Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-10
THERE IS AN 1NFLuENcE,

unmeasured and unregulated as yet, which
the mind exerts over the body. We are
discovering that the mind can create disease;
that man by exercise Of imagination can
fall sick with the smallpox; and that the
mind, on the other hand, can in certain
cases cure disease. We are learning the
part which the attitude of expectancy plays
in the treatment of physical ills.
All this narrows the realm of miracle.
would net maintain, for example, that all Of
Christ's marvellous cures were miraculous.
would hold that they were but Gods regu-
lar way of working in the world, not His
unusual way; that they were natural, not
unnatural, not even supernatural. Set the
divine man among men; let Him in whom
earth and heaven meet walk about among us;
letus see His face and hear His voice, and feel
His hand resting upon ours; who can meas.
ure the intensity with which our trust will
lay hold upon His strength? We will look
up into His face as we lie sick
at His feet, and we will multiply By
10000 all the confidence we have ever felt
in all the wisest physicians whom we have
ever known or heard Of; and He will give
us life Just by standing beside as, Just BY
letting us look at Him. We will be we'll.
Our faith will make US whole. But it will
be only because we have taken the best kind
Of medicine, because we have availed our
selves of the greatest help which God has
given u.s. It will not be miracle. So it
was hundreds of times when He was here.
OF course He cured men-cured them Just
as the strong commander cures bis soldiers
of cowardice, by the inspiration Of His help
full presence.
Indeed, the very resurrection Of the dead;
perhaps behind that lay some wonderful
secret, which Christ knew, but which is
hidden still from US. Perhaps beside this
gate of Main God wrought no new thing,
but only set in motion some old law which
had existed from the foundation of the
world, waiting, like the great bow Of
Ulysses, for some one strong enough to
use it.
God rules forever in this world Of ours.
All that we see is but the color and motion
of His waving vesture. God is in all that
is, in the Springtime, which when they bore
this young man through the gates of Main,
was making all natural objects beautiful,
in sky and earth, in sea and sun. Let no
one think that by minimizing the miracu-
lous we are making slowly the tragic diseov.
cry that there is no God in the universe at
all. 1t used to be thought once that God
having set the earth to growing and revoly-
ing, and the stars to spinning in guarded
grooves around the circle of the sky, sat
apart upon
GREAT WHITE THRONE
som ewhere, and made His presence known,
onlyby t he sudden and arbitrary medium OF
miracles. II that were true, then the con.
tractionT of the sphere of the miraculous
which our wider knowledge is forever max.
ing, would plainly tend toward the denial
that there is God. But we do not hold to
that old doctrine. In God we live and
move, and have our being. God ia closer to
us than our own souls. All that exists, all
that happens, is the revelation Of the con-
slant, the faithful, the ever-caring and ]
never-sleeping Father of hs all.
God is law, say the wise, 0 sop,l and |
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