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a servant's anotber. These things are not sufficiently con- sidered. The wise .variety of our Lord's counsels, is a subject which deserves close study.
LUKE Vin. 41—48.
41 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a luler of the synagogue : and he fell down at Jesus feet, and besought him that he would come into his house :
42 For he bad one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged bim.
43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of anj,
44 Came behind Atm, and touched the border of his garment : and im- mediately her issue of blood stanched.
45 And Jesus said, Who touched
me.^ When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee^ and sayest thou. Who touched me?
46 And Jesus said. Somebody hath touched me : for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she de- clared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort : thy faith hath made thee whole ; go in peace.
How much misery and trouble sin has brought into the world ! The passage we have just read affords a melan- choly proof of this. First we see a distressed father in bitter anxiety about a dying daughter. Then we see a suffering woman, who has been afflicted twelve years with an incurable disease. And these are things which sin has sown broad-cast over the whole earth ! These are but patterns of what is going on continually on every side. These are evils which God did not create at the beginning, but man has brought upon himself by the fall. There would have been no sorrow and no sickness among Adam's children, if there had been no
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Let us see in the case of the woman here described, a striking picture of the condition of many souk. We are told that she had been afflicted with a wearing disease