Where are the nine?

There are not found who returned to give thanks to God but this foreigner. Ten lepers are cleansed; only one returns. What happened. They showed  themselves  to the priests, and  there they found false preachers who turned  their hearts away from their Healer and Lord. One returns, against the priests' counsel, against the trend of the nine, and even against what must have been a natural desire to conform. Here is true faith. This one knows his Lord and God, and so he will worship only Him. So must we believe and do. Sermon for Trinity XIV.

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