Connecticut western news., 1900-07-26

I to prefer 1hveterate' cases. One was a
 hemorrhage of 12 years, and he stop | ped it. Another was a curvature of IS years, and he strengthened 1t. Another was a cripple of 3S years, and he
 walked out we'll. The 1s-year patient | was a woman bent almost double. If you could call convention of all the l surgeons of all the centuries, their combined skill could not cure that body so drawn out of shape. Perhaps
 they might stop It from getting any
 worse, perhaps they might contrive
 braces by which she might be made
 more comfortable, but it Is, humbly
 speaking, incurable. Yet this divine
 surgeon put both his hands on her, and
 from that doubled up posture she be-
 gan to take on a healthier hue, and the
 muscles began to relax from their IT, | gidity, and the spinal column began to | adjust itself, and the cords of the neck
 began to be more supple, and the eyes,
 that could see only the ground before,
 now looked into the face of Christ with
 gratitude and up toward heaven in i transport. Straight! After IS weary
 and exhausting years, straight! The l poise, the gracefulness, the beauty of healthy womanhood reinstated.
 | For Chronic Illness.
 The 3S years case was man who lay on mattress near the mineral baths at 1 Jerusalem. There were five apartments l 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 waters have disappeared, probably
 through some convulsion of nature. | The bath, 120 feet long, 40 feet wide
 and feet deep. Ah, poor man, If you | have been lame and helpless 38 years,
 that mineral bath cannot restore you. Why, 2S years is more than the aver l age of human life. Nothing but the
 grave will cure you. But Christ the
 Surgeon walks along these baths and
 1 have no doubt passes by some pa tients 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 I and to this 38 years invalid said, wilt | thou be made wholeY'
 l The question asked not because the surgeon did not understand the pro- tractedness, the desperateness, of the case, but to evoke the mans pathetic narrative. Wilt thou be made whole ?"
 Would you like to get well?" "Oh, 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 prescrip- tions have proved valueless, and got | worse and worse, and I can neither l move hand nor foot nor head. Oh, If could only be free from this pain of 38 | yearsp' Christ the Surgeon could not stand that. Bending over the man on l the mattress, and In a voice tender with all sympathy, but strong with all omnipotence, he says, "Rise! And the invalid instantly scrambles to his knees and then puts out his right foot, then his left foot, and then stood up- | right as though he had never been prostrated. While he stands looking at the doctor, with a joy too much to hold, the doctor says: Shoulder this mat tress, for you are not only well enough | to walk, but we'll enough to work and | start out from these mineral baths. | Take up thy bed and walkw Oh, what l 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, but to those | prostrated of sin 12 years, IS years, 3S years. Here Is surgeon able to give immortal health. "Oh," you say, T am | so completely overthrown and tram | pied down of sin that I cannot rise" | Are you flatter 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 cas,G of acute sin, but of chronic sin-those | who have not prayed for 3S years. those who have not been to church for l S9 years, those who have been gam blers, or libertines, or thieves, or out | laws, or blasphemers, or infidels, or atheists, or all these together, for 38 years. A Christ for exigencies! A | Christ for dead lift! A surgeon who never loses a case!
 | Made the Blind to See.
 | In speaking of Christ as a surgeon must consider him as an oculist or eye | doctor and an aurist or ear doctor. | Was there ever such another oculist
 That he was particularly sorry for the
 blind folks I take from the fact that
 the most of his works were with the
 diseased optic nerves. I 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 l was born blind; so that 1t was not re-
 moval of visual obstruction, but the
 creation of the cornea and ciliary mus
 cle and crystalline lens and retina and
 optic. 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 fearfuIiy increasing, according to
 the statement of European and Ameri-
 can ocAlists, because of the reading of
 morning and evening newspapers on
 the jolting cars by the multitudes who live out of the city and come in to busi-
 ness. But in the lands where this di-
 vine surgeon operated the cases Of
 blindness were multiplied beyond ev-
 erything by the particles of sand float
 ing in the air and the night dews fall
 ing on the eyelids of those who slept on
 the top of their houses, and in some of
 these lands 1t Is estimated that 20 out
 of 100 people are totally blind. Amid | all that crowd of yiSiOnleSS people
 what work for an ocuiist! And I do
 not believe that more than one out of a
 hundred of that surgeons cures was
 reported. He went up and down among
 those people who were feeling slowly
 their way by staff, or led by the hand
 of man or rope of dog, and introducing