The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-07-27


| years. and lie Hraghtcncd n. Another
was a cripple OF thirty ycight years, and hc
| walked out well. The cghtccn.ycar pa
! tcut was "A woman bent almost double.
! II you could call convention ot all the
| surgeons OF all the centuries, their com
! bincd skill could not cure that body so
! drawn ont OF shape. Perhaps they might
! stop II from getting any worse perhaps
| they might contrvc braces by which she
might bc made more comfortable, but II ls,
, humbly speaking. incurablc. Yet this di.
vine surgeon put both His hands on her,
and from that doubled up posture she be
gan 10 take on "A healthier hue, and the
muscles began 90 relax from their rlgidlty,
and the spinal column began 10 adjust IT.
self, and the cords of the neck began 10
be- more supple, and the eyes, that could
see only the ground before, now looked
into the face of Christ with gratitude and
mp toward heaven IN transport. Straight!
After eighteen weary and cNhaustng years,
straight The pOisc. the gTaCCiuluCss, the
beauty of healthy WomanhOOd rclustntcd
The thirty-cight years case was a man
who lay on "A mattress near the mineral
baths at Jerusalem. There were five
apartments where lame people were
brought, so that they could get the advan-
tagc OF these mineral baths. the stone
basin OF the bath is still visible, although
the waters have disappeared, probably
bath, l2O feet long, forty feet wide and
eight feet deep. Al, poor man, # you
have been lame and helpless thirty eight
years that mineral bath cannot restore
YOU. Why, twcuty-cight years ~ more than
the average OF human life Nothing but
the grave viii cure you. But Christ the
Surgeon walks along those baths, and |
have no doubt passes by some patients
who have been only six months disordcrcd
or year or five years and comes 90 the
mattress of the man who had been nearly
four decades helpless. and to this thirty.
eight years invalid said, "Wlt thou be-
made wholc|
In speaking Of Christ as a surgeon
must consider Him az an OCust or eye
doctor and an aurist or ear doctor Was
| there ever such another ocullsty That He
was particularly sorry for the blind folks
! | take from the fact chat the most of lila
| works were with the diseased optic nerves.
! | bHvc not time 10 count up the number OF
! blind people mentioned who got Ills cure.
| Two blind men IN one house; also one
! who was born blind so that Il was not re-
moval of visual obstruction but the
! creation of the cornca and cllary muscle
/ and crystalline lens and TCtua aud optic
! nerve aud tear gland. also the blind man
of Bcthsaida. cured 10y the saliva which
! the Surgeon took from the tip ot His own
tongue and put upon the cyClds; also two
/
/ civilized lands we have blindness enough,
! the ratio lcariully increasing according to
/ the statement OF European and American
! ocuhsts. because oi the reading OF morn
| ing and evening newspapers on the ioltlng
cars 10y the multltudcs who live out of the
| city and come nm To business But IN the
| lands where this Divine Surgeon operated
the cases of blindness were multiplied be.
| yond everything 10y the PARTICLES of sand
a. ~
! falling on the cyclds ol those who slept
| on the top of their houses, and nm some
| of these lands Il ~ estimated that twenty
| out of 100 pcoulc are totally blind, Amid
| all that crowd ot VlsioulCss people, what
work for an oCulistl And 10 not believe
| that more than one ont Ut a hundred of
| that Surgeon s cures was reported lie
went up and down among those people
| who were feeling slowly their way 10y staff,
/ or led hy the hand of man or rope OF dog.
| and introducing them to the faces of their
own household. TO the sunrise aud the sun.
set and the evening star. He Just ran
! His hand over the cNprcssionlCss face. and
/ the shutters of both windows were swung
! opCn, aud the restored went home crying.
~ scc | sccl Thank God. | scc'
That is the oculist We all need. Till llc
touches our eyes we are blind. Yea, we
were born blind ly nature we see things
wrong, II we see them at all. Our best
eternal interests are put before us, and
we cannot see them. The glorlcs of a low
ing aud pardouing Christ are projected
and we do not behold them Or we have
a detective sight which makes the things
of this world larger than the things of the
future, time bigger than eternity Or We
are color blind and cannot see the differ
cncc between the hlackucss of darkness
forever and the roscatc morning ot an
everlasting day, But Christ the Surgeon
comes in, and though We shrink back
afraid TO have Him touch us. vet lie puts
HIS fingers ON the closed cyclds of the
soul and midnight becomes mdnoon, and
we understand something of the JOY oi the
young man of the Bible who. though he
had never before been able TO see his hand
before his face. now 10y the touch of Christ
had two headlights kiudcd unucr his
brow, cried out i'm language that contound-
ed the Iecrlng crowd who were dcriding
Christ that had effected the cure, and
wanted TO make Him cut bad man.
Whether He be sinner OF no | know
not. One thing | know that whereas |
was blind. now | see"
But this Surgeon was Just as wonderful
rs an aurist. Very few pcoulc have two
good ears. Nine out Of ten people are
particular 10 get on this or that side of
YOU when they sit or walk or ride with
YOU. because they have one disabled ear
Many have both ears damaged. and what
with the constant racket of our great
cities and the catarrhal troubles that
sweep through the land u is remarkable
that there are any good ears az all.
Most wonderful instrument is the human
ear. IL - harp and drum and telegraph
and telephone and whispering gallery an
IN one. 80 delicate and wondrous is its
construction that the most difficult OF all
things TO reconstruct is the auditory ap-
paratus.
The mighticst scientists have put their
skill to its returning. and sometimes they
stop the progress of its decadcncc or re-
move temporary ohstructions but not
more than one really deaf ear out of 100.
600 Is ever cured
10 took God 10 make the ear. and II
takes God To mend it That makes me
curious To see how Christ the surgeon sue.
cceds a. an aurist
We are told of only two cases lie opcr.
ated on as an ear surgeon Ills friend
iettr naturally high tempered. saw Christ
insulted hy a man hv the name of Man.
chus. and Peter let his sword Nv. aimin,
NJ the mans head. bat the sword ri,prs5
and hewed of the outside ear. and opr
surgeon touched the laccration and an.
other ear hloomed IN the place of the one
that had been sashcd away. But n i
not the outside ear that hears. That i
uulN funnel for