A Dislocated Bone

“Whejt a bo7ie is out of joint, the longer the setting isforborjie the gyeater will the pain of the patieiii be; yea, it 7nay be so long neglected that no skill nor a7’t can set it right again. So it is ijt the cure of a ‘wounded spirit ajtd a bleeding conscieice” Fly, then, O wounded one, to the Lord thy Saviour, at once. When delays are dangerous as well as painful, who would linger? For the most part, injured persons are anxious to be carried to the surgeon at once: they dread the inflammatory action which may be set up in the injured parts. In spiritual wounds the fever of fear soon heats into despair, unless the divine Healer is fetched in. When Jesus comes he suffers no delay; speedily he healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Unbelief pulls off the bandages, and presumption declares that the limb is as sound as ever; but humble faith waits only upon the Lord, and cries to him to make haste for her deliverance.

O Lord, heal me speedily, I beseech thee.