The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-24
THE HEALING TOUCH.
ELOQUENT SERMON BY DR.. TALMAGE
ATTHE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.


The First Cure of Christian science-Christ
the ImpersOnation of All Sensitiveness.
The Sublime Electric Circuit-Medicine
For Nervous People.
BROOKLYN. May 21.-Rev. DR.. Talmage
today chose for the subject Of his discourse
the inquiry addressed bSthe Saviour to those
who surrounded him when, the invalid
woman having touched his garment, he
asked, who touched me" Mark v, 81?
A great crowd Of excited people elbowing
each other this way and that and Christ in
the midst of the connection. They were on
the way TO see him restore to complete
health dying person. Some thought he
could effect the cure, others that he could
not. At any rate, it would be an interest
ing experiment. A very sick woman Of 70
years invelidism is in the crowd. Some say
her name was Martha, others say it was
Veronica L do not know what her name
was, but this is certain-she had tried all
styles of cure Every shelf of her humble
home had medicines on it. She had en-
ployed many Of the doctors of that time
when medical science was more rude and
rough and ignorant than we Qan imagine
IN this time, when the word physician or
surgeon stands for potent and educated
skill Professor LightfoOt gives a list of
what he supposes may have been the rene
dies she had applied. l suppose she had
been blistered from head to foot and had
tried the compress and had used all styles
of astringent herbs, and she had been
mauled and hacked and cut and lacerated
until life to her was plague. Besides that,
the Bible indicates her doctors bills had
run up frightf1lly, and she hsd paid money
for medicines and for surgical attendance
and for hygienic apparatus until her purse
was as exhausted as her body
A POOR wOMAN's FAITH.
What, poor woman, are YOU doing in that
jostling crowdf Better go home and to bed
and nurse your disorders Mol Wan and
wasted and faint she stands there, her face
distorted with suffering, and ever aud anon
biting her lip with some acute pain, and
sobbing until her tears fall from the hollow
eye upon the faded dress, only able to stand
because the crowd Is so close to her push
ing her this way and that. Stand back
Why do you crowd that poor body? Have
you no consideration for dying woman?
But Just at that time the crowd parts, and
this invalid comes almost up to Christ but
she is behind him and his human eye does
not take her in. She mas heard so much
about his kindness TO the sick, end she does
feel so wretched she thinks if She can only
just touch him once it will do her good.
She will not touch him on the sacred head
for that might be irTeverent. She will not
touch him on the hand, for that might seem
too familiar. She says: II will, / think,
touch him on his coat, not on the top of it
or on the bottom Of the main fabric, but on
the border, the blue border, the long threads
of the fringe OF that blue border; there can
be no harm in that. don't think he will
hurt me; | have heard so much about him.
Besides that 1 can stand this no longer
Twelve years Of suffering have worn me
out. This Is my last hope" And she
presses through the crowd still farther and
reaches for Christ, but she cannot quite
touch him. She pushes still farther through
the crowd and kneels and puts her finger
to the edge OF the blue fringe Of the border
She just touches 1t. Quick as an electric
shock there thrilled back into her shattered
nerves and shrunken veins and exhausted
arteries and painting lungs and withered
muscles health, beautiful health, rubicund
health. God given and complete health.
The IL years march Of pain and pang and
suffering over suspension bridge Of nerve
and through tunnel of bone instantly
halted
Christ recognizes somehow that magnet
&c and heathful influence through the me
dunn Of the blue fringe Of his garment had
shot out. He turns and looks upon that ex-
cited crowd and startles them with the in
terrOgatory Of my text, ''Who touched
mel" The insOlent crowd in substance re-
piled: How do we knowl You get in a
crowd like this, and you must expect TO be
Iad on aaf-f rs ion.
we cannot answer" But the roseate and
rejuvenated woman came up and knelt in
front OF Christ and told of the touch and
told Of the restoration, and Jesus said;
daughter. thy faith hath made thee whole.
Go in peace" So Mark gives US dramati-
zation of the gospel. Oh, what a doctor
Christ isl In every one Of our households
may he be the family physicianl
CERIsT's PHYSICAL MAGNETISM
Notice that there is no addition of help
TO others without subtraction Of power
from ourselves. The context says that as
soon as this woman was healed Jesus felt
that virtue or strength had gone out Of
him No addition of help 20 others without
subtraction Of strength from ourselves. Did
you never get tired for others' Have you
never risked your health Tor othersi Have
you never preached a sermon or delivered
an exhortation OF offered burning prayer
and then felt afterward that strength had
gone ont of your Then you have never inn
ltated Christ.
Are you curious to know how that gar
ment Of Christ should have wrought such
cure for this suppliant inyalidi / sup
pose that Christ was subcharged with vital
hy. You know that diseases may be con-
Keyed from city TO city by garments, as in
Ease of epidemic, and I suppose that gar
ments may be subcharged with health 1
suppose that Christ had such physical mag
netism that IL permeated all his robe down
TO the last thread on the border of the blue
fringe But in addition TO that there was
divine thrill, there was a miraculous po-
tency, there was an omnipotent therapeu-
tics, without which this u years invalid
would not have been instantly restored.
Now, IL omnipotence cannot help others
without depletion, how can we ever expect
70 bless the world without self sacrifcef A
man who gives TO some Christian object
until no feels IL, a man who in his occupa~
tion or profession overworks that be may
educate his children. a man who on Sunday
night goes home. all his nervous energy
wrung out by active service in church or
Sabbath school or city evaDgeliEation, has
initiated Christ, and the strength has gone
out Of him. A mother who robs herself OF
sleep in behalf CT sick cradle, wife who
bears up cheerfully under domestic mis-
fortune that che mag encourage her hus-
band in the combat against disaster, wo-
man who By hard saving and earnest prayer
and Or.od counscl xrrizalV s-iveu- and many