The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-07-26

curious 10 see how Christ the Surgeon sue
'eeds as an aurist
We are told of only two cases lie oper
rted on as an ear surgeon. His friend
peter naturally high tempered. saw Christ
irsulted by a man nv the name of Man.
chus. and Peter let his sword fly aiming
at the mau's head, but the sword clipped
nnd hewed off the outside ear, and our
Surgeon touched the laceration and an.
other ear hloomed in the place of the one
that had been slashed away. But it is
not the outside ear that hears That is
only n funnel for gathering sound ard
pouring il into the hidden and moro elab.
crate ear On the beach of Lake Galiee
orr Surgeon found man deaf and dumb.
The patient dwelt in perpetual silence
and YVES speechlcss lie could not hear n
note of music or clap of thunder. He
con'd not call father or mother or wife or
cmldren by name What power can waken
that du.l tNmDanum or reach that chain
OF small bones or revive that auditory
nerve or open the gate between the brain
and the outside world? The Surgeon nut
His fingers in the deaf ears and agitated
them. and kept o1 agitatiug them until the
vibration give vital energy to oil the dead
narts. and thev responded. and when orr
Surgeon withdrew His fingers from the
oars the two tunnels of sound were clear
70" all sweet voices If music ard friendship.
20" tn" irst time ir hs life l,o heard the
dash of the waves of Galilee Through the
desert of painful silence had boon built a
kings highway ot resonance and acclama-
ton Bat vet ho was dumb. No word
had ever leaned from his lip. .Speech was
chained under his tongue. NocnliZation
nnd accontuatior were to him an impossi-
bllitv. He could express neither love nor
INDIGNATION nor worship. Our SURGEON.
hovin" unharr"d his ear will now unloose
H." shacRle OF his tongue. The Surgeon
viii use the same lniment or salve that
to used on two occasions for the cure of
hind people namely the moisture of
His own mouth The application is made.
and 10. the riqidtv of the dumb TONGUE is
relaxed. and between tho tongue and teeth
was born a whole vocabulary and words
lew into EXPRESSION. He "ot only heard.
hut he talked. One gate of his body swung
in to let sound enter. ard the other gate
svrrg out to let sound depart
Whv is IL that. while other surgeons
used knives and forceps and nrobes and
stethoscopes. this Sur"eo" rsed only the
ointment of His own Inns? To show that
all the curative uower we over feel comes
straight from Christ. And if He touches
rs not we shall ho doof as a rocl; and
du''b as n tomb. Oh. Thou greatest of all
artists, compel us to hear and help us to
speak!
But what were the Surgeons fees for all
and withered hands and crooked backs?
The skill and the pairfessness of the op-
erations were worth hundreds and thou
sands of dollars.
DO not thinl, that the cases He took
were all moneyless. Did He not treat the
nobeman's son? Did lie not doctor the
rulers daughter? Did He not effect a cure
in. the house of a centurian of great wealth
who had out of his own pocket built a
synagogue?
They would have paid Him large fees
and there were hundreds of wealthy people
in Jerusalem and among the merchant
castles alone Lake Tiberias who would
have piven this Surgeon houses and lands
and all they had for such cures as lie could
effect
For critical cases in our time great sur
geons have received $1,000, $4,000, and in
one case ! know of $4,000, but the Sur
geon of whom | speak received not a
shekel, not penny, not n farthing.
In His whole earthly life we know of
His having had but 62l@ cents. When His
taxes were due, by His omniscience He
knew of fish in the sea which had swal-
lowed n 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,
tractcd a Roman slater. or 621a cents,
the only money He ever had, and that He
paid out for taxes.
This greatest Surgeon of all the eentu-
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
them 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
cocoaine 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. Il night, but JOY cometh
III the morning"
What grand thing for our poor hui
man race when this Surgeon shall have
completed the treatment of the worlds
wounds The day will come when there
will be no more hospitals, for there will
be no more sick, and no more eye and ear
intirmaries, 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 or malformation or hereditary ills on
earth become the athletes in Elysian 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 Qpbthalmia! Who is
that erect and graceful and queenly wom-
an 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.
Who is that around whom the crowds are
gathering with admiring looks and thanks
giving and cries of "Oh, what He did for
mel 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 emancipator, 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 be all the crowns, in
His hands be all the scepters and at His
feet be all the worlds!