480 THE "LORD'S PRAYER the tenacious professors of different reli- gions, yet, as if actuated by one universal feeling, simultaneously to rise up in one common cause for the accomplishment of this mighty object,- when the first use they made of the termination of war was to disseminate the Gospel of-peace ; the first tribute they paid to theglor of God was to publish abroad that grand instru-. ment of good will to men I Let us not then indulge groundless imaginations, as if miracles were wrought to justify indo- lence ; as if man were to be elcused the trdul3le of being the active, agent of Divine Providence. The miracles wrought at Ephesus seem rather to have been intended as a con- firmation of the truth of St. Paul's doc- trine, than as the actual instrument of conversion. Many rejected the Gospel who saw the miracles. The miracles wrought did not supersede the necessity of the Apostle's " speaking boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the
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