perish, but you shall have everlasting life! In this man’s case, it was a personal word that wrought the healing he needed. In the next case, there was a touch as well as a word. The woman was in the crowd in the synagogue, bent double, and perhaps could not even see the Christ; but he said to her, “Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity;” and he laid his hands on her, and with that word and that touch she was loosed in a minute. She was called upon to do nothing except to believe that it was