56 MIRACLE, LAW, EVOLUTION. 
Il. Miracles and Hvolution. 
What, it may be asked, have these to do with each 
other? Are they not catch-words that represent the op- 
‘posite 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 consistent 
whole. 
Christ is represented in the Bible not only as a worker 
of miracles, but as the informing spirit that produced all 
things which exist, or ever did exist ; the Creator. 
Those who believe this, and that includes all who re- 
gard 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 pecu- 
liarities of style or diction in 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 cre- 
ative work. And I think we are safe in saying that of 
two theories as to how certain things were done, é. 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 suf- 
fice 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 wa- 
ter, the jars, the servants, all in the usual way, He bade 
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