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Excerpt from A Plea for a Church Hospital, in the City of New-York: In Two Lectures, Delivered in the Church of the Holy Communion, St. Paul's Church, New-York, and St. John's Church, Brooklyn
Woman bowed down all her life with an incurable weakness; and then that patient one, who for years had been expecting a neighbor not to step before him into the pool. How he sighs, nor only sighs, over the hapless mute! How prompt to use His healing power in the midst of his sufferings, touching Malchus's ear, on His way to the cross. And see that dispensary, where they are thronging the door to be healed, and the carriers of the palsied man are break ing through the roof to get him to the great Physi cian. To say nothing of His compassion for the physi cal distresses of men in other ways, (such as His feed ing the multitude again and again in the wilderness, making them sit down in ranks on the green grass, while he sends his apostles as servitors with the bas kets and loaves among them) there must often have been such a thronged dispensary about Him, for He is represented as attending to the sufferers in crowds. St. Luke tells us, that one evening while the sun was going down, All they that had any sick with di vers diseases, brought them unto Him, and He laid His hands on every one of them, and healed them.
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