Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-07-23

steam engines 10 shrek through
Gothard pass and disappear into a
Housatonie tunnel, man making his air
ships lighter than the atmosphere we
breathe-ail these are trlumphs over
natural forces so wonderful that | say,
as compare them with the phenomena
Of Christ's life, how truly has the
promise been kept, Greater works
than these shall he do"
wireless TeleEraphy's Wonders-
When see an Edison making an
electric light blaze and burn upon the
tip end of dirty piece Of carbon; when
| see the marvels of machinery, born
with everything but a SOUL when | see
Ice frozen in the tropics. and when
know that nations separated by broad
seas are brought into speaking distance
by wireless telegraphy, | know that
one Of the fulfillments Of my text has
come. Anything which excltes won
der. surprise or astonishment In the
broad sense Is 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 shall he
do, because / go unto my Father"
Not only did Christ astOnlsh the peo-
pie In hts day by his power over the
forces OF nature; he 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 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 wlthered limbs Of him sick with
the palsy. Yet today, as 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,s with his indictments, Is
stopping thousands Of Issues. Christs
touch relieved few sufferers of pain,
but in the hospitals Of our time thou
sands pass painlessly through suffer
ing which I'm former times would have
racked them with excruciating torture.
II you would learn some Of the mar
yels OF man as a healer, read Professor
Whites marvellous collection Of facts
I'm his book entitled The Wonders OF
Modern Surgery" Up to 1870, 80 per
cent of all those who had fractured leg
or 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 a shrleking, 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-fve per cent Of those patients
died Now such operations are con-
sidesed practically harmless. A Whit
OF ether. a breath of chloroform, deep
sleep. painless operation, and the
heavy eyelids open. All the horrors OF
that operation are blank. Our
uncles. our aunts, our parents, our
grandparents, died by the hundreds OF
Inflammation of the bowels. Along
comes surgery and says: Down on the
table quickl 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 medicineE
Is the power Of modern medicine tc
cure disease any more marvellous today
than the power of modern bacteria
logical investigations to prevent dis
ease? You see Christ stopping mere
and there to open blinded eye or tC
unstop a 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. l see the lights In thou
sands of hospital windows cleaning
like the stcrs in the heavens. see th'
, white robed nurses and the doctors
, coming forth as did the angels Of
health who troubled the waters at TIT
, pool of Bethesda, crying to the SICK ev
erywhere. Come and be cured of you
eilments," | see thousands and ten
of thousands Of strong men and won
! en- who would have died twenty year
Younger than they are now had the!
O lived and been sick in the days whel
q Christ lived and he had seen them no
> or touched them not. Christ as IN
I physician Of the body was a wonde
worker. But man today as a curer
physical ailments Is accomplishing Ia
II more than Christ ever did. Man Is no
( only opening the eyes of those borl
al blind, but he is making by the thou
a sand and the tens of thousands IN
i deaf and the dumb speak until this al
r Client miracle has ceased to be won
:. der because Of its commonness.
G Now. study Christ from anothe
O standpoint. What did Jesus com
y down upon earth to do? He came I
e save the world? Oh, yes; he came
IS save the world by drawing men unit
t himself and banding them together q
]. Christians. That means men were I
a become followers Of himself. Yet afte
9. be came to earth and was born In tn
!. manger and lived in Nazareth, ne liter
}. ally became the "despised and the re