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

SCIENCE AND DIVINE INTERPOSITION. 295purpose can result only in tearing the narrativeinto fragments,-mutilating the recordwhich must be studied and interpretedas it has been put into our hands. Morallaw is as unchangeable as physical law,though the character and form of its swaydiffer from those of physical law, and it iseasier for man wilfully to violate the higherlaw of life than to violate the lower. Yet soclosely are the higher and lower connectedin human history, that the easy violation ofmoral law is followed by painful consequencesunder the reign of physical law. It lay withinthe purpose of Jesus to deliver from both,and it is only in recognition of this combinedor complex purpose that we discover the rationalbasis on which supernatural deliverancefrom disease becomes a natural vehiclefor presenting to rational beings requisite evidenceof divine intervention on their behalfas they are entangled in the disastrous consequencesof violating unchangeable morallaw. If on other grounds it be apparentthat supernatural interference for restorationof health or life does not involve interferencewith physical law by which the governmentof the universe could be in any