<TITLE>09. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 And so then when he... His little girl got sick, why, of course the only thing there is to do is send for the doctor, 'cause they believed that the days of miracles was past, and wasn't no such as that, and that stuff on the other side of the lake over there was nothing but fanaticism, so nothing to that. A Fellow over there possessed with demons, Hisself, going around casting out demons by Beelzebub, the chief of the devils... And the only reason they could accuse that, because He didn't believe their doctrine. So... But the only thing Jairus could do was call the doctor.
Perhaps the doctor come in, a gentlemen in every respect, set down his satchel, took out his herbs, and looked at her tongue, and looked all over her, and listened to her heart, give her a few doses of medicine, went away; and the little girl got worse. So the doctor comes back again, early in the afternoon, examined her again, said, "She's getting pretty low."

L-35 So all night long her little fever raged. And the doctor set at the bed as a faithful man, taking her pulse, looking at her eyes, and doing everything that he could, rubbing on her all the medicine he could, and pouring into her everything he could. And at the same time God was working on the scene. God was sending the Son of God across the ocean, across the waters, coming over.
The boat was a pitching and a toiling and a going on. The old oars a rocking, and the boat a squeaking, about water-logged, but He was pulling on across, because He had something to do on the other side.
Little Jairus set up all night, perhaps, him and his wife, making hot applications and putting on her. And the next morning, the doctor said, "Well, Jairus, I want you to come out here just a minute to one side." Walk out to one side and say, "Jairus, I hate to tell you this, but your daughter is losing ground fast. Her heart's weakening now. Where it's supposed to be between seventy and eighty, it's got down between thirty and forty" (or something on that order), "she's losing fast. Now, Jairus, you being a clergyman, here a coun--a member of the council and the Sanhedrin, there's only one thing that I know to do Jairus, go back and put your arms around your wife, and tell her to get ready for the shock, 'cause the child's got to die. There's not a thing... Jairus, you know I'm your physician; I'm a specialist, and my medical education shows me that the girl, the respiration's a falling, and there's nothing left but the girl to die."

L-36 Poor, little Jairus' heart begin to beat heavy, like that. And I believe about that time something begin to move down. "That's not my last hope, doctor."
So I see him go in, tell his wife, and say, "Wife, the doctor just brings us this news as he drove away awhile ago in his little chariot, that the... Our little girl's going to die. Now, wife, I've got a little confession I want to make."
"Yes, what is it, father?"
"Well, you know, one of my friends come from across the other side over there, and they told me that that Jesus of Nazareth..."
"Now, wait a minute, honey. You know this position you have at church is our meat and bread."
"Well, but honey, somehow or another, way down deep in my heart, I believe He's what He says He is. Because positionally, I see in the Scripture; it's about time for Him to be here, and to do these things, so I believe He is the Son of God."

L-37 "Why, Jairus, have you gone off at the deep end?" she'd say. "How could this be?"
"Well, look, honey. I knowed He healed some people on the other side. Our baby's laying dying."
And I can hear his wife say, "You know, honey, I was just testing you a little bit." You know, the wife can do that right easy, or the husband either one. See?


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