The Carbon County news., 1928-03-01
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BY DR.. ARTHUR L. FORSTER
Copyright 1927, Bonnet Brown Corp.)
MODERN MIRACLES

MODERN M1RACLES
The intelligence of a community is
reflected in its sanitary state. A
high death rate from preventable dis
eases is not sign of faith but a
mark of ignorance. God helps those
who help themselves
We are given the means of prevent
ing and curing disease and failure to
employ them is an evidence not of
piety but of laziness. Providence does
not like to be brow-beaten into doing
things for people too lazy to do them
for themselves.
The laws of nature were not for
mulated to be set aside at the behest
of every laggard. To do so would be
to put premium on Incidence, which
is really intolerable to nature. So
much so that she disposes of anything
that is no longer useful.
Scripture says that Providence has
counted the hair on your head and
knows when even a sparrow falls"
Some people take this to mean that
they can violate every law of nature
and Providence will protect them
which is the lazy mans device for
shifting the burden on someone else.
This type will be found just as ac-
lively engaged in shirking all other
responsibilities
Miracles Happening Every Day
Some people have habit of saying
''the age of miracles has passed"
They don't know what they are talk
ing about. The inspiration put into
the mind of every man that led to a
means of preventing the death of a
million children from diphtheria is as
much miracle as telling one man,
sThy son liveth!"
We do things-thousand of them
today, that would have been re-
garded as miracles in Judea, and
witchrraft in Salem. They are simp-
ly the intelligent use of the means at
hand.
Could someone who lived few hun
dred years ago return to the earth
and witness a surgical operation in
volving the anaesthetizing of the pa
tient, opening the abdomen and expos
ing it's contents, removing certain dis
eased parts, followed by closure of
the incision, he would doubtless con-
slider the surgeon as some sort of SUI
pernatural being performing mira
, Gle. In the latter half of his opinion
he would be more or less correct-it
: is a miracle to equip the mind of man
with the wisdom necessary to the per-
7 formance of such an operation.
Miracles Imply Activity
Miracles are happening all about us
Perhaps it is because they are more
'common than formerly that they are
not recognized as such. The miracle
is not in the thing done, but in the
fact that we are able to do it. Mira
cles, however, imply activity, not in
action They are cause, not an eff
feet. They didn't just happen.
To sit idly and expect to be taken
! care of by Providence is presumption
not righteousness. No one has g
: right to such consideration. Reward
I is founded on merit, and merit car
only be won by deeds.
= Nature provides only the gooc
< things we enjoy. The evils man made
himself. Our life is what we or those
= before us and around us make it.
In every phase of human uplife anc
I betterment, the advances made were
= the work. not of the mass of human
ity but of a few individuals. That
out of the mass there could emerge
one possessing more genius, more
i, courage, more initiative than the COM
bined millions of the mass-that is q
/, miracle!