The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-11-24

of this awful disease, you would have
done it. 1t is easy. Come, my lord,
just get down and wash in the Jordan.
You take a bath every day anyhow, and
in this climate it is so hot that it will
do you good. Do it on our account,
and for the sake of the army you COM
mand, and for the sake of the nation
that admires you. Come. my lord, just
try the Jordanic bath" We'll" he
says. Ito please you / will do as you
say" The r%etinue drive to the brink
of the Jordan. Gen. Naaman, assist
ed by his attendants, gets down out
of his chariot and painfully comes to
the brink of the river and steps in until
the water to the ankle, and goes
on deeper until the water comes to the
girdle, and now standing SO far down
in the stream, just a little inclination
of the head will thoroughly immerse
him. He bows once into the flood, and
comes up and shakes the water out of
nostril and eye; and his attendants
look at him and say: "Why, general,
how much better you do look" And
he bows a second time into the flood
and ONE up, and the wild stare is
gone out of his eye. He bows the third
time into the flood and comes up, and
the shriveled flesh has got smooth
again. He bows the fourth time in the
flood and comes up, and the hair that
had fallen out is restored in thick locks
again all over his brow. He bows the
fifth time into the flood and comes up,
and the hoarseness has gone out of his
throat. He bows the sixth time and
comes up, and all the soreness and
anguish have gone out OF his limbs.
Why he says, Il Am almost well,
but will make a complete cure and
he bows the seventh time into the Hood
and he comes up, and not so much as a
tester, or n scale, or an eruption as big
as the head of n pin is to be seen on
him. lie steps out on the bank and
says: SIS it possible?" And the attend
ants look and say: us it possible?"
And as, with the health of an athlete,
he bounds back into the chariot n
drives on, there goes up from all his
a wild "huzza! huzza!' Oh
course, they go back to pay and
thank the man OF God for his
counsel so fraught with wisdom.
When they left h prophets
house, they went on mad; they ave
come back glad. People always think
better OF a minister after they are con-
verteo nan tney 40 before conversion.
now my hearers, you know that
TINS zen. aaman did Two thlngs To
get well. Ihe hrst was-he got out OF
ms charlot. he might nave stayed
there with ms swoilen ieet on the
stuned ottoman' seated on that EN-
proioered cushlon, until ms last gasp,
ne YOU'D never nave got n relief'
he q 10 get down out OF ms charlot.
Ana you nave got TO get down out OF
the chariot OF your pride II you ever
become Chr'stlan.
But ne a not only TO get down out
Oh MS charlot. lie a TO wash. ID,
you say, 1 am very caretui with my
aoiu.,ons. very Gay plunge INTO a
orish' an" oeau'iaui oa'n an, my
nearer there Is nooa prlgnter than
n that pours from these hills. 1t Is
n nood ina Dreaks from the granite
Oh the eternai hiiis. II Is the nood o,
pardon ana peace, n lie, n heaven
me nood started IN the tears Of
Christ, IN the sweat OF Gethsemane
and rolled on, accommodating flood, un'
til all earth and Heaven could battle in
it. Zechariah called it the fountain
open for sin and unclea,iinessn vii
1;am Covnor ooIlod - tha ..,.rnto;,
a,,as -. -"
.athers aho
mo'hers WASHED ! 'neir sins am sor
rows away IN that FOUNTAIN. u, my
hearers, do you not feel like wading
into it?
1 suppos that was a great time al
Damascus when Gen. Naaman go,
h.rL Noom,n,s uv;to hardIm -.
49, ~" ..Lns...n le1os
n'Ieu nusouu' ne was SO ohaer