Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-08-01

| surgeon walks along those DathS, ana
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 had been nearly
four decades helpless, and to this thirtS.
eight years invalid said, "Wit thou be
made whole?"
The mightiest scientists have put their
| stop the. progress of it's decadence or re-
| move temporary Instructions, but not
! more than one really deaf ear out of l00,-
900 is ever cured.
1t took God to make the ear. and it
takes 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 Man
chus and Peter let his sword hy aiming
at the mans head. but the sword clipped
and hewed off the outside ear, and our
Surgeon touched the laceration and an
other ear hlonmed in the place of the one
that had beeu slashed away But it is
not the outside ear that hears That is
only funnel for gathering sound and
pouring it into the hidden and more elab-
crate ear. On the beach of Lake Galilee
our SURGEON found a man deaf and dumb.
The patient dwelt in perpetual silence
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note of music a clap of thunder. He
could not call father or mother or wife or
children by name. What power can waken
that dull tympanum or reach that cham
Of small bones or revive that auditory
nerve or open the gate between the brain
and the outside world? 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 thev responded. and when our
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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 the
dash of the waves of Galilee. Through the
desert of painful silence had been built
kings highway of resonance and acclama,
had ever leaned from his lip. Speech was
chained under his tongue. Vocalization
and accentuation were to him an impossi-
bilitv. He could express neither love nor
INDIGNATION nor worship. Our Surgeon,
having unbarred his ear. will now unloose
the shackle 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 application is made.
and 10. the rigidity of the dumb tongue is
relaxed. and between the tongue and teeth
was 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. and the other gate
swung out to let sound depart.
Whv is it that while other surgeons
used knives and forceps and probes and
stethoscopes. this SURGEON nsed only the
ointment of His own lips? To show that
all the curative power we ever feel comes
straight from Christ. And if He touches
MS not we shall be deaf as rock and
artists, compel us to hear and help us to
speak!
But what were the Surgeons fees for all
these cures of eyes and ears and tongues
md withered hands and crooked backs?
The skill and the painlessness of the op-
arations were worth hundreds and thou
sands of dollars.
we're all moneyless. Did He not treat the
nobleman's SOM Did He not doctor the
-uler's daughter? Did He not effect cure
N the house of centurian of great wealth
who had out of his own pocket built
ynagogue?
They would have paid Him large fees,
md there were hundreds of wealthy people
n Jerusalem and among the merchant
castles along Lake Tiberias who would
have given this Surgeon houses and lands
md all they had for such cures as He could
effect.
For critical cases in our time great sur
geons have received $1,000, 5000, and in
one case | know of $4,000, but the Sur
geon of whom / speak received not a
shekel. not penny, not a farthlng.
In His whole earthly life we know of
His having had but 62lh cents When His
knew of fish in the sea which had swal-
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 ex-
tracted Roman slater, or 6219 cents,
the only money He ever had, and that He
paid out for taxes.
This greatest Surgeon of all the centu-
ries gave all His services then and offers
all His services now free of all charge.
Without money and without price you
may spiritually have blind eyes opened
and your dumb 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
hem remember that surgery is apt to hurt,
but it cures, and you can afford present
pain for future glory.
Besides that, there are powerful anaes-
thetics in the divine promises that soothe
and alleviate. No ether or chloroform or
ever made one so superior to dis
tress as a few drops of that magnificent
anodyne: "All things work together for
good to those who love God" Weeping
may endure for a night, but joy cometh
in the morning"
w Iidl d Ridii'i thilis Oui pOOl
man race when this Surgeon shall have
completed the treatment of the worlds
The day will come when there
will be no more hospitals, for there will
be no more sick, and no more eye and ear
lnfirmaries, for there will be no more blind
Or deaf. and no more deserts, for the round
earth shall be brought under arboriculture,
and no more Billiards or sunstrokes, for
the atmosphere will be expurgated of
scorch and chill, and no more war, for the
swords shall come out of the foundry bent
into pruning hooks, while in the heavenly
country we shall see the victims of acci-
dent malformation or hereditary ills on
earth become the athletes in Eysian fields.
Who is that man with such brilliant eyes
close before the throne? Why. that is the
man who, near Jericho, was blind and our
Surgeon cured his ophthalmial Who is
that erect and graceful and queenly wom-
m before the throne? That was the one
whom our Surgeon found bent almost dou-
BILE and could in nowise lift up herself.
and He made her straight. Who is that
listening with such rapture to the music
of heaven, solo melting into chorus, Gym
bal responding to trumpet. and then him
self joining in the anthem? Why, that is
the man whom our Surgeon found deaf
and dumb on the beach of Galilee, and by
touches opened ear gate and mouth gate.
gathering with admiring looks and thanks
giving and cries of 'Oh, what He did for
me. Oh, what He did for my family Oh,
what He did for the world" That is the
Surgeon of all the centuries, the oculist,
the aurist. the emancipation, the Saviour.
No pay He took on earth. Come, now, and
let all heaven pay Him with worship that
shall never end and love that shall never
die On His head he all the crowns, in
His hands be all the scepters and at His
feet be all the worldsl
The Gilbert House Is the favorite
place for all Philadelphia people visit
ng New York City.
A good word for a bad one is worth
much and costs little.
Talent to be important. must be ex-
act.
The height of some mems ambition is
To be able to say II told you So