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

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man in the creation and makes him a mere part of
nature, subject to its laws and destinies, a mere
cameo carved out of the substance of nature instead
of a God-like statue, standing upon nature as its
pedestal. And science must wait until its eyes are
opened by Him who has the key which unlocks all
the treasures, all the deepest things of the material
and spiritual world.
And is not the gradual way in which Jesus wrought
the cure of the blind man still an acted parable of the
gradual way in which He opens the eyes of the soul
to see the things which belong to its peace That
mode of cure which our Lord employed in this
unique instance in the course of the bodily healing
which He wrought on earth, is the type of the
common and usual method of the cure of our spiritual
blindness. Christ hardly ever gives at once the full
power of perception. It is but very slowly and gradually
that the lost vision is restored, that the inward
eye realises the true discernment of spiritual things.
How many are taken by the hand of Jesus, and led
apart from the crowds of life, and in the seclusion of
the soul with Him experience His first miraculous
touch, and feel the strange thrill through their being
which is the token that He is beginning the good
work by which their soul's vision is to be restored
How many are there who reply to the question of Jesus,
" Do you now see " " We see men as trees walking "
And how many are
there, who are content to remain
in that condition, satisfied with a half cure, mistaking
the half of religion for the whole How little they
know of Christ, of themselves, of their fellow-
Christians, of the ways of God An ! eye completely