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too, He raised up Peter's mother-in-law from a raging fever, and cleansed the lepers, and cured the palsied. Here He healed the centurion's servant, and the woman afflicted with an issue of blood, and here He raised the daughter of Jairus from the dead. In the little harbor the Apostles at His word took the miraculous draught of fishes; farther out on the lake He stilled the storm at sea; on the opposite shore He multiplied the loaves and fishes, and on the return voyage that same night He came walking on the waters to the rescue of His storm-tossed followers. These are but a few of the hundreds of recorded and unrecorded miracles performed in or near Capharnaum. So many indeed that His native town of Nazareth became so wildly jealous that on His return His fellow-citizens attempted to fling Him over a cliff for refusing to repeat among them the wonders He had done at Capharnaum. Now see the proofs of my contention. It appears that as a necessary condition for miracle-working Christ demanded at least the beginnings of faith, which beginnings He then would raise by miracles to a higher, but far from perfect, development. So intimate with Him as boy and man were the Nazarenes that they could see in Him only the son of Joseph, the village carpenter. " Jesus," says the Gospel, " marvelled at their incredulity and could do no miracles among them." They demanded the carnal realism of miracles as a condition of faith; Christ demanded faith as a condition of miracles, and on that issue His own unhappy town was the first to reject Him. But even