| matter on what this | sentiment im- | pinges, |

be | held; | ▼ and | nothing will be | long | held

it will that is

of the es- | sential

CREDIBILITY OF MIRACLES.

If there is a sound | principle of | thought and in- | quiry,

it to be ac- counted an inter- | ruption of the | laws of | nature; || but we are to take it for granted

that

it is to be re- | ferred to | some | law of | which we | have as | yet no knowledge. This is the principle|which is ob- | served by | all in- | quirers in the | fields of science. They do not re- | ject | new | facts because they are | new, nor do they pro- | nounce them | vio- | lations of the | laws of nature be- | cause they | contra- | dict their ex- | perience. It is the | | mark of an un- | cultivated | mind, || that it re- | jects | all facts, no matter | how well au- |thenticated,

which |

| do not ac- cord with its | own ex- | perience. A true philosophy | teaches us to ex- pect | new and un- | precedented | facts in | this | great | universe, circle of man's | knowledge is so small;

where the ¦

and the

history of science is con- tinually | bringing us ac- | quainted with new | facts. || What | new | glimpses are | men ob- | taining of the | wondrous re- | lations of | mind to mind, and of mind to | matter! 1911 say, | therefore, that we are bound to come to the | examination of the wonders of the | life of Jesus, with no pre-sumption a- | gainst thema- | rising | out of their novelty. Our sole | business is to ascer- | | | tain the | facts, and we must en- | deavor to see | whether they are in | harmony with the character of | Christ. 1771771

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The Gospels, it is | evident, | repre- | sent | Christ as pos- sessed | naturally of a | wonder-working | power. | All that we have to de- | termine | is, || Did he | exercise this power in | harmony with | all his | own and | all the other powers of | nature? | Was the | action of this power | marked by the | style, | genius, | spirit ||of| nature and of God? | But my | meaning will be | || best shown by an ex- | ample. |11|77| Take the | incident of the cure of the withered | hand. Just

con- | sider the | case.

|| Jesus | went into a | synagogue, a Jewish place of worship-a | Jewish | church. The people crowded to | see and hear him.

| Jesus | bade him | stand | forth.

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There was a man | present | who had a | withered | hand. | ។។ were present, also, some of the higher class of the | Jews, indi- | viduals who | under- | took to | guide and | rule in matters of re- | ligion. They were | jealous of the power and popularity of this young Naza- |

rene; and so | blinded and de- | praved | were they, | that they watched | Jesus to | see | if he would per- | form a cure on the Sabbath, and thus | violate the | sanctity of the day. 1771771

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To these indi- | viduals, | who, | no doubt, | occupied |

a con- spicuous | place in the synagogue,

turned and said,
| |

Jesus |

"Is it | lawful to | do well or to |

do | ill on the Sabbath | day, to save | life or to | kill?”

។ ។

| Mark what a | cutting | force there | was in | this | question. It is as if he had said, "Which is violating the Sabbath, | you or | I?|99|77|I who | | seek to do an act of | mercy, | or | you who are | cherishing an evil | purpose? I who would | save life, or | | | you who would kill me?" They made | no | | How could they? And then, | | when Jesus had | looked upon them with | indig- | nation, | being grieved for the | hardness of their | hearts, |he| "Stretch | forth thine | hand." | And he | stretched it | forth, and it was

re-ply.

said to the man,

។ |

made whole, as the other. 1777 And how

|

could he help | stretching it out?

your- self in the | place of | that | man. | Im- | agine your- self standing in | so com- | manding a | presence, with a gazing, ex- | cited | crowd a- | round you; | and the rich and | honorable and | great | quailing be- | fore the eye and silenced by the | words of the young | peasant of Nazareth, and you will see how the | inmost | springs of your life | must have been | stirred, and how you | would have been | prompted to put forth | new and

shows him to us | in a character- | istic and com- |mand

ing attitude. It is not the physical ef- | fect which he

| wrought upon the | man's | limb

wonder,

but it is his own im

that ex- | cites my |

perial and | god-like |

This it is that re- | veals to me the Di- |

that was in | Jesus. 7971991 |that |

COST OF WAR.

W. H. FURNESS.

HERE figures ap

pear to lose their | functions.

They seem to | pant

sent the enormous

paralleled | waste.

as they | toil | vainly to | repre- | sums con- | sumed in this un- |

Our own ex- | perience, | mea

| does

sured by the con- | cerns of common | life, |

these | sums.

not allow us | adequately to con- | ceive

Like the | periods of | geo- | logical | time,

the distances of the | fixed | stars,

imagi- nation. Look, for | | |

of this system to the U-| nited

| out making any al- lowances

by the withdrawal of | active | men from pro- | ductive |

industry, we find that | from the adoption of the Federal consti- | tution | down to | eighteen | hundred and | forty-eight, there has been | paid di- | rectly from the national treasury for the army and fortifi| | |

cations | two | hundred and sixty-six | millions | seven | hundred and thirteen | thousand two hundred and | nine | dollars. || for the | navy | operations, two | hundred and nine hundred and ninety- | four

។

and | its

nine

millions

thousand

six

hundred and eighty- | seven | dollars.

|

This

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Regarding the mi- | litia |◄

a- | mount, of it- | self, is im- | mense. But | |

this is not all.

as part of the war | system, we must | add a | moderate estimate for its cost | during this period, ◄| which, ac- | cording to a | calcu- | lation of an | able

and | accurate e- |conomist, million | five

hundred | thousand | dollars. pre-sents an incon- | ceivable | sum | total

The | whole

of more than

| two thousand millions of dollars, which have | been |

dedicated by our | government

the | war | system; |

much as was set a- | part by the government | during the

| | | same period to all | other | purposes whatso- |

ever. 177177 পা

Look now at the | common- | wealth of | Euro- | pean | states. I do not in- | tend to speak of the | war

debt under whose ac- | cumulated | states are now | pressed to the | earth. | the terrible | legacy of the past.

weight | these |

| These are I re- | fer