Divine revelation itself is a fact in the moral order entirely beyond and above the physical order of nature--by its nature, a miracle. It can be proved only by miracles; and miracles are the appropriate accompaniment of its continuance as a dispensation of divine Providence. Hence, in the church--the kingdom of heaven--in which God specially reigns and rules, and in which the moral order is endowed with supernatural force, and interworks with the physical order of nature, we should as readily and as reasonably look for miracles, as, if we may be allowed a trivial comparison, we should expect, when examining a piece of complicated machinery, to find that one set of wheels will control and at times arrest the ordinary action of other wheels, and interpose some result due to their own special action in the general series of results. Not to take account of the moral and supernatural order in God’s ruling the world is not to recognize the highest and greatest of his acts. The rationalist is like a deaf man before an exquisite musical clock. His eye may follow the hands as they move round the dial; but he has closed his ears to the sweet melodies that float around him. FOOTNOTE: [53] _Two Essays on Scripture Miracles and on Ecclesiastical_. By John Henry Newman, formerly Fellow of Oriel College. Second edition. London: Pickering. 1870. New York: Sold by the Catholic Publication Society. 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 396. NEW PUBLICATIONS. THE LIQUEFACTION OF THE BLOOD OF ST. JANUARIUS, AT NAPLES. An Historical and Critical Examination of the Miracle. New York: The Catholic Publication Society. 1872.