unto him that teacheth in all good things.

3 John 7. Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

1 Cor. xvi, 17, 18. I am glad of the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that

which was lacking on your part they have supplied. For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye

them that are such.

Phil. iv, 10, 14-18. But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. Notwithstanding ye have well done that ye did communicate with my affliction. Now, ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me, as concerning giving and receiv. ing, but ye only. For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. Not because I desire a gift; but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

DISINTERESTED CONDUCT OF THE APOSTLE PAUL. Acts xviii, 3. And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought; for by their occupation they were tent makers.

Acts xx, 33, 34. I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered that were with me. unto my necessities, and to them

neither

1 Cor. ix, 12, 15, 18. If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. But I have used none of these things; have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. What is my reward then? Verily, that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied; and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

Did I

2 Cor. xi, 13, 16-18. For what is it wherein you were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother: did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

1 Thess. ii, 6, 9. Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be

that which was done. For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.

MIRACLES, A WORK OF

DIVINE POWER. Deut. viii, 4. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

Neh. ix, 21. Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

Jer. xxxvi, 26. But the king

commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet:

but the LORD hid them.

Luke iv, 30. But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.

Acts xiv, 19, 20. And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead. Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he depart

ed with Barnabas to Derbe.

Acts xix, 11, 12. And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

BEYOND THE POWER OF MAN. 2 Kings iv, 30, 31. And the mother of the child said, 4s the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her. And Gelazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice nor hearing: wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked,

2 Kings ▼, 6-8. And he brought

the letter to the King of Israel, saying, Now, when this letter is come unto thee, Behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy. And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me. And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard

that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

Matth. xvil, 19-21. Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove; and nothing shall this kind goeth not out but by be impossible unto you. Howbeit prayer and fasting.

GENERAL RESULTS.

and he is thy God, that hath done Deut. x, 21. He is thy praise, for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

1 Sam. iv, 8. Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

the children of Israel saw how the 2 Chron. vii, 3. And when all fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

Ps. cvi, 12. Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

Isa. li, 9. Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake! as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

Matth. xv, 31. Insomuch that

the multitude wondered, when maimed to be whole, the lame to they saw the dumb to speak, the walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

Matth. xxi, 20. And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig-tree

withered away!

Luke iv, 36. And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.

Luke v, 8-10. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the ashes which they had taken: And so was also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were

partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simou, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

Luke vill, 35. Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

John ix. 32. Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.

Acts ii, 6, 12. Now, when this was noised abroad, the multitude came because that every man heard together, and were confounded, them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

that it was he which sat for alms Acts iii, 10, 11. And they knew at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

upon all the church, and upon as Acts v, 11. And great fear came many as heard these things.

Mark vi, 5. And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.

Mark ix, 16. 17. 19 28 29. And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them? And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit. He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me. And when he was come him privately, Why could not we into the house, his disciples asked cast him out? And he said unto them. This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

Luke ix, 39-41. And, lo, a spirit

taketh him,and he suddenly crieth

out; and it teareth him that he foameth again; and, bruising him, hardly departeth from him. And I besought thy disciples to cast him out, and they could not. And Jesus answering, said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.

MIRACLES UNDER THE OLD
TESTAMENT.

MIRACULOUS INTERPOSITION IN
CONNECTION WITH ENOCH.

Gen. v, 24. And Enoch walked

with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Heb. xi, 5. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

IN CONNECTION WITH NOAH.

THE DELUGE.

THE WARNING.

Gen. vi, 17. And, behold, I even I, do bring a flood of waters

upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth Bhall die.

Gen. vil, 2-4. 6.7, 13, 15, 16. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living

substance that I have made will I

destroy fromoff the face of theearth. And Noah was six hundred years

old when the flood of waters was

upon the earth. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. In the self-same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark: And they went in unto Noah into the ark two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

THE OVERFLOW.

Gen. vii, 11, 12, 17 18, 20, 23, 24. The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping

THE EBB.

....

God

Gen. viii, 1-5, 13--16. made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged: The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven, were

stopped, and the rain from hea

ven was restrained: And the wa

ters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried, And God

spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Job xxil, 15, 16. Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood,

Heb. xi, 7. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

old world, but saved Noah the 2 Pet. ii, 5. And spared not the eighth person, a preacher of right eousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

2 Pet. iii, 5, 6. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished

MIRACULOUS INTER

POSITIONS.

IN CONNECTION WITH ABRAHAM.

Gen. xv, 17. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went

WITH LOT.

Gen. xix, 11. And they [angels] smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

WITH HAGAR.

Gen. xxi, 19. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she went and filled the

bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

WITH JUDAH.

Gen. xxxviii, 7. And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

IN CONNECTION WITH MOSES. THE MIRACLE AT HIS COMMISSION.

LORD said unto him, What is that Exodus iv, 2-4, 6, 7. And the in thine hand? And he said, A rod. And he said, Cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; ground. And he cast it on the and Moses fled from before it. And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it his hand and caught it, and it by the tail. And he put forth became a rod in his hand: And he LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his plucked it out of his bosom, and, hand into his bosom again; and behold, it was turned again as his

other flesh.

Exod. vii, 9, 10. When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy and it shall become a serpent. And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

THE TEN PLAGUES. WATER TURNED INTO BLOOD. Exod. vii, 19, 25. And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and

that there may be blood through out all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. And seven days were fulAlled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.

FROGS.

Exod. vill, 5--15. And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. And Aaron stretched ont his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD. And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only? And he said, To-morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only. And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. And they gathered them together upon heaps; and the land stank. But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

(MAGICIANS, see under
IDOLATRY.)

LICE.

Exod. viii, 17. And they did so: for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

FLIES.

Exod. vill, 23, 24, 30-32. And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to-morrow shall this sign be. And the LORD did so: and there came a grievous

swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies. And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD. And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one. And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

MURRAIN OF BEASTS.

Exod. ix, 3-7. Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain. And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel. And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land. And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

BOILS AND BLAINS. Exod. ix, 8, 9. And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh; And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.

(See under DISEASE.)

HAIL.

Exod. ix, 16, 18-29, 33-35. And In very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name the earth. may be declared throughout all Behold, to-morrow about this time, I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now. Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of

And

Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field. the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. So there was bail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt

since it became a nation. And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, an brake every tree of the field. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron,

and said unto them, I have sinned

is

this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. Entreat the LORD, (for it enough,) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer. And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, nelther shall there be any more bail; that thou mayest know how that

the earth is the LORD'S. And

Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the that the rain, and the hail, and the earth. And when Pharaoh saw thunders, were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.

LOCUSTS.

Exod. x, 1, 12-20. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him: And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, ecen all that the hail hath left. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the