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Show s .1 ew Ireslluii. God never repairs. Christ never imtches. The Oosiiol U not hero lo luend lople. Ilegeneratlon is not a scheme of moral tinkering And ethical cobbling Wluit Uod floe's, he dors newt now heavens, new ijirth, new l-ly, new heart: "Ilehold I mako all tilings now." In the Gospel thus wo move into a new world And under a now scheme. Tho creative days are buck agalu. Wo step out of a regime of Jails and hospitals and reform shops. We got live cilciU direct from (li), That la tlio Uoepcl. The (o.d i a inuanetit miraele. Uod at first haud that la lnlrarle. The Gospel thus die s not rloaslf) with other ar-hc ines ot icmcllorullurt. They aro gesal, but ibis Is not simply better, but dlffurent, Istlnct, and better boennsu dlsttncti tt w orka lu a new w a) , and works another work. Compare the wrought chains riuted on the demoniac, itnd the dltlno word working a new cictatlnu In the do-monlao. do-monlao. It la all there. It Is like the difference lwlween the llujiotent Persian lashing tho tutlmlent sea villi chnina, mid the graclous Lord uilng t tho troubled sea, "Peace, 1 stllll'-lter. U U. rarkhurst. |