The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

with healing in His wings. No disease too
desperate, when even the demons owned the
authority of His mere rebuke. From all parts they
bring them: mothers, widows, wives, fathers,
children, husbands—^their loved ones, the
treasures they had almost lost; and the whole city
throngs—a hushed, solemnised, overawed
multitude—expectant, waiting at the door of
Simon's dwelling. There they laid them, along the
street up to the market-place, on their beds ; or
brought them, with beseeching look and word.
What a symbol of this world's misery, need, and
hope; what a symbol, also, of what the Christ
really is as the Consoler in the world's manifold
woe! Never, surely, was He more truly the Christ;
nor is He In symbol more truly such to us and to all
time, than when, in the stillness of that evening,
under the starlit sky. He went through that suffering
throng, laying His hands in the blessing of healing
on every one of them, and casting out many devils.
No picture of the Christ more dear to us, than this
of the unlimited healing of whatever disease of
body or soul. In its blessed indefiniteness it