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 PREACHED IN RICHMOND STREET WBSLEYAN CHURCH, TORONTO, 
 ON THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. ««^ 18»7, 
 
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 Thk Hrn of His Oawiiist."— MArraiw "XX. : ». 
 
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 Whet i8 the hem of Ch'ri8t»» g»r»i€(nt? We will consider this bye-wid- 
 bye. First of all, let as think of the beautiful niMrraUve of which our text 
 forms a part. It is an aofoimt of o<fe of our Lord's miracles— a miracle of a 
 very interesting nature. The miracles of Christ were wrought for several 
 purposes. One obvious purpose of a miracle was to heal the penwn suffering. 
 A second was, perhaps, to giye aa evidence of the divinity of our Lord— 4liat 
 he was really a messenger sent from Qqd. A third benefit connected with, 
 at least, one of his miracles, wa» qf a spiritual and instructive character; * 
 some of them were evidently designed as parables to well as miracles. The 
 record is a record of an actual fact, and yet the record is full of spiritual 
 instruction. Spiritual truths -Twem embodied in the acts of our Lord. 
 Everything onx Lord said and taught— as I have been endeavoring to shew 
 in the pther church— was an illustration of the c^racter and qonduct of Ood 
 the invisible, and we may. well suppose that the reason why someofth* 
 miracles were selected for description rather than others, was that there was 
 instruction conveyed of a mo^al and spiritual character ih the miraele itself, 
 even as all nature, to a contemplative mind and ear, contains spiritual and • 
 heavenly lessons. This miiaole was a very suggestive one. Here was » 
 woman who was diseased ; this is a fitting representative of sin. As diseagev 
 with the bodily organs hinders their operation and shortens life, so sin 
 interferes jtfjjjjL our spiritual functions, prevents out hearing God's voice, 
 feeing Od^Hb, fediiig GQ^'b love, running in God's ways. This 
 
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"had b«en III a long time, nnd sho knew It. And ho, many there are who, for 
 •nany yearn, art- (omicloUH that they are RinnerH. Honiq |>crHonH arc not con- 
 jMjlouaofit. Some pemmfl have that very wontt Hymptoni of all diHeaM, 
 namely, not to kaow It. If you were very 111 and did not k^oW It, yoii wonld- 
 oot be UklHK meaBiirei of relief. To know that we an> ill, |)r«>nipta im to 
 Mek a cure ; and m, for a {lerflou to l»e a ninner and not to know It, not to 
 feel It, to be inditferent to it, la the wornt HympttU wmilble. If there ia any 
 ■one here who d«e« not think hlmiielf a Hinner— who, iiiHtead of Heeking 
 mercy, ia trying to shew how muvh Mter he in than Mm neighlwr— that is 
 ithovAry worBt Mjvaptom bt* can have. You are a Hinner, but you do not 
 mom to know It. It is like a man in a Hinking Hhip flayiug The Hhip it not 
 aibklng. OtherH HHy It Ih, and are trying to get a life-buoy oi- a rope ()r a 
 *m<t ready, but you my I am all right; but you are In miuch grelter danger 
 •than the person who^aowM it. Thin woman lAw that Hhe wAm dlHeaned 
 She had Wen for many yearn trying to get ri<Rf her intirmity. She had 
 been to. many phyaicianH. One after another had promlHed to help her. She 
 hid spent her IJvIng on them, but alie waa no lietter— if anything worse. I* 
 . HOmetimea happefta that aome per^ffijTlb from one <loctor to anotljef-^hd 
 there are aoroe who prttfeaa a gre&t deal, bnt know little and do leaa-^^nd 
 they go to them in vui«. Thia p<K»r woman aeemed to have lufcn unfortunate 
 in thia particular, and thia ia a trut^^illuatration of what the aihner doea. A 
 •inner goea to many phyaiciana, but till he g«H>a to the one and only true 
 physician! he alwaya geta worse. 
 
