with him, because of the wagons that he sent; and we may know that
Jesus lives beyond the mist of time, and that our faith has genuinely
connected us with Him, because we feel the pulse of His glorious nature
within our own. And when this is so, we cannot but work out what He is
working within.

Ask me why a true faith must work! Ask why the branch can do no other
than bear clusters of ruddy grapes; its difficulty would be to abstain
from bearing; the vitality of the root accounts for its life and
productiveness. Blame the lark, whose nature vibrates in the sunshine,
for pouring from its small throat acres of sound; blame the child, full
of bounding health, for laughing, singing, and leaping; blame the
musician, whose soul has caught some fragments of the music of
eternity, for pouring it forth in song, before you wonder why it is
that the true faith which has opened the way from the believer to his
Lord produces those greater works.

III. THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF WORK INDICATED.--(1) "_The works that I do
shall he do also._"--What a blessing Christ's ministry must have been
to thousands of sufferers! He passed through Galilee as a river of
water of life. In front of Him were deserts of fever blasted by the
sirocco, and malarious swamps of ague and palsy, and the mirage of the
sufferer's deferred hope; but after He had passed, the parched ground
became a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water, the eyes of the
blind were opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped, the lame man
leaped as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sang.

How glad the sick of any district must have been when it was rumored
that He was on His way to it! What eager consultations must have been
held as to the best means of conveying them into His presence! What
sleepless nights must have been spent of speculation as to whether, and
how, He would heal!

Such results followed the labors of the apostles. The lame man at the
beautiful gate of the Temple; the palsied Aeneas; the dead Dorcas; the
crowds in the streets over-shadowed by Peter's passing figure; the
miracles wrought by Paul at Paphos, Lystra, Philippi, and Malta--all
attested the truth of the Master's words, "The works that I do shall ye
do also." There is no doubt that, if it were necessary, such miracles
might be repeated, if only the Church exercised the same faith as in
those early days of her ministry to the world. But there are greater
works than these.

(2) "_Greater