Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-07-27

more than one really deaf ear out OF lOo''
300 is ever cured.
It took a God to make the ear, and it
takes a God to mend it. That makes me
curious to see how Christ the Surgeon sue
ceeds as an aurist.
We are told of only two cases He oper
ated on as an ear surgeon. Ills IrIend
Peter. naturally high tempered, saw Christ
insuIted by man bv the name OF Man
chus. and Peter let his sword fly. aiming
at the mans head. but the sword clipped
and hewed off the outside ear, and our
Surgeon touched the liberation and an.
other ear bloomed in the place Of the. one
that had been slasncu away. nu. 40 20
not the outside ear that hears. That Is
only funnel for gathering sound and
mourning it into the hidden and more elab-
crate ear. On the beach of lake, Gal'lee
orr Surgeon found a man deaf and DUMB.
The patient dwelt in perpetual silence
and was speechless He could not hear
note of music or clap of thunder; lie
could not call father or mother or wiie, or
children by name. What power can waken
that dull tympanum or reach that cnaih
of small bones or revive that AUDITORY
nerve or open the gate between the BRAN
and the outside world. The surgeon pu1
His fingers i'm the deaf ears and agltated
them. and kept on agitating them until the
vibration gave vital energy to all the dead
narts. and thew responded, and when o,r
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 life he heard the
dash of the waves of Galilee. Through the
desert of painful silence had been built
kings highway Of resonance and acclama,,
ton. But vet he was dumb. No WORD
bad ever leaned from his lip Speech was
chained under his tongue. Vocallzatlon
and acce~tuation were to him an lmpossi-
bility. He could express neither love nor
INDIGNATION nor worship. Our SURGEON.
having unbarred his ear, will now ,nloose
the sbackle Of his tongue. The Surgeon
will use the same liniment or salve thar
He used on two occasions for the cure OF
blind people - namely, the moisture OF
His own mouth. The application is made,
and 10. the rigidty Of the dumb tongue IS
RELAXED. and between the tongue and teeth
was horn a whole vocabulary and words
few into expression. He not oniv heard
hut he talked. One gate of his body swung
in to let sound enter. and the other gate
swung ont tn Jet sound depart
Whv is it that. while other surgeons
used knives and forceps and rrobes and
stethoscopes this SURGEON used only the
ointment of His own lips? TO show that
all the curative mower we ever feel comes
straight from Christ. And if He touches
us not we shall hn deaf as a rock and
dumb as a tomb. Oh. Thou greatest OF all
artists. compel us to hear and help us to
speak
But what were the Surgeons fees for all
these cures of eyes and ears and tongues
and withered hands and crooked backs!
The skill and the painlessness OF the OPP
erations were worth hundreds and thou
sands of dollars.
Do not think that the cases He took
were all money]ess Did He not treat the
nobleman's son? Did He not doctor the
rulers daughter? Did He not effect cure
in the house of centurian of great wealth
who had out of his own pocket built
synagogue?
They would have paid Him large fees,
and there were hundreds of wealthy people
in Jerusalem and among the merchant
castles along Lake Tiberlas who Wou,d
have given this Surgeon houses and lands
and all they had for such cures as He could
effect.
For critical cases in our time great sur
peons have received $1,000. $5O00 and in
ono case | know of $4,000, but the Sur
geou of whom | speak received not
shekel. not penny, not tarthing -,
In His whole earthly life we know of
His having had but 6215 cents. When HIS
taxes were due, by His omniscience he
knew of fish in the sea which had swai-
lowed a piece of silver money. as flsh are
apt to swallow anything bright, and lie
sent Peter with hook which brought up
that fish, and from its mouth was ex-
tracted a Roman slater, or 6212 cents,
the only money He ever had, and that lie
paid out for taxes.
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 unbarred, and your
dumb tongues loosened, and your wounds
healed. and your soul saved. If Christian
people get hurt of body, mind or soul, let
them remember that surgery is apt to hurt,
but 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 chloroform or
cocoaine ever made one so superior to dis
tress as few drops OF that magnificent
anodyne "All things work together for
good to those who love God" Weeping
NAV endure for night, but JOY cometh
in the morning"
What a grand thing for our poor hui
man race when this Surgeon shall have
completed the treatment of the worlds
woundsi The day will come when there
will be no more hospitals, for there will
be no more sick, and no more eye and ear
infirmaries, for there will be no more bind
or deaf. and no more deserts, for the round
earth shall be brought under arboriculture,
and no more billiards or sunstrokes, Tor
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 acct
dent or malformation or hereditary ills on
earth become the athletes in Elyslan fields.
Who is 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 ophthalmia! Who is
that erect and graceful and queenly wom-
an before the throne? That was the one
whom our Surgeon found bent almost dou-
bic and could in nowise lift up herself.
and He made her straight. Who is that
listening with such rapture to the music
of heaven, solo melting into chorus, Gym
bal responding to trumpet, and then him
self Joining in the anthem? Why, that is
the man whom our Surgeon found deaf
and dumb on the beach of Galilee, and by
touches opened ear gate and mouth gate.
Who is that around whom the crowds are
gathering with admiring looks and thanks
giving and cries of ooh, what He did Tor
me! Oh, what He did for my family. Oh,
what He did for the world" That is the
Surgeon of all the centuries, the oculist,
the aurist, the emancipation, the Saviour:
No pay He took on earth. Come, now, and
let all heaven pay Him with worship that
shall never end and love that shall never
die. On His head be all the crowns, in
His hands be all the scepters and at His
feet be all the worlds!