The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

288 SCIENCE AND RELIGION.veritable examples,-referring for the presentexclusively to their nature, not to the evidenceon which we acknowledge that theyoccurred,-they are veritable examples of resultsincapable of being attained under theoperation of. natural law. The effects securedwere indeed only such as would havebeen attained had medical science been ableto accomplish the result, for the great majorityof them belong to the region in which thegrand healing art works out its beneficentcontribution to human well being. But inrespect of the mode of their execution theywere in no sense analogous to what is achievedby unexpected advance in scientific knowledgeand skill. There was nothing in the wholecourse of our Lord's life, bearing resemblanceto the work of him who laboriously pondersthe varied aspects of some selected form ofdisease, and ultimately attains to skill in anew mode of treatment, or a dangerous anddifficult form of operation. The word spokento the leper or the paralytic; the anointingof the eyes with clay and sending the blindman with his clay-covered eyelids to washin a pool; the command to Jairus's daughter," Maid, arise;" and the call to the man of