The fairy-bells tinkle afar;
Make haste, or they’ll catch you, and harness you fast,
With a cobweb, to Oberon’s car.
MAMMA’S SUNDAY TALK.
MIRACLES OF OUR SAVIOUR:
THE NOBLEMAN’S SON HEALED.
I have already told you, my little ones, how our Lord Jesus Christ turned the water into wine at the marriage feast. That was His first miracle, and one of the few He performed which were not works of healing; for He went about curing the sick, and in some instances restoring to life those who were already dead.
We are told in the Bible that after this first miracle, our Saviour left Cana and went to Jerusalem to keep the Passover, and it is stated that while there He performed several miracles in the way of healing, which were so wonderful that His fame spread throughout the land. After the Passover, Christ left Jerusalem, and turned His steps towards Galilee.
Now in a city of Galilee, called Capernaum, there lived a nobleman, who had an only child, a son, that he loved with his whole heart. The child was very ill—so ill that there was no hope of recovery. The little face that the poor father loved so much grew pale and wan, and the pretty bright eyes lost their brightness. Everything that human skill could do had been tried in vain; but the father had heard of the miracles done by Jesus in Jerusalem, and knowing that He was then passing through that part of the country, he left the bedside of his dying child, and came himself to Christ.