| Show BELIEF IN MIRACLES it is ie yet within the memory 0 of t th h older members of the church th thattil W when hen the mormon elders pre preacher ache the gifts of the holy spirit or maracle leapart as a part of the of obedience tf the gospel goepel of christ the idea W wat aa scouted ridiculed and benoune denounced ed b byl modern christendom the pr professed 0 fe christians who lived at the beg D I 1 D of this dispensation had been taug taught that miracles were done away bebau because no longer needed although in ahw 1 1 church of christ they are a permanent feature for the benefit of the faith ful the no longer need deeded edwIt excuse was given civen to cover cotor the is faff of 0 f the disappearance of mirael SA performed by divine authority a an which had bad ceased because the aurb ity bad been taken away through general apostasy from vital principle lo in the christian church it was wae a aari yet IP an argument with the which grow grew up in the third and bu BUO beeding centuries wat that as the you tree in the orchard needed the care oa a gardener until iti iti li became well roote and then could got get along itself so tart I 1 church needed miracles and lifts gifts I 1 ift it its early years till established an i then could do without them J do the he force of f the be argument is lost in fact that even the firmly felmly rooted tree needs the oars care of the gar gardener garde desker in pruning and cultivating tle cle it grows brows wild and its fruit becomes compers comps oom pira rs avely ehll and worthless worth leBB and a church without the gifts soon boon would arrive at a condition be sides miracles were not the means meane by which to the abe church but bu were the be evidence to the salute sainte of the aird 1 ard being with them by the power of hla 13 and this evidence is as as aa to an necessary eMary to one generation other in order that living hotl may of goda power and approval ot of his saints may be manifest to them but the belief in miracles mira clea which was elders early in preached Pea obed by mormon this century and then was universally denounced as rank heresy has bae in consequence oi of that preaching and the undeniable evl evidence devoe of facts come to ba accepts j by var various bous religious teach fn an a limited devow denominations oft and no and the leaven is working for a tall foil acceptance of the mormon doc point BB as upon other trine ne upon this there are some gobbel principles such those the lord as aa not ot of worked by the magicians and exor timea and by the same disk atef of but these are not ot ol 01 q glass in those days which the saints bainte fie 6 miracles or gifts miraculous or heavenly enjoy the power d As aa gla gifts exhibited among the in that saints Is the same as aa she ke early church which belble believers bel levera accept today as aa lauine there bag bae been a great effort del to deny or ex on a tie the part of former day miracles plain away the but ut the fact of their renewal 10 thia age and the teaching of the doctrine ban baa been a 8 potent fee fac wr tw in staylor the progress Po greeB of the th the belief in idea infidel and raise celent mira olea by many who have to compres comprehend end their 1109 yet learned la Is b baerd d to jay as on DA a grm firm found sti alloo ons an aa may be noted in nante his recent declaration by congre to la california miracles it seems to we believe in Us that the authenticity of them is in as JIMMY established an aa the exploits of i not be unmade the bible may toy hy the denial of them thein but 19 i 6 historic valva itte would be sadly discounted we believe in their possibility in accord with ith laws law as yet unknown to us the electricity already common have ave been as an mira plane to us ua would gift 01 fifty any years ago all these wonders have ve been bee possible ible since creation only the th rel relations between the external five senses are deter wod and the we cannot see as nixed by creation red that which is yellow nor as great th that which is little but beyond the realm am ox or sense is in t that blat of reason where the h incredulous gri grieve eve and the wary di doubt t unless they accept t some things by th h ce centuries of believers have ac pied the mira miracles clent a and ad any who tore stall atall the I 1 lodgment of posterity poil erity show that they ate are not confident of it let no man contempt for the build a spurious for the world will sooner or Is ia or er discover the deficiencies of his dogma which will render his logic unstable in the world of thought miracles have been to some as credential credentia 19 9 the prophets and seers seera of the old dispensa tion used them to show that they thern melvear were from god and were given power by him to perform wonders in acme aada they were essential to the prophets character and to the many who saw jenu jem the miracles he wrought were evidence that he was waa a great prophet there la IS a prophetic expression in IB the be quoted statement that no man build a contempt for the miraculous because the deficiency of his big dogma will be dincov ered ared by the world the way to hat discovery to la through the establishing of the fact of miracles in modern times the same that were in the church anciently and add la in the same church it to IB by this that t at the world will gearu the deficiency of the antl anti miraculous dogma and the prediction of it the discovery die covery Is IB a prophecy that the of the latter times and tb miraculous of the first century of the christian era will combine in their witness in behalf of the tru b h miracles are needed und they do exist io in the be church of christ today as ae in for imes |
