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We should have preferred to be silent on this delicate subject, but for the fact that some men whom the Church can ill spare have been advised officially not to apply for ordination, on account of their views about this miracle. Fortunately, the practice of demanding more specific declarations than the law requires has not been adopted in most dioceses.
So the good-natured steward let the lads have their way, much wondering in his soul, no doubt, why they should take as much trouble to avoid good living as most youths would have taken to get it. III. The success of the experiment comes next. We do not need to suppose a miracle as either wrought or suggested by the narrative.
The disciples' agency is pressed into the service. Each man separately receives his portion, and when all are supplied, the fragments are carefully preserved for the use of those who had been fed by miracle, and of Him who had fed them!
Still, it was by a miracle that he continued his defence, and at any moment, any accident, the least slip of foot or error of hand, his life would be a forfeit. "Hold ye well, sir! Here is help!" cried Richard; and forgetting that he was alone, and that the cry was somewhat irregular, "To the Arrow! to the Arrow!" he shouted, as he fell upon the rear of the assailants.
The repetition of the miracle by the same means, and the invocation of the Lord as the 'God of Elijah, a new name, to be set by the side of 'the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob' express the humility which seeks to shelter itself behind the example of its mighty predecessor.
After the miracle was over, it would have been necessary to restore all things in those very bodies concerned to the state they would have reached without the miracle: whereafter all would have returned to its original course. Thus this miracle demanded more than at first appears.
"The irons must not be allowed to cool off." "What a jig will not the cub dance on that row of burning irons, if he was in the plot with the other thief to steal your dish!" "And yet what a wondrous miracle is about to be accomplished if the cook is really innocent!" remarked another leude with impatient curiosity. "To walk over red-hot plow-shares without burning one's feet!
No more need of crutches for you, but there's no miracle in the case." Judith Marsh turned to him. She had not spoken a word since her question concerning Salome's crutch. Now she said passionately: "It WAS a miracle. God has worked it to prove His existence for me, and I accept the proof." The old doctor shrugged his shoulders again. Being a wise man, he knew when to hold his tongue.
"Now, tell us what have you been doing, ever since. And by what miracle have you returned, safe and sound?" "It is a long story, uncle. A very long story. But before I begin it, I may tell you that, though the ship and its venture were lost, I myself have returned by no means penniless; and can, indeed, repay to the full all the money expended upon the Swan and her outfit.
And so I say, Christianity with a dead Christ, and a Church gathered round a grave from which the stone has not been rolled away, is more unbelievable than the miracle, for it is an absurdity. Then there is another thing that I would say in a word. Let me put an illustration to explain what I mean.
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