Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The First Miracle of Christ and Prohibition: A Sermon Preached in St. Peter's Church, Brockville, on the Second Sunday After Epiphany (17th January), 1886
God in the highest, and on earth peace. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He hath visited and redeemed His people and hath raised up a mighty salvation for us. The Dayspring from on' high hath visited us. The manifestation of God in the ?esh is the theme the different modes and degrees of that manifestation the elaboration of the theme. Manifest first to the shepherds of Bethlehem then to the Eastern sages then, after twelve years, to the doctors of the Temple, if only they had had eyes to see then after a long period of obscura tion manifest to all the beholders at this marriage feast in Cana of Galilee, when His Divinity shone forth in this first miracle that He wrought. Let us View this light as it then burst forth, so unexpectedly; let us analyze its rays and see what we can learn therefrom.
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