Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-07-27
MISSION OF CHRIST.
OR. TALMhGE SHOWS HOW DIVINE
POWER WILL HEAL THE WORLD.

Jesus the Surgeon who yyili Extsr.
pate the Disease o. Sin-lSuma,i.y,,
Wounds VIII Disappear beneath
HI. Magic Touch.
WASHINGTON, July PIN this dis.
course DR.. Talmage Cwho Is now tray.
cling in Europe) puts in an unusual
light the mission OF Christ andt shows
how divine power viii yet make the i'll.
nesses OF the world fall back: text
Matthew XII, >, The blind receive their
sight, and the lame walk, the lepers
are cleansed and the deaf hear"
Doctor" | said TO distinguished
surgeon. do you not get worn out with
constantly seeing so many wounds and
broken bones and distortions of the
human bodyT "Oh. no. he answered:
'all that is overcome by my Joy i'm cur.
ing them" a sublmer and more mer-
ciful art never came down from heav-
en- than that of surgery. Catastrophe
and disease entered the earth so early
that one of the first wants OF the world
was a doctor. Orr crippled and aConiz-
ed human race called for surgeon and
family physician for many years be-
who answered this call were ministers
of religion - namely. the Egyptian
priests. And what n grand thing IL all
clergymen were also doctors, all ID.
DIS were NJ. DIS. for there are so
many cases where body and soul need
treatment at the same time. consola-
ton and medicine. theology and thera-
peut'cs. AS the first surgeons of the
world were also ministers of religion.
may these two professions always be
in full sympathy, But under what dis
advantages the early surgeons worked.
from the fact that the dissection of the
human body was forbidden. first by
the pagans and then by the early
Christians! Apes. being the brutes
most like the human race. were dis
sected. but no human body might be
unfolded for physiological and anatom-
zeal exploration. and the surgeons had
to guess what was inside the temple by
looking at the outside of IL. IL they
failed In any surgical operation. they
were prosecuted and driven out of the
city. rs was Archagathus because of
his bold but unsuccessful attempt to
save a patient
Great Surgeons.
But the world from the very begin
ming kept calling for surgeons. and
their first skill is spoken of I'm Genesis.
where they employed their art for the
incisions OF q sacred rite. God making
surgery the predecessor OF baptism.
and we see 1t again in III Kings. where
Ahaziah, the monarch. stepped on
some cracked latticework i'm the palace,
and IL broke, and he fell from the up
per - the lower floor. and he was SO
hurt that he sent to the village of Elk
ron for aid. and Esculapius. who
wrought such wonders OF surgery that
he was deiiied and temples were built
for his worship at Pergamos: and Epi-
daurus and Podelirius introduced for
the relief OF the world phlebotomy. and
Damocedes cured the dislocated ankle
or King Darius and the cancer OF his
queen, and Hippocrates put successful
hand on fractures and introduced am
putation. and Praxagoras removed OBJ
structions. and Herophilus began dis
section. and Erasistratus removed tu-
mors. and CELSIUS. the Roman surgeon,
removed cataract from the eye and
used the Spanish fly; and Heliodorus
arrested disease of the throat. and Al
exander OF Tralles treated the eve, and
Rhazas cautcrized for the prevention
OF hydrophobia, and Percival Pott
came to combat diseases OF the spine,
and in our own century we have had.
among others, Roux and n Larray In
France, an Ashley Cooper and an Aber-
nethy In Great Britain and Valentine
Mott and Willard Parker and Samuel
ID. Gross In America and n galaxy OF
living surgeons as brilliant as their
predecessors. What mighty progress
in the battling OF disease since the Grip
pied and sick OF ancient cities were
laid along the streets. that people who
had ever been hurt or disordcrcd I'm the
same way might suggest what had bet
ter be done for the patients, and the
priests OF olden time, who were con-
stantly suffering from colds received
In walking barefoot over the temple
pavements. had 20 prescribe for them
selves, and fractures were considered
so far beyond all human cure that in
stead or calling In the surgeon the peo-
pie only invoked the gods.
But Notwithstanding all the surgical
and medical skill OF the world. with
what tenacity the old diseases hang on
TO the human race, and most Of them
are thousands of years old. and I'm our
Bibles we read OF thcm-the carbun-
Giles OF job and Hezek.:3h. the palpita-
lion OF the heart spoken OF in Deuter-
onomy. the sunstroke OF child carried
from the fields OF Shuneu. crying, My
head. my head" King Asa's disease Of
the feet, which was nothing but govt;
detection OF teeth. that called for den
fal surgery, the skill OF which. almost
equal TO anything modern. Is still seen
an the filled molars OF the unrolled
Egyptian mummies; the ophthalmia
caused by the juice OF the newly ripe
ng, leaving the people blind by the
roadside; epilepsy. as I'm the case OF the
young man often falling into the fire
and oft into the water; hypochondria,
as or observation-disclosures, who imagined
himself an OK and going out to the
nelds TO pasture; the withered hand
which In Bible times. us now, came
from the destruction OF the main ar
'ery or from paralysis of the chief
nerve: the wounds OF the man whom
the thieves left for dead on the road to
Jericho and whom the good Samaritan
nursed. pouring In oil and wine-wine
TO cleanse the wound and oil TO soothe
IT. Thank God for what surgery has
done for the alienation and cure OF hu-
man suffering!
Healing without Pain.
But the world wanted a surgery
without pain. Drs. PARE and Kick.
man and Simpson and Warner and
Jackson, with their amazing genius,
came forward and with their anasthet-
les benUnDed the patient with narcot-
les and others as the ancients did with
hasheesh and mandrake and quieted
him for awhile, but at the return of
consciousness distress returned. The
world has never seen but one surgeon
who could straighten the crooked limb,
cure the blind eye or reconstruct the