The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-05-23

shnckle the Almigh
ira' Inv when, ono
few words, He turned full-laaved fig tree
into a lifeless stick He broke ichthyological
law when, without any nntural inIucement,
He swung IL great school of fish into a part
OF Luke 1iberins. where the fishermen had
cast their nets for = or 10 hours without the
capture OF a minnow; and by making a fish
help pay tho tax by yielding from its mouth
storms by compellng, Will, IL word. the an-
g'rcd sen to hush it's frenzy, and the winds
to quit their believing. lilo broke geological
Inv when He made tho devil possess the
swine OF l;adara He broke tho law Of econ.
omirs when He made bread enough for five
Thousand people, out of five biscuts that
would not ordinarily have been enough
for ten OF the hungry. He broke
intellectual law when, by word. He silcnced
Il mai,iar into placitlity. Iie hroko plysio-
logical law when. hy II touch, lIc straighten.
cd II woman who. for 1S years, llud been bent
Utmost double. and when lie put spring into
the foot of inlnimateh Lazarus, and when.
without medicine. lIe gnvo the diving Girl
back in health to the Syro-P Ph,rncian moth.
er. and when he made the palatiaI home o!
nobiemnn rcsnInd agnin with the laughter of
his restored boy. and when, without knife or
battery, He set cntarnctel eyes to seeing
again, and tlr drum of deaf ears to vibrating
thrilling again. and then when. leaving he
earth. lie deiiel all atmospheric law and
physiological law. and that which has In it
witl,cs aud cables and ;sir,icrs enough tohold
the universe. the law oi grnvitntioli.
Tho Christ who proved Himself on NO many
occasions, nnd especially tho last, superior to
law, still lives; and every dny. in answer to
prayer for I he good of the world. He is over.
riding the law. Blessed he God that We are
not the subjects ofblipL fatnlty, but ola SYM
pnthizing divinity Have you never seen a
typhoid fever break. or u storm suddenly
quiet. or n ship nhenm's end right it.
sell, or a fog lift, or II parrhed
ity discntanglc,l. or the inconsolnl,le take
solnrc, or the waywnr rc'urm ut the call OF
prayer? have seen il: multitulcs have seen
IL. You have, il Won have been willing o sec
II. Dcr,i" not Tia" !niih-rmre Because i'm.
post"rs attempt it. is nothing atsainst good
men whom God hath h0nored with marvel.
ons rcstorations. Pronounce nothing i'm.
and ! cannot effect it. is no reason why
Others may not BY the same nrg,i-
ment could prove thai Raphael never pnint.
ell u Madonnn. and that Mendcssohn never
wrote nn orntoro. and that Phidias never
chiseel statue. Because We cannot az.
cnmpsh it ourselves. we are not to conclude
that Others mny not There are in imine,-
sity great ranges of mists which hnveprove,l,
under closer triescopic scrutiny, to he the
storchnnsr OF worlds, and do not know but
from that pnssnge in james, which TO some
/" us is yet misty aud dim, there may roll
out n new heaven aud IL new earth. THE
PRAYER ol fai,l, stnll save the sick" The
fnith rurists mny, in this war agnnst dis.
ease. be only diminishing be ore u general
engagement, in which all the mulu,iies Of
cnrtll shall be routed. Surely. allopnthy
and homeopathy mud hydropatlly nni clec-
tricism need reinforcement from somewhere.
Why not from tile faith and prayer O. the
consecrntrd? The mgh,iest school of me,li.
cine mny yet he the school of Christ. !
do not know hut that diseases, now by
all schools pronounced incmrable, may
give way under gospel bombnrlment.
do not know but that the day may come
when fnith md prayer shall raise the dead.
Strauss nad Woolston and Spnozn aud
Hume and Schlciermucllcr rejected the mir
nrlts of tho far nast. I do not propose to be
like them. and reject the miracles of the far
future. This know. the Christ of Ascension
day il lnighicr than any natural nws, for
on the day of which speak Iie irnmple,l
down the strongest of them nil. Law is
mighty. hut lie who made it liz mightier.
Rrive out fntlisn from your theology. and
give grace the throne.