Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-06-07
REV. DIR. TALMAGE,
TIE BROOKLYN DIVTNE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Healing Touch"
Tszr: on-o .5nc.ei Ne.v-,1erk V. 81.

TEEr. "WTo touched He,"-0Iark v, 81.
A great r-owl OF excited people elbow;no
each other this way and that and Christ in
o tie midst o' tu" gO@wotioI. They were or
the yysv 10 See, Him restore to rorplete beaItF
A diving person. Some thought He coulG
effect the eur. others that He could not. Al
gDv rate II would be an interesting eyDeri.
meut very -I"S woman OF twelve wears
lnvaItism Is IN tie crowd. Some saw he1
name was Martha Others sayit was Veronica
lido not know Waat her name was. but thi.
Is certain she he'd tried all STYLES OF
cure Every shelf Of her humble home had
medicines ON il. Sne had employed many OF
the doctors of t.lat time. when medical
science was more I'll !e and rough and igno
rant than wa can imagine in this time wber
the word physician or surgeon stands foi
potent ana etu'gt a skill. Professor Light
loot gives a list OF what he supposas NAV
have been tHe remedies she has applied.
suppose she hal been bIistVred from head to
foot AMI had tried the compress and had
used all stv.gs OF as,rnEent herbs and she
had been mau.-i and hacked and cut and
lareratei until life 70 her WAS a plague. Re-
side that the Bible indicates her doctors bills
had run up irigiriuily, AMI she had paid
money for medicines and for surgical attend
Ance and for hyEi"Ria apparatus until her
purse was as exhausted as her body.
What, poor woman, are you doing in that
Llstliu- crowd: Better 70 home and to bed and
nurse you- disorders. No Wan and wasted
and faint. she stan Is there, her face distorted
With suffering, and ever and anon biting her
liz with some acute pain and sobbing until
her tears fell from the hollow eve upon the
faded dress, only able 70 stand because the
crowd IS 50 close TO her, pushing her this
vav and that. stand back! Why do Won
crowd that poor hOiy? Have you no consid-
Grafton for dying woman? But Just at that
.sr- 1rN mot 4 - Ia
almost up 10 Christ. But she is behind Him,
ana His human eye does not take her in.
She has heard so much about His kindness TO
the sick and she does feel so wrstched: she
thinks II size can only Just touch Him once it
will do hsr cooi. Sus will not touch Him
on III sacred heat, Tor that might be ir-
Tevereut. She W4ll not touch Him on the
hand, for that ui-.t seem too familiar
She says: Il wall, l think, touch Him on
His coat. not On tine top o. it, or on the bot
tom of the ma.u fabric, but on the border
the blue orlr-, the long threads of the
fringe Of that blue bOrler; there can be no
harm IN that. l don't think He will hurt me. l
have heard SO much about Him. Besides that
/ can stand JA.s no longer. Twelve years OF
suffering have worn NE out. This is my last
hope And she presses through the crowd
still farther and reaches Tor Christ, but can
not quite touch Him. She pushes still farther
through the crowd and hnsels and puts her
L4-EL 10 Lllt tiEE bL inc blub lElnES OF IlE
border. She Just touches it. Quick as an
electric fash there thrilled back into her
shattered nerves, and sHrunksn veins, and
exhausted arteries, and painting lungs, and
Witherei muscles, health, beautiful health,
rublcuui health, God given and complete
health. The y years march Of pain and
pang ami -ur-riu-, over suspension bridge OF
nerve and through tunnel Of bone instantly
halted
Christ recognizes somehow that magnetic
and heaIthful influence through the medium
Of the blue fringe Of HIS garment had shot
out. He turns and looks upon that excited
crowd uuu stgItrrs JilvuI I, AZ. tho iut-rros-a
tory Of my text. "Who touched Me?" The
insOleut crowd in substance replied ''H0w
do We know You get il a crowd like this
sud you must expect to be jostled. You ask
u a question you know 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 had made
thee whole. Go in peace" So Mark gives
Us dramatizatiOn OF the gospel. Oh, what
a doctor Christ is ! In every one of our house
holds may He be the family physician.
