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their uniqueness. Each stands by itself. A miracle may be 
represented by a point; law by a line; successive points make a 
line. Miracles indefinitely repeated crystallize into law. In 
briefest phrase, law is continuous miracle. Those, therefore, err 
who rank miracles as higher or more divine than law; for as two 
are more than one, and four more than three, and a series 
greater than any one of its terms, so law is greater and intrinsi- 
cally more wonderful than miracle. Neither admits of explana- 
tion other than the will of that First Cause which lies back of 
all. 
Il. Miracles and Evolution. 
What, it may be asked, have these to do with each other ? 
Are they not catch-words that represent the opposite poles of 
modern thought ? I ask your patience and attention, and, when 
I have done, I hope it may be clear that they do have something 
to do with each other, and that, if they represent opposite poles 
of thought, they help to weld fragmentary truths into one con- 
sistent whole. 
Christ is represented not only as a worker of miracles, but as 
the Creator, the informing spirit that produced all things which 
exist, or ever did exist. 
Those who believe this, and that includes all who regard the 
New Testament as inspired, will, I think, agree with me when 
I say we may reasonably expect to obtain from the study of His 
methods, when performing His miracles, some light as to His 
course when acting in His capacity of creator. Just as when we 
find certain peculiarities of style or dictionin one of an author’s 
books, we expect to find them to some extent, at least, in all his 
works; so, if we find some peculiarity, some way of doing things 
that runs through all His miracles, it would be reasonable to look 
for it in His mode of doing His creative work. And I think we 
are safe in saying that of two theories as to how certain things 
were done, e. g., how present animals came into the world, that 
which harmonizes best with His methods when working His 
miracles would be the most likely to be true. 
A brief study of the accounts which we have, will suffice to 
show that, in Christ’s miracles, natural means, laws, and powers 
go just as far as is possible for them, and then the supernatural 
comes in and does what they cannot do. When, for example, 
at the marriage in Cana, Christ would supply the lack of wine, 
there was the water, the jars, the servants, all in the usual way. 
He bade the servants fill the jars with water. They did that, and 
it was as far as natural means could go; then came in His power 
and added the components needed to make the water wine. This 
done, the supernatural ceased, the natural again came into opera- 
