Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-06-10
DIR. TALNAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S Sun
DAY SERMON.
TEXT: Who touched Nes"-Hark =. 81.

4 great crowd OF excited people e!bDwlnG
each other this way and that and Christ II
the midst Of the conInoticn. They were ~
the way to see Hin reetore n corpIete health
q dying person. Some thought He couls>
effect the'rure others that He could not. n
any rate. IL would h. an Interesting exrar.-
ment. A very sick woman OF twelve years
invalidism Is in the crowd. Som" say her
name was Martha Others say it was veronica
i do not know what her name was. nut this
fs certain. she had tried ali styles ~
cure. Every shelf 81 her humble home had
medicines on il. She had employed f.aaT #
IN" doctors IF that time. when medical
science vas more rude ana rough AMI igno-
rant than We can imagine in this time when
tn" word physician nr Surgeon stands for
potent and educated skill. Professor Light
foot gives A list Of what he uppos-s NAV
have been the remedies she has applied. |
suppose she had been blistered from head II
foot and had tried the compress and hal
used all styles OF astringrnt hcrts. ani eho
had been maule1 and hacked and c4t ani
larerated until life to her was a plague. F.
sid" that the Bible indicates her doctor billy
money for medicines and for surgical attend
hn"o and for h~ygienic apparatus until Der
purse was az exhausted as her body.
What, poor woman, are YOU doing in THAI
io-tIIng crowdI Better 90 home and to bed and!
nurse your disorders. No Wan and wasted
AMI faint, she stands there. her face distorted
with suffering. and ever ana anon biting her
III with some acute pain and sohhinC until
her tears fell from the hollow eve upon the
iai"d dress, only able to stand because the
GROVE is SO close to her. pushing her this
way and that. Stand; back, Why 90 YOU
Grove that poor body? Have you 10 coneid-
GRAFTON for a dying woman? But Just at that
tim" the crowd parts, and this invalid comes
aI0l st up to Christ. But she IS behind Him.
maj HIS human eve tGpG not tnkp bpr in
Sh" !as heard SO much about His kindness TO
til. ok, and she does feel SO wretched she
thu if she can only Just touch Him once it
Wi p her good. She will not touch Him
on -" sacred head. for that might be il
re-. ! ut. She will not touch Him on the
har Tor that might seem too familiar.
50 .tys: 81 will, | think, touch Him on
H III, not on the top OF it. or on the bot
ton :. the main fabric. bet on the border.
t.. u!ue border. the long threads Of the
fri9.-c IF that blue border there can be 40
har J III that. l don't think He will hurt me. I
ha, leard so much about Him. Besides that.
| c.~l stand this no longer. Twelve years Of
su.c az have worn me out. This is my last
h,r'.' And she presses through the crowd
ST 4rther and reaches for Christ. but can
no. quite touch Him. She pushes still farther
thr Iyh the crowd and kneels and puts her
fn-"r to the edge of the blue fringe Of the
borter. She just touches it. Quick as an
elfftFi' UhSu tntLe IuIllltu DICK INTO IeT
shattered nerves, and shrunken veins, and
exhausted arteries, and painting lungs, and
withered muscles, health. beautiful health,
ruhicund 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 Done instantly
halted.
Christ recognizes somehow that magnetic
AMI healthful influence through the medium
of the blue fringe Of His garment had shot
out. He turns and looks upon that excited
crowd and ~startles them with the interroga-
| tory o. nv text. "Who touched Me?" The
insolent crowd in substance replied "How
do W. know? You get in a crowd like this
AM You must expect to be jostled. You ask
us Il 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
the" whole. Go in peace" So Mark gives
US a dramattzation of the gospel. Oh, what
q 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 as
this woman was healed Jesus felt that virtue
or strength had gone out of Him. No ad-
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 others? Have you never
preached a sermon, or delivered an ex-
hortation, or offered a burning prayer, and
then felt afterward that strength had gone
out Of you? Then you have never initiated
Christ?
Are you curious to know how that garment
OF Christ would have wrought such a curt
for this suppiiant invalid? l suppose that
Christ was surcharged with vitality. Yol
| NOW fhuf AlSanSaS NAV ha pOnyPNnJ from
city to city by garments as in case Of cpl
denic. and SO | suppose that garments ma,
be ~surcharged with health. l suppose tina
Christ had such physical magnetism that j
perineated all His robe down to the las
thread on the border of the blue fringe. Blu
in addition to that there was a divine thrill
there was q miraculous potency. there wa al
olnnipotent Therapeutics. without which thi
Il wears invalid would not have been in
stantIy restored.
Now, il omnipotence annot help other
without depletion, bow can We ever expec
10 bless the world without self sacrifice.
man who gives TO some Christian object unit
he feels IT, q man who in his occupation {
profession oyerworks that he may edura,
his children, q man who on sunday nlcs
goes home. all his nervous energy WranC o.
by active service in church&0r Sahuatl
school,. or city CHARACTERIZATION. JNas initiate
christ. ana the strength mas gone out OF mn
A mother who robs herself q sleep III beha
OF a sick cradle, a wife who bears up chez
fully under domestic misfortune that she me-
encourage her husband in the combat again
disaster, q woman who by hard saving az
earnest prayer and good counsel wisely give
and many years devoted to rearingher faTnI
for God and usefulness and heaven. and b
nothing to show for il but premature gr;
hairs and q proiusion Of deep wrinkles,
like Christ, and strength has gone out OF he
That strength or virtua,may have gone o
through q garment she has made for Il
home. that strength may have gone o
through the sock you knit for the harafo
destitute, that strength may 90 out throu!
the mantle hung up in some closet after "
are dead. SO a crippled child sat eve
morning on her fathers front step 50 til
when the kind Christian teacher passed by
school she might take hold Of her dress al
let the dress slide through her pale lingel
She aid It helped her pain 80 much q
made her So happy al the day. Aye. Ia
we not in all our dwellings garments - !
departed, a touch Of which thrills Us thr0u
and through. the life OF those who are 20
thrilling through the life Of those who std
But mark you. the prineple l evolve r.
this subject. No addition ~ healteh 10 9th,
unless there be q subtraction Of streng
from ourselves. He felt that strength b
gone out ofHin.