Connecticut western news., 1900-07-26

tue cure ana wanted to make him out bad man, Whether he be sinner or no I know not. One thing I know, The Deaf 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 great cities and the ca tarrhal troubles that sweep through the land, 1t Is remarkable that there are any good ears at all. Most wonder ful 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 It's returning, and sometimes they stop the progress of its decadence or remove temporary ob- structions, but not more than one real ly deaf ear out of 100000 is ever cured. It took a 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 op- erated on as an ear surgeon. Ills friend Peter, naturally high tempered, saw Christ insulted by a man by the name of Malchus, and Peter let his sword fly, aiming at the mans head, but the sword slipped and hewed of the outside ear, and our surgeon touch ed the laceration and another ear bloomed in the place of the one that had been slashed away. But 1t Is not the outside ear that hears. That is only funnel for gathering sound and pouring 1t 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 speeches.. He could not hear a note of music or a clap of thunder. He could not call fa- ther or mother or wife or children by name. What power can waken that dull 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 geon put his fingers in the deaf ears and agitated them and kept on agitat- ing them until the vibration gave vital energy to all the dead parts, and they responded, and when our surgeon with drew 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 the dash of the waves of Galflee. Through the desert of painful silence had been built kings highway of res onance and acclamatisn. But yet he was dumb. No word had ever leaped over his lip. Speech was chained un- der his tongue. Vocalization and ac- centuation were to him an impossibil- ity. He could express neither love nor indignation nor worship. Our surgeon, having unbarred his ear, will now un- loose 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 ap- plication Is made, and 10, the rigidity of the dumb tongue Is relaxed, and be- tween the tongue and teeth was born a whole vocabulary and words flew in- to expression. He not only heard, but he talked. One gate of his body swung h to let sound enter, and the other gate swung out to let sound depart. Why Is 1t that, while other surgeons used knives and forceps and probes and stethoscopes, this surgeon uAed on- ly the ointment of his own lips2 To show that all the curative power we ever feel comes straight from Christ. And If he touches us not we shall be deaf as rock and dumb as a tomb. Oh, thou greatest of all artists, compel us to hear and help us to speak!
 Free to All.
 But what were the surgeons fees for all these cures of eyes and ears and tongues and withered hands and crook ed backs? The skill and the painless ness of the operations were worth hundreds and thousands of dollars. Do not think that the cases he took were all moneyless. Did he not treat the no- bleman's son? Did he not doctor the rulers daughter? Did he not effect 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 Je- rusalem and among the merchant cas- ties along Lake Tiberias who would have given this surgeon houses and lands and all they had for such cures as he could effect For critical cases In our time great surgeons have received S1 900, 5000 and in one case know of $50.0O0, but the surgeon of whom l speak received not shekel not a pen. ny, not farthing. In his whole earth ly life we know of his having had but 6212 cents. When his taxes were due, by his omniscience he knew of a fish in the sea which had swallowed piece of silver money, as fish are apt to swal- low anything bright, and he sent Peter with hook which brought up that fish, and from its mouth was extracted Roman stater, or 621a cents, the only money he ever had, and that he paid out for taxes. This greatest surgeon of all the centuries gave all his services then and offers all his services now free of all charge. Without money and without price" you may spiritually have your blind eyes opened, and your deaf ears unbarred. and your dumb tongues loosened, and your wounds healed. and your soul saved. If Chris tian people get hurt of body, mind or soul, let them remember that surgery Is apt to hurt, but 1t cures, and you can afford present pain for future glory. Besides that, there are powerful anas- thetics In the divine promises that soothe and alleviate. No ether or chlo- roform or cocaine ever made one so su- perior to distress as few drops of