 . Some one may object and aay Does It not aeem hard that a peraon should 
 be anxious to be aaved, and Itecauae he does not go to the right physician, 
 get worse ? But it is an obvioiiH necessity. Suppose you had.cut an artery, 
 And there was only one way of stopping the bleeding ; If you did not try that 
 w«y, you would Imj still losing blood— not at^ much as if you were doing 
 aottuing perhaps— but still loalng blood. You would begetting worae.. You 
 would be getting^wonw if you were doing nothing at all, and you are getting 
 WOTse now in qpite of all your strivings, if you do not do the one thing need. 
 All to atop the bleeding. And so with the sinner. Christ is the only 
 Savkrar, and if I try to get rid of my sin without going to Christ, I am worse 
 •nd not better. If I try to be outwardly better by my good resolutionsOr In 
 «ay way not provided by the Gospel, I am getting worse and not better. If 
 I aay I will try and. wait till I am better and then go to Christ to heal me, I am 
 only getting Worse as thia woman w*a. O sinner, if yon are not going to 
 Christ you are getting worse. Whatever yoi) intend doing— -whatever you 
 arc doing now— In spite of all your efforts and promises, you are getting 
 Worse every day—losing blood every day— getting further aud fiirtherfrom 
 Ood every day. Yop are only getting worse till you come to the only 
 physician that is able to help. This woman heard of Jesu8-:-how he had 
 healed many. She felt he would not repel her. She had manrdoubts and 
 fears. She did not like to make known what her trouble w^l||ke shrank 
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 crowd— I have M«en them. Hometlmt'ii people »re very' r«4« when thejr 
 waDtto get a favorlti' Heat Iti a dhurth, and weak women are iwm«tiine» 
 jostled when they are trying to get into the building. There was great 
 ' difficulty in the way of thiM woman, but when a person it really In ean)««t 
 no difficulty will keep them away. You may nay If I become rellgiouHmj 
 companioHB will laugh Ht me, my employer will dislike it ; my own fcmilj 
 will look hardly u|Mm It ; I nhall lie a loner. Very likely. But if you are la. 
 carmut you will my I will perifth there, at the crotw, but I will not keep- 
 away Nobody wHH ever kept away from heaven by circumBtanceu. W« 
 were never Intended to be the creaturcH and the Hlaves of clfcuraatauce^ 
 CircumHtanceH w'ere intendtrirto help us if we have an earnert-Ugart to look to 
 God for HiB aHniHtancc to tlo what in right. Thig |ioor woman was in earnest ; 
 ^ and if you and I are. in eumcKt, what- seem to Ije hindruiiceK will be no 
 hindranceH at all. She p4hed Jier way through the^cwwd. Very likely 
 Home one wild Keep further liaek. Another would nay Why make auckfc. ^ 
 fii^iH there, woman? Drtn't disturb mh. But the poor thing kept on, little 
 by little. Every inch hIjc gaineil was u little nearer. And bo, if people try 
 to hiiMler you from getting near to Olwist, ^on't be hindered. Keep on ear- 
 neHtly, perKcveringly: Keep yoiir eye fixed <?n Hun, and Btill press onwards^ 
 lowaidB Him. This poor diseaHcd pvTtwn found her way through that crowd 
 'to CbriBt, and you can through any crowd. When she reaihed him she 
 Kt«KKl iMhind him. She did not like to make it known. She did not cob^_^ 
 forward in the enquiry ebwH or in the church ; she did not go to any minis- 
 ter; she hid herattlf in the crowd. She thought If I can only touch the hem 
 of hiH- garment virtue will come out of 4iim; and ho slie would hope |n him 
 
