Here perhaps ends the Gospel of St. Matthew as far as definite sentences of teaching are concerned, and probably sufficient ideas have been taken out and compared for the purpose of this differentiation. As regards the acts of the Gospel, there remains the consideration of the miracles. The healing of the sick, the lame, the blind, has become the example of the West, and what Christ did by miracle they do by science. The East, however, insists on the miraculous, and to-day in Russia thousands of miracles are performed annually at the sacred shrines. Whether these miracles are genuine or no is a moot point. Many certainly are no more than ecclesiastical contrivances for gaining popular support for ikons and shrines. Many are said to be the result of the faith of those who ask the miracle. At Kief and Sarof and New Jerusalem many a blind man receives sight, many a crippled woman straightens herself out, many a sick man is restored to health. The Eastern Church lays stress on the miraculous; the miracle, however, is esoterically understood as mystery. The Russian has an extraordinary capacity for belief. There remains the Crucifixion, of which I will say no more than that it is the greatest _podvig_, the crown of the life of Jesus. For the West it is the Resurrection that is emphasised. As I wrote in _With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem_: “For the Orthodox, He was dead; for the Protestant, He is alive for evermore.” So two churches combine to make one truth, and the hand-maidens of the Lord, Martha and Mary, are shown to be indeed two sisters, not only in kindred but in spirit. THE END _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_. BOOKS BY STEPHEN GRAHAM =A TRAMP’S SKETCHES.= =WITH THE RUSSIAN PILGRIMS TO JERUSALEM.= =WITH POOR EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA.= =THE WAY OF MARTHA AND THE WAY OF MARY.= These four books, published by Macmillan & Co., form a sequence of which the _Tramp’s Sketches_ is like a prologue or a promise. The Pilgrim book is of the Way of Mary; the America book is of the Way of Martha; and the fourth book, _The Way of Martha and the Way of Mary_, knits the other three in one. _Other Volumes._ =RUSSIA AND THE WORLD=: An Account of how Russia is affected by the War. Fifth Edition. =VAGABOND IN THE CAUCASUS=: Mr. Graham’s first book. =UNDISCOVERED RUSSIA=: A Presentment of Holy Russia. =CHANGING RUSSIA=: Written in 1912. By STEPHEN GRAHAM WITH THE RUSSIAN PILGRIMS TO JERUSALEM Illustrated. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net. _THE ATHENÆUM._—“M. Jusserand’s _Pilgrim Life in the Middle Ages_ or Burton’s or Doughty’s accounts of their pilgrimages to Mecca are books of secure repute. Mr. Graham in _With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem_ gives us a companion volume.”