That these forces exist and are necessarily active there are three
proofs. Worlds have been made, not of things and forces that do
appear. They were abundantly displayed in the physical miracles of
Christ and others; and these forces, independently of the physical
miracles at various times, have continuously helped men.
(1) Concerning the first fact--that worlds have been made--nothing need
be said except that these forces, being personal, cannot be supposed to
be exhausted, and hence creations can go on continuously. We are
assured that they do. And the personal element more and more relates
itself to personalities. "I go to prepare a place for you," to fit up
a mansion according to tastes, needs, and enjoyments of the future
occupant.
(2) This is the place to assert, not to prove, that this visible world
has always been subject to the forces of the invisible world. It does
not matter whether these forces are personal or personally directed.
Its waters divide, gravitation at that point being overcome; they
harden for a path, or bodies are levitated; they burn by a fire as
fierce as that which plays between two electric poles. These forces
are not the ordinary endowments of matter; they step out of the realm
of the greater invisible, execute their mission, and, like an angel's
sudden appearance, disappear.
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