 very likely wiih Bome doubtw and misgivingB and little faith. Faith 1»- 
 
 Ib not Bomething that lian no doubts to contend with ; it is confidence 
 ^ prevailing over doubtB. l>on't think you will have faith without 
 doubts— nolKKly ever had. David, Daniel, MoBes— all of them doubt- 
 IcBB had Bome doubts. Faith Is the victory of confidence over 
 doubt. ThiK po«ir woman t4)uched the hem of luB garment.. Oh, let us in thift 
 manner lay hold on Christ. Whatever our fears and doiibts be'let "« appljf "^ 
 U) him for mercy. And what was the result ? At once she was he»led df h«4 ; 
 plague. At once the diseaBe was stopped ; and let a signer apply by faith t» 
 the Lord Jcbub Christ, and at once tlie grace ojHD» 4*/i«i Jesus is imputed K* 
 that Boul. There is forgiveneBS at once. He is justified at once. He ceaseie 
 to be under condemnation. He passes out of death into life. I do not say at 
 once he Ib made perfect and thoroughly sanctified. There is a great work 
 ' now done in i>erfecting the cure ; but at once the believer passes out of datk- 
 ncss into Ight, out of death into life through the grace of Jesus Christ. Oh« 
 sinner, if you will but come to fpirist now and lay hold ol him now ydu shall 
 receive the grace of Christ— you shull receive it now— "jjust now," as your* 
 simple but beautiful hymn expresses it. The Lord Jesus knew all about it* 
 The Lord, Jesus said Who touched me? Did not he know ? He knew very 
 well»but he w«)ited her to confess it. We are to believe in the heart and w© 
 
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 to confeM wilb. the mouth. There may b« much wcreiy in leeking Chritt. 
 I do |iot reproTe rach aecrecy. Sometime* thoee may be moit in earnest wh« 
 •y leMt aboat it; but when we hare found him— when we have been healed 
 hj him— wJien we hare been aaved by him — there ahould be no mon- hesita- 
 tion abont confewdng it ; we are to aciinowlcdge it, to Join hi« people, to 
 Idtotify ourtelvei with his liindgdom. We are to tell to others what a Saviour 
 we have found as the woman did now. Oh yes, she did now thankfuUy^hat 
 she hesitated about before. She fell down before him in thankfulne^r^and 
 confessed before -them all what great things he had done for her. With 
 what joy she would hf ve ministered to him of her substance if she had any 
 left, and with what devotion she would follow hin^ in the way and listen tf» 
 his words. B^autif^l illustration this of the way °in which Jesus the good 
 physician heals the soul and saves the sick. Thy faith hath saved thee, go 
 in peace. ,/ » 
 
 Now we may gather from this mintfle these three lessons ; first, that as 
 sinners we are in a state of helplcHs inburability ; secondly, that (Christ is the 
 only Saviour ; thirdly, that we are to be saved by laying hold on Christ. I 
 need not detain you long on these points ; they are so obvious and so clear. 
 We, like that poor woman, are sinners— diseased beyond cure-^none can cure 
 OS save the Lord Jesus Christ. Our works cannot save uh. We are constantly 
 preaching this truth, and yet how many there are who seem as if they could ' 
 not receive it, and are imagining that their works can help thi^m. How many 
 there are who say, 1 have lived a bad life, R is true, but I will try to do better 
 for the future, and I hope my amended life will recommend me to God bye 
 and bye. It is something like this — if you owed a hundred pounds— a hun- 
 dred dollars, say, at a store, and could not pay one opnt, an<t then you were 
 to say, well, I will do my utmost, I will pay for everything I get there ; you 
 go for several days to that store and pay a cent or two every day for some, 
 thing you get, and then you say to the person who keeps it, I don't owe you' 
 anything now. «' Why not?" Havie not 1 paid for everything I have got ? 
 " \eB, but you have got what you i^dfor." Now suppose we wcr«i able to do our 
 duty every day — to obey every command of Ood — it would only Ije iwying 
 the new debt and leaving the old debt untouched. And supposing you were 
 perfectly good and holy every day, your old life would still remain. We can 
 never pay the old debt ; r.'we ar^hrays adding to it. We can never cure' the 
 old disease— it is always gelling worse. Christ is the only Saviour, the only 
 physician. "Neither is there salvation in any other." That is oneipreat 
 truth taught here. 
 
