Parables |
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Author:
| Krummacher, Frederic Adolphus |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-74307-5 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 3. THE MAN OF CARMEL. In a small village on Mount Carmel lived a wise man, on whom the spirit of the Lord had conferred the gift of consolation and of healing. He entered every habitation where there was any one sick, and cured him of his malady; or he consoled and encouraged the dying with tender words,...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 3. THE MAN OF CARMEL. In a small village on Mount Carmel lived a wise man, on whom the spirit of the Lord had conferred the gift of consolation and of healing. He entered every habitation where there was any one sick, and cured him of his malady; or he consoled and encouraged the dying with tender words, and moderated the lamentations of the weeping mourners. For he was acquainted with the secret powers of medicinal herbs, and had much knowledge of the hearts of men, although but young. All, consequently, loved him, and entreated him to turn into their dwellings, and his fame was sounded far and wide. But behold there came from the land of Egypt into the village on Carmel, and into the surrounding country, a contagious disease, with which the people sickened, and many died; for the disease was dreadful. Whenever there was one sick with it, he was sent for to heal and to comfort, by day and night. At length his body became weary, and his soul was troubled that the power of the plague was often stronger than the power of the medicinal herbs, and he began to fear for his own blooming life. For the recurrence of failures naturally begat despondency in the heart of the man struggling to keep up. His spirit then led him out upon Mount Carmel, where he hesitated whether to make that his abode, and not to return to the dwellings of men, or to collect medicinal herbs and plants for the comfort and cure of the sick. So he went forth and said within himself: Nature has been my teacher from my youth; she shall now also instruct me. He stood before a flower, more beautiful in its bloom than Solomon in all his glory, and said: It blooms in its beauty and its youthful vigour onlyybr itself, and opens its cup to the beams of the sun, and to the soft breeze which in the evening comes up h..