| Show OF MIRACLES the position of the chu churches robes of the world in this into age to in relation to miracles is difficult to account for by those who maintain that these churches are christian in their doo doc trines brines it amounts amount to nothing low less than skepticism regarding one of the more important features of primitive christianity the gospel presupposes miracles so as a well established fact they are signs following the be fl bevera evero they are spiritual gifts glate or r of the spirit and a proof r 0 0 to the world that the power to fo forgive r g 1 ve sin is given to those commie stoned to act in the name of the lord but in this age ae such nob gifts are not desired by the churches and the consequence is a theology almost entirely without any manifestations of the holy spirit of god true the catholic church recognizes recognises of the continuation of miracles but bat 2000 according arding to the of the council a supernatural phenomenon must first be submitted to the judgment of a bishop who is V t consult theologians andl other pious laymen pi about it before it can be accepted as a mir miracle sele and bonse fluently everything wonderful that tha w happens outside the catholic church as well as a everything that does not quit euit the purpose ol of the clergy la Is declared to be hallucination imagination and fraud the modern protestants have gone a step star further and declare that the supernatural ended with the days day of th the 1 9 first apostles modern miracles a are r declared to be impossible or at least sup in IB thle as in so 80 many oth other r points pro touches very closely pure infidelity it looks as if modern christianity had bad gradually yielded its to position to the advancing sciences a maneuver all the more unnecessary because no true scientist has baa ever pretended that all there to Is to know in nature is actually known one truth never contradicts another and it will therefore always ultimately be found that the teachings of the gospel goepel including those which refer to the super natural natura Tare sol in full harmony with and find and support in the discoveries of the sciences eien ces already augustine lecog nicee this when he said how can CAD that which expressed the will of god be against nature since the nature of everything is according to the will of the creator in ja ing a S miracle the lord does noth against nature th the ams 1 t ur a may seem unnatural to to 1 us I buffet to god who made every everything it to is gratifying toso tool t that hai notwithstanding the t 6 of a mummified advanced thought though t goes in the direction of decoir sizing the of miracles and accepting those of the bible as true it to is conceded that the geat director of the universe neither suspends nor ignores the laws of nature but ands t makes use of them in obtaining the most wonderful results the miraculous to is then not to be considered as something contrary to those laws a al though we with our present knowledge may not be able to explain their origin any more than an inhabitant of central africa may at first light be able to explain the nature of a telephone or an electric battery the laws law by the aid of which our savior healed the sick lok raised the dead changed water loto into wine are un doubt edly as much natural laws ants as is the law of gravitation this la in the view taken by flugel and others in the doctrine and covenants covenant tho the promise to in given that god will show miracles signes algae and wonders unto all those who believe on my name and choso whoso shall ask it la in my name dame in faith they shall cast out devils they shall heal box the sick they shall hall cause the blind to receive their sight eight and the deaf to bear and the dumb to speak and the lame ame to walk here is the scriptural doctrine again given to the church in its original purity parity and sublime simplicity and the latter day saint who in faith have accepted this among the principles of the gospel are not even liable to the censure of the great philosopher kant who justly estly accused those of inconsistency who professed to believe in miracles and yet never produced one for among the saints thousands can testify to the power of god manifest among them as in the early church of our lord even to the occurrence of miracles |
