The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-07-28

out any pain at the time or any pair
after, and that surgeon was Jesui
Christ, the mightiest, grandest, gen
tlest and most sympathetic surgeon tbs
world ever saw or ever will see, ano
He deserves the confidence and love
and worship and hosanna of all the
earth and the halleluiahs OF all Heaven
1.-The blind receive their sight and the
lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, anc
the deaf hear"
notice this Surgeon had fondness
for chronic diseases. Many surgeon
when he has had a patient brought to
! him. has said "Why was not this at
tended to five years ago? You bring
him to me after all power of recupera-
ton is gone. You have waited until
there is complete contraction of the
muscles, and false ligatures are formed
and Justification has taken place. 1t
ought to have been attended to long
ago" But Christ the Surgeon seemed
to prefer inveterate cases. One was a
hemorrhage of ~ years, and he stopped
it. Another was a curvature of 18 years,
cripple of SO years, and he walked out
well. The 1S-year patient was wom-
an bent almost double. If you call a
convention of all the surgeons of the
centuries, their combined skill could
not cure that body so drawn out of
shape. Perhaps they might stop it
from getting any worse, perhaps they
might contrive braces by which she
might be made more comfortable, but
it is, humbly speaking, incurable. Yet
this Divine Surgeon put both His
hands on her. and from that doubled
up posture she began to rise, and the
empurpled face began to take on a
healthier hue, and the muscles began
to relax their rightly, and the spinal
column began to adjust itself, and the
cords of the neck began to be more sup
pie, and the eyes that could see only
the ground before, now looked into the
face of Christ with gratitude and up
toward Heaven in transport. Straight!
After IS weary and exhausting years,
straight! The poise, the gracefulness,
the beauty of healthy womanhood re-
instated. The SO years case was a
man who lay on mattress near the
mineral baths at Jerusalem. There
were five apartments where lame peo-
pie were brought. so that they could get
the advantage of these mineral baths.
The stone basin of the bath is still
visible, although the waters have dis
appeared, probably through some con-
vulsion of nature. The bath, 100 feet
long, 40 feet wide and eight feet deep.
All, poor man, if you had been lame anG
helpless 38 years, the mineral bath can
not restore you. Why. 3S years is more
than the average of human life. Moth
ing but the grave will cure you. But
Christ the Surgeon walks along these
baths and / 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
nan who had been nearly four decades
helpless. and to this 38 years invalid
said: 'Wilt thou be made whole?"
The question asked not because the
surgeon did not understand the pro-
the desperateness. of the
ase, but to evoke the mans pathetic
narrative. "Wilt thou be made whole? ?"
Would you like to get well?" "Oh,
fes," says the man. THAT is what |
anne to these mineral baths for.
rave tried everything. All the sur
,eons have failed, and all the pre-
have proved valueless, and
got worse and worse, and | can |
neither move hand nor foot nor head
)h, if I could only be free from this
'ain of 38 years." Christ and surgeon
ould not stand. that. Bending over
he man on the mattress, and in a
-oice tender with all sympathy, but
trong with all omnipotence, he says:
'Rise!" And the invalid instantly
crambles to his knees and then puts
tut his right foot, then his left foot,
nd then stood upright as though he
lad never been Frustrated. While he
lands looking at the doctor, with
oy too much to hold, the doctor says:
Shoulder this mattress, for you are
lot only well enough to walk, but well
nough to work, and start out from
hese mineral baths. Take up thy bed
nd walk" Oh, what surgeon for
hronic cases then and. for chronic
asses now!
This is not applicable so much to
hose who are only little hurt of sin
nd only for short time, but to those
rostrated of sin IL years, IS years,
8 years. Here is a surgeon able to
i've immortal health. "Oh," you say,
l am SO completely overthrow and
rampled down of sin that l cannot
ise." Are you fatter down than this
atient at the mineral baths? No.
hen rise. In the name of Jesus of
'azareth, the surgeon who offers you
is right hand of help, / bid thee rise.
lot cases of acute sin, but of chronic
n-those who have not prayed for
years, those who have not been to
hurch for 38 years, those who have
cen gamblers, or libertines, or thieves,
+ outlaws, or blasphemers, or infdels,
r atheists, and all these together, for
8 years. A Christ for exigencies! A
hrist for dead lift! A surgeon who
ever loses a case!
In speaking of Christ as surgeon
must consider him as an oculist or
We doctor. and an aurist or ear doc
)r. Was there ever such another ocu
st? That he was particularly sorry )
IF the blind folks take from the fact i.
lat the most of His works were with
he diseased optic nerves. | have not !
me to count up the number of blind
eople mentioned who got His cure.
wo blind men in one house; also one
no was born blind; SO that it was
OF removal of visual obstruction, !