Show PEARSON ON MIRACLES Professor Pearson whose Pearson whose den denial al of Biblical miracles caused his retirement retirement retire retire- ment the other day from the Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern North North- North North- western university has written a book entitled The Carpenter Prophet embodying embodying embodying em em- bodying his views which is to appear tomorrow The argument of this bookIs book bookIs Is he says that all the superhuman powers attributed to Jesus whether bythe by bythe bythe the enthusiasm of disciples by the Imagination imagination Im im- im- im of poets or by the self Inter est of priests are untrue and if it they are untrue untrue- It f follows ilos ilo's as s a matter ol of course that they are hurtful God is is the God of truth and man becomes godlike in proportion as as' as ashe he knows and obeys the truth Are we and our children children chil chil- dren drea to accept the teachings J o modern science are we i to believe our our g geog geog og and books of chemistry and physics as to the uniformity of natural l laws ws or are we to follow legends and believe that sometimes fire does does' not burn unprotected unprotected flesh that the law of gravitation does not always act and that the law of the inertia of inorganic matter is Int intermittent As no no- noman man can serve God and Mammon 1 so no noman noman man can both and and serve renounce rea rca son Prof Pearson credits the dramatic dramatic dramatic dra matic tendency of the the- writers of the four Gospels with much invention or artistic coloring He says says In fact there Is an as ascending scale of the marvellous year mar ellous In the Gospels and John caps the climax by telling of the resurrection resurrection resurrection tion of Lazarus after he had lain Inthe in inthe inthe the grave f four u ur d days ys |