The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-02-23

looking at an invalid. He is young
Nazarene, only 30 years Of age. You
know my wifes cousin. Some few
months ago he was invited to a we'd
ding in the little village Of Cana, near
Gallilee. And this Jesus came to the
marriage, and the wine gave out, and
he Bonded over some waterpots and the
water turned into wine. My cousin said
it was so; you need not laugh. be-
lieve him
Eyes answered another, I heard
that he resurrected Jairus' daughter,
and that an old woman. who had a
chronic sickness of twelve years, just
touched his garment and was healed
Eyes answered another, I not only
heard that he opened the eyes of one
born blind, but / even heard he cured
a dumb man possessed with devil,
and the people marveled, saying: III
was never so seen in Israel
Just then another neighbor comes
in and says that Jesus, this same Jesus,
this miraculous Jesus, is only a short
distance away over the hills of Deca-
polls. Come they say, with one &C
cord, let us take him to Christ. he
can cure If any one can And they
bring unto him one that was deaf be-
cause the affection was incurable.
Lesson the second: They brought
unto Jesus one who was not only deaf,
but dumb. The Bible says he had an
impeachment in his speech No one part
of the physical body can be entirely d.
vorced from the other parts. AS Paul
said: The body is one that hath many
members, and all of the members or
that one body being many, are one
body
I'VE find that these different MEM
bers act and react upon each other.
The hand protects the eye. The eye
warns the foot. The foot is the mes
senger boy for the brain. The veins
are the canals carrying to the farthest
extremeties the daily supplies of food,
tibrim for the muscles, albumen for the
blood, lime for the bones, phosphates
for the nerves, moisture for the glands.
And all over the surface of the body
the pores of the skin as scavengers are
at work tossing off the refuse night
and day, as we'll as day and night.
While the nerves are the harpstrings
upon which nature thumbs the har-
monies of life.
No Organ Independent.
But in Christ's time no one part OF
the body was more dependent on an
other part than the organ of speech
was upon the organs of the ear. That
is the reason we quoted only the first
nine words of the verse for a text.
There have been cases on record where
persons have been dumb and not deaf.
But these are very rare. Ninety-nine
times out Of hundred, when man is
a deaf mute, his vocal organs are all
right, but undeveloped. The deaf and
dumb are unable to speak merely be-
cause the ear cannot teach the voice
how to act. There are today 375 diff
ferent deaf mute schools, with 2,197
teachers and 25,797 pupils.
by the power of touch, by placing
the finger under the throat of the
teacher and practicing the vowels and
consonants, even those who were born
deaf mutes are now taught to speak.
And through the same wonderful sys-
TEN, not only the deaf mutes, but in
some instances those who have had
two of their five senses gone are not
only deaf and dumb, but also blind,
have had the spark of intelligence
kindled in their darkened brain.
" Walled in by deafness, dumbness,
blindness all
Can life exist beneath that dreadful
pail?
It does, life, love are there; the living
Beats hot against the bars that hold
1t in
Striving among the best to reach the
goal,
And through Christ's death immortal
life to win
80 when Jesus placed the two fin
gers as two syringes against the two
broken ear drums and said, Ephpha-
tha'-that is-'Be opened, he loosed
the tongue that had an impeachment at
the same time. The best way to de-
velop the tongue is to develop the ear.
No man can speak right unless he first
learns to hear right. John James
Audubon, with gun and pencil, disap-
peared into the American forests He
lived among the birds until the birds
adopted him into 1000 different fami-
lies. They talked to him; he listened.
After awhile the naturalists ear be-
came so keen he knew their songs of
10Y. their cries of sorrow and their
love-makings. He stood at their era
dies and dug their graves. For years
and years thus he practiced self-sac-
rifice and worked and studied. Do you
wonder that John James Audubon's
tongue was able to talk about his
feathered friends so Interestingly that
grown people stopped to listen and the
little children begged to look at his
pretty pictures?
This feeling was exhibited in the
ninth chapter of John, when the dis
ciples asked him in reference to one
l1orn bI;n1 eo,,;p1 sMactar uhO did