Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-28
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

discussed. Reader now interjects it
 Into the discussion as new subject.
 Seeker does not take the ground that
 miracle working was bestowed on the
 early church as a gift" If Reader
 takes the ground that the great works
 of the Master were miracles, perform
 ed by the suspension of Natural Law
 then Seeker does not agree with him.
 The old teaching concerning mira , cles-that they were performed through a suspension of some natural
 law-has passed, and the new scientific teaching is that what were called
 miracles are works done under exact
 Law
 God is unchangeable and Is no re-
 specter of persons. If He bestows gifts at one time and not at another
 and upon one person and not on an-
 other, He changes and is a respecter of persons.
 The wonderful works that Jesus did
 were performed through His under
 standing of a higher law, which men had not yet learned. He said My
 Father worketh hitherto, and 1 work God works always through Law and
 Jesus did His works according to Law which He understood clearly.
 A few years ago it was a settled
 conviction in mems minds that man
 could not navigate the air in a ma
 chine or vessel heavier than air-that
 it would be impossible on account of
 the law of gravitation. Today men are
 navigating the air in machines heavier
 than the air, and the law of gravita-
 tion has not been suspended A new
 law has been discovered, higher than
 the law of gravitation. but not sus-
 pending the law of gravitation, nor in
 terfering with 1t.
 What Reader calls. the gift of mira Gle working" is a power inherent in
 man, but latent, and not used because n 1cnnronan !,
 know nor understand the Law.
 Jesus Christ did not exercise this
 wonderful power for blessing man to convince the world of His Messiahship but because "He had compassion on the people, Surely His wonderful works did bring conviction to the peo-
 pie and convince them of His Divine origin, but they did not convince the Scribes and Pharisees-the Leaders. It was that class who said that He casts out devils by Beelzebub the prince of devils and not the people. The pass age in Matthew quoted by Reader is conclusive on this point:
 Then was brought unto Him one possessed with the devil. blind and dumb. and He healed him. insomuch 1 that the blind and dumb both spalze and saw, and ALL THE PEOPLE were of David?' But when the Pharisees heard it they said This fellow does not cast out devils. but by Beelzebub the prince of devils"
 It is true that Faith Is required for the doing of these wonderful works, but not aways in the person to be healed, but there must be Faith either in the person to be healed or in those who bring the person to Jesus Christ as in this instance, and also in the in- stance of the Centurion, for it was the Centurions faith that caused Jesus to heal his servant, and it was the Faith of the father at the foot of the Mount of Transfguration that caused Jesus to heal his son. when the Apostles could not do it. Faith must be exer- cised either by the person to be heal ed, or by him who brings the person to the Master.
 It was the crowd-the peopIe-who followed Jesus, and who received His help, while the Pharisees and Scribes the leaders and teachers-rejecte Him.
 If Jesus came today the people would follow Him, as they did when He was 1 upon earth.
 SEEKER AFTER TRUTH Norwich. Jan. 27, 1914.
 LETTER TO EDITOR