Celestial Kingdom by Stan Mason

Author:Stan Mason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gods, Religion, Faith, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, fiction
ISBN: 9781783334780
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2013-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

A few days after the article concerning Warrior’s healing powers was reported in the local newspaper, a large number of people came to visit him at his home. They were the halt, the lame, the deformed, the disfigured, the blind, the deaf, those with gruesome symptoms, those with terminal diseases, a number of hypochondriacs, and two dying children brought to him as a last resort in desperation by their mothers. It was a sad reflection that surgery, drugs and tablets provided by doctors were insufficient to cure so many unfortunate people. Each individual arrived with a degree of hope somewhat tarnished by suspicion about the healer, in the recent past, they had trusted their lives to their physicians while waiting for cures for their allergies and ailments only to learn that nothing more could be done for them. Subsequently, those who came to see the healer were the no-hopers ditched by their medical practitioners. Most of them had run the gauntlet of specialists and medical experts only to be cast aside without repair. Their plight was a sad reflection of the insufficiency of modern medicine with regard to their ailments. Every month, newspapers printed articles about the advancement of medical care with the new technology to hand and the wonderful cures stemming from research and they claimed that most illnesses would be cured in the next fifty years. That was of little use to a person needing urgent help at the present time, By the time such research came to fruition, all the people attending Warrior’s home would be dead. His front room was filled with patients, many of them having to stand because there was insufficient room to accommodate them all. Everyone one of them clinging to life by their fingernails in the hope that he would be able to cure them. And who could blame them? In the absence of medical assistance, faith healing was their only hope and they huddled together in the tiny room hoping that the healer could cure them. He was the only life-line left to them and they came to him as a last resort. For all they knew, he may have been a charlatan but, in their desperation, they wee willing to try anything.

They waited for some time until he appeared from the bedroom. He looked exactly what they expected to see of a faith healer... a man with straggly hair, unshaven, and wearing dull unkempt clothing. He stared at them solemnly and called out for his first patient. A woman brought forward her young son who had fair hair and blue eyes. She brought him over to the couch and helped him on to it. The eyes of all the other waiting patiently were directed towards him to watch him in practice. This was no ordinary doctor’s surgery where people waited reading out-of-date magazines. This was a crowded room where everyone could see the healer at work. In their hearts, they prayed for him to be successful for if Warrior could heal one of them he might be able to cure them all.

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