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The people could not restrain their excitement. They burst into a babble of conversation. One man cried out, "Master, we even have power over demons!" Jesus answered quickly. "You should rejoice because you know what it is to be a part of God's Kingdom not because you can do miracles!" He raised his arms to pray.
He was absolutely convinced, through his private source of information, that Henry was due to fall short of his quota by four or five thousand dollars; nothing but a miracle could save him, and Mr. Mix was a sceptic in regard to miracles. He was positive that in a brief six months Miss Starkweather would receive at least a half million; and Mr.
Hast not said to me that God has implanted a sense of good and evil in our hearts and that it is by this sense that we know him rather than through scrolls and miracles? Abide by thy own words, Jesus. Be not led away again by an impulse, and go not forth again, for it is by going forth, as thou knowest, that we fall into sin.
Our poverty is offended, and our quiet infringed on, so that our discipline becomes relaxed; thus, I command you, by your vow of obedience, to refrain from performing any more miracles." His order was obeyed. From that moment no more miracles were performed at the tomb of Brother Peter.
I never shall know how it was I shudder yet when I think how the place is given to miracles but in a single instant of time, as it seemed to me, that ship was twenty paces from the shore, and speeding away like a frightened thing! Eight crestfallen creatures stood upon the shore, and O, to think of it! this this after all that overmastering ecstacy!
In the vision before us, however, the special actions ascribed to this beast speaking, working miracles, deceiving, making an image and imparting life to it, etc., which all belong properly to the department of human life show conclusively that it is the character of this beast as an ecclesiastical power that is the chief point under consideration.
The words of the unbeliever were listened to with a kind of pity, as if he had blasphemed in an assembly of monks. One of these gentlemen exclaimed: "And yet miracles were performed in olden times." "I deny it," replied the other: "Why cannot they be performed now?"
Why, what did Christ work all His miracles upon earth for? Not solely to give us a testimony that the Father had sent Him; not solely to make us listen to His words as a Teacher sent from God; not solely as proof of His Messiahship, but besides all these purposes there was surely this other, that for once He would unveil to us the true Author of all things, and the true Foundation of all being.
So much is plain on starting; but more is plain too. Miracles are not only not unlikely, but they are positively likely; and for this simple reason, because for the most part, when God begins, He goes on. We conceive, that when He first did a miracle, He began a series; what He commenced, He continued: what has been, will be. Surely this is good and clear reasoning.
He said, "I have read of miracles in the past, but there was never a greater miracle than the change which has taken place in my heart and life. I am a new man. I can look any one in the face today!" Beside him at that communion table knelt a young gunner, "Joe," of the Royal Field Artillery.
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