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progenitor nor their owner. There is no prodigal upon earth who is also a spiritual orphan. He has a Father to Whom at any moment he may arise and go; a Father Who will at once acknowledge the relationship—“This my son” was dead and is alive again ; he was lost and is found.” afe O ctober 27 “From Jerusalem to Jericho.’’—Luke 10:30. A CERTAIN man went down from the holy mount to the accursed city, from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves. Whatever may have been the purpose of his journey, his fate is a parable and a warning. Whenever we descend from the moun tain of the LORD, from the presence of the Great King, and take our way tó the lowlands of worldliness and the place of sin, we are in danger of falling among spiritual thieves. God had forbidden Jericho to be rebuilt (Josh. 6:26). Every Israelite, therefore, who wènt thither Was going where he had no right to be; he could not complain if disaster overtook him by the way. While we dwell in Zion, amid the rarified atmos phere òf the mountain top; within the shadow of the courts of the Lord, we may claim His protection ; when we forsake His presence and descend into the valley of self-will and transgres sion, we must take our chance of robbery, of nakedness, it may be of death itself. No doubt Jericho was a flourishing place and the man in the parable expected to reap advantage from his visit. He was not singular in his pilgrimage; many of his neighbors went down from Jerusalem to Jericho; why should not he follow their example? He quite intended, perhaps, to return to Jerusalem—in spite of all these arguments, going to the city which God had cursed, he fell among thieves and, but for the Good Samaritan, that journey would probably have been his last. Of how many ■ a dweller in Zion has that been the experience? They have trafficked with the evil of- the world (not at all intending to become reprobate the while) and, but for the tender mercies of the Christ, they would have lost their spiritual life. Be it our better part to avoid Jericho and remain steadfastly at Jerusalem. WE do not wonder that thè atheist scoffs at miracles ; what surprises us is that men and women who profess to believe in an Almighty God should doubt their possibility. To acknowledge that He created a universe out of naught, and yet to hesitate as to His power to turn water into wine, or to open the mouth of the ass, is to us the height of absurdity. He Who can do the one can surely doi:the other. Much of this unbelief is due to the use (and the dictionary’s definition) of the term. For a miracle is not something “contrary to the law of nature” ; it is some event which, does not usually occur; something which we have never known to happen. Had a single individual lived from the time of chaos until now, every event at its first occur rence would have been to him a miracle. To say that a thing cannot be because we have never experienced it before is folly only surpassed by saying that we will not believe it because it exceeds our comprehension. The man who will not credit any thing which he does' not understand will not get far along the path of life. He who will act upon nothing that is contrary to his experience will deprive himself of a multitude of the conveniences of these modern days. To declare that anything is contrary to the laws of nature is to claim an egotistical and universal knowledge of those laws which the history of science and invention should have rendered impossible. The truth is the Bible'stands or falls by the credibility of what we call the O ctober 28 “The working of miracles .”—1 Cor. 12:10.
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