The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-27


pie. 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 re-
instated. The 80 years case was
man who lay on a mattress near the
mineral baths at Jerusalem. There
were five apartments where lame peo-
pie 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 dis
appeared, probably through some con-
vulsion of nature. The bath, 100 feet
long, 10 feet wide and eight feet deep.
All. poor man. IL you had been lame anc
helpless 3S years, the mineral bath can
not restore you. Why 3S years is more
than the average of human life. Moth
ing but the grave will cure you. But
Christ the Surgeon walks along these
baths and ! have no doubt passes by
some patients 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 80 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
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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 pre-
scriptions have proved valueless. and
| rot worse and worse. and | can
neither move hand ror foot nor head.
Oh, if / could on'v be free from this
pain of IS years." Christ and surgeon
could not stand that. BENDING over
the man on the mattress. and in a
voice tender wi;h al sympathy. but
strong with al. nm .no;tnce. he SAYS:
"Rise!" And the Invalid instantly
scrambles to h knees and then puts
out his right foot. then his left foot,
and then stood upright as though he
had never been Frustrated. While he
stands looking at the doctor. with a
iov too much to hold. the doctor SAYS /:
shoulder this mattress. for you are
not only wei enough to walk. but wei
enough to work. and start out from
these mineral baths. Take up thy bed
and walk" Oh. what a 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 short time. lint TO those
prostrated of sin 70 wears. IS wears.
rs wears. Here is a surgeon able TO
give immortal health. oh" YOU saw.
~ am so completely overthrow and
trampled down of sin that | cannot
rise Are Won Aatter down than this
patient at the mineral baths? No.
Then rise. In the name of Jesus OF
Nazareth, the surgeon who offers you
His rioht hand of helm. | bid thee rise
Not cases of acute sin. but of chronic
sin-those who have not prayed for
3s wears. those who have not been TO
church for 80 years, those who have
been gamblers, or lloertlnes' or thieves
or outlaws or niasphemers' OF inhdeis'
OF athelsts' ana an these together, lot
81 years a Chrlst LOT eNigehcies' a
Ohrlst lot oeau mt! a surgeon VINO
never loses case'
In speaking of Christ as surgeon
l must consider him as an oculist or
eye doctor, and an aurist or ear doc
tor. Was there ever such another ocu-
list? That he was particularly sorry
for the blind folks take from the fact
that the most of His works were with
the diseased optic nerves. | have not
time to count up the number of blind
people mentioned who got His cure.
Two blind men in one house; also one
who was born blind; so that it was
not removal of visual obstruction,
but the creation of the cornea and
ciliary muscle and crystalline lens and
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