The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-07-26
/ DR.. TALMAGE,
,rxr DIvINE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
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.ox d. C.-In this discourse
1NeiVat n,,ts in an unusual light the
ngcg 1gcbprist. and shows how divine
..nt make the illnesses Of the
~ nl,.ot 9it text. Matthew xi, 5, 'The
Mo" their sight, and the lame
WV ~ are cleansed and the deaf
81 said to a distinguished sur
y .,a not get worn out with con-
Y Wv 40 many wounds and bro
Nd distortions of the human
soh no." he answered; "all that
y" by my Joy in curing them"
M md more merciful art never
~ irom heaven than that of sur
csstrophe and disease entered
- early that one of the first
,be world was a doctor. Our
.'J aqonized human race called
:. n.y. and family physician for many
,bev came. The first surgeons
.~r .s~,,cJ this call were ministers of
,,mely. the Egyptian priests.
1 {, orand thing if all clergymen
lootors. all ID. DIS were NJ. DIS,
4 ,ro 20 many cases where body
sd treatment at the same time,
and medicine, theology and
As the first surgeons of the
w also ministers of religion, may
4 ~ professions always be in full
. I, But under what disadvanta-
,rly surgeons worked, from the
dissection of the human body
4 lien. first by the pagans and
. M early Christians! Apes being
( y ~ most like the human race, were
4 Inf no human body might be
! hr physiological and anatomical
tm and the surgeons had to guess
I, inside the temple by looking at
IN Of it. If they failed in any
onsraton, they were persecuted
a ',,n out of the city, as was Archa.
Aause of his bold but unsuccess
rDt to save a patient.
A, world from the very beginning
,ing for surgeons. and their first
,Doken of in Genesis, where they
4 their art for the incisions of 0
/ N God making surgery the prede
4 BAPTISM, and we see it again in
\ where Ahaziah, the monarch
d IN some cracked latticework in
! NJ and it broke, and he fell from
M 10 the lower floor, and he was SC
4 n he sent to the village of Esron
and Aesculapius. who wrought
,jers of surgery that he was del
temples were built for his wor
4 Pergamos; and Epidaurus and
n introduced for the relief of the
4 I4ebotomy, and Damocedes cured
Z mted ankle of King Darius anG
n rsr Of his queen, and Hippocrates
rSul hand on fractures and intro
4 ,nputation, and Praxagoras re
4 tAtmCtions, and Herophilus begar
4 a and Erasistratus removed tn
Hi CELSIUS, the Roman surgeon, re
ahnct from the eye and used the
4 hy. and Heliodorus arrested dis
4 he throat, and Alexander of Tralles
4 he eve. and Rhazas cauterized fol
ntiOn of hydrophobia. and Perci
came to combat diseases of the
I'D in our own century we have
BONG others, a Roux and Larray
rN, an Ashley Cooper and an
Hhy in Great Britain and n Valen,
1t and Willard Parker and Samuei
: in America, and a galaxy of liv
rOns as brilliant as their predeces
What mighty progress in the baf
dsase since the crippled and sick
Int cities were laid along the
that people who had ever been
tsOrdered in the same way might
what had better be done for the
,aEithstanding all the surgical and
dill OF the world, with what ten.
\ old diseases hang ON to the hu.
BE- and most of them are thou,
years old, and in our Bibles we
bem-the carbuncles of Job and
the palpitation of the heart spo.
d Deuteronomy, the sunstroke of
aTled from the fields of Shunem,
Wy head! my head" King Asa's
the feet. which was nothing but
AsCtion of teeth, that called for
ngry, the skill of which, almost
mything modern, is still seen in
nClars Of the unrolled Egyptian
the ophthalmia caused by the
Ne newly ripe fig, leaving the peo.
oy the roadside; epilepsy, as in
q the young man often falling
hFe and oft into the water; ny.
n1, as of Nebuchadnezzar, who
himself an OK and going out to
2 pasture; the withered hand,
boe tunes, as now, came from
ncllon OF the main artery or from
Of the chief nerve; the wounds
ban whom the thieves left for
lAe road to Jericho, and whom
Nmarltan nursed, pouring in oil
,Wne to cleanse the wound and
qle 1t. Thank God for what sur.
Done for the alienation and cure
aGeringl
world wants a surgery without
n 4, Parre and Hickman and Simp.
warner and Jackson, with their
genius, came forward, and with
lelhetlcs benumbed the patient
l@'lcS and ethers as the ancients
Aasheesh and mandrake, and
iln for awhile, but at the return
BUSINESS distress returned. The
never seen but one surgeon who
lghten the crooked limb, cure
eye or reconstruct the drum OF
+ ear or reduce a dropsy without
hat surgeon was Jesus Christ,
aes'' grandest, gentlest and most
iuc surgeon the world ever saw OF
Se, and He deserves the conf.
love and worship and hosanna
y aI1 Earth and halleluiahs of all
Inc blind receive their sight
5als 5als walk; the lepers are cleansed
s.a ,nS surgeon had a fondness for
u'es' Many a surgeon, when he
patient brought to him, has
4 sSy vas not this attended to five
4 You bring him to me after all
IN ,,,t;isuPPeratlon is gone. You have
-DI lhere is complete contrac.
T. !, y, muscles, and false ligatures are
wv osslhcation has taken place
" nave been attended to long
thrlst the Surgeon seemed to
,e'erate cases. One was a
4 S., sol Twelve years, and He stopped
4 N NJ uWas was curvature of eighteen
ne Strengthened it. Another
N N, gye ol thirty-eight years, and he
wen The eighteen-year pa
o,il \ woman bent almost double.
q 'Ju o Sall a convention of all the
I n all the centuries, their com
M could not cure that body so
4 tou, WI shape, Perhaps they might
NV L~ getting any worse, perhaps