"THE AGE OF MIRACLES."

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17155, 26 May 1921, Page 6

"THE AGE OF MIRACLES."

remarkable sermon by j anglican clergyman, ?

(SrKCIAI TO "TOE rRESS.") ' AUCKLAND, May 35.1

A striking sermon, in which ho affinlu ed his belief that the ago of miracle) is not yet passed, was delivered by ibje Rev. A. M. Niblock, vicar of the AngQ. can Church at To Awamutu lust Sua-" day. The preacher said he belie\od fat ! so-callod Christian science—"no-called" because it was not Christianity itself, but (as he understood it) tho uork of the human mind working by suggestion ' upon matter. Its dangers ho in tJ)$ \ fact that it was in the hands of msnj i who were ignorant of tho humuu body ' und of true science. After recouiuiiig the healing mifa&tyi recorded in the Aew 'lestuiueiit, Aft v iNiUlocK said ho felt that lie ought to \ give ins belieis. He made up ins mina ' that, he would uot so so, but he Bblf felt that ho ought to. feonicthiug jq. polled him to ao so. „ „ Some years ago he was a student if* Livingstone College, London, and iM-' at the same time was working in jj|» M hospital for seumen at the lioyol Alls bert Dock, Loudon, and also about tit j same tune or.a year after he wasattfij :, West Ham Hospital and the Lomjon JP| Hospital for tlio study of medicine Ud J surgery. While afterwards woikingjft-* India, ho was met by an educated ijfc 1 » tive Indian, well vowed in the New Testament, who remarked to him that djfe. j, tors were frauds, because they were ml ' ing to imitate Jesus Christ by usim4' drugs. Ho had to admit that the J»,,. dinn was right. Ho (Mr Niblock) nS][ j turned home much disturbed, and ittj I j,. a long time in Wales, on the mounts Mfc side and tho mpuhtain-top, trying tig obtain light for himself. After t«i|§§ there some timo he returned to Lbngf don and Accidentally touched a «isj§| known lndy there. She was ill TOff cancer, hut next morning there was a|| sign of it. She had been waiting tojll <- t operated on, but when a surgeon eiatijl [ ined her there was no trace at all |§| disease. Now that kind of thing ttjf|| could not get away from, and he ww js dered. Three or four jears after to| | he made a' trip to Eussia, and at Ravi M • he was called upon to pray for a m S who was born with twisted ankles. Jt § did not want to pray for her, but thjffiil said, "You can ao no harm by PfwfjM ing," and he consented., This wut{s9| the depth of winter in Russia, wM*jj|B there were double windows and wwfSl* the doorß were carefully shut becS«|B of the cold. While they were pr|H|l ing. several of them, with the &Wg something startling happened. It *£&■ as though a cold olast from the noijJKl was going through the room' like tMBjIL rushing wind, just as thoy.road.in tflem Apostles, and he was afraid. The Uflf&ff who had been standing on crotenffiffif 1 leaped up, danced, and ran out. JjjljU 'saw her with his own eyes. This WOW not a case in .which one could M ?JfH was an exhibition of power of mind oTC§H matter, nor that it Wbb a delusion tbifH deceived him, for that girl was ftjBJM walking two or three years nfteroanttSM H(fwent oft from there to Petrograalll and the story had gone before Wm. Jf! Russian who hnd heen crushed hetwewM the buffets of two railway waffeons «fl| severely injured aoroßS his chest, t <Hgj|| had not heen ableto raise H« * rn, . ao his head since. It' was Jbelierod the arm socket was crushed to That man hegeed him to prßirfor Aut in this ense he touched the itftmwM npni. -He (Mr Nibla* was telltiutthM W* only fn*ts r tW rortlel tnrm their o*l MM conclusions. Hn Mt nn effnet just U 1 if a current of electrMtv w»>j» KOWj 1 through hhn. thev would sbv that wf 1 macrnetiaw. He wrii not pnrttonlar wnj m it w« cnlled. hut th"t mnn inst»UM] i put h'« hands nhwe* his head, M »| was, nhle to to do so. •^J' < were one or two 'oth'w.r»W* f wwfon Wffl had p"»n which nroved to fhJff QflgMl na« nhle nnd n-UUnJr to ner* nr Ti +n.('«v. mid he AW not Wlove <t QrA'M will that thwe nhoWd lie suffering or sorrbw itt the world. i iwm