Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-07-23


les benumbed the patient with narcOt-
les AID others as the ancients did with
| hashresh and mandrake and quoted
! him for awhile, but at the return Of
consciousness distress returned. The
! world has never seen but one surgeon
who could straighten the crooked limb,
cure the blind eye or reconstruct the
: drum Of soundless ear Or reduce a
dropSy without pain, and that surgeon
was Jesus Christ, the mightiest, grand
est. gentlest and most sympathetic sur
geon the world ever saw or ever will
! see. and he deserves the confidence and
love and worship and hosanna of all
/ the earth and halleluiahs Of all heaven.
''The blind receive their sight and the
! lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and
! the deaf hear"
l notice this surgeon had fOndneSs
! for chronic cases. Many q 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 form
= I
! ought to have been attended to long
ago" But Christ the Surgeon seemed
I to prefer inveterate cases. One was
hemorrhage of II years, and he stop
/ ped it. Another was curvature OF IL
years, and he Strengthened it. Another
was 4 cripple of 3S years. and he
walked out well. The 1S-year patient
was q woman bent almost double. If
you could call a convention of all the
surgeons Of all 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 be-
! gan to take on a healthier hue, and the
muscles began to relax from their RI
| gidity. and the spinal column began to
adjust itself, and the cords of the neck
! began to be more supple, 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 reinstated.
For Chronic Illness.
! The 80 years case was a man who lay
j on q mattress near the mineral baths at
i Jerusalem. There were five apartments
where lame people were brought, SO
! that they could get the advantage Of
these mineral baths. The stone basin
i of the bath is still visible, although
the waters have disappeared, probably
| through some CONFUSION of nature.
! The bath, 120 feet long, 40 feet wide
! aud feet deep. All, poor man, il you
! have been lame and helpless So years,
that mineral bath cannot restore you.
Why, IS years is more than the aver
age of human life. Nothing but the
grave will cure you. But Christ the
Surgeon walks along these baths and
l have 10 doubt passes by some pa
/ tents who have been only six months
/ disordered or a year or five years and
comes to the mattress of the man who
! had been nearly four decades helpless
and to this IS years invalid said, 'Wilt
thou be made whole?"
The question asked not because the
surgeon did not understand the pro-
/ tractedness, the desperateness, of the
case, but to evoke the mans pathetic
narrative. f'Wilt thou be made WhOle?"
would you like to get well?' "Oh,
yes says the man. THAT is what 1
came to these mineral baths for. I
have tried everything. All the sur
! ge0ns have failed, and all the preScrip-
lions have proved valueless. and I got
/ worse and worse, and [ can neither
move hand nor foot nor head. Oh, if l
could only be free from this pain Of So
years. Christ the Surgeon could not
stand that. Bending over the man on
the mattress, and in q voice tender
with all sympathy, but strong with all
omnipotence. he says, "Risew And the
invalid instantly scrambles to his
knees and then puts out his right foot,
then his left foot, and then stood up
right as though he had never been
prostrated While he stands looking at
the doctor, with a joy too much to hold,
the doctor says: ''Shoulder this mat
tress, for you are not only we'll en- I'll
to walk, but well enough to work, and
start out from these mineral baths.
| Take up thy bed and walkv' Oh, what
q surgeon for chronic cases then and
for chronic cases now!
This is not applicable so much to
those who are only little hurt Of sin
md only for a short time, but to those
Frustrated of sin II years, Is years, SO
years. Here is a surgeon able to give
immortal health. "Oh," you say, 81 am
SO completely overthrown and tram
pied down of sin that l cannot rise"
Are you f1atter down than this patient
at the mineral baths? No. Then rise.