

IN MODERN SCIENCE. ' 235 



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this condition, this must be done by some cor- 

 responding expenditure of force, else we have 

 one of those miracles which would imply a sub- 

 version of law of the most portentous kind. 

 The moral stimulus given by the sacrifice itself 

 is a secondary consideration to this great law 

 of equivalency of cause and effect. . There is, 

 therefore, a perfect conformity to natural anal- 

 ogy in the Christian idea of the substitution of 

 the pure and perfect Man for the sinner, as well 

 as in that of the putting forth of the divine 

 power manifested in him to raise and restore 

 the fallen. 



The efficacy of prayer is one of the last 

 things that a scientific naturalist should ques- 

 tion, if he is at the same time a theist. Prayer 

 is itself one of the laws of nature, and one of 

 those that show in the finest way how higher 

 laws override and modify those that are lower. 

 The young ravens, we are told, cry to God ; and 

 so they literally do ; and their cry is answered, 

 for the parent-iavens, cruel and voracious, un- 

 der the impulse of a God-given instinct range 

 over land and water and exhaust every energy 

 that they may satisfy that cry. The bleat of 

 the lamb will not only meet with response from 

 the mother-ewe, but will even exercise a physi- 



