That they do occur to-day it is not our province to prove on this occasion, since the proofs of them are already in the world. But when Mr. Zollner and four of his scientific coadjutors declare they see a simple table disappear in a room carefully locked, bolted and sealed, and then reappear to their vision, they but attest that which all intelligent minds will give them the credit of being witness to. When Mr. Zollner offers to show a continuous cord that he himself had fashioned placed upon the leg of a table under impossible circumstances, lie but shows you that which all the world will accept, provided they are possessed of the ordinary fairness of mankind. And when he shows you a knot tied by some power in a continuous cord which has not been unfastened nor broken according to any of the processes known to science, he shows you simply that by another power than that known to any mind connected with organic matter that knot has been tied in the cord. There it is for all to see who will see. But yet we are told that the day of miracles is past, and that this is the result of infatuation and credulity.

The power of spirit over matter is a power that not only renders disintegration and reorganization possible, but all ordinary processes of cohesion and the adhesion of particles, of the various laws of attraction governing atoms and bodies in their relationship to one another, must be set aside. And this spiritual power sweeping down into the nineteenth century - not from the Fakirs of India, not from the remote regions of the earth, but born here in the midst of the nineteenth century, when every life is a life of utility, and when man will not give either yesterday or to-morrow the credit for anything - proves all the more conclusively the miracle and the wonder of its existence.

That to-day you, sitting here in your places, believe in the gift of healing, in the working of wonders, in the visible approach of spirit forms, in the power of spirits to guide and direct you accrediting to that supermundane source the occurrences that must belong to it; and at the same time active and alive, and constant in your daily duties, not giving unto the material that which does not belong to it, nor to the spiritual that which does not belong there; and separating by your conscious existence the spiritual from the material, the supermundane from the mundane - this fact proves all the more the wonder of its coming.

The miracle that lies about you forever, the breath that is in your own form, the pulses of life that surrender obedience to your will, the response of the body to the spirit - this is often ignored.

But as with this outside and superior power there sweeps into the tenement of daily existence a conscious force that raises your hand, that makes you write, thai makes you discourse music, that makes you to perform the work of the artist, or to speak the word of wisdom, or of eloquence, or of prophecy - as that power comes, so will there come to you gradually and consciously from the invisible workings of the universe, from the might and majesty of the all Father, from the wonders of His spiritual kingdom, such triumph overt the earth, such triumph over the material that enchains you, that you will rise in wonder, in majesty and in strength.

No longer will you believe it to be a fable that gods walk the earth with men, or that angels discourse with human beings in visible forms; but drawing you upward and onward by the majesty and magic of this wonderful law, all doors will open at your bidding, all temples will yield up their treasures; even mighty and ancient Egypt will reveal to you her wonders from the mysteries of the spirit, and out of the trammels of darkness and time, and out of the usual orders and schools of science, will be born on earth those who work the wonders of the spirit by gifts and powers, unassociated with the age in which you live.

Those who do not wish either to measure the soul or its qualities by the narrow rules of earthly mathematics or chemistry, but rather would be born into the alchemy of the spirit, into the subtle wonders, will find that spirit is the solvent of all mysteries; that beyond mathematics, beyond chemistry, superior to astronomy, there is the divine gift of perception, of the seeing of the life of things; and will understand that man's soul is the centre, and the visible universe is but the circumference of life, and that all powers vested in man are from within. The great wonder is, not that man lives, but that living and possessing these powers he does not acknowledge them in the wonder and infinitude of love that is spread out before him.

Now, as in the beginning, I say the greatest miracle of the universe is life itself. First, not that a wheel is set in motion by organic law and then goes on forever, but that each power of the universe is intelligently moved now. That there is no springing up of grass in springtime, no blooming of flowers in sequestered vales, no world moving in its orbit, no sun lighting the spheres with splendor, that is not intelligently and consciously governed.

That as you govern in a feeble sense your ordinary life, as you feebly aspire to the simple government of a petty kingdom, but have not yet governed the house in which you live, so one day artery, and vein, and nerve, fibre and muscle, and the entire an atom will be under the bidding of that will which even now may blanch the cheek, give lightning flashes to the eye and animate the form with the grandeur of a god.

Another thousand years and the earth shall lie at man's feet, subjugated, subdued, triumphed over by the miracle of intelligence that is within you.

Another million years, and the earth will yield a race of demigods instead of feeble, creeping things that falter on their way.

Another and another cycle, and out of the majesty of time's triumph man will measure the work of the angels in guiding and moving the worlds in their places, and in breathing out intelligence upon seeming inanimate life until it becomes procreate with existence.

And when these attributes that are slumbering within you shall have yielded more than you dream of now, you still will have encompassed but the smallest portion of that miracle of life, which is eternal.

To deny miracles is to deny intelligence, love, truth, knowledge, and all that is within the universe.

And yet the groping worm will say, "Man can think and dream all this, but it is only chance."

O Infinite Intelligence that encompasses the finite ! that miraculously each day and hour breathes upon all things its appointed task, unto you is given the godlike attribute of attending the ages; of knowing creative power; of understanding that atoms are but the expression of the Infinite Life; while souls are the grand triumph of the eternal miracle of being.