Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-07-28

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dropsy without any pain at the time or
any pain after. and that surgeon was
Jesus Christ, the mightiest, grandcst.
gentlest and most sympathetic surgeon
the world ever saw or ever will see. and
he deserves the confidence and love and
worship and hoSanna OF all the earth and
halleluiahs Of all heaven. The blind re-
ceive their sight and the lame walk, the
lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear"
l notice this surgeon had a fonduess
for chronic eases Many Il surgeon, when
he has had a patient brought to him, has
said: Why was not this attended to five
years ago? You bring him to me after
all power Of recupcratiou is gone. NOu
have waited until there is complete con
traction of the muscles, and false lig0
lures are formed. and oSsifcatiOn has
taken place. Ii ought TO have been at
tended 20 long ago" But Christ the Sur
geon seemed to prefer jnvcterate eases.
One was hemorrhage of twelve years,
and ne stopped it. Another was n curva-
ture OF eighteen years, and he straighten-
ed II. Another was a cripple of thirty
eight years, and he walked out well. The
thirty-cight years ease was a man who
lay on Il mattress near the mineral baths
at Jerusalem. There were five apart
ments 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 wat
ers have disappeared, probably through
some CONFUSION of nature Christ the
al ~, h.
| have no doubt passes by some patients
who have been only six months disor-
dered or year or five years and comes
to the mattress of the man who had been
| nearly four decades helpless and to this
thirty-eight years invalid said, "Wilt
thou be made wholc?"
Christ the Chief Surgeon.
The question asked not because the
| surgeon did not understand the protract-
edness, the despcrateness, of the ease
but to evoke the mans pathetic narra-
tive. wilt thou be made whole -
Would you like to get weil?" "Oh,
! yes" says the man. That is what
| came to these mineral baths for. | have
tried everything. All the surgeons have
failed, and all the prescriptions have
proved valueless, and L got worse and
worse, and | can neither move hand nor
foot nor head. Oh. if | could only be
free from this pain of thirty-eght years.
Christ the Surgeon could not stand that.
| Bending over the man on the mattress,
and in Il voice tender with all sympathy,
but strong with all omnipoteuce. he says,
Rise" And the invalid instantly seram-
| bleS TO his 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 look
| ing at the doctor. with JOY too much to
| hold the doctor says: shoulder this
mattress, 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 a
surgeon for chronic cases then and for
| chronic eases now
This is not applicable so much to those
who are only a little hurt of sin and only
for a short time, but to those Frustrated
of sin twelve years, eighteen years, thir
| ty-eight years Here is surgeon able
to give immortal health. "Oh," you say
II am so completely overthrow an(
trampled down of sin that / cannot rise >
! Are you fiattpr 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 | bid thee rise. Not eases Of acute
sin, but of chronic sin-those who have
not prayed for thirtycight years, those
who have not been to church for thirty
eight years, those who have been gam
! blcrs, or libcrtines, or thieves, or outlaws
| ,,. ,Ip inf I'll,
an these together. for thirty-eight years
| 4 Christ for exigcncics A Christ for :,
dead lift, \ surgeon who never loses II
| case.
| In speaking Of Christ rs a surgeon |
must consider him as an oculist or eve
doctor, and an aurist or ear doctor Was
| there ever such another oculist? That
he was particularly sorry for the blind
folks | take from the fact that the most
Of his works were with tho diseased OPP
| ;ic nerves. ! have not time to count M
! 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 Il visual OBJ
stluctiou. but the creation Of the carnca
and cliary muscle and crystalline tens
and rctina aud optic nerve aud tear
gland; also the blind man Of bethesda.
cured by the saliva which the Surgeon
took from the tip Of his own tongue and
put upon the cyclids; also two blind !Arn
~ no sat by the waysidc
Work of the OcuIist.
In our civilized lands we have blind
ness enough, the ratio fearfuly irorr8s-
ia2. according 90 the statement Of Euro
/ 4 4.