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

Work az "A Heaier-A Lesson for All
Men.
Six Thousand years aga Adam and
I've were driven ont Of the garden OF
Eden. But in the latter part OF this
sixth millennium the kindersartens.
academies. colleges. universities. semi
mares, lyceums. legislatures. political
colleges, lawyers. doctors. ministers.
daily newspapers. weeklies, ana
monthly magazines have been working
side by side 20 change the sands OF
ignorance into the fora of knowledge,
20 lift the depressed valleys TO the
heights OF the hills, and TO deluSe
earta'S dry places with the water OF
life. Once the pulpit was the great
center, the intellectual as we'll as the
spiritual educator of the community.
The clergyman. like the pope OF Rome.
co1ld speak ex-cathedra. The orator
always knew as much as. Il not a grca.
deal more than. the auditor. Now the
intellectual audiences think for them
selves. The churches and the public
halls are filed With juries ready to
weigh evidences. The people have not
only one. bat many. Rosetta stones.
The dead languages are no longer dead.
Hearers as we'll as speakers can soon
separate tie brass from the gold. the
fares from the wheat. the false from
she true. mans thoughts from Gods
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The ruler. but the Judge and the exc
cutioner. Two women claimed GER
tain baby. Solomon. In his wisdom.
said, Bring ne a sword. Divide the
living child In two. and give half 70
the one and half to the other When
the true mother fell down and begged
shat her child be given To the enemy
-ather than be- destroyed Solomon
said to the weeping suppliant. Give
ter the iiEius child. ard IN 70 wise
SAY It: she is the mother
One OF Chri.t'S Cures
Today we are going "a study one OF
Christ's most wonderful cures: The
unstoppiEg Of a deaf mute's ears. Ii IS
the more remarkable because Ct. Marx
- the only divine biographer who
resOrds the miracle. In the first place.
they bring unto him one that is deaf.
because the afil;ctiOn was considered
'ncarable Even unto this day We
know but very little about the human
ear. The eye. the foot. the hand. the
stomach. the liver. the heart have been
explored and are understood by the
dissector's knife Ius the ear with
rs tympaGIm, Is bones. lis two vest
l,uies or storm doors. for the anatomist
must pass through the outer and mid
die ear before he can enter the holy
Of holes OF sound: the car. able to
catch a loved ones whisperings. and
yet rot be stunned at the thunGerclap
If Il tornado. has never been fIlly mas
tered. The drum mas side holes to let
he air liz and ont, that the drumhead
may vibrate and cause sound. We find
u the ear there IS a long tube connect
ing with the throar. and on the top OF
this tube there is a thin membrane or
skin which moves up and down as the
waves Of souGJ strike Il. And catarrhal
troubles are dangerous because they
threaten the stOppage Oh this tube
Sometimes deafness is caused by cere-
bro-spinal meningitis. The nerve
which runs from the base of The brain
% the ear becomes pGra,iZed. Some
times deafness is caused by the outer
nerves of the ear being destroyed by
that most dreaded Of all infantile dis
eases called scarlet fever. a more de-
s;ructiye enemy TO the nursery than
death. because when it is driven away
S-51. tie cradle, in mad rage this dis
ease generally strikes a paralyzing
blow which leaves its victim helpless
and worse than dead. Sometimes the
cause is inexplicaDle. A mans ear may
be perfectly formed. yet the mind Is no
more able to differentiate sound that
one afflicted with color blindness is
able 70 distinguish between red, white.
yellow. blue, purple. or green What
ever may be the cause of deafness,
when a child is once born deaf, he is
gerry or medicament has ever been
able to cure the afitictiOn.
Figures That Prove Facts.
ITO prove this Is true. of the So 900
deaf mutes in the United States, and
2e,512 deaf nutes in France, and the
24,4sS deaf in Germany, and the 1000
deaf in Denmark. and the ATS In Sar-
DINA. and 1000 deaf mutes in Canada
and the 100000 deaf mutes in this
world at the present time-for Josep
A. Seiss, in his book called The Chill
dren Of Silence declares there Is one
deaf mute to ever l 400 of the human
race-not one OF the deaf muteS has
ever heard one sound IL born w.thou,
the power of hearing. Now. yoa mus;
realize the condition in which Jesus
Christ lived was entirely different from
that of the present day. In this age
of factories and smoke and beehive.
Of swarming populations 4 city is /:
place where no one knows his neigh
Dor. The only interest most of US talk
in the man who lives next door Is
when the Grape hangs upon the knot
and the hearse comes to carry away
ne filed casket. But in olden times
az in smaller country villages today
everyone knew everybody else. Here
was a lad born deaf Everyone knew
his relatives and knew him, and knew
ne had never heard sound. He had
he sullen. vicious, self-willed, sinfu
look of the deaf mutes of old. Per
haps in one of his fits OF evil tempei
ne picked UP club, and as maniac
struck his mother over the head and