 And then there is this great truth. We are to be saved by applying to 
 hhn. As this poor woman came to faim for the healing of her body, we are to- 
 come for the healing of the soul, and the nnswer to the question, what shall I 
 do to be saved ? is simply this— Beli^eve , on thQ Lord Jesus Christ and thou 
 dialt be saved. Some persons might'wish as to say something else, but we 
 have nothing else la say. It is the old ritory, eighti^n hundred yiffn old— 
 we have found nqthing else. Still it is, trilst in the Lord Jesus Christ and 
 
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 Trust In the Lord Jetua Chriat and thou ahalt b« a«Yed. Therti ia no other 
 method. Art thou virtuoua, honorable, amiable, refined ? What muat you dOt 
 to be aaved ? Believe In the Lord Jeaua Chriat. There la no other anawer. 
 Kot if I pay all my debta to my fellow men — If I am generoua and every one 
 apeaktJMrell of me ? I try to be kind and pleaaant in all my tnniactlona^ 
 Will not that reconiuivnd mo to heaven at the laat? You muat believe in tha 
 Lord JeHua cttriitt in order Ut hv. imved. He tliat believeth ahall be aaved,and 
 he tliat believeth not Hhall be condemned. We are all ainnera before him ia 
 aom« way or other. One man haa ainned In one way, another in another. 
 You have not ainned in drunkcnneaa and profligacy — you liave had no temp» 
 tation to do ao-^^your companloiia did not lead you Into auch aina, or you 
 have been too much vngagjpd In your worldly buainena ; but your heart 
 may have gone aatruy aa much aa that profligate peraon. You may be as 
 much a lover of ytniraelf Inatead of Ood. You may have had more light and 
 have i|uenchfd it^ and you may Iw a greater aiuner for ought I know and 
 you know than thoam whom you rcgunl aa HpeclmenH of profligacy and evIL 
 There la no other way of aalvation than Jeaua Chriat. What^ not if I believe 
 in thia or that church ? You muat believe in the Lord J^tfin^ChriMt, or clae 
 believing in the church w'ou't do. Not if I have been bapffiw'? You muat 
 believe, or all the baptiam in the world will do uo good. ' But I »iu a 
 member of Hoclety— have joined ^lia or that claaa. All will do yon no good ; 
 unleaa you believe in Chriat. Hut I have had great apiritual experience — I 
 can tell you when I wan converted and when I experienced great joy^ 
 Now if you lielieve in the Lord Jeaua Chriat you are aaved, but not by your 
 religioua creed, not by your church profeaaiona or your outward conduct, 
 not ]j)y any kindneaa you may liave ahown to Ood'a people, not by all the 
 benevolence and amiability and refinement and lovclineaa of your character, 
 which we do not dispute or under-eatimate. Nothing can aavc but the Lord 
 Jeaua Chriat, juat aa if there were only one remedy for a fatal diaeaae ; and 
 aa l^ng aa you refuae that r«'ni«>«]y, nothing can aave you from dying. The 
 Lord JeauK Chriat came into the world to aave ainnera, and without him wo 
 cannot be aavinl ; but he la nblo to aave to the uttermoat, to aave every 
 one, to aave ua. Oh, let ua tniat^iim; 
 
 Had J ten thouaand gifts boMidev, 
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 For no foundation is there given 
 On which to place my hopes of heaven, 
 But Chriat the comer stone. 
 
