Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-07-28

| the earth and halleluiahS of all heaven.
"The blind receive their sight and the
lame walk; the lcpers are cleansed, and
the deaf hear"
| notice this surgeon had fondness
for chronic cases. Many a surgeon,
when he has had 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 rccupera-
tion Is gone. You have waited until
there is a complete contraction Of the
muscles, and false ligatures are form
ed, 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
hemorrhage of II years. and he stop
! ped 1t. Another was curvature Of IS
years. and he Strengthened II. Another
was cripple Of 50 years. and he
walked out well. The 18-year patient
was a woman bent almost double. II
you could cell 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 1t 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 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 onlyit the ground before,
now looked into The face OF Christ with
gratitude and up toward heaven In
transport. Straight! After 19 weary
and exhausting years, straight. The
poise, the gracefulness, the beauty Of
healthy womanhood reinstated.
For Chronic Illness.
The 3S years case was man who lay
Oh mattress near the mineral baths at
Jerusalem. There were five apartments
where lame people 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 disappeared, probably
through some convulsion Of nature.
The bath. 120 feet long, 40 feet wide
and 8 feet deep. All. poor man, II you
have been lame and helpless 3S years,
hok hath
Why, 28 years Is more than the aver
age Of human life. Nothing but the
grave VIII cure you. But Christ the
Surgeon walks along these baths and
I have no doubt passes by some pa
tients who have been only six months
disordered or year or five years and
comes to the mattress OF the man who
had been nearly four decades helpless
and to this 3S yea; Invalid said. wilt
thou be made whd w
The question asKeG not because the
Surgeon did not understand the pro-
tractedness. the desperateness, Of the
case, but to evoke the mans pathetic |
narrative. "Wllt thou be made whole?'
would you like to get wellY "Oh, |
YES" says the man. "That is what |
came to these mineral baths for.
have tried everything. All the sur
geons have failed. and all the prescrip- !
tions have proved valueless, and l got
worse and worse. and I 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 a voice tender
with all sympathy, but strong with all
omnipotence, he says. Riser 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 Joy too much to hold,
the doctor says: shoulder this mat
tress. for you are not only well enough
to walk, but well enough to work, and
start out from these mineral baths.
Take up thy bed and walk" 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
and only for a short time, but to those
Frustrated of sin II years, 1S years, 3S
years. Here is a surgeon able to give
immortal health. "0h." you say, II am
so completely oyerthrown and tram
pied down Of sin that | cannot rise"
Are you fatter down than this patient
at the mineral baths? No. Then rise.
In the name Of Jesus Of Nazareth, the
surgeon who offers you his right hand
of help, l bid thee rise. Not cases Of
acute sin, but of chronic sin-those
who have not prayed for 38 years,
those who have not been to church for
38 years, those who have been gam
blers. or libertlnes or thieves, or out
laws. or blasphemers, or infidels, or
atheists, or all these together, for 38
years. A Christ for exigencles! A
Christ for a dead lift! A surgeon who
never loses a case!
Made the Blind to See.
In speaking of Christ as surgeon
must consider him as an oculist or eye
doctor and an aurist or ear doctor.
Was there ever such another oculistf
That he was particularly sorry for the
blind folks l take from the fact that
the most Of his works were with the
diseased optic nerves. l have not time
to count up the number Of blind people
mentioned who got his cure. Two
blind men I'm one house; also one who
was born blind; so that 1t was not re-
moval of visual obstruction, but the
creation OF the cornea and ciliary mus
Gle and crystalline lens and retina and
optic nerve and tear gland; also the
blind man Of Bethsaida, cured by the
saliva which the surgeon took from
the tip Of his own tongue and put upon
the eyelids; also two blind men who
sat by the wayside. In our civilized