The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-02-07
AGE OF MIRACLES
IS NOT PASSED
When We Realize What
Is Happening.
THE UNIVERSE FULL OF THEM
t UnIy I, LOok
Us and See Everyday
Occurrences.
SOME THINGS UNEXPLAINED

The other day one of the church
organizations in a neighboring State
dismissed one of its members be-
cause he said he did not believe in
miracles. But, instead OF dismiss
ing him from the congregation, the
church should have taken steps to
have him locked up in an insane
asylum or a feeble-minded insti-
tute.
That's where any man belongs
who does not believe in miracles.
The truth is, the world itself is
a miracle and the fulness thereof.
Who dares deny it? Life is a mir
acle. birth is a miracle and death is
a miracle. Deny that, If you will.
1t is a miracle when a giant oak
grows from an acorn and an apple
tree with all it's luscious fruit grows
a seed and a bloom. Can you ques-
tion the truth of that fact?
The human mind is a veritable
hot-bed of miracles, taking as it
does the most delicate of impressions
and then turning out full-fedged
thoughts and driving a powerful
frame to execution of the desires
created by the thoughts -...--------.
One trouble with such churches
as that which dismissed the unwise
gentleman from the congregation
for expressing his folly, is that it
does not know that the day of mira
cles is NOT past. 1t seems to be-
lieve that at one period of the
earth's history things we're different
from what they are now; that there
was at no time a personal God that
came down to earth and conversed
with man, as If whatever gods
there be had to come down." or as
II it were necessary to speak to
men in oral language to communi-
cate with them.
The voice of God to-day is as
loud as 1t ever was; there are as
many miracles being performed
this very minute as there were ever
performed. All prayers that ought
to be answered are answered and
no prayer that was ever prayed
right was left unanswered.
Whether Christ turned water into
wine nineteen hundred years ago.
may be debatable, but it is certain
that something, somewhere, is turn
ing water into wine this very day.
| Not only that, but that something
is turning water and dust into full
rounded grapes composed OF acids
and sugar and starches, and other
strange elements. and surely that is
as much of a miracle as turning
water into wine. If the dismissed
member of the congregation had
said that he did not believe that
man had ever performed q mir
acle, that would have been different.
OF course, he never did; miracles
are over and above man. Marconi
brings about a miracle when he sets
his mystic sparks into the ether and
has them shoot across unknown
seas, to be picked up thousands of
miles away.
But it is not Marconi that per-
forms the miracle; it is the SOME
THING, somewhere, that builds the
roses out of nothingness, and that
hardens the shell of the nut while
being kissed by the soft breeze of
summer air.
1t is this force that set the old
world in motion. that gave it a
place in the universe, that causes
It to revolve, that brings to II the
splendid rays of the sun and the
harmonizing reflections of q mourn
full moon.
II is this power that drives the
mists from the earth into the
clouds. and drops the rain to earth
again.
1t is the beginning Of the end
whatever that is-that performs the
miracles which we see about us, and |
pupy man has precious little to do
with It.
In the fulness of time, and when
1t shall please Almighty God, we
NAV understand It all; but now,
"We do not know; we hope; we
wait. - Evansville Courier.