IX
MARTHA'S TRUE WAY
The view I take of the miracles is this, that no
one met Jesus or saw Him who was not miraculously
affected in some way or other. The deaf began
to hear, those who had never spoken in their lives
had their lips unsealed, the cripples found out that
they had the souls of men, the sick were as if they
were well, scales fell from the eyes of the blind,
and he who never saw anything in his life was
suddenly awake to beauty. The outcast and the
vile learned to believe in themselves; even the
dead became alive. When John asked, "Art thou
He who should come, or do we look for another?"
it was sufficient to answer, "The blind see, the
lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear,
the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is
preached."
And the miracles never cease. As they happened two thousand years ago, so they happen to-day. We have the vision, and our infirmities fall away: we see, we hear, we praise. Christ is . . .