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THE HEALING TOUCH.
ELOQUENT SERMON BY DR.. TALMAGE
kTTAE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

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rhe First Cure of Christian science-Christ
The Sublime Electric Circuit-Medicin,
For Nervous People.
BROOKLYN. May 2l.-Rcw. DR.. TalmaQ,
hday chose for the subject of his discours,
the inquiry addressed by the Saviour to those
who surrounded him when, the invalid
woman having touched his garment, h.
>sled, "Who touched me" Mark v, 3DY
A great crowd of excited people elbowine
zach other this way and that and Christ in
,he midst OF the commotion. They were on
The way to see him restore to complete
health a dying person. Some thought he
could effect the cure, others that he coulo
not. At any rate, it would he an interest
Ing experiment. y very sick woman of IL
Fears' 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 ccrtain-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 can imagine
in this time, when the word physician or
surgeon stands for potent and educated
skill. Professor Lightfoot gives list of
what he supposes may have been the rene
dies she had applied. | suppose she had
been blistered from head to foot and had
tried the compress and had used all styles
Of astrngent herbs, and she had been
Eauled and hacked and cut and lacerated
until life to her was plague Besides that
the Bible indicates her doctors bills had
run up frightfully, and she had 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 crowdY Better go home and to bed
and nurse your disorders No! Wan and
wasted and faint she stands there, her face
distorted with suffering, and ever and anon
biting her lip with some acute pain, and
sobbing until her tears fall from the hollow
eye upon he faded dress, only able to stand
because the crowd is so close to her push
Ing her this way and that. Stand backl
Why do you crowd that poor body? Have
YOU no consideration for dying woman
But just at that time the crowd parts, and
II.
she is behind him and his human eve 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.
bhe 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 Of the main fabric, but on
the border, the blue border the long breads
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
1}esides that, can stand this no longer
Twelve years Of suffering have worn me
out. This is my last hope" And she
presses through the rowd 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 it. 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, rubcund
health, God given and complete health
The y years march Of pain and pang and
suffering over suspension bridge of nerve
and through tunnel nf lone INSTANTLY
halted.
Christ recognizes somehow that n.o-rot-
lie and beautiful influence tbrouyb rbn mo-
djum of The bI,a f,ir,,a Of lie -. L.,
shot out. He turns and looks upon that ex-
cited crowd and startIas Them i,itb tbs IN
terrogatory Of NV text. "Wbo touched
meYn The insolont crovi in suhs+orco va
piled; 'FIow do we know, Won gst in -.
rrowd like this. and Won must exnect +o bo
iostled You ask us a question Won know
we cannot answer " But tho roee.te md
reiuvenated woman came mn and knoll in
front of Christ and told Of the touch md
told of the restoration. ard Jesus said.
Daughter. thy fait h hath mada tbea ,boIo
80 in peace" So Mark Uiy.es usa dranoti
Zation of the gospel Oh. what n doctor
Christ is! In every one of orr households
may he be the family pLvsicianr
CHRIsT's PHYSICAL MAGNETISM
Notice that there is no addition of holm
10 others without subtraction of no,ver
from ourselves The context saws thar IA
soon as this woman was healed .Je.ns felt
that virtue or strength had gone ont of