The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-07-28

STANDS lookinS ~ Auc eoStcAf win
GOV too much to hold. the doctor sayS:
shoulder this mattress. for you are
not only well enoagh to walk. but well
enough to work. and start out from
these mineral baths. Take up thy bed
and walk!" Oh, what a surgeon for
chronic cases then and for chronic
cases nowl ~
This is not applicable 50 much TO
those who are only a little hurt Of sin
aud only for a short time, but to those
Frustrated OF sin u years, IS years
Is wears. Here is a surgeon able 70
give immortal health. oh" you say.
Il am 30 completely overthrow and
trampled down Of sin that ! cannot
rise Are you aatter down than this
patient at the mineral baths3 No.
Then rise. In the name Of Jesus Of
Nazareth, the surgeon who offers you
His right hand Of help. I bid thee rise.
Not cases OF acute sin, but Of chronic
sin-those who have not prayed for
IS years, those who have not been TO
church for IS years. those who have
been gamblers, or libertines. or thieves,
or outlaws, or blasPhemers, OF inhdels,
or atheists. and all these together. for
90 years. A Christ for ~eIigenciesl A
Christ for . dad lift. A surgeon who
never loses q easel
In speaking Of Christ as . surgeon
I must consider him a. an oeulist or
eve doctor, and an aurist or ear doc
tor. Was there EVER such another oeu-
istP That he was particularly sorry
for the blind folks I take from the fact
that the most Of His works were with
the diseased optic nerves. l have not
time 20 count up the number of blind
people mentioned who got His cure.
Two blind men in n house; also one
who was born blind; 50 that 1t was
not removal Of . visual obstruction,
but the creation Of the eorDes and
ciliary 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 " tongue and
put upon the eyeiids; also two blind
men who sat BY the wayside.
In our civilized lands we have blind
ne.s enough, the ratio fearfully in
eressing. according to the statement
Of European and American oculists,
because Of the reading Of morning and
evening newspapers on the jolting cars
BY the multitudes who live out OF the
city and come in 10 business. But In
the lands where the Divine surgeon
operated the cases OF blindness were
multiplied beyond everything by the
particles Of sand floating 10 the air,
and the night dews falling on the eye
lids OF those who slept IN the top OF
their houses, and in some OF these lands
II IL estimated that 20 out OF 100 peo-
pie are totally blind. Amid all that
crowd of visiOnless people, what work
for an oculist! And ! do not believe
that more than one out OF a hundred
Of that surgeons cures were reported.
That is the oculist we all need. Till
he touches our eyes w are blind.
Yea, we were born blind. By nature
we see things wrong, if we see them
al all. Our best eternal interests are
put before US, and we cannot see
them. The glories Of q loving and
pardoning ChriAt are projected, and
we do not behold them. Or we have
a 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
blackness 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 WI understand something
/ Of the joy Of the young man of the
Bible who. though he had never before
Z been able to see his hand before bis
: face, now by the touch Of Christ hao
two headlights kindIed under his
= brow, cried out in language that con
founded the jeering crowd who were
5 deriding the Christ that had effected
7 the cure and wanted to maze Him out
: q bad man, whether He be a sinneI
: or not, I know not. One thing ! know
: that whereas I was blind, now ! see,'
! But this surgeon was Just a. won
: derful az an aurist. Very few people
, have two good ears. Nine out Of tel
people are particular TO get on THU
or that side Of you when they sit Of
walk OF ride with you, because they
, have one disabled ear. Many hav'
both ears damaged, and what with tn
, constant racket Of IA great cities ant
the catarrhal troubles that sweet
/ through the land, IL 10 remarkable
. that there are any good ears at all
Most wonderful instrument Is the hu
/ man ear. IL 10 harp and drum an'
, telegraph and telephone and whisper
ing gallery all in one. So dellcat'
. and wondrous 10 its construction tina
4 the most difficult Of all things 70 re
construct Is the auditory apparatus
, The mightiest scientists have pu
1 their skin TO its returning, and some
!. times they stop the progress OF II
d~ecadence or remove temporary Oh
: structions, but not more than on
really deaf ear out OF 100000 Is eve
I cured. II took q God to make the cal
I and II takes q God TO mend II. Iha
y makes me curious 10 see no" Cnris
e the Surgeon succeeds as an aurist
{ We are told OF only Two cases n
I operated on as an ear surgeon M
friend Peter. naturally high tempered
d saw Christ insulted by a man Dy ~
{ name OF haichus' ana Peter iet nj
= sword n.y. aiming at the mans neao
n but the sword slipped n hewed o.
the outside ear n our eurgeo
% touched the iaeeration n aho'ne
D. ear bloomed In the place OF o on