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advantage was taken to give the rebellious prophet a lesson. 
Such reconciliations of Scripture and science seem to be 
generally feeble in conception^, and when completed (for 
the most part) more difficult to receive than the simple 
narrative itself. I admit at once that the whole was above 
nature, and not only so, but contrary to nature, but claim that 
my opponent should make this admission, that what is im- 
possible with man is possible with God. 
Having obtained (if only for argnmenVs sake) the admission 
that the narrative is true, look how entirely natural the whole 
seems ; though admitting us into a region of which we know 
nothing till our eyes are opened, — namefy, that of the ministra- 
tion of angels in the Providence of God. 
Could anything be imagined more truly natural, if only a 
supernatural Power be admitted to have been exerted to give 
new faculties to the brute to express i\\o^e feelincjs which may 
well be present to the nature of an animal under ill-treatment 
even now ? Do we not see the like feelings expressed in the 
intelligent eye of the dog, in the tears of the deer ? 
Probably some latent powers, of what have been often 
considered the supernatural sort, are inherent in the nature 
of man. A clerical acquaintance related to me, how, in a 
perfectly natural way, he acquired the power of soothing 
nervous pain in others. I had happily no occasion to test his 
powers. 
The following is of a different kind. In the life of Lord 
Chief Justice Holt, a curious anecdote is recorded. It appears 
that, when a young man, Holt happened, on one occasion, with 
some companions, to stop at an inn in the country, where they 
contracted a debt of such amount that they were unable to 
defray it. In this dilemma they appealed to Holt to get them 
out of the scrape. Holt observed that the innkeepePs 
daughter looked remarkably ill, and was told by her father 
she had an ague. Hereupon he gathered several plants, and 
mixed them together with a great deal of ceremony, after- 
wards wrapping them in a piece of parchment, upon which he 
had scrawled certain letters and marks. The ball thus pre- 
pared he hung about the young woman’s neck, and the ague 
did not return. After this the never-failing doctor offered to 
discharge the bill, but the gratitude of the landlord refused 
any such thing, and Holt and his companions departed. 
When he became Lord Chief Justice, a woman was brought 
before him accused of being a witch. She was the last j)orson 
eljer tried in England for witchcraft. She made no other 
defence than that she was in possession of a certain ball which 
infallibly cured ague. The ball was handed up to the Judge, 
