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

324 THE OPENING OF THE EYES
about His great ends by these means as if He merely
spoke the word and it was done, commanded and it
stood fast. The divine power of our Saviour is seen
through all
the means of the miracle, as surely as the
touch of the spider is felt to the extremities of all the
threads of its web. God is not lost among His
works ; He
is holding all the reins of nature as truly
as if we saw them visibly in His hands. It is not
with the theories of science that we quarrel, with
the
theory of evolution, for instance, which seeks to prove
that not immediately, but by a long process of gradually
improving forms, man and all life spring from
the dust ;
for if that theory is true, it only reveals to
us the methods of God's working, and all that we
require is that it should be substantiated. No, our
quarrel is
with the Godlessness of these theories in so
far as they seek to eliminate God altogether from His
works, and to prove that nature is quite sufficient to
carry on the development process itself. Science
regards itself as the only miracle worker of the world,
the only power that opens the eyes of the blind ;
and
Revelation,'is brushed impatiently aside as a relic of
the dark ages of ignorance. But a Godless science,
like Argus who had a hundred eyes and yet could not
see, is a blind science. It is groping in the dark. It
is sitting blind by the wayside, begging, and crying
out, " Who will show us any good " At the best its
knowledge has only enabled it to see men as trees
walking—a superior species of trees, gifted with a new
power of locomotion, and floweiing into heart and
brain, instead of blossoms and fruit. It confounds
cause and effect, matter and life,
in the dim shadows
that have distorted its imperfect vision. It merges