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

gate swung out to let sound depart.
Why is it that, while other surgeons
used knives and forceps and probes
and stethoscOpes, this surgeon used on
II the ointment of his own lips? To
show that all the curative power we
ever feel comes straight from Christ.
And if he touches us not we shall be
deaf as a rock and dumb as a tomb.
Oh, thou greatest of all artists, compel
US to hear and help us to speak!
Free to All.
But what were the surgeons fees for
all these cures of eyes and ears and
tongues and withered hands and crook
ed backs? The skill and the painless
ness of the operations were worth
hundreds and thousands of dollars. Do
not think that the cases he took were
all moneyless. Did he not treat the no
bleman's son? Did he not doctor the
rulers daughter? Did he not effect a
cure in the house of a centurian of
great wealth who had out of his own
pocket built a synagogue? They would
have paid him large fees, and there
were hundreds Of wealthy people in Je-
rusalem and among the merchant cas-
ties along Lake Tiberias who would
have given this surgeon houses and
lands and all they had for such cures
as he could effect. For critical cases in
our time great surgeons have received
$1,000 $1,000 and in one case know
of $4,000, but the surgeon of whom I
speak received not Shekel, not a pen
ny, not q farthing. In his whole earth
ly life we know Of his having had but
6212 cents. When his taxes were due,
by his omniscience he knew of a fish
in the sea which had swallowed piece
of silver money, as fish are apt to swal-
low anything bright, and he sent Peter
with a hook which brought up that
fish, and from it's mouth was extracted
a Roman slater, or 6212 cents, the only
money he ever had, and that he paid
out for taxes. This greatest surgeon of
all the centuries gave all his services
then and offers all his services now
free of all charge. without money
and without price" you may spiritually
have your blind eyes opened, and your
deaf ears unbarred, and your dumb
tongues loosened, and your wounds
healed, and your soul saved. If Chris
tan people get hurt of body, mind or
SOUL let them remember that surgery
is apt to hurt, but it cures, and you can
afford present pain for future glory.
Besides that, there are powerful anHS-
thetics in the divine promises that
soothe and alleviate. No ether or chic
reform or cocaine ever made one so SUI
perior to distress as q few drops Of
that magnificent anodyne: "All things
work together for good to those who
love God" "Weeping may endure for a
night, but joy cometh in the morning"
A Glorious Day.
What a grand thing for our poor hui
man race when this surgeon shall have
completed the treatment of the worlds
wounds! The day will come when
there will be no more hospitals, for
there will be no more sick, and no
more eye and ear infrmares, for there
will be no more blind or deaf, and no
more deserts, for the round earth shall
be brought under arboriculture, and no
more billiards. or sunstrokes, for the
atmosphere will be expurgated of
scorch and chill, and no more war, for
the swords shall come out of the fOun-
dry bent into pruning hooks, while in
the heavenly country we shall see the
victims of accident or malformation or
hereditary ills on earth become the ath-
letes in Elysian fields. Who is that
man with such brilliant eyes close be-
fore the throne? Why, that is the man
who, near Jericho, was blind and our
surgeon cured his Ophthalmia! Who is
that erect and graceful and Queenly
woman before the throne? That was
the one whom our surgeon found bent
almost double and could in nOwise lift
up herself, and he made her straight.
Who is that listening with such rap
ture to the music of heaven, solo melt
ing into chorus, cymbal responding to
trumpet, and then himself joining in
the anthem? Why, that is the man
whom our surgeon found deaf and
dumb on the beach of Galilee and by
two touches opened ear gate and
mouth gate. Who is that around whom
the crowds are gathering with admir-
ing looks and thanksgiving and cries of
ooh, what he did for mel Oh, what he
did for my family! Oh, what he did
for the worldv' That is the surgeon of
all the centuries, the oculist, the auriSt,
the emancipation, the Saviour. No pay
he took on earth. Come, now, and let
all heaven pay him with worship that
shall never end and a love that shall
never die. On his head be all the
crowns, in his hands be all the scepters
and at his feet be all the worlds!
Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l
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