Connecticut western news., 1900-07-26
MISSION OF CHRIST.
DR. TalMA6E SHOWS HOW DIVINE POWER WILL HEAL THE WORLD.

POWER WILL HEAL THE WORLD. Jesus the Surgeon Who win Extir-
 pate the Disease of fsln-Humanity'u
 Wounds win Disappear Beneath
 Ills Magic Touch.
 WASHINGTON, July 22.-In this dis course Dr. Talmage (who is now trav- cling In Europe) puts in an unusual light the mission of Christ and shows how divine power will yet make the ill., nesses of the world fall back; text. Matthew Ri, 5, ''The blind receive their sight. and the lame walk. the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear"
 Doctor" said to distinguished surgeon, do you not get worn out with constantly seeing so many wounds and broken bones and distortions of the human body?" "Oh. no," he answered; all that Is overcome by my joy in cur Ing them." X sublimer and more mer- ciful art never came down from heav- en than that of surgery. Catastrophe and disease entered the earth so early that one of the first wants of the world was a doctor. Our crippled and agonix~ cd human race called for surgeon and family physician for many years be- fore they came. The first surgeons who answered this call were ministers of religion = namely, the Egyptian priests. And what grand thing If all clergymen were also doctors, all D. D.'s were NJ. D.'s, for there are 80 many cases where body and soul need treatment at the same time, consola- ton and medicine, theology and thera- peutics. As the first surgeons of the world were also ministers of religion, may these two professions always be in full sympathy! But under what dis advantages the early surgeons worked, from the fact that the dissection of the human body was forbidden, first by the pagans and then by the early Christians! Apes, being the brutes most like the human race, were dis sected. but no human body might be unfolded for physiological and anatom- ical exploration, and the surgeons had to guess what was inside the temple by looking at the outside of 1t. If they A0ued 1A any 6u1 6ACdlf opti lucy were persecuted and driven out of the city, as was Archagathus because of his bold but unsuccessful attempt to save patient.
 Great sargeons.
 But the world from the very begin ming kept calling for surgeons, and their first skill Is spoken of in Genesis, where. they. employed their art for the incisions of a sacred rite, God making surgery the predecessor of baptism, and we see 1t again in II Kings, where Ahaziah, the monarch, stepped on some cracked latticework in the palace, and 1t broke, and he fell from the up- per to the lower floor, and he was so hurt that he sent to the village of Elk ron for aid, and Esculapins, who wrought such wonders of surgery that for his worship at Pergamos; and Epi- daurus and Podelirius introduced for the relief of the world phlebotomy, and Damocedes cured the dislocated ankle of King Darius and the cancer of his queen, and Hippocrates put successful hand on fractures and introduced am- putation, and Praxagorns removed ob- structions, and Herophilus began dis section, and Erasistratus removed tu- mors, and Celsius. the Roman surgeon, removed cataract from the eye and used the Spanish fly; and Heliodorus arrested disease of the throat, and All exander of Tralles treated the eye. and Rhazas cauterized for the prevention of hydrophobia, and Percival Pott came to combat diseases of the spine, and in our own century we have had, among others, Roux and Larray in France, an Astley Cooper and an Aber- nethy in Great Britain and Valentine Mott and Willard Parker and Samuel D. Gross In America and a galaxy of living surgeons as brilliant as their predecessors. What mighty progress In the bafiing of disease since the crip- pied and sick of ancient cities were laid along the streets. that people who had ever been hurt or disordered In the same way might suggest what had bet ter be done for the patients, and the priests of olden time, who were con- stantly suffering from colds received in walking barefoot over the temple pavements. had to prescribe for them selves, and fractures were considered so far beyond all human cure that in- stead of calling in the surgeon the peo- pie only invoked the gods!
 But notwithstanding all the surgical and medical skill of the world, with what tenacity the old diseases hang on to the human race, and most of them are thousands of years old, and In our Bibles we read of them-the carbun- cles of Job and Hezekiah, the palpita- tion of the heart spoken of in Deuter- onomy, the sunstroke of child carried from the fields of Shunem, crying, My head, my headw King Asa's disease of the feet, which was nothing but gout; detection of teeth, that called for den- tai surgery, the skill of which. almost equal to anything modern, Is still seen i'll the filled molars of the unrolled Egyptian mummies; the ophthalmia caused by the juice of the newly ripe fig, leaving the people blind by the roadside; epilepsy, as in the case of the young man often falling into the fire and oft into the water; hypOchondria, as of Nebuchadnezzar, who imagine1 himself an OK and going out to the fields to pasture; the withered hand. which In Bible times, as now, came from the destruction of the main ar tery or from paralysis of the chief nerve; the wounds of the man whom the thieves left for dead on the road to Jericho and whom the good Samaritan nursed, pouring in oil and wine-wine to cleanse the wound and oil to soothe 1t. Thank God for what, surgery has done for the alleviation and cure of hu- man suffering!
 Healing Without Pain.
 But the world wanted surgery without pain. Drs. Parre and Hick. man and Simpson and Warner and Jackson, with their amazing genius, came forward and with their aniesthet-