band should be afflicted so. He is so brave and he is so well liked by the king. But above all he is my husband. I cannot stand it.” She put her head in her hands and wept convulsively. Miriam was overwhelmed with pity. Her words of comfort seemed so inade quate. Then suddenly she remem bered! Why, down there in Sa maria lived that great prophet Eli sha! Her parents had told her so much about the wonderful things he could do. Nothing was impos sible to that man of God. “ I know someone who can heal Captain Naaman of his leprosy. If he could only get to this prophet in Samaria,” Miriam exclaimed. But her mistress seemed not to hear her. Finally she said, “Mir iam, others have told us of this cure and that and of this and that physi cian in a far country who works wonders but we don’t think anyone can help Naaman now.” “ But this prophet Elisha is a friend of God’s. It is God that really does the wonderful works but He uses Elisha to bring people into touch with the Lord.” Miriam told her mistress of the many great things she had heard l that Elisha had done. There must I have been something about the way \ she spoke about this servant of God k that impressed the Captain’s wife because she immediately had her husband notified about this prophet with the result that he and several servants started off to Samaria the next day. Days went by while Captain Naaman journeyed down to Eli sha’s home. He was so desperate that he did not hesitate to test the truthfulness of what he was told about this man of God. “ If the maid is wrong,” he said to his wife before starting off, “ I shall conclude she is too unreliable to be your attendant. I will sell her and get you another girl. But I hope she isn’t wrong, of course. I will not be able to lead any more war expeditions if I am not cured. I have come to the end of myself. This horrible disease has taken away all the joys that would be ours in our position.” Finally, one day as Captain Naa- man’s wife and her maid were out in the garden they saw several chariots coming over the crest of
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