The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-08-01

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Christ broke the law of storms by compel
ing, with word, the angered sea to hush
its frenzy, and the winds to quit tier bel
lowing He broke geological law when BE
made the devils possess the swine of Gadara
He broke the law Of economics when He
made enough bread for five thousand people I
out Of five biscuits that would not ordinarily
have been enough for ten Of the hungry.
he broke intellectual law when, by word
BE silenced maniac in plaeidity. He
5roke physiological law when by touch,
de Strengthened woman who for eighteen
years had been bent almost double and when
De put spring into the foot Of inhumated1
Lazarus and when, without medicine, He
gave the dying girl back in health TO the
Syro-Ph6nician mother, and when he made
The palatial home of the nobleman resound
igain with the laughter Of his restored boy,
and when, without knife or battery, He set
,ataracted eyes to seeing again, and the drum
IF deaf ears to vibrating again, and the
lerves Of paralyzsd arms to thrilling az ain,
and then when in leaving the earth Hedetied
all atmospheric law and physiological law,
and that law which has In it withes and
cables and girders enough 70 hold the uni
verse, the law OF grayitation.
The Christ who proved Himself on so many
occasions, and especially the last, superior to
law, still live. and every day, in answer to
prayer for the good OF the world, He is over
riding the law. Blessed be God that we are
not the subjects of blind fatality, but of a
sympathizing divinity Have you never
seen a typhoid fever break, or a storm sud
denly quiet. or a ship beam's-end right it
self, or fog lift or a parched sky break in
showers, &C a perplexity dissntanglei.
or the inconsolabls take solace, or
che waYwgrd reform at the call OF prayer
have seen it; multitudes have seen
it. You have, if you have been willing
t.,- na,- Ia nt fHfIaf uft, RraamSa
impostors attempt it is nothing against good
mer whom God hath honored with marvel
Gus restorations. Pronounce nothing impos-
sible to prayer and trust Because you and
I cannot effect it is no reason why Others
NAV not. By the same al gunent l could
prove that Raphael never painted Madon-
ma, and that Mendelssohn never wrote an or
atorio, and that Phidias never chiseled a
statue. Because we cannot accomplish 1t
ourselves, we are not to conclude that Others
may not. There are in immensely great
ranges OF mists which have proved,
under eIossr telescope scrutiny, to be
the store house OF worlds, and L do
not know but from that passage III
James which 70 s0nse e Us IS get fnifsy and
new earth: Tins pfa yer q faith s-7Fs r
tine sick" Thefalth cIuI4Is my in tbs I
xlr against disease ~ oniF sklra1ishine e
general enzas emeut. ii WHICH al e
siies of earth shall Be- rdatoz SF'elF j
thy and homeopathy and hgfiroatny
clecticism need re-enforcementfroui
here. Why not from the feb and
the consecrated9 The psht1est
sdicine may yet be thechool OF
now but that disases now
4 = pronounced lncurable
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lacher rejected
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Il the miracles
: /. + 1.-The Christ
s ~ = x i -. r. han any nat
s Fhich l speak
Est of them all
4 DO made it is
Sun from your
s. ~ +. tthrone.
- ascension peak Of
= ~ % gladdened at the
II 81 s st gesture Christ ever
= = - i His hands and blessed
Inspired account of our
i - 8 = am so glad He lifted
stures are often more sig
Rrds, attitudes than argu-
al made gesture of con-
His finger He wrote on the
repulsion when He said:
= Satan;" gesture Of con-
- = - Oe said: 'slFoe unto you,
.pocrites. But His last
- - is a gesture OF
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