SHE TOUCHED HER | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 26, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 39.

SHE TOUCHED HER.

SOME rude children in Madagascar were one day calling out, "A leper! A leper!" to a poor woman who had lost all her fingers and toes by the dread disease. A missionary lady who was near by, put her hand on the woman's shoulder, and asked her to sit down on the grass by her. The woman fell sobbing, overcome by emotion, and cried out: "A human hand has touched me. For seven years no one has touched me."

The missionary lady says that at that moment it flashed across her mind why it is recorded in the Gospels that Jesus touched the lepers. That is just what others would not do. It was the touch of sympathy as well as healing power.—Selected.