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earth had never heard I
proposed since, and has
In the first miracle in
member of tlie human
and touched the leper,
clean." Note the sign
thou tell no man; but gi
offer the gift that Mos
unto them." What a sij
was surely among them
the rulers of the people
to receive Him.
Look again at the boi
ihe servant of God. as s
"The beginning of the
ot God.'' Here we hav
hired servant, but the it
son rendered in grace,
res; all is action. Thei
eleven which does not r
The first miracle her<
'Cod, gravitating into a
which professes to be r<
The miracles became
lessness of those who 1
eous is laid bare. This
man with the withere
'where the hardness of
religious Pharisees mak
1 v Herodians, that they
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godless nun. are the for
(Mark 8:i8).
The last two miracles
way up to Jesrusalem Je
maeus. wlio cries after
have mercy on me."
\\ hat a picture for tl
them the Son of God i
willing to cure their blii
cle of the tig tree (chap
fession only.
Then, as the dignity o
proaches that highest a
perfect service, faithful
falls over the Gospel, ;
there are no more mirac
cle, which thus stands
and His resurrection.
In John's Gospel the
clusively (seventeen tin
and indication of the ne;
In this word the ethical
comes out the most p
least."
In John's Gospel Chri
out. We might perhap
the Gospel of the Kii
Service (Mark), and
ity (Luke), but nev<
and that is the reason 5
authenticity of the foui
The miracle of the ci
eight years in His infiri
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cfore, has never heard seriously
never attempted to follow.
Matthew, Christ touched every
race as lie put forth His hand
saying, "I will; be thou made
iticance of the command, "See
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u sihjw myacii iu uie pnesi, anu
es commanded, for a testimony
*11 ! A leper cleansed ! The King
, duly presenting Himself first to
who ought to have been ready
:>k of Mark, the gospel of Christ
innounced in chapter i, verse i :
gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son
e not the measured service of a
nmeasurable, loving service of a
Here also we plunge in medias
re is not a chapter from one to
'ecord r?nr? nr mnrp miracloc
; is a type of the world without
mire of uncleanliness; even that
eligion is defiled.
touchstones whereby the godlad
before appeared most rightis
evident in the healing of the
d hand, in the third chapter,
their hearts is revealed and the
e common cause with the world
may compass His destruction,
ils, self-righteous formalists and
ces Jesus had to contend against
i are strikingly typical. On His
sus cures the blindness of Bartiu;
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mil, J U1 i-'ilVlU,
lie nation, all blind, and among
>vhom they knew not, able and
idness ! Then follows the mira.
11),?leaves, but no fruit, prof
the subject demands, Jesus apct
of fidelity of a son rendering
ness even unto death. A hush
and in the succeeding chapters
les related, until the great mirapre-eminent
alone?His death
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woro sign is usea almost exles),
as Trench says, as "a token
ar presence and working of God.
end and purpose of the miracle
rominently, as in 'wonder' the
ist's Deity is prominent through>s
deny His Deity had we only
igdom (Matt.), the Gospel of
the Gospel of His Human:r
with this Gospel in hand,
^atan so persistently attacks the
'th Gospel.
ire of the impotent man, thirtynitv,
at the pool of Bethesda on
SI OF THE SOUTH.
the Sabbath clay, brought on
Sonship and equality with Go
marvelous discourse touchin
Deity, among which He cites
I 1 in mincln in tlin civfVi r- 1
five thousand near Passover
plainly told the people that a
among them. The miracle of
been taken by Christians as t
heaven and feeding His peop
supersubstantial bread.
The healing of the man bor
that the power of God is wit
the humblest may come to H
for the body and for light of t
est among them, if they are s
Three times Jesus raised th
of Jairus. who had just died : 1
ui .\;iin, as ne was Deing carr
lastly Lazarus, dead three da)
tion. This greatest of all sij;
power and name as with a
"Lazarus, come forth." It has
sus had not mentioned Lazari
of the earth would have given
to that voice.
The climax of all miracles is
His taking captivity captive, ]
death, and His resurrection a
the great events toward whi
with majestic march; withot
gospel. The thrill that is f<
Christ emerges from the wate
the Spirit, and as lie meets on
in the wilderness, and as He
doing all His countless and n
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.w me litci mat Jie is going t
accomplish the mightiest worl
The Greatest
Why have w?e no miracles t
can not even say that there ai
if there are, they must be for
and thanks his Father for His
lie announcement. Satan ha<
miracles throughout the centi
they do not appeal to the int
do the real ones in the Gospel
Many of those who believe
miracles are, I find, wrapped"
ies. and their spiritual vision (
much above their stoma
ill, asks God to cure him, ar
have or have not been used,
the result, and is equally sun
grace he is permitted to live
Him.
I do not surely know vvhc
still to be found in China an
am prepared to believe it. I
prised if a wiser age would
cases of insanity in this way.
The greatest possible mira<
wonderful change effected in
from the service of Satan and
April 13, 1910.
it the assertion of Jesus'
d, and from this flows the
g the witnesses to His
His works .
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time up in the mountain,.
. greater than Moses was
the loaves and fishes has
he type of Christ now in
le day by day with their
11 blind teaches the nation
h them to heal, and that
[im for blessing, for light
he Spirit, while the greatelf-sufficient,
are lost,
e dead; once the daughter
then the son of the widow
led out to his burial: and
s and passed into corrupts
was done in His own
mighty voice He cried,
been well said that if Jeis
by name, all the graves
up their dead in response
; Christ's descent into hell,
His bursting the chains of
md ascension. These are
ich all the Gospels move
it them there can be no
elt at the very outset as
ra of baptism, anointed by
r great enemy as lie lasts
then moves among men
narvelous miracles, is due
o a predetermined end to
k of time or eternity.
Miracle.
oday? I do not know. I
"e none, but I believe that
the individual who turnsgrace,
but makes no pub5
been busy with bastard
iries that have passed, but
ellect and to the heart as
s.
in these modern, so-called
up in their miserable bod>ften
does not seem to get
The true Christian, when
ttl, whether visible means
he thanks his Father for
e that it is of his peculiar
and to continue to serve
'ther demon-possession is
d India and Africa, but I
should not be at all sur(li
fferrnt into monu of our
w. w...
:le to the Christian is the
the conversion of a soul'
sin to Christ. The great%