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willing. She thus treated fifteen cases, losing only one."
* * * * * "The healing of the seamless dress, Is by our beds of pain. We touch Him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again." * * * * * Of all the compelling qualities that drew humanity irresistibly to Him, the compassion of the Christ was the most winning. This constraining love was the very heart of His Gospel. The masses of the suffering in His day knew only the ostracism of society because of their affliction. The blind must sit idly through the glory of the day by the dusty road-side, begging bread from the passing throng; the crippled lay in their misery and impotence at the gateways of the temples, sustained by the occasional coins tossed by the more fortunate as they hurried by. Nervous and mental sufferers must range through the wilds of deserts and waste places, or share the tombs where the lepers took refuge, being judged possessed of devils and fit only to be outcasts. The pity of Christ, as well as His power to heal, disclosed a new |
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