The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-07-28

of that surgeons cures were reporteu'
He went up and down among tnose
people who were feeling slowly 'nelr
n way by staff, or led by the hand OF man.
or rope of dog, and introducing ,he me-,
to the faces of their own householo'
to the sunrise and the sunset ana inc
evening star. He just ran MS hapu
over the expressionless face, ana tne
shutters of both windows were swung
open, and the restored went home cry :,
ing: ~ see see! Thank God l see!
That is the oculist we all need. III
he touches our eyes we are piihu'
Yea. we were born blind, BY nature
we see things wrong, if we see them
at all. Our best eternal interests are
put before us, and we cannot see
them. The glories of loving ana
pardoning Christ are projected, ana
we do not behold them. Or we have
defective sight which makes the
things of this world larger than the
things of the future, time bigger than
eternity. Or, we are color blind ana
cannot see the difference between the
blackness of darkness forever and the
roseate morning of an everlasting
day. But Christ the Surgeon comes
in, and though we shrink back, AFRAID
to have Him touch us, yet He puts
His fingers on the closed eyelids OF
the soul and midnight becomes mid
noon, and we understand something
of the joy of the young man OF the
Bible who, though he had never before
been able to see his hand before his
face. now by the touch of Christ had
two headlights kindled under his
brow, cried out in language that con-
founded the jeering crowd who were
deriding the Christ that had effected
the cure and wanted to MAKE Him out
a bad man, "Whether He be sinner
or not, know not. One thing know,
that whereas 1 was blind, now | see."
But this surgeon was just as won
derful as an aurist. Very few people
have two good ears. Nine out of ten
people are particular to 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, it is remarkable
that there are any good ears at all.
Most wonderful instrument is the hui
man ear. 1t is harp and drum and
telegraph and telephone and whisper
ing gallery all in one. So delicate
and wondrous is its construction that
the most difficult of all things to re-
construct is the auditory apparatus.
The mightiest scientists have put
their skill to it's returning, and some
times they stop the progress of its
decadence or remove temporary OBJ
structions, but not more than one
really deaf ear out OF 100000 is ever
cured. 1t took God to make the ear,
and it takes God to mend it. That
makes me curious to see how Christ
the Surgeon succeeds as an aurist.
We are told of only two cases He
operated on as an ear surgeon. His
friend Peter, naturally high tempered,
saw Christ insulted by man by the
name of Malchus, and Peter let his
sword fly, aiming at the mans head
but the sword slipped and hewed off
the outside ear, and our Surgeon
touched the laceration and another
ear bloomed in the place of the one
that had been slashed away. But it
is not the outside ear that hears.
That is only funnel for gathering
sound and pouring it into the hidden
and more elaborate ear On the
beach of Lake Galilee our Surgeon
found man deaf and dumb. The pa
tient dwelt in perpetual silence and
was speechless. He could not hear
a note of music or clap of thunder.
He could not call father or mother or
wife or children by name. What pow
err can waken that dull tympanum or
reach that chain of small bones or re-
vive that auditory nerve or open the
gate between the brain and the out
side world? The Surgeon put his fin
gers in the deaf ears and agitated |
them and kept on agitating them
until the vibration gave vital energy
to all the dead parts, and they re-
sponded. and when our surgeon
His fingers from the ears
the two tunnels of sound were clear
for all sweet voices of music and |
For the first time in his
life he heard the dash of the waves of
Galilee. Through the desert of pain
full silence had been built kings
highway of resonance and acclama-
ton. But yet he was dumb. No
word had ever leaped over his lip.
Speech was chained under his tongue.
Vocalization and accentuation were
10 him an impossibility. He could ex-
press neither love nor indignation nor
What grand thing for our poor hui
man race when this Surgeon shall have
the treatment of the worlds
wounds! The day will come when there
will be no more hospitals, for there will
De no more sick, and no more eye and
.ar infirmities, for there will be no more
blind or deaf, and no more deserts. for
he round earth shall be brought under
and no more billiards. or
for the atmosphere will be
of scorch and chill and no
more war, for the swords shall come out
If the foundry bent into pruning hooks,
while in the Heavenly country we shall
zee the victims of accident or malforma-
ion or hereditary ills on earth become
he athletes in Elysian fields. Who is
hat man with such brilliant eyes close
'efore the Throne? Why, that is the
nan who, near Jericho, was blind and
'ur Surgeon cured his ophthalmia!
Who is that erect and graceful and
Iueenly woman before the Throne?
hat was the one whom nnr Snrno