Milford chronicle., 1904-07-22

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I ships lighter than the atmosphere W
e breathe-all these are triumphs owe
natural forces so wonderful that l sa,
J as l compare them with the phenOmen
Of Christs life, how truly has til
: promise been kept, Greater work
than these shall he do"
Wireless Telegraphy's Wonders.
When l see an Edison making a
electric light blaze and burn upon tn
tip end of a dirty piece of carbon; wheI
see the marvels of machinery, bOrl
with everything but a soul; when l Sc
ice frozen in the tropics. and when
know that nations separated by brOaC
seas are brought into speaking distance
by wireless telegraphy, l know tina
one of the fulfillments Of my text ha'
come. Anything which eXcites won
der, surprise or astOnishment in the
broad sense is a miracle" wrote the
photographer. Surely Christ was al
luding to mans triumphs in the world
Of natural phenomena when he said
'The works that do shall he do also
and greater works than these shaIl he
do, because 1 go unto my Father"
Not only did Christ astonish the peO-
pie in his day by his power over the
forces of nature; he revealed his di-
vine nature by showing his power over
/ physical diseases. He tried to convince
the people in his day of his power as a
healer of spiritual maladies by proving
himself the cleanser of leper spots, the
opener of blinded eyes and the only one
of his time who could send the slug
gish blood of health cOursing through
the withered limbs of him sick with
the palsy. Yet today, as l study Christ,
the healer of the sick, see that the
work he did has been taken up by his
followers and its triumphs 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 medicaments, Is
stopping thousands of issues Christ's
touch relieved a few sufferers of pain,
but in the hospitals Of our time thou
sands pass painlessly through suffer
ing which in former times would have
racked them with eXcruciating torture
If you would learn some of the mar
vels Of man as a healer, read Professor
Whites marvellous collection of facts
in his book entitled The Wonders of
Modern Surgery" Up to 1870, so per
cent Of all those who had fractured leg
OF arm with the bone protruding
through the skin died. Now, through
the discoveries resultant from the life's
work Of Sir Joseph Lister, practically
all those with fractured limb bones
get well Once when a gangrened leg
had to be amputated shrieking, yell
ing patient was held down by main
strength and the leg cut off as quickly /
as possible, as butcher with his ak
would chop meat. Then the bleeding
stump was scared with boiling pitch
Seventy-tive per cent of those patients
died. Now such operations are con- .
sidered practically harmless. A Whit
of ether breath of chlOrofOrm, a deep
sleep, painless operation and the
heavy eyelids open. All the horrors Of .
that operation are a blank. Our
unces, our aunts, 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
knife.
Wonders of Modern Medicine.
But today are the wonders Of mod
ern Surgery" any more marvellous than
the "wonders of modern medicine?'
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 eye or to
unstop a deaf ear or to loosen the
heavy and labored breathing of the
lsthmatic sufferer. But today the
achievements of the healer include
more than here and there an isolated
physical cure. l see the lights in thou
sands of hospital windows cleaning
like the stars in the heavens. see the
white robed 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-
aryWhere, Come and be cured Of your
lilments!" l 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 he had seen them not
Or touched them not Christ as the
physician of the body was a wonder
worker. But man today as a curer of
physical ailments is accomplishing far
more than Christ ever did. Man is not
'nly opening the eyes of those born
blind. but he is making by the thou
sand and the tens of thousands the
leaf and the dumb speak until this an
lent miracle has ceased to be a won
Ter because of its commOnness.