Modern Miracles: And Other Sermons (Classic Reprint)

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Believers in the Bible will have no difficulty in assent ing to such a view. It is but a modern application of an cient principles. We need only recall the story of Moses and Israel in Egypt, of Esther and the Jews in Persia, Of Daniel's deliverance from the lions and of Jonah's escape from the sea, to feel assured of the reality of the Divine protection of human life in this world. And yet we must guard against giving too wide a scope to this doctrine. Is it true that man's extremity is always used by God as his opportunity Has he always interfered to rescue his people from danger? Paul was saved from the serpent's bite on the island, but not from the headsman's axe at Rome. The Moravian missionary was protected from assassination, but Judson was left to suffer in the prison pen. The Hebrews were delivered from the fiery furnace, but Huss and Jerome perished at the stake.

We may not therefore predicate a special interposi tion of divine providence as a factor in every problem Of human suffering. Not every tempest has been stilled as was that which endangered the disciples on Gennesaret. Hagar has sometimes perished in the wilderness, and many an Elijah has gone unfed by the ravens.

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