The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-27


But the world wanted a surgery
without pain. Drs. PARE and HEX
man and Simpson and Warner and
Jackson, with their amazing genius,
came forward, and with their anaes-
thetics benumbed the patient with
narcotics and others as the anclents
did with hasheesh and mandrake and
quieted him for while, but at the re-
turn of consciousness distress return
ed. The world has never seen but one
surgeon who could straighten the
crooked limb, cure the blind eye Or
reconstruct the drum of a soundless
ear or reduce a dropsy without any
pain at the time or any pain after, and
that surgeon was Jesus Christ, the
mightiest, grandest. gentlest and most
sympathetic surgeon the world ever
saw or ever will see. and he deserves
the confidence and love and worship
and hosanna of all the earth and hal
leluiahs of all heaven. The blind re-
ceive their sight and the lame walk;
the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf
hear"
for chronic cases. Many a surgeon,
when he has had a patient brought to
him, has said: why was not this
attended to five years ago? You bring
him to me after all power of recupera-
ton is gone. You have waited until
there is a complete contraction of the
muscles, and false ligatures are form
ed, and Justification has taken place. 1t
ought to have been attended to long
ago." But Christ the Surgeon seemed
to prefer inveterate cases. One was n
hemorrhage of twelve years, and he
stopped it. Another was a curvature
of eighteen years, and he Strengthened
it. Another was a cripple of thirty
eight years and he walked out well.
The eighteen-year patient was a wo-
man bent almost double. If you could
call convention of all the surgeons of
all the centuries, their combined skill
could not cure that body so drawn out
of shape. Perhaps they might stop it
from getting worse, perhaps they
might contrive braces by which she
might be made more comfortable but
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this divine surgeon put both his hands
on her, and from that doubled up pos
ture she began to rise and the en-
purpled face began to take on a heal
thier hue, and the muscles began to
relax from their rigidity, and the spin
al column began to adjust itself, and
the cords of the neck began to be the
ha
sec only the ground before, now look
ed into the face of Christ with graft
tude and up toward heaven in trans
port. Straight! After eighteen weary
and exhausting years, straight! The
poise and gracefulness, the beauty of
healthy womanhood reinstated. The
thirty-eight years case was man who
lay on mattress near che mineral
baths at Jerusalem. There were five
apartments where lame people were
brought, so that they could get the
advantage of these mineral baths. The
stone basin of the bath is still visible,
although the waters have disappeared,
probably through some CONFUSION OF
nature. The bath, 100 feet long, forty
feet wide and eight feet deep. All,
poor man, If you have been lame and
helpless thirty-eight years, that min
eral bath cannot restore you. Why,
thirty-eght years is more than the av-
erage human life Nothing but the
grave will cure you. But Christ the
Surgeon, walks along these baths and
| have no doubt passes by some pa
tients who have been only six months
disordered or 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?
Christ the Chief Surgeon.
The question asked not because the
surgeon did not understand the pro-
tractedness, the desperateness of the
case, but TO evoke the mans pathetic
narrative wilt thou be made whole?'
Would you like to get well?" "Oh,
yes, says the man. THAT is what
came TO these mineral baths for.
have tried everything. All the sur
Ceons have failed, and all the pre-
scriptions have proved valueless, and
got worse and worse, and can neither
move hand nor foot nor head. Oh, if
could only be free from this pain OF
thirty-eight years." Christ the Sur
geon could not stand that. Bending
over the man on the mattress, and in
voice tender with all sympathy but
strong with all omnipotence, he says,
"Rise!" and the invalid instantly
scrambles to his knees and then puts
out his right foot, then his left foot.
and then stood upright, as though he
had never been Frustrated. While he
stands looking at the doctor, with a
JOY too much to hold. the doctor says:
Shoulder this mattress, for you are
not only we'll enough to walk, but we'll
enough to work, and start out from
these mineral baths. Take up thy bed
and walk" oh, what surgeon for
chronic cases then and for chronic
cases nowl
This is not applicable so much to
those who are only a little hurt of sin
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