The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

THE MAN BORN BLIND 227
whence He is—well, that is not for me to settle, but I
know that He has opened mine eyes : you say that He
is not of God—well, He has brought God's light to me.
The man has got his feet planted down on that solid
fact, and nothing can drive him from it. Questions
of theology and logic are not in his line—he is not
clever enough to argue with these quibbling schoolmen
and professors of infallibility. If he were to
engage with them on that ground they would lead
his poor mind a
bewildering dance through a jungle
of incomprehensible words until it lost itself in chaos
and madness. He knows better than that. He just
holds fast to that one bit of experience which is worth
a whole world of theories and propositions. That
morning the world was dark to him, there was no sky
and no green earth, and human faces were unknown
to him except by touch, and he had never seen his
own mother. Now the world is bright and beautiful,
the sun is shining, and trees and flowers and meadow
grass are spread around, and the blue heavens are
above him. Behold all things are made new. One
saving word, one miraculous touch of this Jesus, have
changed his life from a gloomy sepulchre or prison
into a spacious palace furnished with all manner of
lovely and glorious things. They would as easily
persuade him to doubt his own existence, or to
believe that he had never been born, as to doubt the
kindly, saving, recreative power of the man who had
wrought this change in him. You may call Him a
sinner, Sabbath breaker, deceiver, or whatever you
please. All that I care to know is, that He has done
for me what only God could do—what I never believed
even God would do. Explain it as you like, here is