The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-19
THE TEST THAT TELLS
You Can Get All the Convinc-
ing Proof You Want by
Reading Honolulu Papers.

When the reader wants any article OF
value he naturally prefers to deal with
some one he can depend upon.
Ii mixed up in any law suit, a good
responsible lawyer is generally the first
necessity sought
II lost on prairie. directions from
a settler could be relied upon; those
| from stranger would be doubted
The test that tells the tale of merit
- the test of friends and neighbors.
Honolulu people endorse Doan's Back
ache Kidney Pills.
/ Can you ask for better evidence?
| Read this case:
Mr.. James c. Stevens. OF this city. in
forms us: 81 was troubled with an
ache in the small OF my back for a long
| time, and such was the condition OF
things until l tried some of Doan's
Backache Kidney Pills. which I OBJ
tanned at the HOLSTER Drug Co.'S store.
A snort treatment gave me the desired
relief. and l am satisfied that they are
good remedy for backache and de-
serve to be recommended"
| Mr.. Stevens is one of our own citi-
zens. Is not such testimony stronger
| than that of someone living in the
| States?
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are
sold by all chemists and store keepers
at Do cents per box, six boxes 81. so. or
| VIII be mailed on receipt of price by
the Hollfster Drug Co., Honolulu.
wholesale agents for the Hawaiian
Islands.
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| counteracting the power of heat to con-
| sumo. That would be an added force,
not subversion of exciting force The
unaided body can do much in resisting
heat and cold. The Divine power only
needs to intensity existing forces. not
to subvert any law of matter.
Another illustration may be taken
from the miracle of the loaves and
fishes. In the miraculous multiplication
of the food, strangely growing in guam
tity while being distributed, no subver-
sion or violation of existing laws is i'm
piled. 1t is only that new forces are
temporarily supplied TO gather from
earth and air the needed material sub
stances and combine them into the
newly formed food. A similar combina-
ton is effected by natural law in the
ordinary growing of grain or of flesh.
In the miracle corresponding growth
was produced by the Divine power
emanating from the Christ of God. No
law was subverted. Fresh force was
superadded.
1t seems entirely in accord with rea-
son to attribute to the Creator and
Giver of Life all extraordinary power
that may be required to accomplish any
one of the miracles on record without
in the least violating or subverting any
one of the established laws of material
nature. Healing the sick, raising the
dead, restoring MANNED limbs, need be
only reinforcing or adding to natural
processes. Is it not therefore COM
petent for US entirely to dispense with |
any definition of miracle as a Viola
ton or subversion of natural Iaw?"
May we not understand a miracle to |
be merely the interposition of divine |
power to produce effects not attainabie |
by mere natural law, or the ordinary
operation of physical forces?
In suggesting this limitation in our
definition of the miracle, it is not in
tended to call in question the power Of
the Creator to suspend or change the |
laws which He has ordained for the
ongoing of the worlds. But there is in
our minds natural reluctance to at
tribute to Him that sort of mutability,
when it seems unnecessary
for the manifestation of His personal
presence and power. What is known
as the 'Iaw of parsimony'' seems 20
invite us to avoid so violent a hypo-
thesis as the subversion or suspension
OF natural law.
In the most important and emphatic
sense, such exercise of peculiar super
natural power in miracles seems to APP
attend the presence and
activity of a divine being.
Such a Being as was The Christ dur
ing His Messianic activity, moved
among men, flooded and surcharged, as
it were, with divine power. 1t was
power both spiritual ard physical
Such power poured forth from Him.
He was a fountain of divine forces.
Wherever He went He radiated spirit
1al force to turn dying hearts to God
and heavenly life, and He emanated
healing forces, and forces
matter. He laid the storm
n winds and waves to rest. He mar
shalled the organic forces of matter in
20 food. He cowed and stilled the
'renzy of wild demons. All these won
1erful powers were appropriate mani
estations of God manifest in the flesh.
And in like manner, whenever Jeho- ,
yah the Living God of the Old Tesla
nent manifested Himself among men,
displays of supernatural power seem :
o have been wholly appropriate and
natural. The burning bush, the fiery
,illar, the rocking, flaming Sinai, the 7
laily mamma, all were natural mani
eStationS of the divine presence
ehovah God was visiting His people.
a divine revelation unattended by ,
miraculous manifestations of supernat-
ral power would seem to be unnat-
raj and unsuitable. Where God re-
eals himself the mighty manifesto
ions of His personal presence must be Z
he appropriate and the expected. Our I
ivine religion emanating directly from 4
he real, personal, almighty God, is b
therefore necessarily a revelation at -
ended by miracles. They are not 7
lerely signs of the divine presence, but
1OntaneOuS and insepara bly attendant |.