 Well, but says some one, you told ua at the beginning you would tell ua wha 
 the hem of the garment was. 1 remember years ago hearing an eminent divine 
 whom I greaUy admired say that the hem of the garment was the ehnr«h and the . 
 fll^'STt uid that thoae who wanted to be saved should come to the ehureh and the- 
 clergy. You w)ll perhaps say that ia not the meaning of it, hut tell ua what it ia-r^ 
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 rMi^uLr. B.tn«wwhMoritT Oh. ..y. Pome «n.. li U th, church. Th. 
 Sl!I^«t whW* I. th. U.. ch.rchT My church «f eour.c. Y.«. think you 
 J;^il^^h-rch Ji »f you did not you would Icav. It .nd belong to wh.t 
 rCtigti^ tii t^. Z.. E^cry one h« . right to think hU church I. the true 
 *Z Ti M.r M m^j W Thmfore If th. h.m of hU g.r,n.nt I. th. church U 
 rr« '• yJT, chTrch." Butir that b. th. CM. *h.t . «d CMC U I. t.r Iho.. who do 
 St J," your church. If you. th. W....,a„.. arc th. hen. of «•«- i"™.«t .n- 
 
 *nnlr..y. .om. on.. It U th. unlv.r..! Church. I* th»t the h..n of hi. 
 ~«niTt If thlt l. th. h.« of hi. g.rn..at the unlv.r.-l Church I. tj. «r. thing, 
 ^rio ; w. mu.t. com. ther. Wore w. come to Cbrl.t. Wh.t U th. llr.t thing 
 W.T«.^' il\ hou.. t The door. Then If the church I. the he.n "^ the g^men^ 
 r.Thureb I. th. door. But ..y. ChrUt '. I «.- the d.H.r ," no th. church bm l- 
 th. church mky b. th. hou... but I am the d.mr. H..me |K.<.,.le .eem to think th« 
 Z tZl U i. door to Chrl.t. but Christ ..y. I am th. door to the hou.e. They 
 L i^r. not?«n,. to ChrUt are not InMde the church, and th... that have come U. 
 ^T.Si rturned out.ld. th. d,H.r. All are church people that a™ ln.^e he 
 'dnth.t I., who have com. to JCHU. , and all that .re outride Je.u. are o«t.lde 
 
 th. door. It cannot b. that. 
 
 iTlt th. clergy t Wall, but th. clergy are all dl.ea.ed alike. W. all want to 
 b. .av.d. Th.y^ all on. In thi. particular, and they have f. be «v.d a. much 
 
 ""1«h.''.acram.nt.? WMch .acam.nt.-bapti.m ? I, baptUm the hem of the 
 •.r„,.ntT 8om.th.r. ar. who .eem to think that .alvat.on come, through that- 
 W.U which way of b.ptl.m do you prof... ? Infant bapU.m you nay ijcrhap . 
 Jll' .ly L t^at 1. th' way w. get grac. from Cbrl.t. Borne infanU are by th.lr 
 .rn.or7«k.d If th.y d.no.«« th. world and tb. d.vll with all hi. work., and the 
 Wrba. to .ay through lU .po«.or. that It do... If »t doe. It ha. grace already, 
 . Ho on. can renounce th. diVll and .11 hi. work, till, by pre.umptlon. I ha. grace, 
 nwfor. grac. com.. b.for. baptl.m and not aft.r it or by mean, of U. Other. 
 IZ. adult baptl.m. But whom do y«n immer.e 1 Do you admit jjer.on. before 
 Lf •«. b.H.v.r, T You wl.h to know if they -re bell.v.r.. W.U. .fa p.r.o„ 
 b.fo. h. ha. got .alvatlon already, and ther.for. lmm.r.l«n. .ven In the oa«» of 
 .dult., cannot b. th. receiving of grace, for It .hould com. after b.l«ving, 
 
 W.11 th.n, th.\ord'. Supper-perbap. that i. tb. hem of »>" B'^"*-,'^'^' 
 th. Lord'. 8upp.r i« for tho.. who lov. Jen., and who ««.t togeUier to r.m.mber 
 Wm, and who mu.t lov. blm b.for. th.y meet together. But if we love him we ha.e 
 grac. already, and if w. hav.- not we ought not to com. there; and a. lover, of 
 ChrUtwehaverecivedhlBealvatlon. So it cannot b. that. 
 
