The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

294 SCIENCE AND RELIGION.transcend what is ultimately attained by laboriousprocesses of human research. Butthat there is in any case an identity of resultunder the very different conditions, is an indicationthat supernatural intervention is notan interference with the laws of nature suchas would be involved in their suspension orsubversion. There is a great difference betweenrecovery from suspended animation andresurrection from the dead as in the case ofLazarus, but the fixed order of the universeis no more disturbed in the latter case thanin the former.A further consideration bearing on the miraclesof Christ needs to be stated, though itcomes more directly into relation with philosophythan with science properly so called.Every one of these miracles was performedavowedly for moral ends, and under applicationof moral conditions, while for immediatephysical effects. There is moral law as wellas physical law, and our Saviour subordinatesthe latter to the former in determining theuse He makes of supernatural agency. Theevidence of this is interwoven through thevery texture of the narrative, so that an attemptto sever His miracles from their moral