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the power is natural, and hence we do not call it a 

 miracle. 



Of course to the Christian man who believes that Jesus Christ 

 rose from the dead, there can be no wonder whatever that 

 miracles happened during His lifetime when He Himself was the 

 transcendent miracle of all. Of course of tliese, as of the 

 resurrection, tlie scientist requires proof. But to-day in a minor 

 degree cures and other phenomena occur without any known 

 natural cause, and lience are deemed supernatural. 



The AVelsh revival may be referred to as a miraculous 

 manifestation ; and Lord William Cecil's letters to The Times 

 respecting remarkable miraculous outbreaks of an unknown 

 force in Corea will be recalled by many. 



He states that during the session of the Bible School for 

 training the Coreans, a dull unemotional people, in Scripture 

 most extraordinary manifestations took place of some unseen 

 power. A man suddenly rose from the desk wliere he was 

 writing and began to cry to God for mercy, and then to confess 

 some most awful sins, including the murder of his infant 

 daughter. They tried to silence him but in vain, and then one 

 and another rose, and for one week the school was an amazing 

 scene, one Christian man after another rising up and confessing 

 sins of all sorts, and apparently finding no rest till they had 

 made what restitution was possible. Afterwards all subsided ; 

 the conditions ac^ain became normal. 



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6. Telepathy. — One may almost say that thought transference 

 is now a scientific fact, and is being increasingly noted as an 

 ordinary occurrence in the experience of many. The familiar and 

 constantly recurring fact of letters crossing is an example 

 of this. 



7. Jnfoijuftic writing, at which my versatile friend Mr. Stead 

 is an adept, is, I think, proved to be a fact. Xone who have 

 seen it or ever heard at first hand the statements of Mr. Stead 

 and others, can doubt that we here have some force that is at 

 present but very imperfectly understood. Whether it be an 

 extreme form of unconscious auto suggestion, or whether it is 

 some form of spiritualistic manifestation of which science at 

 present knows little, still remains uncertain. 



8. Appearances after death and spiritualistic p)henomena. — In 

 general these are unhappily connected with an extraordinary 

 mass of fraud, from which it is difficult, and often a somewhat 

 nauseous task, to disentangle the truth, but there does remain 

 a very solid substratum of fact vouched for by men of the 

 greatest probitv and scientists of the highest standing. As to 



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