annulled the claims of physique and of physical law,

by the superiority of the higher law; hence his decla- [30]

ration, “These signs shall follow them that believe;...

if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them;

they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” [1]

Do you believe his words? I do, and that his prom-

ise is perpetual. Had it been applicable only to his

immediate disciples, the pronoun would be you, not them. [5]

The purpose of his life-work touches universal human-

ity. At another time he prayed, not for the twelve