Show PROP l 4 ajL L Prof ro Chat W I of the Northwestern North western university lint ba cr created it d quiet a astir astir stir by his hi stuck attack upon th the ill Wo ble IN its JI him bias 1161 advanced anything Any thin n new w uti that W Ide of or an apparently I abbe has Imi li he presented hi III his ir with gIOre tilling affect thun then did Voltaire Paine and others wall In hl h his day anti g Hut But tune tact fact th that Ihal t Sir bur Ir Pearson It Is an lit of or young YOUK men mart and woman women In III Ina Ina a n Methodist Institute of or learning at ati i raft much attention to III hi his sow OHM Tim The on as In la h Q says Mrs 11 the Ihl la Is the th moat 10 louv mil of lIt all book hut but ut Its great groat ere r re In III nn earthen i n vessel There ire are tare area among amoni the the wheat An As such auch terse tare tl li h he considers the tho sto or of f I claim not hot noto ilU hotto to 10 o believe In Ip miracles though their very vory art existence tiny hey he IC u It miracle The I of or the dory flory f CI mace ace file tho ravens rn Ii I or tho the dividing lInK of ot the tho waters walorg nil nn many other lither miracles are nrc especially pointed to In n nil as The dr does loen 1101 not ot to O say pay that ho must IN be to u 1 u very bold or n very vety vel Ignorant man who vho will that he lie believes Hint butt threw uro are literally true truo And yet rei et tho the most enlightened men In every everyn ever n nJ age have havo believed In the Tho rho question of ot Is IB pretty veil soli ell threshed out In the theological lit literature of ot the ages agey If It miracles pro lin Irn belief ballet In tho alto existence of or Cod CodIs Is s nl absurd urd For Irol or U It nod Cod knows no moro about lI the tho laws lawn of or nature than men do doand and con consequently Is III III In hH he actions Urn Ihn ted Iced to tho the sphere within which He III In Is I nut not God Coil lint It if Ho lie has hail and i far the tho boldest conceptions oC or man then thon tho the dl uc about tho the possibility of ot mir mil nodes nolea noe U is I Idle In fact we ve are uru surround surrounded ed by miracles on nil all We ve facts which human wis wi wisdom dom lorn cannot explain nor power Imitate The very er establishment of at the lino Chris Chrls ChrisIan lan Ian religion In the world Js inn irr br nt n a miracle ns as n any on recorded In III authentic writ writA A trench French Writer puts this tile very foro fora ably bly Ho Ito supposes n meeting between Jesus of or Nazareth and lint nn no eminent phil Tho he latter risks tho the Master Io tor about aboul Ills Ilia plea for tor the tho propagation Of ot the and ond In is told of ot the tho t e means by hy which Ho expected to 10 conquer the tho worM world Then he the exclaims That U is to say M you ou propose to en the lie wine the Ignorant r the th strong through who are wo weak lc attract the multitudes by against lt their vices Ic you OU pro propose propose pose to make adherents by and loath death It In Is your our purpose to dethrone all 11 the Olympian gods and to ho bo adored I In n their stand stend you who ho according to your own ern to ls must bo bl to n a across TOW cross c ro as ns u II nail the tha basest of or Come C your plan Is la but folly rally It I will be hI Justly the object of ot this eon con succeed hu ann nature must ln hu recast The refer motion matlen of ot the moral world by the Iho means you propose propane la Is nn as Impossible as ns the change of ot this material world And I rather than believing In tho the success fit of your our undertaking 1 would believe that you yo II could fould with n a 1 word shatter the earth and make to 10 fall from mm tho the firma firmament nent ment the sun lun and tho the stars To 10 human humen philosophy the establish establishment establishment I ment of the Church by b tho the moans mann Cod O ll MIl hail appointed looked about as Impossible sible III hIe as III that But nut It was done Tho The miracle was Was performed and history bears record of ot the fact That ThaI miracle cannot be denied could coul l depend vol on en another the resurrection of or Je Jeus lUll us whereby Ire Ho proved l Ills divine mission Hut If the resurrection Is II ad od admitted milled no well attested miracle needs Med to be doubted position Is that held holt by bya a 11 great real many people who boll believe avo that thaI I their knowledge And their understand understandIng I lug Ing are arc the proper for tor mea mca airing truth they thoy do 0 not under I stand and ond cannot explain must for forsooth sooth necessarily be bo myth Testimony Is js to them worthless They will accept nothing but what they have havo seen or hoard Necessarily their knowledge ge will bo be e limited Their nd ad must bo be slow In other than religious matters they are ready enough to profit lont by tho the experience and anil research of ot but In religion they the theare are Tiny They must see seo for them themselves selves before they can con believe that lint their brethren speak the truth To a n certain extent scepticism m may ml be ex ox excusable and oven even beneficial but It Is III detrimental to progress to carry corry It too far tar The wanderer that thaI hastens on onward onward onward ward to 10 a goal ROal still tar far away awn cannot stop to look at every pebble In hits hit hI path though he mAY carefully look for any landmark that tells tolls him whether lIler he Is III on the tho right road or not And If Ir he finds that he Is II following In Inthe Inthe Inthe the footsteps of or the noblest spirits that over lived Including the Son San of Cod Himself he no noel l not fear tOOl that he Is staying st from the thu truth |