The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-02-23


months ago he was invited to we'd
ding in the little village of Cana, near
Galilec And this Jesus came to the
marriage, and the wine gave out, ana
he Bonded over some was erpots ana the
water turned into wine. My cousin said
it was So you need not laugh. be-
lieve him
Yes answered another, I heard
that he resurrected Jairus' daughter
and that an old woman. who had a
chronic sickness Of twelve years, just /
touched his garment and was healed.
Yes answered another, 1 not only |
heard that he opened the eyes of one
born blind. but | even heard he cured |
q dumb man possessed with devil, |
and the people maryeied, saying: II
was never so seen in Israel
Just then another neighbor comes
in and says that Jesus, this same Jesus,
this miraculous Jesus, is only a short
distance away over the hills Of Doca-
polls. Come they say, with one ac-
cord, let us take him to Christ. lie
can cure if any one can. And they
bring unto him one that was deaf be-
cause the affection was incurable.
Lesson the second: They brought
unto Jesus one who was not only dear
bat dumb. The Bible says he had an
impeachment in his speech. No one part
Of the physical body can be entirely d.
vorced from the other parts. AS Paul
said: The body is one that hath many
members. and all Of the members OF
that one body being many, are one
body
I'VE find that these different mem
bers act and react upon each other
The hand protects the eye. The eye
warns the foot. The foot is the mes
senger boy for the brain. The veins
are the canals carrying to the farthest
extremeties the daily supplies of food
! tibrim for the muscles, albumen for the
! blood, lime for the bones. phosphote5
! for the nerves, moisture for the glands.
! And all over the surface Of the body
! the pores OF the skin as scavenSers are
at work tossing off the refuse night
and DAY, as we'll as day and night.
While the nerves are the harpstrlngs
upon which nature thumbs the mar
monies of life.
No Organ Independents.
But in Christ's time no one part or
the body was more dependent on an
otter part than the organ OF speech
was upon the organs of the ear. That
is the reason we quoted only the first
nine words of the verse for a text.
There have been cases on record where
persons have been dumb and not deaf
But these are very rare. Ninety-nine
times out Of a hundred, when a man Is
a deaf mute. his vocal organs are all
right, but urdeveioped. The deaf and
dumb are unable to speak merely be-
cause the ear cannot teach the voice
how to act There are today 375 diff
ferent deaf mute schools, with 2,l9I
teachers and 25,797 pupils.
by the power of touch, By placing
the finger under the throat OF the
teacher and practicing the vowels and
consonants, even those who were born
deaf mutes are now taught to speak.
And through the same wonderful sys-
tenn, not only the deaf mutes but Ill
some instances those who have had
two Of their five senses gone are not
only deaf and dumb, but also blind
have had the spark of intelligence
kindled in their darkened brain.
walled in by deafness, dumbness,
blindness all
Can life exist beneath that dreadful
pail?
It does. life, love are there; the living
Beats hot against the bars that hold
1t in
| Striving among the best to reach The
goal,
: And through Christ's death immorta
: life to win
) so when Jesus placed the two fin
gers as two syringes against the two
= broken ear drums and said, 'Ephpha
, tha'-that is-Be opened he looseC
t the tongue that had an impeachment a
5 the same time. The best way to de
, yelop the tongue is to develop the ear
= No man can speak right unless he frs
J. learns TO hear right. John jane
5 Audubon, with gun and pencil, disap
- peared into the American forests. II
n lived among the birds until the bird
adopted him into 1000 different fami
lies. They talked to him; he listened
- After awhile the naturaist's ear be
:, came so keen he knew their songs O
= ioy. their cries of sorrow and thei
= love-makings. He stood at their era
dies and dug their graves. For year
and years thus he practiced self-sao
= iifice and worked and studied. Do yo
. wonder that John James Audubon
- tongue was able to talk about hi
feathered friends so interestingly tina
y grown people stopped to listen and tn
Il little children begged to look at hi
% pretty pictures?
IL This feeling was exhibited in tn
81 ninth chapter of John, when the dis
Is ciples asked him in reference to on
III born blind, saying. Master, who di
y sin, this man or his parents, that b
% was born blind?' Jesus answered
Neither hath this man sinned or h
! parents, but that the work of Go
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