CONFUSION OF ma
= ture, the bath, 100 feet long, forty feet
: wide and eight feet deep. All, poor
: man: if you have been lame and helpless
thirty-eight years. that mineral oath
cannot restore you. Why, thirty
=, eight years Is more than the av-
!, erage of human life! Nothing but
y
Surgeon walks along these baths, and l
Il have no doubt passes by some patients
= who have been only six months dlsor-
- dered or year, or FIVE years, ano
; comes TO the mattress of a man who had
;, been nearly four decades helpless, anc
= TO this thirty-eight years. invalid said
is s.Wilt thou be made whOle?'
a The question asked, not because the
Surgeon did not understand the pro
-, tractedness, the desperateness of th'
II case, but to evoke the man
~ pathetic narrative. g wilt tho'
y be made whoIe?'' "Would you like t
d get well?'' "Oh, yes" says the maj
'sthat is what came to these minera
baths for; [ have tried everything
e All the surgeons have failed
Ne and all the prescriptions have prove
a valueless, and l have got worse an
worse, and l can neither move hand
10 foot or head. Oh, il l could only be ire
at from this pain of thirty-eight years!
4: | Christ, the Surgeon, could not stan
n | that Bending over the man on tn
Id mattress, ana in voice tender with a
&C ! sympathy, but strong with all omnlpo
rs tenoe, He says, ''R Rise! ana the I'D
Id valid instantly sorambles to his knees
he and then puts out his right foot, the
he his left foot, and then stood upright
mt though he had never been Frustrated
A. While he stands looking at the Doct(
e. with q joy too much to hold, the Doett
a. saws: ''Shoulder this mattress! for 20
ed are not only well enough to walk, bI
n we'll enough to work, and start out trol
ed these mineral baths. Take up thy Dc
ed and waikiki Oh what Surgeon II
of obrouio cases then, and for chronic cas-
las now!
o. This is net applicable so much to tho
n who Sre only little hurt OF sin, al
yn only for a short time, but to those pro
nv trated of sin twelve years, eightet
nd wears, thirtY-e eight years. Here is su
n, geon able to give immortal healt
I'd "Oh, - you say, - am so complete
"a overthrown and trempled down of 5
il that / cannot rise Are you fat
tv down than this patient at the miner
zee bsthsY No. Then rise. In the name
les Jesus of Nazareth, the surgeon who 0
pie fers you
in HIS RIGHT HAND OF HELP,
ad I bid thee rise. Not cases of acute 81
he but of chronic sin-those who have n
At prayed for thirty-eight years, those W
I'm have not been to church for thirty Gig
re- wears, those who have been gamblers,
es, Iibertines, or thieves, or outlaws,
1e- blasphemers, or infidels, or atheists, or
IL these together, for thirty eight years.
H. Christ Tor eXlgeuclSs! n Chi lsh tVA q OC1
lift! A surgeon who never loses'a cas-
nd In S. eaking of Christ as surgeon
hat must consider Him as an oculist, or e
the doctor, and an aurist, OF ear doctc
ou- Was there ever such another ooulil
we That He was particularly sorry for {
md blind folks, 1 take from the fact that
art most of His works was with the diseas
oke onto nerves l have not time TO cou
of uu the number of blind people mention
70 who got His cure. Two blind men In o
ieh house, also one who was born blind;
eth that it was not removal Of visual o
kill struetion, but the creation of the corne
Cd and ciliary muscle, and crystalline lei
) of and retina, and optic nerve,
les; tear gland; also the blind man
the Bethsaida, cured by the saliva viii
av- the surgeon took from the tip
cpl His own tongue and put upon the ey
oft lids; also two blind men who sat by I
wa wavside. In our civilized lands we ha
lez- blindness enough. the ratio fe'
and fully increasing, according TO the sta
the ment of Boston and New York and Ph