Article June 4, 1910 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

with contributions from R. J. Campbell, Frank Abram Powell

[Advance.]

In spite of all the seeming overthrow of order and law in the world by such an exercise of power as that which fed the multitude, we see the action of another law which not only does not produce confusion but which brings order out of confusion. We recognize the fact that the one who performs these miracles is himself the perfect type of obedience and the very incarnation of moral and spiritual law. Jesus never does anything which by the shadow of a semblance violates moral law. Therefore, inasmuch as moral law is given higher rank in the human mind than material law, the reason is not shocked by the miracles of Jesus, and belief in these miracles cannot be overthrown by the argument that they contradict reason or that they overthrow law. They do not overthrow law, but put the highest law at the top and the lowest law at the bottom. They are in the most profound harmony with the deepest conception which the human mind entertains regarding law and order in the universe, namely, that the moral should be above the material, that the spirit is greater than matter, that the eternal is more than the temporal, that health is better than sickness, that life is more than death, freedom more than slavery, and the creator greater than the creature.

[Congregationalist and Christian World.]

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