greater than matter. Spirit makes matter. Think what it was for a human
body to have such a divine creative power dwelling in it as that which
dwelt in the human form of Jesus! What power, and influence, and utter rule
that spirit must have over the body in which it dwells! We cannot imagine
how much; but if we have so much power over our bodies, how much more must
the pure, divine Jesus, have had over his! I suspect this miracle was
wrought, not through anything done to the water, but through the power of
the spirit over the body of Jesus, which was all obedient thereto. I am not
explaining the miracle, for that I cannot do. One day I think it will be
plain common sense to us. But now I am only showing you what seems to me to
bring us a step nearer to the essential region of the miracle, and so far
make it easier to believe. If we look at the history of our Lord, we shall
find that, true real human body as his was, it was yet used by his spirit
after a fashion in which we cannot yet use our bodies. And this is only
reasonable. Let me give you an instance. You remember how, on the Mount of
Transfiguration, that body shone so that the light of it illuminated
all his garments. You do not surely suppose that this shine was
external--physical light, as we say, _merely?_ No doubt it was physical
light, for how else would their eyes have seen it? But where did it come
from? What was its source? I think it was a natural outburst of glory from
the mind of Jesus, filled with the perfect life of communion with his
Father--the light of his divine blessedness taking form in physical
radiance that permeated and glorified all that surrounded him. As the
body is the expression of the soul, as the face of Jesus himself was the
expression of the being, the thought, the love of Jesus in like manner this
radiance was the natural expression of his gladness, even in the face of
that of which they had been talking--Moses, Elias, and he--namely,
the decease that he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Again, after his
resurrection, he convinced the hands, as well as eyes, of doubting Thomas,
that he was indeed there in the body; and yet that body could appear and