Sunday Readings, by the Author of 'Light'. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... Cfje passing SJmiwto. "They brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them."--ACTS v. 15. In the working of Divine providence and of Divine grace, what seem to some strange instrumentalities, are employed. Men are made up of body and soul, hence body and soul come into play in the Divine economy. Those who despise human agencies have made for themselves "another gospel." It is not the religion of the Bible or the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Human sanctity has its source in Divine sanctity; but it is human sanctity still. Handkerchiefs and aprons from St. Paul's body, the passing shadow of St. Peter, were in a mysterious manner instruments, certainly of healing, probably of grace. The power, whatever it was, and however exercised, came from God, the Author and Source of all sanctity; the instruments of its action, the agents in its operation and action, were human beings, "called to be saints." How unlikely that a passing shadow from a holy man should heal the sick and work wonders Yet so it was. Again I say, people who eliminate the unlikely--in other words, the supernatural--from their religion come under the condemnation addressed by our Lord Himself to the doubting ones who were always asking, "How can these things be?" The question, "How can a man be born when he is old?" was met by, " Ye must be born again." "How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?" was answered by, " Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, ye have no life in you." Divine wisdom is always exercising human faith. Faith is only worth the name when it accepts Divine teaching without questioning and without murmuring, forsaking the arguments of specious philo...