22 THE REIGN OF LAW. 



signs and wonders cease to be evidences of Di- 

 vine power, — then he announces a proposition 

 which cannot be sustained. There is nothing in 

 Religion incompatible with the belief that all 

 exercises of God's power, whether ordinary or 

 extraordinary, are effected through the instru- 

 mentality of means — that is to say, by the in- 

 strumentality of natural laws brought out, as it 

 were, and used for a Divine purpose. To believe 

 in the existence of miracles, we must indeed 

 believe in the Superhuman and in the Super- 

 material. But both these are familiar facts in 

 Nature. We must believe also in a Supreme Will 

 and a Supreme Intelligence ; but this our own 

 Wills and our own Intelligence not only enable us 

 to conceive of, but compel us to recognise in the 

 whole laws and economy of Nature. Her whole 

 aspect " answers intelligently to our intelligence 

 — mind responding to mind as in a glass."* 

 Once admit that there is a Being who — irrespec- 

 tive of any theory as to the relation in which 



' Beginning Life: Chapters for Young Men on Religion, 

 Study, and Business. By John Tulloch, D.D., Principal of St 

 Mary's College, St Andrews. Chap, iii., The Supernatural. Edin- 

 burgh, i860. P. 29. 



