works than these shall ye do._"--The soul is greater than
the body, as the jewel than the casket. All work, therefore, which
produces as great an effect on the soul-life as miracles on the
physical life, must be proportionately greater, as the tenant is
greater than the house, as the immortal than the mortal. It is a
greater work to give sight to the blind soul than to the blind body; to
raise the soul from its grave than Lazarus from his four days' sleep.

Again, eternity is also greater than time, as the ocean is greater than
a creek. The ills from which the miracles of Christ delivered the
suppliant crowds, were at the most limited by years. The flesh of the
leper became wrinkled with old age; Jairus' daughter fell again on
sleep; the generation which had been benefited by the mighty works,
passed away without handing on a legacy of health to succeeding time!
But if a sinner is turned from the error of his ways, if salvation
comes to a nature destined for immortality, and lifts it from the
slough of sin to the light of God, the results must be greater because
more permanent and far-reaching.

Moreover, the pain from which the word of the Gospel may save, is
infinitely greater than that which disease could inflict. Men have
been known to brave any physical torture rather than endure the
insupportable anguish of a sin-laden conscience. The worm that never
dies is more intolerable than cancer; the fire that is never quenched
keener than that of fever. To save a soul from these is, therefore, a
greater work.

Christ hinted at this distinction in one of His earliest miracles, when
He proposed to forgive the sick of the palsy his sins, before bidding
him walk; and bade the seventy rejoice more that their names were
written in heaven than that the devils were subject to them. The
apostles bear witness to a growing appreciation of this distinction, by
the small space given in the Acts of the Apostles to their miracles,
compared with the greater attention concentrated on their discourses;
and surely the history of Christendom bears witness to the great and
permanent character of spiritual work. The Church could not have
influenced the world as she has done, had she been nothing more than a
healer of diseases and an exorciser of demons.

IV. THE SOURCE OF THESE GREATER WORKS.--"Because I go to the Father."
Clearly the Church has had an argument to present to men which even her
Master could not use. He could no