The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-07-27

two headlights kindled under nla
brow. cried out in language that con-
founded the jeering crowd who were
deriding the Christ that had effected
the cure and wanted TO make Him out
a bad man, whether He be a sinner
or not. know not. One thing l know
that whereas | was blind, now l see.
. But this surgeon was just as Won
derful as an aurist. Very few people
have two good ears. Nine out of ten
people are particular TO get on this
or that side Of you when they sit or
walk or ride with you, because they
have one disabled ear. Many have
both ears damaged. and what with the
constant racket of our great cities and
the catarrhal troubles that sweep
through the land, IL is. remarkable
that there are any good ears at all.
Most wonderful instrument is the hui
man ear. IL is harp and drum and
Telegraph and telephone and whisper
ing gallery all In one. SO delicate
and wondrous is its construction that
ahe most difficult of all things TO re-
xbnstruct is the auditory apparatus.
The mightiest scientists have put
their skill TO its returning, and some
times they stop the progress OF its
decadence or remove temporary OBJ
~fruetions, but not more than one
Neatly deaf ear out OF 100000 is ever
tured. IL took a God TO make the ear,
and q takes a God TO mend 81. That
II 60. hat -
&he Surgeon succeeds as an aurist
tive are told Of only two cases He
txerated on as an ear surgeon. His
4 lend Peter. naturally high tempered,
4 Aw Christ insulted by a man By the
name Of Malchus, and Peter let his
Isword fy. aiming at the mans head,
] out the sword slipped and hewed on
the outside ear. and our Surgeon
touched the laceration and another
ear bloomed in the place OF the one
that had been slashed away. But IL
As not the outside ear that hears.
nat IL only a funnel for gathering
Bound aud pouring IL into the hidden
and more elaborate ear. On the
beach OF Lake Galiiee our Surgeon
FOUND a man deaf and dumb. The pa
stient dwelt in perpetual silence and
was speeches.. He could not hear
q note OF music or a clap OF thunder.
He could not call father or mother or
wife OF children by name. What pow
er can waken that dull tympanum or
reach that chain Of small bones or re-
vive that auditory nerve or open the
gate between the brain and the out
side world? The Surgeon put his I'm
gers In the deaf ears and agitated
them and kept on agitating them
until the vibration gave vital energy
90 all the dead parts, and they re-
sponded. and when our surgeon
withdrew His fingers from the ears
The two tunnels OF sound were clear
for all sweet voices Of music and
friendship. For the first time in his
lie he heard the dash OF the waves Of
Galilee. Through the desert OF pain
ful silence had been built a kings
highway Of resonance and acclama-
tn. But Yet he was dumb. No
Z - had ever leaped over his lip.
Mech was chained under his tongue.
Mobilization and accentuation were
70 him an impossibility. He could ex-
press neither love nor indignation nor
worship.
Our Surgeon. having unbarred His
ear. will now unloose the shackle Of
His tongue. The surgoon will use the
same liniment or salve that lie used on
two occasions for the cure Of blind peo-
ple-namely. the moisture OF His own
mouth. The application Is made. and
10. the rightly Of the dumb tongue Is
relaxed. and between the tongue and
teeth was born a whole vocabulary and
words fiewinto expression. Henotoniy
heard. but he talked. One gate Of his
body swung in 20 let sound enter. and
the other gate swung out 10 let sound
Depart. Why Is IL that, while other
surgeons used knives and forceps and
stethoscopes. this Surgeon used only
the ointment OF His own lips? To show
hat all the curative power we ever feel
comes straight from Christ. And r He
touches US n OF we shall be deaf as a mock
and dumb as a tomb. Oh, Thou great
est of all artists, compel us 70 hear
and help us to speak,
What a grand thing for our poor hu-
nan race when this Surgeon shall have
completed the treatment OF the worlds
woundsl The day will come when thers
will be no more hospitals, for there VIII
be no more sick, and no more eye and
ear infirmities, for there will be no more
blind or deaf, and no more deserts. foi
the round earth shall be brought under
arboriculture. and no more blizzSds or
sunstrokes. for the atmosphere will be
expurgated OF scorch and chill, and no
more war. for the swords shall come out
OF the foundry bent into pruning hooks,
while in the Heavenly country we shall
see the victims OF accident or malforma'
ton or hereditary ills on earth become
the athletes in Elysian fields. Who IL
that man with such brilliant eyes close
before the Throne? Why, that Is the
man who. near Jericho. was blind and
our Surgeon cured his ophthalmial
Who Is that erect and graceful and
oueenly woman before the Throne
That was the one whom our Surgeon
found bent almost double and could in
nowise lift herself up, and He made her
straight. Who is that listening with
such rapture TO the music of Heaven
solo melting into chorus, cymbal re-
sponding 10 trumpet, and then himself
joipinO in the anthem? Why. that is