The Cairo bulletin., 1904-07-24


| Eaenic paradise mas sain 'Ihon sinai
not, alan making the fruits Of tht
Asiutfe cimes 10 mate with the fruit
OF the California hills, man making
street cars to run without horses ant
steam engines 10 shrek through [
Gothard pass and disappear into /
| Housatonic tunnel, man making his all
! ships lighter than the atmosphere We
breathe--all these are tflumphs oyel
| natural forces so wonderful that say
as compare them with the phenomena
OF Christ's life. how truly has thf
promise been kept Greater works
than these shall he do
wireless Telegraph. Wonders.
When see an Edison making an
I tip end OF a dirty piece OF carbon. when
/ | see the ularvels OF machinery, born
! with everything but a SOUL when see
/ ice frozen III the tropics, and when |
know that nations separated by broad
seas are brought into speaking distance
by wireless telegraphy. | know that
| one of the fulfllments Of my text has
come Anything which excites won
der, surprise or astonishment In the
broad sense Is a miracle" wrote the
photographers Surely Christ was al
luding to mans triulnphs in the world
Of natural phenomena when he said,
THE works that do shall he 40 also,
and greater works than these shall he
do, because | 20 unto my Father"
Not oaly did Christ astonlsh the peo-
pie in his day by his power over the
forces of nature: lie revealed his Ill
vine nature by showing his power over
physical diseases. He tried to convince
the people In his day Of his power as Il
healer Of spiritual maladics by proving
himself the cleanser of leppr 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
tire heater Of the sick, see that the
work he did has been taken UP by his
followers and It's triumphs multiplied.
BY the word Of his power he gave sight
to a few blind men. but in our day the
Christian surgeons, by their operations
are giving sight to thousands. The vlr-
tue from his garment stopped one issue
of blood, but in our day the Christian
physician. with his indictments. Is
stopping thousands of issues. Chrlsts
touch relieved Il 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 vou would learn some Of the mar
wells OF man Ms Il healer, read Professor
Whites marvellous collection Of facts
in Ills book entitled The Wonders OF
Modern Surgery" Up to 1870. 50 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 WE'LL Once when gangrened leg
had 10 he amputated Il slrlcking. yell
Ing patient was held down by main
strength and the leg cut of as quickly
as possible. as butcher with his tx
would chop meat Then the bleeding
stump was scared with boiling pitch. !
Sevcnty-tive per cent Of those patients
died. Now such operations are con /
sldered practically harmless. Whit |
of ether, breath Of chloroform, a deep /
sleep. painless operation. and the /
heavy eyellds open. All the horrors Of /
that operation are blank. Our t
uneies. our aunts. our parents. our
died by the hundreds of /
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 1
died of appendicitis unless death had 1
been driven back nj 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 meicincf'
Is the power OF modern medicine 10
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 10
unstop a deaf ear or 10 loosen the
heavy and labored breathing of the
lsIhmatic sufferer. But today the
of the healer include
more than here and there mn isolated
physical cure ] see the lights In thou
sands of hospital windows cleaning
ike the stars in the heavens. ! see the
white ROBBED nurses and the doctors
coming forth as did the angels OF
health who troubled the waters ut the
Dool of Bethesda. crying 10 the sick ev-
.rywhere. Come and be cured Of your
lllments." ! see thousands and tens
II thousands Of strong men and wom-
u who would have died twenty years
younger than they are now bad they
ived and been sick In the days when
,hrisf lived and b. had seen them not
" touched them not christ as the
physician Of the body was 4 wonder