Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-07-28

eyeildS Of the soul and midnight becomes
midnoon. 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 lan+
/ guage that COMPOUNDED the jcering crowd
1 who were deriding the Christ that had
| effected the cure and wanted to make him
! out bad man. whether he be a sinner
or no | know not One thing | know,
that whereas l was blind now l see"
Wonderful as an liurist.
But this surgeon is just as wonderful
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 witt,
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 human car.
1t is harp and drum and telegraph and
telephone and whispering gallery all in
one. So delicate and wondrous is lis con
struction that the most difficult of all
things TO reconstruct is the auditory APP
paratus. The mightiest scientists have
| put their skill to its returning, and some
! times they stop the progress OF its deca-
| dence or remove temporary distractions,
| but not more than one really deaf ear out
! of 100000 is ever cured 1t took God
| to make the ear, and il takes God to
! mend it. That makes nue. curious to see
| how Christ the Surgeon succeeds as an
! aurist
| We are told Of only two eases he oper-
ated on rs an eur surgeon His friend
| Peter naturally high tempered. saw
! Christ insultcd by a man by the name of
/ Malchus, and Peter let his sword fly.
| aiming at the mans head, but the sword
slipped and hewcd off the outside ear,
| and our surgeon touched the laceration
| and another ear bl0omed in the place of,
| the one that had been siashed away. But
| II is not the outside ear that hears. That
| is only funnel for gathering sound and
| pouring it into the hidden and more clab-
| crate ear. On the beach of Lake Galilee
| our surgeon found man deaf and dumb.
| The patient dwelt in perpetual silence
| and was speeches., 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 power can
waken that duh tympanum or reach that
chain of small bones or revive that audi
tory nerve or open the gate between the
! brain and the outside world? The sur
| gCon put his fingers in the deaf ears and
| agitated them and kept on agitating them
! until the vibration gave vital energy tn
| all the dead parts, and they responded,
| and when our surgeon withdrew his fin
| gers from the ears the two tunnels of
| sound were clear for all sweet voices of
music and friendship. For the first time
in his life he heard the dash OF the waves
of Galilce. Through the desert of pain
full silence had been built a kings high
way Of resonance and acclamation. Bnt
yet he was dumb No word had ever
lcaped over his lip. Speech was chained
under his tongue. NocAlization and ac-
ccntuation were TO him an impossibilty.
He could express neither love nor indig-
nation nor worship.
Unioosing the Barred Tongue.
Our surgeon. having unbarred his ear.
will now unloose the shackle of his
tongue. The surgeon will use the same
lniment or salve that he used on two
occasions for the cure OF blind people
namely, the moisture OF his own mouth.
The application is made. and 10. the
rigidity Of the dumb tongue is relaxed,
and between the tongue and teeth wns
born whole vocabulary and words flew
into expression. He not only heard. but
he talked. One gate OF his body swung
in to let sound enter. and the other gate
swung out TO let sound depart. WHY is
it that, while other surgeons used knives
,,4.t i.
this surgeon used only the ointment of
his own lips? TO show that all the cura-
tive power we ever feel comes straight
from Christ And If he touches MS not
we shall be deaf as a rock and dumb az
a tomb. Oh, thou greatest of all artists
compel US to hear and help us to speakt
But what were the surgeons fees for
all these cures Of eyes and ears and
tongues and withcred hands and crooked
backs? The skill aud the painlessncss OF
the operations were worth hundreds and
thousands Of dollars. DO not think that
the eases he took were all moncvIcss. Did
he not treat the noblcman's SOM Did he
not doctor the rulers daughter? Did he
not effect cure Ia tho house Of n centu-
| rian of great wealth who had out Of his
own pocket built synagogue? They
would have paid him large fees. and there
were hundreds Of wealthy people in .Jc1I-
salem and among tho merchant castles
/ along Lake liberals who would have Civ
! en- this surgeon houses and lands aud all
| they had for snch cures rs he could ef-
| feet. For critical cases in our time great
| surgeons have received ~ 600 81. 900 and
! in one ease / know Of $5o0GO, hut the
/ surgeon If whom speak received not "A
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