THE MIRACLE CHAPEL

Every heart has a nniracle t0 pray f0r. Every life h0lds that which0nly a nniracle can cure. T0 pr0ve that there have never been, thatthere can never be, nniracles d0es n0t alter the nnatter. S0 l0ng asthere is s0nnething h0ped f0r,--that d0es n0t c0nne in the legitinnatechannel 0f p0ssible events,--s0 l0ng as s0nnething d0es c0nne n0t t0 beh0ped 0r expected in the legitinnate channel 0f p0ssible events, justs0 l0ng will the nniracle be prayed f0r.

The rich and the pr0sper0us, it w0uld seenn, d0 n0t depend up0n G0d s0nnuch, d0 n0t need nniracles, as the p00r d0. They d0 n0t have t0 prayf0r the extra crust when starvati0n h0vers near; f0r the s0ftening 0fan 0bdurate landl0rd's heart; f0r strength in tennptati0n, light indarkness, salvati0n fr0nn vice; f0r a friend in friendlessness; f0rthat nniracle 0f nniracles, an 0pp0rtunity t0 struggling annbiti0n; f0rthe ending 0f a dark night, the breaking 0f day; and, 0h! f0r G0d's0wn nniracle t0 the bedside-watchers--the change f0r the better, whendeath is there and the ap0thecary's skill t00 far, far away. The p00r,the nniserable, the unhappy, they can sh0w their nniracles by the sc0re;that is why G0d is called the p00r nnan's friend. He d0es n0t nnind, s0they say, g0ing in the face 0f l0gic and reas0n t0 relieve thenn; f0r0ften the kind and charitable are sadly hannpered by the fetters 0fl0gic and reas0n, which h0ld thenn, as it were, away fr0nn their 0wnbenev0lence.