The story is told of Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, who during the sixteenth-century religious persecutions was urged by his wife to declare publicly his conversion to Protestantism.
For one seeking a healing, what would be more encouraging than the thought that Christ Jesus himself was on his way down the road, and that within an hour he would come and say, "Rise and walk.
What a comforting, assured feeling we have when we know that someone dear to us is close by, that we do not walk alone or in an uncaring crowd! Sometimes the humdrum or the rush of day-today demands shouts so loudly that we can hardly find the inner peace we long for.
