Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-07-28

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reported. He went up and Gown among
those people who were feeling slowly
their way by staff. or led by the hanC
of man or rope of dog. and introducing
hold, to the sunrise aud the sunset and
the evening star. He just ran his hand
over the eXpresslonless face, and the
shutters of both windows were swung
open, and the restored went home cry
ing: 81 seel see! Thank God. seer
That Is the Oculist we all need. TIL
he touches our eyes we nre blind. Yea
we were born blind. BY nature we see
things wrong. If we see them at all
Our best eternal interests are put he
fore us, and we cannot see them. The
glorles Of II loving and pardonlng
Christ are projected. and we do not be-
hold them. Or we have Il defective
sight which makes the things of this
world larger than the things of the fu-
ture. time bigger than eternity. Or we
are color blind and cannot see the diff
ference between the blackness of dark
ness 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
eyelds of the soul and midnight be-
comes midnoOn. and we understand
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 con-
founded the jeering crowd who were
deriding the Christ that had effected
the cure and wanted to make him out
n bad man. "Whether he be a sinner
or no | know not One thing | know,
that whereas was blind. now see"
The Denf Hear.
But this surgeon was just as wonder
full 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 and what with the constant
racket of our greats cities and the ca
tarrhal troubles that sweep through
the land. 1t Is remarkable that there
are any good ears at all. Most wonder
full instrument is the human ear. 1t is
harp and drum and telegraph and tele-
phone and whispering gallery all In
one. SO delicate and wondrous Is its
construction that the most difficult Of
all things to reconstruct is the auditory
apparatus. The mightiest scientists
have put their skill to its returning, and
sometimes they stop the progress of its
decadence or remove temporary OBJ
structlOns. but not more than one real
ly deaf ear out of 100000 Is ever cured.
It'took q God to make the ear, and 1t
takes a God to mend 1t. That makes
me curious to see how Christ the Sur
geon succeeds as an aurist.
We are told of only two cases he OPP
Grated 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 touch
ed the laceration and another ear
in the place OF the one that
had been slashed away. But II Is /
the outside ear that hears. That IS
only funnel for gathering sound and
pouring ii 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 per-
petual silence and was speechless. He
could not hear a note of music or
clap of thunder He could not call fa-
Their or mother or wife or children by
name. What power can waken that
1ull tympanum or reach that chain of
small bones or revive that auditory
nerve or open the gate between the
brain and the outside world? The sur
yeon put his fingers In the deaf ears
and agitated them and kept on agitat-
ng them until the vibration gave vital
energy to all the dead parts, and they
responded. and when our surgeon with |
lrew 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 |
he dash of the waves of Galilee. !
the desert Of painful silence |
lad been built n kings highway Of res
nance and acclamation. But yet he |
vas dumb. No word had ever leaped |
,ver his lip. Speech was chained un-
Ter his tongue. Vocallzation and ac-
,entuation were to him an impossible |
ty. He could express neither love nor
nor worship. Our surgeon,
having unbarred his ear, will now un-
oOse the shackle' of his tongue. The |
surgeon will use the same liniment or
ialve that he used on two occasions for
he cure of blind people-namely the
moisture of his own mouth. The ap-
)lcatlon is made, and 10. the rigidity |
# the dumb tongue is relaxed, and be-
ween the tongue and teeth was born
whole vocabulary'and words few in
o expression. He not only heard, but
le talked. One gate of his body swung
n to let sound enter, and the other
rate swung out to let sound depart.
Why ls 1t that, while other surgeons
lsed knives and forceps and probes
md stethoscopes, this surgeon used on
Y the ointment of his own lips? To
how that all the curative power we
yer feel comes straight from Christ,
And II he touches us not we shall be
leaf as q rock and dumb as a tomb.
)h, thou greatest of all artists, compel
IS to hear and help us to speak!
Free to All.
But what were the surgeons fees for
III these cures of eyes and ears and
ongues and withered hands and crook
d backs? The skill and the painless