Human Physiology. 



can distinctly realise God and Immortality. Noblesse oblige. 

 The son of a noble father the daughter of a pure and high- 

 souled mother should be worthy of their parents. But men 

 who derive their life from God should be God-like. The heir 

 of a great estate feels its dignity and responsibility. What, 

 then, should be the dignity of children of God and heirs of 

 immortality? It is quite impossible that men who truly believe 

 in such a relationship and such a destiny can lie and cheat, 

 defraud and oppress, destroy themselves by low vices, or 

 enslave their fellow-creatures, and produce all the evils and 

 miseries I have shown to exist in the centre of the highest 

 civilisation. When men come to have faith, all else will come 

 to them. When men truly believe in God, they will practically 

 recognise the brotherhood of humanity. When they really 

 believe in an immortal existence, earth will become the vesti- 

 bule of heaven. 



Every view of the life of man is incomplete which does not 

 include the phenomena of what we call the supernatural and 

 the miraculous. It has been a fashion with some people who 

 consider themselves educated and enlightened to deny that 

 any event ever took place which was not in accordance with 

 the laws, or usual operations, of nature. Others admit that 

 such things occurred two or three thousand years ago, but have 

 entirely ceased for some eighteen centuries. Really enlightened 

 people know that what are called supernatural, or miraculous, 

 events have been witnessed in every age of the world, and are 

 at this day of frequent occurrence. 



Under the constant action of gravitation all ponderous bodies 

 fall to the earth ; but heavy substances, and especially the bodies 

 of men and women, have often been raised into the air, and 

 sustained there by invisible agencies forces of which we have 

 no knowledge, and which we call super- or preter-natural. 

 Of these phenomena there are scores, perhaps hundreds of 

 well-authenticated instances, and many living witnesses. Gra- 



