The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-29
r,rE METHODIST MIRACLE.

TIIE METHODIST MIRACLE,
PRIMER Force and Modern Mira
cIgs"RcN. =. II, I'latt'S Reply Ia
Ills Critics.
flm,0o NrY,rs Herald Of Monday
Yesterday morning the Rev. $. H.
pltu pastor oi De Kalb Avenue Meth
mn., Episcopal Church, preached in
Warren Street Church, Brooklyn, in ex-
change with DR.. John Parker, and took
occasion indirectly to reply to the strict.
urc, oihi. brother Buckley, in the Meth
oils, ministers, meeting last Monday.
Mr.. Plat il the subject OF what is face
upu.ly called the "Ocean Grove miracle"
4 Ancnr,, Of twenty-five years was
there cured last July by the imposition
Of Ialy's hands and prayer The cure
bl, been hcraldcd far and wide, and has
elected great deal Of adverse criticism,
the most severe Of which has come from
hi.miui-tcral brethren in the Methodist
Church. Without referring especially to
any ii these, however, yesterday MIR.
Pnu based very thorough argument
in favor Of such miracles Tor cures ON
Matt, SXm2l,22, and Malll NSlvp2l: Inc
hrst texts give assurance Oi answers in all
things to believing prayer, and the Sec
ond cautions against deception by false
Chr,is anR false prophets. Ills theme
was "Praycr force ana modern miracles,
aud he put forth tins proposition ~ Il
leading onc-'s there IN the world a
PRAYER force or calI.alIly WiI'h produces
certain results when wollId not nave cX-
rird bnl Tor It's exercise lhere Is such
u loror III nature ~ untold places. Inc
experience oI the Christian begin N tins
prayer force, anu no man Is saved unit!
he prE' lnI he would not he saved did
lie 94Ipry' ihr Christian world y iuII
Of I'M prayer lGtcr' II Is thJoinea III Tue
Bible "oi lormd ina! should cease to
pray lor, YOU fray without ceaslus II
Is regarded ~ an IneslllhahIe privilege 20
pray, "ilyr, then, being evil, Nc, 1t
i,rrptr'rnicu ~ the scriptures ~ ming
oil power whatsoever 20 shall ask ~
my name, mat VIII do, %c' The Ter
vent clrr''Ial prayer 81 righteous man
lNliIrtI much Srrlpl'lrhl history Il
llII"l
hNNMrLES OF ITS POWER
a'iu the ca'c Of Moses standing between
the living and the dead; Of Elijah, who
closed heaven Tor three years and Il half
aud opened ii again by prayer; Of Ahra.
ham Whu procured exemption for SOdUn
iilcu righteous persons could hc found
there. II, then, wcbclieyc the Scriptures,
there lsa prayer IOrcc--a casualty which
produces results which would not "Si"
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!, fnr mann II ~ ,Lo Ihristiom III. wi,ii"
hrm ih;y t,rro mns, Il" With, thn;"
,",ch T%c,n Conditions ~. ,hreofotI,
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and clGr,s nomclvEfnitL nhoJi"nco nnJ
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man whn in,crccJcL fnr Lcr rLilj Sac.
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next condition "I even / am bc
that bln,,r,L ami thinc Infantry nnI fnr.
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nreyioIs Twain ro.onnro,iyc oc,ion This
impljc. a rcycIo,ion NJ CinTs viii whicL
in tho ra.c If smiri,rol hIcss;rgs NADIA
briorchonI In uo c,so oi7 inmmnr'I
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III, wifi TL;s |. Tho c,nCLcncc ,Loi wo
have in linn ,ho, II on ,gC ony,L;"n nv.
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Bit We cannot know wbot ten,norni
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