The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-12-19


come into our heartsY Would anyone
ever know it without being told? Ii
there any religious stir? There il
when Christ comes.
When the crowd gathered what did
Christ dor. "He preached the WORD
unto Them" Did you ever think
about the heart history of crowd Z!
The passions that surge. the thoughts,
feelings, desires. plans and ambitions,
the lights and shadows, the joys and
sorrows. the multitudinous longings
and crys and needs; did you ever
think about all this? When Christ
saw this crowd he preached the Word
unto them. Why? Because there's
something in the Word to meet every
need of every man, woman and child.
The Gospel meets every case. Gods
word touches the universal heart.
While Jesus was preaching the word
there occurred an interruption. They
| brought unto Him a man sick Of the
palsy. The palsy was disease char
acterized by partial or total loss of
sensihility, or motion, or both.s IN
one or more parts of the body. 1t is
produced by disease of the brain. the
spinal curd or particular nerves. This
man WAS sick of the palsy. He was
partially paralyZed. In parts of his
body there was partial or total loss
of sensibillty and motion. "He was
borne of four -
The Scotch scientist tells us about
the crustacea in the lakes of the Nam
moth cave of Kentucky. These fish
have apparently perfect eyes. The
two black specks are conspicuous on
the blanched body-perfect looking
eyes. But those fish have inhabited
those dark waters for centuries. Into
that cave no ray of sunshine ever
finds its way. There reigns unend-
ing night. What use have fish for
eyes in that perpetual gloom? Has
nature for once made a mistake? A
swift incision with the scalpel, a
glance with lens. we are told, re-
veals the mystery The eyes are a
mockery. Outwardly the fish have
perfect organs of vision; back of those
eyes there is nothing bnt mass of
ruins. The optic nerve is withered.
atrophied. insensate thread. Origin
ally endowed with organs of vision.
they have chosen to remain in endless
night where eyes are not used and Ia
ture has taken away from them the
power of sight. This is OPTICAL
PARALYSIS.
Charles Darwin tells US that wheI
he was a young man he was very fond
of music and poetry. He spent five
years exploring the rivers and forest:
of South America and travelling among
the islands of the Pacific. This ava
kened in him All intense love of the
study of natural history. For over
twenty years he gave all his mental
power to the study of trees, flowers.
roots, birds. eggs. insects and animals
At fifty years of age he tells us that
he found that this love of music and
poetry had faded away. The strength
of his brain that might have been gil
ven to the cultivation of the love and
JOY of music and poetry bad been di-
verted into another channel. The
parts of his brain that rendered him
capable of approaching and loving
music and poetry had become afro
phied through disuse. That part of
his brain was deadened. This is
ESTHETIC PARALYSIS.
| chaplain in a penitentiary told
friend of mine the difficulties of his
work. What. suppose you. was the
chief difficulty in trying to bring the
criminals into the way of right and
truth? 1t was this: they had no sense
of sin. They couldn't be brought to
see that they we're sinners. The gov
eminent was wrong; the law was
wrong; the courts were wrong: they
we're simply victims of law. govern
ment, the courts. At the time there
was man there under sentence of
death. He had been tried, conclu-
sively proven guilty, sentenced to be
hung. The execution was to take
place in a few days. He could'n be
made to see that he had done wrong.
He said "My bullet didn't kill that
man; the doctors killed him after
ward" His hands were red with the
blood of fellow human being. He
was murderer. And yet he said be
had done no wrong. His manhood
was entirely dead. This is MORAL
PARALYSIS.
Refuse to live in the light and to
see the light; live continuously in
moral darkness, and at last there Will
be taken away the power to see the
light even when the light is shining
all around in eternal splendor. Re-