Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-07-23

and tide and carry thousands of human
freight, from New York to Liverpool.
Christ feeding the mulIitudes with the
five loaves and two fishes TO me Is Won
derful. but man making the dry desert
blossom as a rose by the stored up
waters of irrigation. man making rain
descend i'm regions where for centuries
aature as forbidding angel of the
Edenic paradise has said Thou shalt
not" man making the fruits of the
Asiatic climes to mate with the fruits
of the California hills, man making
street cars TO run without horses and
steam engines to shrek through a
Gothard pass and disappear into a
Housatonic tunnel. man making his air
ships lighter than the atmosphere we
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 Telegraphy's Wonders.
When | see an Edison making an
electric light blaze and burn upon the
tip end of n dirty piece of carbon: when
l SIZE 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 are brought into speaking distance
by wireless telegraphy. | know that
one of the fulfillments of my text has
cone. Anything which excites Won
der, surprise or establishment In the
broad sense Is n miracle" wrote the
photographer. Surely Christ was al
luding to mans triumphs in the world
of natural phenomena when he said,
The works that l do shall he do also,
and greater works than these shall he
do. because 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 I'm 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 withered limbs of him sick with
the palsy. Yet today. as study Christ.
the healer Of the sick, l 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 q few blind men. but I'm 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 thousands of issues. Christ's
touch relieved 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.
II You would learn some of the mar
wells of man as healer. read Professor
Whites marvellous collection of facts
In his book entitled The Wonders of
Modern Surgery" Up to 1870. so per
or arm with the bone protruding
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 n 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 n 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 operations are con-
sidered practically harmless. A Whit
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 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 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 blinded eye 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 thou
sands of hospital windows cleaning
like the stars I'm the heavens. l see the
white robed nurses and the doctors
coming forth as did the angels of
health who troubled the waters mt the
pool OF Bethesda. crying to the sick ev
erywhere. Come and be cured of your
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