Notice that there is no addition Of help to
others without subtraction Of power from
ourselves. The context says that as soon "a
this woman was healed Jesus felt that virtue
or strength had gone out of Him No adj
dition Of help TO others without subtraction
OF strength from ourselves. Did you never
get tired for others? Have you never risked
your health for others2 Have you never
preached a sermon, or delivered an ex-
hOrtation, or offered burning prayer, and
then felt sfterWard that strength had gone
out Of you? Then you have never initiated
Christi
Are YOU curious to know how that garmenl
Of Christ would have wrought such cure
for this suppliant invalidI l suppose that
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know that diseases may be conveyed from
city to city by garments as in case OF cpl
demic, and so I suppose that garments may
be surcharged with health. suppose that
Christ had such physical magnetism that II
psrmested all His robe down to the last
thread on the border OF the blue fringe. But
IN addition to that there was a divine thrill,
there was a miraculous potency, there was an
omnipotent therapeutics, without which tins
u years invalid would not have been in
stantly restored
Now, II omnipotence cannot help other.
without depletion, how can we ever expect
TO bless the world without self sacrifice a
man who gives to some Christian object until
he feels il, man who in his occupation or
profession oyerworks that he may educate
bis children, a man VINO on SUNDAY ngnt
goes home, all his nervous energy wrung out
6y active service in church, or sabbath
achC1l. or city evangeliZation, has Initiated
Christ and tho strength has gone out OF him.
4 mother who robs herself of sleep in behalf
OF I sick cradle, q vile who bears up cheer
fuIit under domestic misfortune that she may
encourage her husband in the combat against
disaster, a woman who by hard saving and
earnest prayer and good counsel Wlseiy gwen
and many years DEVOTED to rearing her family
for God and usefulness and heaven, and mas
nothing TO show for it but premature gray
hairs and a profusion of deep wrinkles, Is
Ike Christ. and strength has gone out OF her.
That strength or virtue may have gone out
through a garment she has made lor the
home, that strength may nave gone out
through the sock you knit for the DareIoo'
destitute, that strength may so out throuSh
the mantle hung up in some closet atter you
are dead. So a crippled child sat every
morning on her fathers front step so that
when the kind Christian teacher passed byto
school she might take hold OF her dress anu
let the dress slide through her pale nnSerS;
She said il helped her pain 50 much ana
made her so happy all the day Aye, nave
We not In all our dwellings garments OF the
departed, q touch of which thrills US through
and through, the life of those who are gone
thrilling through the life Of those who stay'
But mark you, the principle evolve rom
this subject. No addition OF healten TO others
unless thero be subtraction OF strenSt9
from ourselves. He felt that strength mao
gone out ofHim.
NINlCe alsO I0l SubItNb a c+AA'-7'S
tive % human touch. We talk about Goa on
8 vast scale so much We hardly appreciate
His aocossibiity-God in magnitude rather
than God in minuti8, God in the lnhnite
rather than God in the iniinitesimal-bu'
here in my text ga have God arrested Dy
suffering touch When in the sham trlal o.
Christ they struck Him on the cheek we can
realize how that cheek tinSled with pam.
When under tho scourging the rod struck
the shoulders and back cf Christ, we can re-
slizs how He must have wIithed under the
hceradoRs. But here there is a sick snu
nerVelesE finger that just touches the long
threads Of the blue fringe OF His coat, ana ht i'
looks around and SAYS, "Who touched MeF
We talk about sensitive people, but Chrls'
was the impersonation OF all sensitlveness
The slightest stroke Of the smallest hnger o.
human disability makes all the nerves OF Hlt
mead and heart and hand and feet vibrate II
hosa stOlid Christ. not phlegmatic Christ
@ nN preoccuppied Christ, not shard Christ
eo1 an iron cased Christ, but an exquislteIy
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