Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-03
COLUMBUS, O., TUESDAY MORNING.

along. and every woman who hadn't bor-
rowed one. What reverent and what
worshipping looks they bent upon that
dread, mysterious power, the doctor !
They watched him take his phials out
the, watched him measure the particles
of white powder they watched him add
drops of one precious liquid, and drops
of another; they lost not the slightest
movement; their eyes were riveted upon
him with a fascination that nothing could
distract. l believe they thought he was
gifted like god. When each individ-
'ual got his portion of medicine, his eyes
were radiant with joy-notwithstanding
by nature they are thankless and i'm
passive race-and upon his face was
written the unquestioning faith that
nothing on earth could prevent the pa
tient from getting well now.
Christ knew how to preach to these
simple, childish, ignorant, superstitious,
disease-tortured vagabonds. He healed
the sick. They focked to our poor hu-
man doctor this morning when the fame
of what he had done to the sick child
went abroad in the land, and they wor-
shipped Him with their eyes, while they
did not know as yet whether there was
virtue in his simples or not. The ancrs-
tors of these-people precisely like
them in color, dress, manners, customs,
ignorance, implicity-focked in vast
numbers after Christ, and when they saw
Him make the afflicted whole with a
word, it is no wonder they worshiped
Hin. No wonder His deeds were the
talk of the nation. No wonder the null
titude that followed Him were so great
that at one time--thirty miles from here
they had to let a sick man down
through the roof because no approach
could be made to the door; no wonder
His audiences were so great at Galilee
that he had to preach froma ship removed
little distance from the shore; no Won
der that even in the desert places about
Bethsaida, five thousand invaded His
solitude and He had to feed them by a
miracle or else see them suffer for their
confiding faith and devotion; no wonder
when there was great commotiOn in a
city in those days, one neighbor explain
ed it to another in words to this effect
"They say that Jesus of Nazareth is
come!'
He healed the sick. If man would
have crowds to attend him all day long
let him come to Palestine and do like
wise.
Well, as l was saying, the doctor dis.
tributed medicine as long as he had any
to distribute. and his reputation is mighty
in Galilee this day. Amongh his patients
was the child of the Shiek's daughter
for even this poor, ragged handful OF
sores and sin has its royal Shiek-a poor
old devil that looked as if he would be
more at home in poor-house than in the
Chief Magistracy of his tribe of hope
less, shiftless savages. The Princess
mean the Shiek's daughter--was only
thirteen or fourteen years old, and had a
very sweet face and a pretty one. She
was the only Syrian female We have seen
yet who was not so sinfully ugly that
she couldn't smile after ten o'clock Sat-
urday night, without breaking the Sab
bath. Her child was hard lot, though
there wasn't enough of it to make a
pie, and the poor little thing looked so
pleadingly up at all who came near it
las if it had an idea that now was its
chance or never), that We were filed with
compassion which was genuine and not
put on. MARK TWAIN.