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 ■^ ^ y ^M h.al.d by only ..nding * °»**'**^ ? "^'^' 
 
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 hia garatnt ilniight h*v« BMnt aonathlag ipaaUl, knl It ilMplj mmm MwtcMilaf 
 to Cbrlft !■ •Tcrytbiag m»A tb»t tb« outward bmm aad muMr by wbUb' «• mom 
 aro Botblttg- Bratbraa tba ban of tba garaaat la Obrlal, aM ooalag t* Obriat to 
 touahlag tb»bafln of bit gaimaBt.and tba bam of tba garoiaat la alaaa to ■•. Yo« 
 may bo dylDg—tbaro la m naad to taba tba aaaranont Obriat 1^ tbai*. A poof 
 man la mjr nalgbborboo*! wa* djring and bia frianda laid lat ua aoad for aoaia Bilaiator. 
 Ob, aald tba good man, It la lata at nigfet^ don't dlaturb anybody— I bn?« Jaaaa aloa* 
 to ma. Ha bad tba bam of tba gannanL Yoo may bo far aw*/ on tba ■•• or oa 
 aomo lona liUn<<— far from tbo ebureb going boll— aoar no plaao of worahip, ae aoa« 
 gragatlon, no miniatry, no outwbrd aaaramanta, blaaaad aa tboao tbinga ar«, aad 
 tbankful aa wa ougbt to bo to Qod for thorn. Byt tboro la tba bom of tbo garmoat. ' 
 Tbaro may bo no baman o oatura to ipaak a word of ■ympatbj,but tbaro la Obriat, aad 
 bratbran, lat oa rajoloo tbat tboro la tbo bom of hia garmont wbara tbaro la Obriat. 
 Tboro la tho unity of tbo ehurob. Tbaro la tbo Maaaod bond tbat blada na iogothor. 
 Lot na aomo to and elaaya to Obriat. Ob, la tbaro any ono haro tbat la lll^a tftat wo< 
 mant Do you foal' dlaaaaod, waary witb ain, aoro and aadT Aro yon timid ? 
 Would you liko to bo aarod, but aro you afraid of bolag notload T /Wo wont domaad 
 tbat in tbaaa oarly atagaa you abould tall wbat la Kolngoa la your mlad. It might 
 bo wall if you wora to toll lomo oonfidantial friand— aomo good, kind minlator ; or U 
 nood not bo a mlalatar— aomo oao olao « ho daaarvaa your oonfldoiMf attd will aym^ 
 pathlaa with you. But if tbaro la tto ona, and aomatlmaa wo Ilko to apaak loaat lo 
 tboao wko aro aoaroatia oaablr rolathmablp— oOmo In tho arowd. Hia oyo la upoa 
 you. Don't yon think boM||ira poor woman all tbo whllo t Would aba havo gol 
 to him without T Waa bo miaaiating bar— making It oaay for bar, aoatfortiag aad 
 ohooring hor. Oh, ho would not havo allowod aay^ono to proroat JMr aoming to Htm. 
 Ho waa holping bar all tho timo. And ho la halping you. Hia oyo la upon you ^ 
 ' Efory ono of yon that haa a aIn bogottan apirtt, pnah through tbo orowd» Jaaaa la 
 holplngyon. Oomo right up to Him. Lay hold on tbo hoofi of Hia garmont Ory^ 
 << Ood bo moiwnl to mo a ainnor. Lamb of Ood that takotb away tho aina of 
 the world, liava moroy upon mo a ainnai. " Ha noTor did rajoot any ono. Tou ahair 
 bo aavad ; you ahall bo hoalod, aad than yon will bo willing to confoaa Him, to tall 
 of Hia loTO, to iuTito othora to do ao too, ami you will follow Him wbithor«oaTor H« 
 goeth. Wbioh may Ood in Hia moroy grant— Aman. ^ ^ 
 
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