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For Christians, the servant spoken of by Isaiah is identified with Jesus who was manifested as such at his baptism.
When I was in seminary, the late Dr. Thomas Dooley was often mentioned in my Christian Ethics class. Dooley's third book, The Night They Burned the Mountain, concerns his work in Laos with the Vietnamese. You may remember how Dooley dedicated himself to bringing healing to the diseased in that land, how he developed cancer, was operated on, and went back to Laos to pour out the rest of his life in unselfish service.
Why did Dooley act this way?
He explained his own behavior this way: "This kind of medicine is my salvation, my hold on life; it is my means of expression ... I must treat patients with my own hands, reach out and give personal help every day. I feel that I must go out of my way to do it and do it with tenderness."
Tom Dooley was a servant in the same tradition as Jesus.
We are servants, too, when we "reach out our hands and give personal help every day" It is a part of the faith into which we were baptized.
-- Randolph
For Christians, the servant spoken of by Isaiah is identified with Jesus who was manifested as such at his baptism.
When I was in seminary, the late Dr. Thomas Dooley was often mentioned in my Christian Ethics class. Dooley's third book, The Night They Burned the Mountain, concerns his work in Laos with the Vietnamese. You may remember how Dooley dedicated himself to bringing healing to the diseased in that land, how he developed cancer, was operated on, and went back to Laos to pour out the rest of his life in unselfish service.
Why did Dooley act this way?
He explained his own behavior this way: "This kind of medicine is my salvation, my hold on life; it is my means of expression ... I must treat patients with my own hands, reach out and give personal help every day. I feel that I must go out of my way to do it and do it with tenderness."
Tom Dooley was a servant in the same tradition as Jesus.
We are servants, too, when we "reach out our hands and give personal help every day" It is a part of the faith into which we were baptized.
-- Randolph
