Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-16

| NnrOuHn some CONFUSION OF nature. luc
hath. l2o feet long. forty feet wide and
eight feet deep. All. poor man. if YOU
have been lame and helpless thirtyeight
wears. that mineral bath cannot restore
YOU. Why. twentv-eight wears is more than
the average Of human life, Nothing but
| the grave will cure you. But Christ the
| Surgeon walks along those baths, and l
| have no doubt passes by some patients
who have been only six months disordered
OF year or five years. and comes to the
mattress Of the man who had been nearly
four decades helpless. and to this thirty
eight years invalid said, "Wilt thou be
made whole?"
| The mghtiest scientists have put their
| skill to its returning. and sometimes they
stop the progress of its decadence or re-
move temporary distractions, but not
more than one really deaf car oYt of 100,-
| 600 is ever cured.
1t took God to make +ie ear, and it
takes a God to mend it. That makes me
curious to see how Christ the Surgeon sue
ceeds as aurist.
We. are told of only two cases He oper..
| ated on as an ear surgeon. His friend
| Peter. naturally high tempered, saw Christ
insulted by man by the name of Nam
chus. and Peter let his sword fly. aiming
at the mans head, but the sword clipped
| and hewed off the outside ear, and our
| Surgeon touched the laceration and an
other ear bloomed in the place of the one
|
not the outside ear that hears That is
only funnel for gathering sound and
pouring it into the hidden and more eiab-
crate ear. On the beach of Lake Galilee
our Surgeon found man deaf and dumb.
The patient dwelt in perpetual silence
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 dull tympanum or. reach that chain
of small bones or revive that auditory
nerve or open the gate between the brain
and the outside world? The Surgeon put
His fingers in the deaf ears and agitated
them. and kept on agitating them until the
vibration gave vital energy to all the dead
parts. and thev responded. and when our
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 Galilee. Through the
desert of painful silence had been built
kings highway Of resonance and acclama;;
ton. But vet he was dumb. No word
had ever leaned from his lip. Speech was
chained under his tongue. Vocalization
and accentuation were to him an impossi.
bility. He could express neither love nor
indignation nor worship. Our Surgeon.
having unharred his ear, will now unloose
the shackle of his tongue. The Surgeon
will use the same liniment or salve that
He used on two occasions for the cure OF
blind people - namely. the moisture .oi
His own mouth The application is made,
and 10. the riGidity of the dumb tongue is
relaxed, and between the tongue and teeth
was born a whole vocabulary ard words
flew into EXPRESSION. He not only heard,
hut he talked. One gate OF his body swung
in to let sound enter. and the other gate
sw1rng ont to let sound depart.
Why is it that while other surgeons
used knives and forceps and probes and
stethoscopes. this SURGEON used only the
ointment of His own lips? To show that
all tho curative power we ever feel comes
straight from Christ. And if He touches
US not we shall he deaf as a rock and
artists, compel US to hear and help us to
speak!
But what were the Surgeons fees for all
these cures of eyes and ears and tongues
and withered hands and crooked backs:
The skill and the painlessness of the, op'
erations were worth hundreds and thou.
sands of dollars.
Do not think that the cases He took
were all rioneyless Did He not treat the
nobleman's son? Did He not doctor the
rulers daughter? Did He not effect cure
in the house of centurian of great wealth
who had out of his own pocket built a
synagogue?
They would have paid Him large fees,
and there were hundreds of wealthy people
| "
castles along Lake Tiberias who would
have given this Surgeon houses and lands
and all they had for such cures as He could
effect.
For critical cases in our time great sur
geons have received $1,000, 5000, and in
one case l know of $4,000, but the Sur
geon of whom l speak received not
shekel. not a penny, not farthing.
In His whole earthly life we know oi
His having had but 621a cents. When His
taxes were due, by His omniscienee He
knew of fish in the sea which had swal
apt to swallow anything bright, and He
sent Peter with hook which brought up
that fish, and from its mouth was ex.
tracted a Roman slater, or 6212 cents,
the only money He ever had, and that He
paid out for taxes.
This greatest Surgeon of all the centu.
ries gave all His services then and offers
all His services now free Of all charge.
Without money and without price, you
may spiritually have blind eyes opened
and your dumb ears unbarred, and your
dumb tongues loosened, and Your wounds
healed, and your soul saved. If Christian
people get hurt of body, mind or soul, let
, them remember that surgery is apt to hurt,
I but it cures, and you can afford present
pain for future glory.
Besides that, there are powerful anaes-
thetics in the divine promises that soothe
and alleviate. No ether or chloroform or
cocoaine ever made one so superior to dis
tress as a few drops of that magnificent
anodyne: "All things worl! together for
good to those who love God" Weeping
may endure for. night, but JOY coneth
in the morning"
What grand thing, for our poor, hu-
man race when this Surgeon shall have
completed the treatment of the worlds
wounds! The day will come when there
will be no more hospitals, for there will
be no more sick. and no more eye and ear
infrmaries,, for there will be no more blind
or deaf. and no more deserts, for the round
earth shall be brought under arboriculture,
and no more blizzards or sunstrokes, for
the atmosphere will be exprgated of
scorch and chill, and no more war, for the
swords shall come out of the foundry bent
into pruning hooks, while i'll the heavenly
country we shall see the victims of acci-
dent or malformation or hereditary ills on
earth become the athletes in Elysian fields
Who is that man with such brilliant eyes
close before the throne? Why. that is the
man who, near Jericho, was blind and our
Surgeon cured his ophthalmia! Who is