Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-01
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
WHO TOUCHED ME2" THE TEX
FOR a POWERFUL SERMON.
Even Christ Felt that nau
Gone Out CT Him VIXEN re
Made the Woman Whoie-A
Christthat May Be Reached
Nv Human Touch.


GrookiYn. y. Y.-Rev n. Talmage to-
say chose Tor the subject OF his DIS
course the inquiry addressed by Inc
Savior OF those who surrounded bid
when. the invalid woman having
touched his garment, he asked, WING
| Touched MeT' Mark v. 81.
a great crowd OF excited people Ell
oowiug each other this way ana thaI
and Christ in the midst OF the COM
motion. They were on the WY TO see
aim restore TO complete health a.oy-
NJ r@-son. Some thought he could eI-
Itex.t t!l,. cure. others thar he could not
| ST any r re, it would he an interesting
avrari.uGat. A very sick Woindn OF
| welye years' invaiid:Sm is IN the cfoWd
Some say her name was Marina, otheEs
say * was Veronica. ! do not Know
| what her name WAS. but TINS Is ceEtaih'
| she had tried III styles OF cure. every
| shelf of her humble home had Inedi-
| ines on II. She had employed many OF
! The doctors OF that time, when medical
| science was more rude and rough ana
cnorant than we can imagine at THIS
line. when the words physician or
surgeon stand for potent and educated
skill. Prof. Ligatfoot gives a list or
what he supposeS may have been the
remedies she had applied l suppose
she had been blistered from head TO
foot. and had tried the compress, ana
lad used all styles Of astringent herps.
and she had been mauled and hacked
and cut ana ~laceratei until life TO he
was a plague. Besides that, the Bible
indicates her doctors bills had nun up
trighrfuIly, and she had paid money Tor
medicines and for surgical attendance
and for hygenic apparatus until Ter
purse was as exhausted as her body.
What, poor woman, are you doing IN
that iustling crowdt Better 20 home
and 10 bed and nurse yorr disorders.
No. Wan and wasted and faint she
stands there. her face distorted with
some suffering, and yer and anon Bit
n- her lip with some acute pain. ana
! sUbbin- until her tears fan from the
hollow eye upon the faded dress; only
able TO stand because the crowd Is so
close 10 her pushing her this way and
that. Stand back. Why do you crowd
that poor boGys Have you 10 consider
alton for i dying wornanE But just at
that time the crowds parts and this
invalid comes almost up 10 Christ: but
she is behind him and his human eye
does not take her in she has heard
so much about his kindness 10 the sick,
and she does feel so w~retched, he
thinks il she only touch him once II
viii do her good. She Will not touch
him on the sacred head, for that might
be irreverent. She viii not touch him
on the hand for that might TOO
familiar. She says: II VIII, I think.
touch him on his coat, not on the top
Of ii. or on tine bottom OF the main
fabric, but on the border. the blue Dor
der. the long threads OF the fringe OF
that blue border. there can be no harm
in that. I don't think he win hurt me.
l have heard 50 much about him. Be
side 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 sill fur
ther and reaches Christ. but cannot
quite touch him. She pushes still fur
tner through the crowd and knaels and
puts her finger 10 the edge Of the blue
fringe OF the border. She just touches
Ii. Quick as an electric shock there
thrilled back into her shattered nerves
and sarunken veins and exhausted ar
teries and painting lungs and witherei
muscles, health. beautiful health. rahi-
ctlEd health, God-given and complete
health. The twelve years march OF
pain and pang and suffering over ssls-
pension bridge of nerve and through
tunnel or bone instantly halted.
Christ recognizes somehow that mag
Reric and heallhfFl influence through
the medium OF the blue fringe of his
garment had shot out. lie turns and
looks upon that excited crowd. and
startles them with the interrogation of
my text, Who touched me. The
insoaent crowd in substance enliad:
Row do we know You get in a
crowd like this and you must expect TO
be jostled Yen ask us d question You
know we cannot answer But the
r0scate and ~rejuyenated woman came
up and knelt in front OF Christ. and
told OF the touch, and told OF the rcstor-
alton, and Jesus said: Daughter. thy
faith hath made thee whole. Go In
peace" So Mark gives us d dramatic
alton 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 10 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
addition of help to others without sub
traction 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 exhortation.
or offered a burning prayer, and then
felt afterward that strength had gone
out Of you? Then you have never imi.
tated Christ.
Are you curious TO know how the
garment of Christ should have wrought
such a cure for this suppliant invalid.
/ suppose that Christ was surchargcd
with vitality. You know that diseases
may be conveyed from city 20 city by
garments In case of epiS +Iric, and so +
suppose that garments may be sur
charged with health 1 suppose that
Christ had such physical magnetism
that Ii ~perTeated all his robe down TO
the last tLread on the border OF the
blue fringe. But in addition TO that
there VAS q divine. thrill, there was a
miraculous potency. there was an ON
niDosent therapeutics without which
this twelve years invalid would not
have been instantly restored.
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