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promise been kept Greater works
than these shall he do"
Wireless Telegraphy's Wonders.
When | see an Edison making an
electric light blaze and burn upon the
tip end Of dirty piece Of carbon; when
1 see the marvels Of machinery, born
with everything but soul; when see
ice frozen In the tropics. and when
know that nations separated by broad
seas arc brought into speaking distance
by wireless telegraphy, I know that
one OF the fulfillments Of my text has
come. Anything which excites Won
der surprise or establishment In the
broad sense is miracle wrote the
photographer. Surely Christ was al
ludng 10 mans trtumphs in the world
Of natural phenomena when he said.
The works that do shall he do also,
and greater works than these shall he
do because go unto my Father"
Not only did Christ astonish the PEG.
pie in his day by his power over the
forces Of nature: be revealed his d.
vine nature by showing his power over
physical diseases. He tried to convince
the people In his day of his power as
healer of spiritual maladies by proving
himself the cleanser Of lcper spots. the
| opener of blinded eyes and the only one
OF his time who could send the slug
| eish blood OF health coursing through
/ the Wlthcrcd limbs of him sick with
the palsy. Yet today as | study Christ.
| the healer of the sick. | see that the
work he did hos been taken up by his
followers ana it's trtrmphe multiplied
By the word of his power he gave sight
TO few blind men. but in our day the
! Christian surgeons, by their operations
are giving sight to thousands. The vir-
tue from his garment stopped one issue
of blood but in our day the Christian
! physician. with his indictments. Is
stopping thousa nds of issues Christs
| touch relieved few sufferers Of pain
but in the hospitals of our time thou
sands pass painessly through suffer
ing which in former times would have
racked them with excruciatny torture
If you would learn some Of the mar
wells Of man az n healer. read Professor
| Whites marvellous collection OF facts
in his book entitled The Wonders of
Modern Surgery" Up to 1870. 50 pcr
cent OF all those who bad fractured leg
or arm with the bone protruIing
through the skin died Now, through
the discoveries resultant from the lifes
work Of Sir Joseph Lister. practically
all those with fractured limb bones
get well. Once when a Eangrened leg
had to 10 amputated a shrieking, yell
ing patient was held down by main
strength and the leg cut off as quickly
as possible, as a butcher with his Ak
would chop meat. Then the bleeding
stump was scared with boiling pitch.
Seventy five per cent OF those patients
died. Now such opera tons are con
sidered practically harmless A whifY
of ether. n breath of chloroform a deep
sleep. n painless operation, and the
neavy oyelids open. All the horrors of
that operation are blank. Our
uncles. our auuts. our parents, our
grandparents. died by the hundreds of
inflammation of the bowels Along
comes surgery and says Down on the
table quick. out with that appendix"
And today clubs could be formed by
the hundreds Of those who would have
died Of appendicitis unless death had
been driven back at the point Of the
surgeons knife
Wonders of Modern Medicine
But today are the wonders of mod
ern surgery" any more marvellous than
the wonders OF modern incidence"
Is the power of modern medicine to
cure disease any more marvellous today
than the power Of modern bacteria
logical investigations to prevent dis
ease; You see Christ stopping here
and there to open a blinded eve or to
unstop deaf ear or to loosen the
heavy and labored breathing Of the
asthmatic sufferer. But today the
achievements of the healer include
more than here and there an isolated
physical cure. | see the lights in thor
sands of hospital windows cleaning
like the stars in the heavens ! see the
white robod nurses and the doctors
coming forth as did the angels of
health who troubled The waters at the
pool of Bethesda. crying to the sick ev-
erywhere, Come and be cured of your
Gilnentsr' | see thousands and tens
of thousands Of strong men and wom-
en who would have died twenty years
younger than they are now had they
lived and been sick IN the days when
| Christ lived and be had seen them not
or touched them not. Christ as the
physician Of the body was wonder
worker. But man today as curer Of
physical ailments 10 accomplishing far
more than Christ ever did Man is not
only opening the eyes Of those born
blind, but he is making by the thou
sand and the tens OF thousands the
deaf and the dumb speak until this an
cient miracle has ceased to be a won
der because Of its commOnness
Now, study Christ from another
standpoint What did Jesus come
down upon earth to do? He came to
save the world? Oh, yes; he came to
save the world by drawing men unto
himself and banding them together ms
Christians. That means men were TO
become followers of himself Yet. after
be came TO earth and was born in the
manger and lived IN Nazareth, he liter.
ally became the 'despsed and the re
jected Of men" After he had lived
and suffered preached and worked on
and on until the day when he was