Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-05-22
CTJRED BY HER FAITH
DR.. TALMAeE DlscoURSES ON ONE
OF CHRlST'S MIRACLES.

v;our 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, 81?
A great crowd of excited people elbow
ing each otker this way 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. 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 employed
many of the doctors of that time, when
medical science was more rude and rough
rnd 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
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
lacerated 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 iostling 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
narts. and this invalid comes almost up
to Christ. But she is behind him, and
his human eye does not take her in. She
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the sick. and she does feel SO Wretched;
she thinks if she can only just touch
him once it viii 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: Il will, l think, touch him
on his coat, not on the top OF 1t, or OF
the bottom of the main fabric, but OF
the border, the blue border, the Ions
threads of the fringe of that blue border
there can be no harm in that. I don
think he will hurt me, have heard 81
much about him. Besides that, cal
stand this no longer. Twelve years o
suffering have worn me out. This is m.
last hope" And she presses through tn
crowd still farther and reaches TO
Christ but cannot quite touch him. Sh
pushes still farther through the crow
and kneels and puts her finger to tn
edge of the blue fringe of the border
She Just touches it. Quick as an electrl
shock there thrilled back into her shat
tered nerves, and shrunken VEINS and e.
hausted arteries, and painting lungs, an
withered muscles, health, beautlfl
health. rubicund health, God given an
complete health The IL years marc
of pain and pang and suffering over su
pension bridge of nerve and through tul
mel of bone instantly halted.
THE HEALING TOUCH.
Christ recognizes somehow that ma
netic and healthful influence throue
the medium of the blue fringe of his ga
ment had shot out. He turns and loo
uDon that excited crowd and startl
Of fox
.EWho touchedme?" The insolent GROW
in substance replied: GLOW do we kno7
You get in a crowd like this and "
must expect to be jostled. You ask u
question you know we cannot answer
But the roseate and rejuvenated wom
cameup, and knelt in front of Christ, a
told of the touch, and told of the restol
ton, and Jesus said: Daughter, t
faith hath made thee whole. Go
peace" So Mark gives us a dramatil
ton Of the gospel Oh, what doct
Christ isl In every one of our househol
may he be the family physician.
Notice that there is no addition of ht
to others without subtraction of pow
from ourselves. The context says that
soon as this woman was healed Jesus
that virtue or strength had gone out
him. No addition of help to others wi
out subtraction of strength from O
selves Did you never get tired for o
ers? Have you never risked your hea
for others? Have you never preached
sermon. or delivered an exhortation
offered a burning prayer, and then
afterward that strength had gone out
YOU? Then you have never imita
Christ
Are you curious to know how that g
snent of Christ should have wrou
Euch a cure for this suppliant invalid
rnnnose that Christ was surcharged "
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