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man forgiven and healed; lost faculties restored, and death vanquished. A com plete series: could not do without a single case; no repetition; each has its own value, and sets forth some aspect o f Christ’s life and work. Was Jesus Christ the Messiah, the Son o f God? Is there not evidence and proof sufficient in cc. 8-9? 1. Power Over Diseases o f the Body, 8:1- 15.— (1) The leper (1 -4 ); (2 ) The centurion servant (5-13) ; T h e-fever patient (14-15). 2. Power Over the Minds o f Men, 8:18- 22.— (1 ) The impulsive scribe (18-20); (2 ) The hesitating disciple (21-22). IS IT T S IT SO, O Christ in Heaven, that the fulness yet to come Is so glorious and so perfect, that to know could strike us dumb; - That if only for a moment we could pierce ^beyond the sky With these poor dim eyes o f mortals, we should just see God and die? Is it so, O Christ in Heaven, that which ever way we go Walls o f darkness must surround us, things \ye would but cannot know ;
N ote :—Strange signs; ability to read character; omniscience. 3. Power Over Lost Faculties, 8 :27-9:31.— (1) The dumb demoniac (8:27-34); (2) The palsied man (9:1-8) ; (3) The . blind man (9:27-31). 4. Power to Forgive Sins, 9:1-8.—Show ing that spiritual, not physical healing was the main work- o f C-hrist. 5. Power Over Nature, 8 :23-27— Stilling the storm ; Master o f environment. 6. Power Over Death, 9:18-26.—Jairus daughter, The greatest and last enemy. 7. Power Over Satan, 8 :27-34. O ------------- SO? That the infinite must bound us as a tem ple veil unrent, While the finite ever wearies, so that none attain content? Is it so, O Christ in Heaven, that the highest suffer most; That the noblest wander farthest and most hopelessly are lost; That the matk o f rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the sweetness o f the singer, is the tenseness o f the strain?— Anon.
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