Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1900-08-09
Dr.TALMAGE SERMON
THE GREAT pIvINE'S ELOQUENT
MESSAGE
subject The Mission Of Christ How
Divine Power Will Heal the World
Jesus the Surgeon Who Will Extir-
pate the Disease Of Sin.
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WASHINGTON. D C-In this discourse
DR.. Talrage puts IN an unusual light the
mission Of Christ. and shows hoe divine
power will yet make The iIine-se- u the
ForId fall back text, Matthew 1I,5 The
blind receive their sight, and the lame
l.sa.rr. ne 'ep*'s are e'Sao-fo ana TIE oe''
Doctor. | said to a distinguished sur
reon, do YOU not get worn out with COS,
stantly seeing % many wounds and bro
gen bones and distortions 81 The human
body "Oh, no, ne answered: all that
!. overcome by my JOY IN turing them.
4 -Gblimer and .1ore rorcI.ul art never
tame down from heaven than that OF sur
rerF catastrophe and disease entered
the earth 80 early that one II The first
wants 81 the w"rl. vas a doctor. Our
crippled 1n1 ayonized human race called
Tor surgeon and family physician for man.
year. before they came. Thu irst surgeons
who answered HI. call were ministers OF
r~elig,cE namely, the Egyptian priests.
And what a grand thing if all clergymen
were also doctors. all ID. Dis were NJ. D.fs.
Tor there are. SO MANY cases where body
and soul need treatment at the same time,
consolation and medicine, theology and
Therapeutics. A. The first surgeons IF thn
world were also ministers Of religion, NAV
these two professions always be IN full
svmpathy' But under what dlsadvanta-
yes the early surgeons worked, from the
49, tihi vi HV diilb toif
was forbidden, first lv the paeans and
then by the early Christians Apes being
the hrutes most like the human race. were
di-~ected. but no human body might be
hntolded for physiological and anatomical
exploration. and the surgeons had 10 guess
what was INSIDE the temple by looking 1T
the outside u IT. II they failed in any
surgical oueration. they were prosecuted
md driven out Of the city. as was Archa-
pathus because Of his bold but unsucccss-
tut attempt to save a patient.
But the world from the very beginning
Kept calling Tor surgeons, and their first
skill il spoken Of in Genesis. where they
employed their art Tor the missions OF n
sacred rite. God making surgery the prcde-
cessor 81 baptism, and we see it again IN
IL Kings, where Ahaziah. the monarch.
stepped on some cracked lattlcework in
the palace, and it broke. and he fell from
the upper to the lower iloor. and he was 80
hurt that he sent to the village of Enron
for aid, end Aesculapius, who wrought
such wonders 81 surgery that he was del
fed and temples were built for his wor-
ship At Prrgamos; and E.pidaurus and
Pod.lirli- introduced for the relief Of the
world ph!eb"tomv. and Damocedes cured
the delorattd ankle of King Darius and
the cancer Of his queen. and 1ilppocrates
put successful hauI on fractures aud intro
duaed amlputation. and PraXacoras re-
moved distinctions. and Hcrophilus began
dissection, and tra-istratus removed tu-
mo:S. and CELSIUS. The Roman surgeon. re
moved cataract from the eye and used the
Spanish hv: ana Heliodorns arrested dis
ease Of the throat. and Alexander Of Tral!eS
treated tie eye. and Ehazas cautcrized fo1
the prevention Of hydrophobia. and PEREZ
VI Pott came 10 combat diseases of the
spin,c, and IN our own century we have
had, among others. q IsouX and a Larray
in france an Ashley Cooper aud m
A~bcrnethy in Great Britain and a Nalen.
tine Mott and Willard Parker and Samuel
j. Gross in America, and a galaxy If liv-
ing surgeons as brilliant IA their predcces
sors. What mighty progress in the BAT
fling Of disease *lncc the crippled and sick
o. ancient cities were laid along the
streets. that people who had ever beer
hurt or tisordfrcd in the same way might
suggest what had better be done for the
patents,
But Notwithstanding all the surgical and
m"i'eal Nllll IF the world. with what ten
arlty thu old diseases hang on to the hu
i"a1l race. and most OF them are. thou
sands u Years old, and IN our Bibles W.
itaI q them the carbuncies of Job an'
He1eklah, the adaptation Of the heart spo
ken Of III Deuteronomy, the sunstroke Q
q child carried from the fields Of Sh1lnem
CRYING. Ny head my head'' King Asa
disease q the feet, which was nothing b,
goGt dt lection of teeth. that called TO
dental surgery, the skill of which, nlmos
equal - anything modern. is still seen il
the filed molars Of the nnrolled Egyptian
mummitS: tho ophthalmia caused Iv til,
Juic, 1T tn" newly ripe ilg. leaving the PEG
ne Blind ty the roadside; epilepsy, as il
Ia" .asp ct the Nolng man often fallin,
lntn The tire and OFT unto the water: nv
pochoadrta. u OF \ehGchadnczzar. VIII,
imagined han1>clf an OK and going out Z
the fe!ds :" pasture: the witlered hand
winch IN Bloc tmc>, as now. came fron
the destruction ~ the nam artery or iron
ilrafXsf~ al the chIct nerve. the wound
ot the man whom the thieves left 70
dead - tho road 10 Jericho. and whom
tho good samaritan nursed. pouring n o.
and r1nc -wIue 10 cleanse the wound an,
III n eeothe i. Thank God ior what SUI
gerry has done Tor the alienation and cur
Of human suffering
Eut the world wants a surgery witlou
. raIn- Dr~ Ptrrc aud Hickman and SIM
>on ami NltEcc and Jackson. with thei
snazln- genus came forward. and wi,
Their ana-~thett.~ tomumbcd the patien
) w4th narcotics ard others "a the ancient
ltd with ha~hee-h ard mandrake. an
, Gtaetcd hIm for awhile, bur at the retur
} Gt CONSCIOUSNESS distress returned. Ih
world ha, ntNcr seen but one surgeon VIII
cou'd ~tfal1lten tic crooked limb. cur
lie hlnd tve " reconstruct the drum t
!, >f1nd:e~ ar 81 reduce d dropsy withou
= uatn, fnd that >drreon was Jesus Chris
! thu n htHest. -lanlest, ~rentlest and mos
!, *N."{atistt,e surgeon the world ever saw {
: Ger u &c. and He deserves the conf
I dsuse mi .eye and Worship aud ho~ann
=. ~; / tie earta aud hailelnlahS Of 4
! IT. ,e he hltli receive their sigh
.aa nc "a.N. the leper, are cleanse
an! t2" st.tf 'fear
; ! unt,e, this surgeon had , iondness l.
c':1ni. eases Many ! -urSeon. when /
h~ .al = tatlcnt brought % him. h
: sd Why w. not this attended to-ty