Publisher's Synopsis
From the INTRODUCTORY.
The tendency of the age, in many quarters, is to rule the supernatural out of everything, and to ascribe to all events a natural cause. This rationalistic trend moves under the name of "Scholarship;" hence is all the more dangerous.
This tendency manifests itself to an alarming extent in many of the Churches of the present day. It is seen in the pulpit and in the pew. The old-time, clear-cut, ringing conversions, such as were common in the days of our fathers, are seldom seen in these days.
Many are taken into the Churches and reported converted who know nothing at all about the new birth. They are strangers to the miraculous change that takes place in every heart that experiences the great work described by our Savior when He said, "Ye must be born again." Neander says, "Conversion is the standing miracle of the ages."
The supernatural is not only ruled out of the spiritual, but almost entirely from the physical realm.
In the present volume we propose to prove conclusively, beyond even the shadow of a doubt, that to-day, as nineteen hundred years ago, God hears and answers prayer in the physical as well as the spiritual realm. The days of miracles have not passed.
The mighty downpour of rain, drenching the dry and thirsty land of Palestine, in answer to Elijah's prayer; the three Hebrew children walking unburnt in the seven times heated fiery furnace, the Form of the Fourth being with them, and coming out without even the smell of fire upon their robes; Daniel in the den, pillowing his head upon the mane of the old lion, and sleeping safely during the night with the savage beasts of prey, lying, mute and harmless as kittens, all around him; the cleansing of the leper; the giving sight to the blind; the calming by a word the storm-lashed sea of Galilee; the feeding of the five thousand with a few loaves and fishes, - were miracles no greater than are being wrought at the present day in answer to prayer....