The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-05-14

hush its frenzy, and the winds to quit |
their believing. He broke geological |
laws when He made the devils possess
the swine of Gadara. He broke the lawot
economies when he made enough bread |
for Ave tbopsana neonle out Of
Ave biscuits that would not orr
dinar,lv have been enough for ,en
Of the hungry. He broke intellectual
law when nv word. He silenced
a maniac into placidity. He broke
physiological law when. by a touch, He
straightened a woman who, for eighteen
wears. had been bent almost double. and
when He nut spring into the foot Of the
inhumated Lazarus and when, without
medicine. He gave the diving girl back
In health To the Svro-Phnnician mother.
and when He made the palatial home
Of the nobleman resound again with the
laughter of his restored boy, and when,
without knife or battery, He set catar-
acted ewes to seeing again, and the
drum of the ears to vibrating again, and
the nerves of paralyzed arms to thrilling
again. and then when in leaving the
earth He defled all atmospheric law and
pbvsiolopical law, and that law which
has in 1t withes and cables and girdles
enough to hold the universe, the law Of
gravitation. .ir
The Christ who proved Himself on 30
many occasions, and especially the last
superior to law, still lives; and every
day, in answer to prayer for the good OF
the world, He is overriding the law.
Blessed be God that We are not the sub
jects OF blind fatality, but OF a sympa-
thizing divinity. Have you never seen
a typhoid fever break, or storm sud
denly quiet, or ship a-beam's-end right
itself, or fog lift, or a parched sky
break in showers, or perplexity disen-
tangled, or the inconsolable take solace,
or the wayward reform at the call OF
prayer. have seen 1t; multitudes have
seen it. You have, II you have been
willing to see it. Deride not the faith
cure. Because imposters attempt 1t,
is nothing against go men whom
God hath honored with marvellous restor-
ations. Pronounce nothing impossible
10 prayer and trust. Because you and /
can not effect it, is no reason why others
may not. BY the same argument could
prove that Raphael never painted Ma
donna, and that Mendelssohn never
wrote an oratorio, and that Phiddis
never chiseled statue. Because we
can not accomplish it ourselves, we are
not to conclude that others may not.
There are in immensity great ranges OF
mists which have proved, under closer
telescope scrutiny, TO be the storehouse
of worlds, and do not know but
from that passage in James, which tc
some Of us Is yet misty and dim, there
may roll out new heaven and new
earth, "The prayer Of faith shall save
the sick. The faith-curists may, in thii
war against disease, be only skirmish
ing before general engagement IL
which all the maladies Of esrtl
shall be routed. Surely, allopath,
and homeopathy and hydropathl
and eclecticism need reinforcement from
somewhere. Why not from the faitl
and PRAYER of the consecrated Tn,
mightiest school Of medicine may ye
be the school Of Christ. do not know
hut that diseases, now by all school
pronounced incurable, may give wa,
under gospel bombardment. 1 do no
know but the day may come when faitl
and PRAYER shall raise the dead. straus
and woolston and Spinoza and Hum
and Schleiermacher rejected the mira
cles OF the far past. I do not propose to b
like them. and reject the miracles Q
the far future. This know, the Chris
OF Ascension Day is mightier than an
natural laws, for on the day Of which
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