Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-02-23

born blind. but even heard he cured
| n dumb man possessed with devil.
and the people maryeled. saying IL
was never so seen in Israel.
Just then another neighbor comes
in and says that Jesus. this same Jesus.
this miraculous Jesus. is only short
distance away over the hills Of Deca-
polls Come. they say. with one ac-
cord. let US take him 10 Christ. He
can cure if any one can. And they
, bring unto him one that was deaf be-
cause the affection was incurable.
Lesson the second: They brought
unto Jesus one who was not only deaf.
but dumb. The Bible says he had an
impeachment in his speech No one part
OF the physical body can be entirely d.
vorced from the other parts. AS Paul
said: The body is one that hath many
| members, and all of the members OF
| that one body being many. are one
body
We find that these different MEM
bers act and react upon each other
The hand protects the eye. The eye
| warns the foot. The foot ia the mes
senger boy for the brain. The veins
are the canals carrying to the farthest
| extremeties the daily supplies OF food.
| tibrim for the muscles. aibumen for the
blood. lime for the bones. phosphates
| for the nerves. moisture for the glands.
And all over the surface Of the body
| the pores Of the skin as scavenRers are
! at work tossing OF the refuse night
| and day as well as day and night
| While the nerves are the harpstrings
upon which nature thumbs the har-
| monies Of life.
No Organ independent.
! But in Christs time no one part OF
| the body was more dependent on an
| other part than the organ of speech
| was upon the organs of the car. That
| Is the reason we quoted only the first
nine words of the verse for text.
! There have been cases on record where
persons have been dumb and not deaf.
| But these are very rare. Ninety nine
times out of hundred. when man Is
| a deaf mute his vocal or=ens arc all
| right. but undeveioped. Tn" deaf and
| dumb are unable Ia speak merely be-
cause the ear cannot teach The voice
! how ID act There ~. fntay 30 diff
! ferent deaf mute schools. WIKI 2.l9.
! teachers and 31.1?7 pupils
by the power 81 tonch. ~ u!acing
/ the finger under ihe thron' "f the
teacher and practi.ing the vowcis and
consonants even those who were born
! deaf mutes are now taught la spaak.
| And through the same wund ,tui sys-
TEN. not cn,y tie dea! mites. bJ! IN
| some instances those Mo have had
! t,rn of their five senses gone are not
only deaf and dumb bu. also blind.
have had the spark OF Intelligence
kind!pd in their darkened brain.
Walled in by deafness. dpmbness.
blindness ell
! Can life exist beneath that dreadful
pail?
IL does. life love are there: the living
! soul
Beats hot against the bars that hold
! Striving among the best TO reach the
| goal.
And through Christ's death immortal
/ life To win
! So when Jesus placed the two fin
| gers as two syrinses against the two
| broken ear drums and said 'Ephpha
I tha'-that is-Be opened he loosed
! the tongue that had an impcdiment at
the same time. The best way TO de-
velop the tongue is to develop the ear.
No man can speak right unless he first
learns to hear right. John James
Audubon. with gun and pencil. disap-
peared into the American forests. He
lived among the birds until the birds
adopted him into ] 900 different fami-
lies. They talked TO him; he listened
| After awhile the naturaliSt's ear be-
came so keen he knew their songs OF
joy, their cries of sorrow and their
love makings. He stood at tier CA
dies and dug their graves. For years
and years thus he practlced seif-s2c-
ri.ice ana worked and studied. DO you
wonder that John James Audubon's
! tongue was able TO talk about his
| feathered friends so interestingly that
ErCwn people stopped to listen and the
little children begged to ioo,, at his
pretty pictures?
This feeling was exhibited in the
ninth chapter of John. when the dis
ciples asked him in reference to one
born blind. saying. Master. who die
sin. this man OF his parents. that be
was born blind?' Jesus answered:
Neither hath this man sinned or his
parents. but that the work of God
might be made manifest in HIM
kn.ct> Of U~redrty.
In fifty-ninc cases of deafness re-
ported by the Illinois institution. in
1873. the parents of forty-two were
frst-cousi1s: of nire. second cousins,
CT five. third cousins. and az two fourth
cousins. md OF one an uncle and a
niece. And DIR. David Buxton writes
l knew the mother OF three mute chit
dren who vas the daughter Of deaf
own children heard perfectly, was one
of the eight deaf mites in family Of
sixteen. II Il deaf person .narries on
who hears. the chances of thei
having deaf-mute child arr, three
fourths o. per cent
IN the next place for these urfar
Inmates sc should build III b.s,
schools and send them lie besi teach
ers. Th2t is The greet trouble wi,i.
work. the bright Christian teachers
will not devote their time to these edn
catiOnal opportunities. The c.css /.
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