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works were with the diseased optic nerves:
I have not time to count. up the number OF
! blind people mentioned who got Hls cure.
Two blind men in one house; also one
who was born blind; SO that it was not re-
| moval of visual obstruction, but the
and crystalline lens and retina and optlo
nerve and tear gland; also the blind man
of Bethsaida, cured by the saliva which
the Surgeon took from the tip of HIS own
| tongue and put upon the eyelids; also TWO
Blind men who sat by the wayside. In our
civilized lands we have blindness enough,
the ratio fearfully increasing, according 70
the statement of European and American
oculists, because of the reading OF morn
cars by the multitudes who live out of the
city and come in to business. But IN the
lands where this Divine Surgeon operated
the cases of blindness were multiplied be,
yond everything by the particles OF SAND
floating in the air and the night dews
falling on the eyelids Of those who slept
on the top of their houses, and IN some
of these lands it is estimated that twenty
out of 100 peonle are totally oiind. taIhla
all that crowd of visioniess people, S;nas Mnae
work for an oculist! And ! DO not oeIeVe
that more than one out of hundred OF
that Surgeons cures was reported. ne
went up and down among those. peop1e
who we're feeling slowly their way by stan,
or led by the hand of man or rope OF dog,
and introducing them to the faces OF their
own household, to the sunrise and the sun
set and the evening star. he JUST ran
His hand. over the eXpressionless face, ana
the shutters of both windows were swung
open, and the restored went home crying.
"I see! see! Thank God, I see!"
The mighticst scientists have put their
skill to its returning. and sometimes they
stop the progress Of its decadence or re-
move temporary distractions, but not
more than one really deaf ear out OF loo'-
| 900 is ever cured. q,
It took q God to make the ear, and it
! takes God to mend it; That makes me
i curious to see how Christ the surgeon Sue
i ceeds as an aurist.
We are told of only two cases tie oper,
Lated on as On ear surgeon, His ITieht
Peter, naturally high tempered, saw Chrise
fins1lted by man by the name OF Man-
Echus, and Peter let his sword fly, aiming
|Eat The mans head, but the sword clipped
and hewed off the outside ear, ana our
4 Surgeon touched the laceration and an
Eother ear bloomed in the place OF the one
That had been sashed away. 6pT ~ - Is
||fnot the outside ear that hears. lhat Is
ll8Sfk a funnel for gathering sound ard
II EboIrino It into the hidden and more elab-
crate ear. On the beach Of Lake Galllee
'konrs Surgeon found a man deaf and dumb.
\ Th, patient dwelt in perpetual silence
\ and was speechless He could not hear
4 note of music or a clap of thunder: he
4 could not call father or mother or wife or
il children by name. What power can Wakeh
X that dull tympanum or reach tnat Shatn
4 Eof small bones or revive that auditory
E nerve or open the gate between the BRAIN
and Tie outside world? The Surgeon put
}rYY;aSEnoers in the deaf ears and agitated
\ then5t and kept on agitating them until the.
i Vibration gave vital energy to all the dead
Ipartss and they responded, and when our
4 Surfeon withdrew His fingers from the
j ears the two tunnels OF sound were cIear
i for,all sweet voices of music and triendshlp.
EEor the first time in his life he sheard the
IEdash of the waves of Galilee Through the
i 18esert OF painful silence had been built q
Ekfna's highway of resonance an4 accianis.
f;tfiioSn. Hon But vet he was dumb. Nc. word
/ I:iRad ever leaped from his lip. Speech was
6hained under his tongue. Vpcalizatlon
and acceutuation were to him an lmpossl-
I 3bility. He could express neither 5oye nor
Il EindfSnAtion nor worship. Our Surgeon.
( having unbarred his ear, viii low lmloose
xshackle Of his tongue The Surgeon
will use the sane liniment e OF save snas
tblind 6people namely, the moisture of
His own mouth. The application is made,
land al tie rigidity Of the dumb tongue is
Il relaxed, and between the tongue and teeth
II waA born whole vocabulary and words
i fiewint expression. He not only heard,
buSshe talked. One gate of his body swung
in to let, sound enter. and the other gate
swung out to let sound depart. :
I WhYRis it that. while. other surgeons
used Knives and foTceps and probes ana
4 stethoscopes, this Surgeon used only the
ointment iof His own lips? To show that
4 aiI the curative power we ever feel comes
\ STRAIGHT from Christ. And if He touches
Ing not we shall be deaf as rock and
S dumb as tomb Oh, Thou greatest OF all
artists, compel us to hear and help Us to
! speak! :,
4 But what were the Surgeons fees for all
sIsthese cures of eyes and ears and tongues
withered hands and crooked backsf
4 The skill and the painlessness OF the op-
erations were worth hundreds ana tlou-
sands of dollars. :,
i Do not think that the cases He took
4 we're all moneyless. Did He not treat the
nobleman's son? Did He not doctor the
rulers daughter? Did He not effect cure
in the house OF q centurian of great wealth
WHO had out Of his own pocket built
synagogue?
and there were hundreds of wealthy people
in Jerusalem and among the mercnanSS
castles along Lake Tiberias who would
have given this Surgeon houses and lands
land all they had fer such cures as He COULD
effect
For critical cases in our time great sur
ceons have received $1,000, $4,000, and IN
one case l know of $4,000, but the Sur
peon IF whom I speak received not
sheke. not penny, not a farthlng.
In His whole earthly life We know Of
His having had but 62l2 cents. When HIS
taxes were due. by His omniscienee he
lowed piece of silver money. as fish are
ant to swallow anything bright, and He
sent Peter with hook which brought up
that fish, and from its mouth was ex'
| tracted Roman slater. or 6?1la cents,
This greatest Surgeon of all the centu-
ries gave all His services then and offers
all His services now free OF all charge.
Without money and without price" you
NAV spiritually have blind eyes opened
and YOUR dumb ears unbarrcd. and your
| dumb tongues loosened, and Your wounds
healed, and your soul saved. If Christian
neoplc get hurt of body, mind or SOU let
| them remember that surgery Is apt to hurt,
hIt it cures, and you can afford present
pain for future glory.
Besides that. there are powerful anaes-
thetics in the divine promises that soothe
and alleviate. No ether or chlorotorm or
cocaine ever made one so superior to dis
tress as a few drops of that magnificent
anodyne: "All things work together for
good to those who love God" "Weeping
may endure for night, but joy cometh
in the morning"
What a grand thing for cur poor. hu-
man race when thie, Surgeon shall have
completed the treatment of the worlds
wounds! The day will come when there
will be 70 more hospitals, for there will