<TITLE>12. Par 28-29</TITLE>L-28 So then one morning about nine o'clock, why, he had come to visit the little girl after he had been up almost all night. And all the loving people of the church was gathered in there, and all the associate pastors, and some of the visiting clergymen, and the district presbyter, and all of them was setting close, you know, to--to offer prayers and so forth for the child.
And so, the doctor come into the room, and he examined the little girl, taken her pulse. And oh, the fever was raging. The little thing was beyond, out of her head now. So he knew that the end was close.
He hated to tell the pastor, perhaps, went to his own church. So he called him out to one side and said, "Now, Jairus, I want to tell you out here, so sister won't hear it. That baby is dying, your only little girl."
"Oh, doctor, surely there's something else you can do."
"No, Jairus, if--if you want to call in another doctor and consult the case, why, that's all right. But as far as my medical understanding, death's on the child right now, because she's laying at the point of death. And she probably won't last over another hour or two." The good doctor was telling all that he knowed to be the truth.
And said, "Doctor, would you advise me to get some other doctor?"
Said, "You're welcome."
But he said, "I don't know no other doctor. We know there was a doctor over across the--there, called Luke, Dr. Luke. But you know, he--he was converted."
"Oh, don't you... Luke's went off on the wrong end." See? "He's following that Galilean prophet, don't..."
Oh, that brings it back to his mind. "Yes, doctor. Well, thank you. What do I owe you, doctor?"
"Oh, well, I... That's all right. You don't have me nothing." He was a fine man. See? "You go ahead, preacher, I know you don't make much money, so just let it go."
"Well, thank you very kindly."

L-29 Now, what's he going to do? He walks back from the gate and said, "Now, I'll go in the house there, in the parish. And what... How am I going to tell my wife that that baby's laying at the point of death? And I've kept it a secret from her all the time that I really believed in Jesus being that real prophet was to come. But now, how would I ever get it? And there's the district presbyter and all the rest of the ministerial association setting around the house there. And how can I ever? And wonder where He's at?"
So he goes back in the room, and he begins to wonder. And, you know, and the first thing you know, he calls his wife in. He said, "Dear, come in and set down just a minute." He put his hands... Said, "Now, I've got something I want to talk to you about. First I want to say. Mother, do you remember how that I've set up here at nighttime, these candlelights, reading the Scriptures?"
"Yes, yes, Jairus. I--I--I know just how you have set up here and read."
"And I've come in, being gone for two or three days at a time, telling you, 'I was out about the Master's business.'"
"Yes. I remember all about it."
"Well, I've kept this back from you. But I want to tell you something. You know where I was at?"
"Well, where were you at, dear?"
"I was 'tending them meetings of Jesus of Nazareth, that Galilean prophet. I was attending..."
"Oh," she said, "that's no secret to me. I was reading your notes that you took of His sermons. See? When I cleaned up the room, I found the wastebasket laying full of them. You see? And I just read them where you been searching through the Scripture."
"Sure enough?"
"Yes."
"Well, I tell you. You know what? I truly believe that that is the Messiah."
"Why," she said, "dear, are you just now ready to confess it? I believed it all along."
Now, he's ready. He can tell her now, what... Said, "You know what?" Said, "Honey, the doctor just told me something."
"What? Our daughter is going to be better?"
"No, she's dying."
"Oh, Jairus, oh, oh, surely, not..."


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