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The Miracles of Our Lord

Name: The Miracles of Our Lord
Author: George MacDonald
ISBN: 9781406530087

by George MacDonald

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Overview

I HAD just been looking long and sadly at Holbein's plowman, and was walking through the fields, musing on rustic life and the destiny of the husbandman. It is certainly tragic for him to spend his days and his strength delving in the jealous earth, that so reluctantly yields up her rich treasures when a morsel of coarse black bread, at the end of the day's work, is the sole reward and profit to be reaped from such arduous toil. The wealth of the soil, the harvests, the fruits, the splendid cattle that grow sleek and fat in the luxuriant grass, are the property of the few, and but instruments of the drudgery and slavery of the many. The man of leisure seldom loves, for their own sake, the fields and meadows, the landscape, or the noble animals which are to be converted into gold for his use. He comes to the country for his health or for change of air, but goes back to town to spend the fruit of his vassal's labor.

Synopsis

I have been requested to write some papers on our Lord's miracles. I venture the attempt in the belief that seeing they are one of the modes in which his unseen life found expression we are bound through them to arrive at some knowledge of that life.' (Excerpt from Introduction)