El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-14

believesh on me, the works shat do
shall he do also; and greater works
than these shall he do, because 1 go
unto my Father. ''And whatsoever We
shall ask in my name that will I do,
that the Father may be glori6ed in the
Son.
Following this promise, we find the
early disciples healing the sick, cast
ing out devils, and raising the dead;
when there was any real necessity for
it; when by it the Father might be
glorified. Why do not men perform
these miracles today? Either because
it is unnecessary. or because in the end
God would not be glorified. Jesus
never performed an unnecessary mir
acle nor one that would not bring hon.
or to the Father. He often refused to
work miracles. But after all do we
not still receive of this divine power?
In the case of healing disease through
the treatment of skilled physicians,
back OF the whole treatment and in the
healing itself is there not a power that
is divine? And will not God be honor
ed more by using one of his creatures
and bringing out who by dint Of in
dustry shall bring out the hidden pow
ers of nature and discovering the in
tricate workings of the human system,
apply these to each other and bring
about in a natural way the healing,
than by working direct cure and
lesveiug these powers undiscovered?
Let the manifesto ton of divine pow
err through natural ways be substituted
by q miraculous anifestatiOn, and
soon the counterfeit of the real would
De so great that dishonor rather than
honor would come to the Fathers
name on earth. God honors human in
dustry; the powers of natures ingre-
dents, as we'll as the prayers of his
people. And the cures he works
through these are none the less mani
festatiOns of divine pOwer;sO that today
through natural means there are
thou sands of cures wrought to one in
the days of Christ.
But the greatest miracle that Divi-
nifty has ever wrought is the genera
ton, regeneration and salvation of a
soul. INTO the hands of his followers
has he given the use of this power.
Working through them to save the
soul just as through them he saves the
body. Here especially is this divine
power manifest through his followers
even above that of his own life; in that
thousands d. are .uas saved re- tho 'S dasy
of Christ. Another feature OF
Christ's divinity was knowledge. And
here to of his fulness have we re-
ceived. First in che revealed teach
ings Of Jesus. The Gospels bear in
their very conception the stamp of d.
vinity. Whether Shakespeare wrote
Shakespeare or not it has long since
been conceded by the worlds scholars
that no one save the Divine One could
have given utterance to the truths Of
the Gospels in full. Again, we have
had the eyes of our spiritual under
standing opened that we might under
stand these teachings. This is divine
knowledge. Especially in this true Of
the Consciousness within that bears
witness that we are the children Of
God.
Seeing then that we are psrtekers
of this divine nature, of his divine
power and of his divine knowledge;
what manner of men ought we to be;
how the world should be blessed with
our living in it; how heaven should be
filled with our efforts: and how the
triune Divinity will be pleased with
our efforts, If we do our best. if we do
our best.