The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-05-26
CURED BY HER FAITH
DR.. TALMAoE DlscoURsES ON ONE
ss OF cHRlST's MIRACLES.

He Explains the Deep Significance Of the
Text, Mark v. sI-The Omnipotent sa
viour Was Never Too Busy to Do Good.
BROOKLYN, May 21.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage today chose for the subject of his
discourse the inquiry addressed by the
Saviour to those who surrounded him
when, the invalid woman having touched
his garment, he asked, "Who touched
me" Mark v, 3l)'
A great crowd of excited people elbow
ing each other this w&y and that and
Christ in the midst Of the commotion.
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 interesting experiment. A very
sick woman of 10 years invalidism is in
the crowd. Some say her name was
Martha; others say it was Veronica. ]
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 employed
many of the doctors of that time, when
medical science was more rude and rough
and ignorant than we can imagine in
this time when the word physician OF
surgeon stands for potent and educated
skill. Professor Lightfoot gives a list of
what he supposes may have been the
remedies she had applied. 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
laxkrated until life to her was plague.
Beside that the Bible indicates her doc
tors bills had run up frightfully, and she
had paid money for medicines and for
surgical attendance and for hygienic ap-
paratus until her purse was as exhausted
as her body.
What, poor woman, are you doing in
that jostling crowd? Better go home
and to bed and nurse your disorders.
No! Wan and wasted and faint, she
stands there, her face distorted with suf-
fering, and ever and 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 be-
cause 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
has heard so much about his kindness to
the sick, and 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 irreverent. 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 CT the main fabric, but or
the border, the blue border, the long
threads Of the fringe Of that blue bort.er
there can be no harm in that. don't
think he will hurt me, have heard SC
much about him. Besides that, / 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 fol-
Christ, but cannot quite touch him. She
pushes still f,r.her through the crowd
and kneels and puts her finger to the
edge of the blue fringe of the border
She just touches it. Quick as an electric
shock there thrilled back into her shat
tered nerves, and shrunken veins, and ex
hausted 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 sus
pension bridge of nerve and through tun
mel of bone instantly halted.
THE HEALING TOUCH.
Christ recognizes somehow that mag
netic and healthful influence through
the medium of the blue fringe of his gar
ment had shot out. He turns and looki
upon that excited crowd and startles
them with the interrogatory Of my text
"Who touched me?" The insolent CROWD
in substance replied: "How do we know
You get in a crowd like this and vo,
must expect to be jostled. You ask us
Question Won know wa cannot answer
But the roseate and reiuvenated woma,
cameun and l,nelt in front of Christ am
told Of tha toncb md told of tba rostoro
tion and Jasns said. "Danobter Al,
faith hath made thee who1e ~ !,
naaco. q Mari, o;vas nc droro. t;,n
tion Of tba ,-og,al Oh MT donto,
Cbristis, In averv one Of onr onsebold
NOV bo ho +be family ,,h,s;oia,
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r. othors w;tlont s,,b+ract;an of non,a
fro,,, o,,,.so1,as baoo,,+avt :. 10 =
coon 90 this woman, wos beoled Jesrs fol
that v;rt,,a or strangtb had coma ont =
him addition Of holm 70 others ui+b
o,,+ s,,b+,..ctio, of s+,o,,,,+l, fro,,, 49,.
selves Di1 Won never cat t;rad for oth
| ersp Have Won never r;s,,ed vonr beoitl
/ for otbers9 Hare Won novor nraaohad ', ,
sermon or delivered an exbortotion -
offered burning prayer, and then fel
afterward that strength had gone out O
| you? Then you have never initiated
Christ.