Transfusion Science in its highest discoveries is perpetually stumbling on Scripture analogies. Feeling after the secrets of nature, we are startled to find that, though all unconscious of it itself, it has grasped some secret of the gospel, which we can now use to translate and interpret the deep things of grace. When a patient's blood has become so impoverished that his case is hopeless, they will open the veins of a healthy body and pour into his circulation some of this strong, rich blood. We may thank science for such a sermon preached by the surgeon's art. Through Christ's heart the healing tide has been pouring into our race to recover it from its mortal sickness.
Regeneration is simply the pulse-beat of the eternal life throbbing in human hearts.
Redemption, which began in the shedding of Christ's blood on the cross, is carried on from age to age by the communication of His life to men through the renewing of the Holy Ghost. Of course the illustration is inadequate, as every such an analogy must be. Therefore culture, as a substitute for religion, instead of its supplement, is a mockery. There must be the seed brought from the granary and cast into the soil, before a harvest is possible. He does not set us to training or pruning ourselves.