Every man, even the worst, has some vital point at which he can be
touched and helped, as was the paralytic mentioned below:
Dr. Swithinbank describes a real case of bodily paralysis in
a medical record in Paris: A man was attacked by a creeping
paralysis; sight was first to fail; soon after, hearing went;
then by degrees, taste, smell, touch, and the power of motion.
He could breathe, he could swallow, he could think, and strange
to say, he could speak; that was all. Not the very slightest
message from without could reach his mind; nothing to tell him
what was near, who was still alive; the world was utterly lost
to him, and he all but lost to the world. At last, one day, an
accident showed that one small place on one cheek had feeling
left. It seemed a revelation from heaven. By tracing letters on
that place, his wife and children could speak to him, his dark
dungeon-wall was pierced, his tongue had never lost its power,
and once more he was a man among men.
(2825)
=Salvation a Gift=--See GRACE NOT GROWTH.