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Show Htrttles," bears tho, following testimony: tes-timony: M5ome eaH out deun to thoron;Ur and trnl- that thoM -Tho arc linj-cleansed linj-cleansed from the ondea-i tplntt become raithfal and nieairv-a of iheCharebjoUi-tts'-esitbt'lle. Ouwiah the layunr on of Mn-1 Many have already been raiaed up from tbe dead and bare remained amonj m for many yean. There are innumerable worUol uraee which the Chcrch ia ne whole world hartclrea aad produced in the name of Jem Cbriit." Orients (died 213) in his difenw "Agaliiat Celwe" fx". "Majy Va"ietrticJ to tho.c which lby have heal-d, that tbey ttroojh faith hate rcctted a miracetoei rower: do taro calKd on the name of ihe .MaUfbti and on .'esniaad thereby heeled tSoettat were aita. In tKla way. rrany win ntered from fearTal ldncic,inaiuly and many other erllsha.et-een cured, althomti no other man and no detaoaeoald help Item. Ve conld retaU! raany cch inu5ct.6ot itmewcn: to write It dofcu.tbo fbeptica e-oeld ridirtle lt.altboajb we hare been eye-'SitneMeaoanelves. t-od is onr wit treaa xSat we do not wUb lo deceUe with jalie ftatetaents bet that re with to recommend recom-mend the ditine teaehinit of Jcicf. by many and Indisputable facta." Tertulilau (dkJ i);, Inh!s"Ao-Iogy,"glvodirei.-tLhalleugetothe heathens to produce anyone who has an evil Spirit anl cantince theiutelVts that tlm demon would be compelled to leave his victim. yielding to the wwer of the Christians. Chris-tians. Thwe are po erful Ipnwfs that the miraculous gifts did not cease with the Aioslles, not-withstanding not-withstanding the assertions of the Protestants to the contrary. Arguments against miraculous inanlfestatiou- are remarkably scanty scan-ty and fallacious, for mere denials cannot be coiisidervd argum-nt. Hume hel I that no miracles had eer been lUffielentiy pruved, audi therefore could not be believed. Zellerwcnt a step farther and asserted as-serted Hut nu miracle could be proved. Thl. he fays, Is according ac-cording tit the very nature of miracle. They cannot be proved, for if tbey could, they would be no miracle; hence, he argue", no miracles ar- poaib!. The fallacy I of this is too glaring to need refuta- j tion, and yet it contains in sub-1 stance all thst ever na argued , agaiut miracle. Opposed t(this presumption, thai . miraculous nutnifcBtalions nre liu-! possible because they cannot lie j proved stands the fact that thou-1 sands and thousands hsve l-een i tcstiCeil toby reliable eye-witaes-es, , nut only in ancient times but in every age, not ouly hi n certain class of people tail many class. Chris thus and iiou-Ci:ristian, learned aud illiterate, rich aud iwr, can be produced as nitnesjin to miraculous occurrences. In fact, inpiteof the denial of the keptlc", Mich occur-reucet occur-reucet areasccrtainly provedaany historic event that ever took place. To Illustrate this t ill be the oljevt of subseuuent aTiiCteJ. 'in this sub-1 iect. I |