Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-11

for the Messiah. It may be there were but
few such present. and perhaps none of
them had dreamed before of the gentle
healingness OF Christs coming, until they
They had thought before more OF His COM
ing as a temporal king to right wrongs,
perhaps. but to bring In a goodly time The
sin sick and the bodily sick had not been
tender way as this. And SO today, He is
the great physician still. Look, how He
loved to give sight to the blind, and heal
ing to the sick. And think you He Will love
Look up! Jesus is here today. He pro-
claims himself as your physician now
Will you not let Him heal you? g.
There are great and skillful physicians IN
this world. Sometimes they are the means
of some remarkable cures. Occasionally
some rich man brings one from a far quar-
ter of the earth to perform delicate OPP
Grafton on his much loved and deformed
little child For this he pays great sum-
and poor people, who cannot pay one tltne
of the fee, yet who have just as dearly
loved little ones suffering from equally pau
deformities, stand back and envy WltHouL
hope for it is not often we hear OF these
great physicians curing the poor free OF
charge, as did a celebrated foreigner not
long ago in our country 1t mas always
been so. The skill of the earth Is to be
purchased with great price, ana the poor
cannot have it, But Jesus proclaimed
new gospel when He said that the LORD had
anointed Him to preaeh , the goSp d n TO t,
and empty handed of the earth has nope
come through Jesus. 49,
There are diseases that battle human skill.
Deeply as men have been able to search
into the great sciences of physiology and
medicine there are yet things they do not
understand. The poor mother, whose son
has committed some terrible crime ana run
away from the face of men, and she knows
not where he is, nor what he is doing, nor
If, indeed, he be yet alive, may take ton1cs
and drugs and electricity and all sorts OF
treatment for nervous prostration, and We.
no physician can cure the broken heart OF
which she Is dying. But Jesus says that
He has come to heal the broken hearted
No other physician living has ever claimed
to be able to do that.
There seems to be hope for the drunk
ard, and those who are in the power OF
sinful habits in the next phrase OF Jesus
sermon, ito preach deliverance to the cap
tives.' There are various cures for drunk
ards advertised, and there are places where
people who have fallen into evil habits may
go and be helped back to some degree OF
self-control and strength again, but after
all they are very inadequate, and the nope
lessness of trying to cure these awful sin
diseases. for that is what they really are,
makes them terrifying to the friends of the
victims. But Jesus is the only nope OF
such.
There's power enough In Jesus
To the sin-sick soul;
He is the Great Physician
To make the sinner whole.
There are people in the world who go
about with many imaginary ills. 1t is not
to such that Jesus comfort comes. he is
not the fancy physician who goes about
taking the money of the rich, and minis
tering to their vanity in exchange. He
says, "They that are whole need not
physician" Jesus came to the SICK, the
poor, the broken, the desolate and the dis
mayed. Where all hope has vanished there
Jesus brings it back And it is not the
righteous to whom Jesus came, but the SIN
ners. The disease of sin has left Its talnt
in the blood of all, but there is hope
for us because HE bare our sins in His
own body on the tree"
Applied Truth.
A man who wished to buy a handsome
ring went to jewelers. shop in Paris. He
looked at curious old ring of fine work.
manship and on the inside of it were two
little lions claws. He tried on number
OF rings and handled them, and among
others this curious one. He finally bought
one and went away, but he had scarcely
reached his home when first his hand,
then his side, then his whole body became
numb and as if he had had a stroke of
palsy. He grew rapidly worse, and they
sent at once for his physician, who, when
he came, said that the man had In some
way taken poison. At length the man re-
membered the ring, and upon inquiry they
found that it was what used to be called
death ring. They were used in Italy
among wicked people three or four hundred
years ago. If man hated another he
would present him with of these rings.
Concealed in the inside was drop of
poison. The tiny claws would scratch the
skin at slight pressure from so small
thing as the grasp of another hand, and
the poison would enter the blood.
The poison of sin is a subtle thing, last
ing for hundreds of years. The evil thought
that enters the mind turks there and unsus-
tod to nn cA1rl Nnron lint ha
Great Physician can cure this soul sick
ness and give the antidote for the poison.
How to Help the Leader.
Ask prayers for some soul sick with sin
and pray for him yourself in the meeting.
Parallel passages-Matthew, STA, 10;
Luke, 1712-14; Matthew, 9:35; Matthew,
1910, 10; Mark, LAO; Malachi, AZ; Psalms.
1882 3; Isaiah, 53 70; Hosea, 14:4.
Have some sing the old gospel song,
'The Great Physician Now Is Near, the
Sympathizng Jesus" or Jesus of Nazareth
Passeth By These are found in the old
Gospel Hymns. Get the church Hymnal
from the church and have the society sing
I'VE May Not Climb the Heavenly Sleeps,
especially the verse, The healing of the
seamless dress is by our beds of pain.
Also sing AT even ere the sun was set,
the sick, o Lord, around Thee came" Have
much prayer. Pray for those who are sick
in body as well as in soul. Call for prom
ises of bodily and soul healing from the
Bible Call for instances of cures perform
ed in answer to prayer, both bodily and Tor
the spirit.
who touched Me?'' Dost Thou ask:
s dwss one t sath touched tt Mas Me- Yes Lord
l am that somebody.
1 came, Lord, and touched,
For needed Thee;
Forth from Thee straight the virtue came.
MON, hast hna1 led mo