The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-02-23
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
MAKING THE DEAF HEAR" is
THE SUBJECT.
and They Bring Unto Him One That
Was Deaf" - Mark vii: 32-Christs
Work as a HenIer-A Lesson for All
Men.

six thousand years ago Adam and
Eve were driven out Of the garden OF
Eden. But in the latter part of this
sixth millennium the kindergartens,
academies, colleges, universities, semi
naries, lyceums, legislatures, political
colleges, lawyers, doctors, ministers,
daily newspapers, weeklies, and
monthly magazines have been working
side by side to change the sands OF
ignorance into the fora of knowledge,
to lift the depressed valleys to the
heights of the hills, and to deluge
earth's dry places with the water of
life. Once the pulpit was the great
center, the intellectual as well as the
spiritual educator of the community.
The clergyman, like the pope of Rome,
could speak eX-cathedra The orator
always knew as much as, If not great
deal more than, the auditor. Now the
intellectual audiences think for them
selves. The churches and the public
halls are filled with juries ready to
weigh evidences The people have not
only one, but many, Rosetta stones,
The dead languages are no longer dead.
Hearers as well as speakers can soon
separate the brass from the gold, the
tares from the wheat, the false from
the true, mans thoughts from Gods
thoughts. Once the king was not only
the ruler, but the judge and the exc
cutioner. Two women claimed a GER
tain baby. Solomon, in his wisdom,
said, Bring me a sword. Divide the
living child in two, and give half to
the one and half to the other When
the true mother fell down and begged
that her child be given to the enemy
rather than be destroyed. Solomon
said to the weeping suppliant, Give
her the living child, and in no wise
Stay it; she is the mother
One OF Christ's Cures.
To-day we are going to study one OF
Christ's most wonderful cures: The
unstoppiIg of deaf mute's ears. 1t is
the more remarkable because st. Mark
Is the only divine biographer who
resords the miracle. In the first place,
they bring unto him one that is deaf
because the affection was considered
incurable. 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. But the ear, with
its tympanum, it's bones, its two vesti-
bules 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 ear. able to
catch a loved ones whisperings, and
yet not be stunned at the thunderclap
of a tornado, has never been fully mas
tered. The drum has side holes to let
the air in and out, that the drumhead
may vibrate and cause sound. We find
in the ear there is a long tube connect
ing with the throat, and on the top OF
this tube there is thin membrane or
skin which moves up and down as the
waves of sound strike it. And catarrhal
troubles are dangerous because they
threaten the stoppage of this tube.
Sometimes deafness is caused by cere-
bro-spinal meningitis The nerve
which runs from the base of the brain
to the ear becomes paralized. 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, more de-
structive enemy to the nursery than
death, because when it is driven away
from the cradle, in mad rage this dis
ease generally strikes a paralyzing
blow which leaves it's victim helpless
and worse than dead. Sometimes the
cause is ineXplicable, A mans ear may
be perfectly formed, yet the mind is no
more able to differentate sound that
one afflicted with color blindness is
able to 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
deaf to the grave. No power of sur
gerry or medicament has ever been
able to cure the affection.
Figures That Prove Facts.
"To prove this is true, of the $4,000
deaf mutes in the United States, and
29.512 deaf mutes in France, and the
24.4SS deaf in Germany, and the 1000
deaf in Denmark, and the ATS i'll Sar-
DINA. and 1000 deaf mutes in Canada,
and the 100000 deaf mutes in this
world at the present time-for Joseph
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 If born without
the power of hearing. Now, you must
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 beehives
of swarming populations city is Il
place where no one knows his neigh
Dor. The only interest most Of us take
in the man who lives next door is
when the Grape hangs upon the knob
and the hearse comes to carry away
the filled casket But in Olden times