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N O W
Develop Metal Splint
Which Bones Absorb
With 4,000,000 accidents from falling
occurring annually in the United States,
the mending of broken bones engages the
attention of thousands of physicians.
Bones are honeycombed with millions of
microscopic compartments, each housing
an osteoblast, a cell that provides bone
materials from the excretions of its own
body. An adult's thigh bone contains
150,000,000 osteoblasts.
Before the World War doctors used
rigid splints on either side of a broken
limb to bring shattered bone sections
close enough together for the osteoblasts
to begin rebuilding. Then they devel-
oped a way of using internal splints. Ex-
posing fractured bones, they screwed
narrow steel plates to them, and often
performed another operation to remove
the internal splints when the limbs
healed.
At the recent American Medical As-
sociation convention in San Francisco,
reports Newsweek, Dr. Earl D. McBride
of Oklahoma City told the section on
orthopedic surgery about internal-splint
experiments with a lightweight alloy used
in airplanes and dirigibles. The metal is
a combination of magnesium with small-
er amounts of aluminum and manganese.
It not only keeps broken bones close to-
gether, but is absorbed into them and
hence need not be removed. Dr. McBride
thought it might well be used also in up-
building the soft, ill-formed bones of pa-
tients suffering from diseases such as
rickets.
Not only men and women whose lives
have been broken by sin, but all men need
a spiritual splint within them that will
give them the backbone to live as theyshould. As all are offspring of Adam,
through whom sin came into the world,
all are members of a sinful race and suffer
from spiritual rickets. In all history there
has been only one exception -that was
the Lord Jesus Christ, the God-Man,
Who was made in the likeness of sinful
flesh, but in Whom was no sin.
He, the Great Physician, came to cure
men of sin, to cleanse them from all in-
iquity and to make them spiritual stal-
warts. To accomplish that cure He had
to die on Calvary's cross as the sin-bearer.
"He was wounded for our transgressions,
bruised for our iniquities: the chastise-
ment of our peace was upon Him; and
with His stripes we are healed" (Isaiah
53:5). The third day He arose, and now
is seated at God's right hand.
Those who in simple faith come to this
Great Physician are not alone freely for-
given and cleansed from sin, but they are
given eternal life and the Holy Spirit in-
stantly takes up His eternal abode with-
in them to develop them into the likeness
of the one perfect Man, the Lord Jesus
Christ; to make them strong in the Lord
and in the power of His might.
Christian, are you growing day by
day into the likeness of the Lord Jesus
Christ? If not, if you don't seem to have
the strength to walk as a Christian
should, perhaps you have never heard or
laid hold of the secret which the Apostle
Paul revealed to the Colossians nearly
nineteen hundred years ago: "Christ in
you, the hope of glory." Christ in you,
never to depart; Christ in you, to express
Himself in and through you, to enable
you to say with Paul: "I can do all things
through Christ which strengtheneth me"
(Philippians 4:13), and "For me to live
is Christ" (Phil. 1:21).
"Wherefore lift up the hands which
hang down, and the feeble knees" (He-
brews 12:12). Apply yourself to God's
Word and God's Word to yourself, be
constant in prayer, and you will "grow
in grace and the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ."
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