Resurrection to Ascension.
Cities and Vil- lages. The Lake. Caper- naum. Tyre and Sidon. D e c a p o 1 i s. Csesarea Phil- ippi.
Probably 28, 29.
Galilee. Judsea. Persea.
Jerusalem vicinity.
and
Jerusalem.
Galilee.
Olivet.
Probably 29 or 30.
iii. Results of our Lord's Ministry. — Wlien we attempt to sum up the results of our Lord's ministry, we have to distinguish between those which were gathered during His life and those which have been maturing through the centuries following.
1. During His life. — Briefly, Ave should here have in mind : (a) the multitudes who were reached by His personal influence both in His teaching and His liealing ; (6) the number of particular ad- herents won, including the Twelve and all other disciples mentioned in the Gospels, together with those mentioned or alluded to in the early chapters of Acts ; [r) the training of the Twelve for their work after His departure ; and (d) tlie establish- ing of the institutions of the Kingdom of God — preaching, tlie ordinances, the Church. _ 2. Since His nsccnsion. — The history of Chris- tianity for nineteen centuries only partially de- scribes the outcome of Christ's short ministry upon earth. It is indeed a commonplace, but withal a glorious trutli. to say that no other term of service in any man's life, whether longer or shorter, was ever so ])otent an influence or so formative a force for all tiiat is best in human affairs.
Literature.— The Lives of Christ, esp. Andrews, The Life of our Lord ; Broadus, Harmony of the GosjmIs, with Notes oil dates by A. T. Robertson ; art. ' Chronology ' in Hastings' DB
(Turner) and in Enci/c. Bibl. (von Soden), and the literature adduced ; art. in The Biblical World (Chicago) for Dec. 1905, by Professor Votaw. E. C. DARGAN.
MINSTRELS.— See Flute-players.
MINT {r)5vo(jixov, mentha) is mentioned only in Mt 23-^ and the parallel passage Lk 11'*-, where it is represented as being subject to tithe. It is a familiar garden herb, belonging to the natural order Labiatre. The species commonly grown in Palestine is horse-mint {M. sylvcstris), and there can be little doubt that this is tiie mint of Scrip- ture. It is extensively used fur culinary purposes, and is also higlily valued as a carminative. Mint was probably one of the ' bitter herbs ' with which the Paschal lamb was eaten.
Hugh Duncan.
MIRACLES.— The process of thought and re- search, both theological and scientific, has led to a position where belief in the actuality, in the career of Jesus, of those remarkable activities and mani- festations sumrtied up under the comprehensive and popular term ' niiracle,' is made possible if not inevatable. Tlie iirevailing negative attitude of science shows signs of being abandoned in view of enlarging understanding of the possibilities both in Matter and in Spirit, and theology is coming to see that the miraculous events recorded of Him who was the Son of God and the Regenerator of the Race must not be conceived of as in any sense or degree a violation of the order of Nature ; and that viewed in this way they become, instead of difficulties and stumbling-l)locks in the way of faith, some of its n\ost convincing reinforcements. It is scarcely too much to affirm that a belief in these occurrences as vital parts of the Christian revelation is rising, compared with which all previous belief is feeble and superficial. "Without being unduly optimistic, we may anticipate that the ' ages of faith ' in every department of Chris- tian trutii, and not least in that of miracle, are yet to come. This consummation is being pre- pared for in modern conceptions of the Order of Nature, of Human Personality, and of the Divine Being.
1. Modern conceptions of the Order of Nature. Christian advocates are becoming thorouglily dis- posed to accept unreservedly the scientific teaching of the Unity of Nature, carefully guarding the admission from being read as the Uniformity of Nature. Tliey recognize and take account of the inalienable connexion between cause and effect by which the Universe consists. They do not regard tlie miracles of the Go.spels as in the lea.st degree arbitrary interruptions of the Order of Nature, but rather as a revelation of the infinite extent of that order. The ancient antagonism between the Natural and the Supernatural has broken down, and the two spheres are seen to be one, regarded from opposite poles. Grave objections lie against the term ' supernatural,' which is entirely un-Scrip- tural, and many modern tliinkers prefer the term ' spiritual ' to express the animating and sustaining Power which pervades all things. Without the spiritual the physical universe has no ground of being, and nothing exists, not the least fraction of the material, still less anything of human affection and sympathy and personal life-force, apart from the Universal Life. If the term ' supernatural ' be retained, it must be on the distinct understanding that while all things may be conceived of as super- naturally sustained, it may with equal propriety be asserted that the whole Universe, including not only the physical but the mental, moral, and spiritual in human personality, is a part of the Order of Nature. The powers and sympathies that work in man cannot be sejiarated from that order,
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