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 ��part is superfluous, and though some parts take a mere active and prominent place than others, all are useful and necessary. It is becoming popular among the so-called " advanced thinkers'' and " great theologians" of the present day to treat lightly, or to ignore if they do not deny, many of the "miracles" of the Old Testament, calling them "old wives' fables." Of these are the accounts of Jonah and the great fish, Noah and the ark, Eve and the serpent, the stand- ing still of the sun at the command of Joshua, and Ba- laam's speaking ass. Seemingly these wise men overlook the fact that the Bible is so interwoven and united in its various parts that to tear from it those miracles, or to discredit them, is to destroy or discredit the whole. For if the orig- inal accounts arc false, those who repeated the^n were either falsifiers or dupes, and in either case it would be impossible for us to accept their testimony as divinely inspired. To eliminate from the Bible the miracles mentioned would in- validate the testimony of its principal writers, besides that of our Lord Jesus. The story of the fall is attested by Paul (Rom. 5 : 17); also Eve's beguilement by the serpent (2 Cor. 11:3; i Tim. 2 : 14). See also our Lord's refer*- ence to the latter in Rev. 12:9 and 20 : a. The standing of the sun at the overthrow of the Amorites, as an evidence of the Lord's power, was evidently typical of the power to be displayed in the future, in "the day of the Lord, 11 at the hand of him whom Joshua typified. This is attested by three prophets, (Isa. 28 : 21 ? Habak, 2 : 1-3, 13, 14 and 3; 2-n ; Zech. 14: t, 6, 7.) The account of tha speaking ass is confirmed by Jnde (verse T T), and by Peter (2 Pet a : 1 6). And the great teacher, Jesus, confirms the narra- tives of Jonah and the great fish and of Noah and the flood. (Matt* 12 : 40 j 24 : 38, 39 $ Luke 17 1 26. See also i Pet, 3 : to.) Really these are no greater miracle? than those performed by Jesus aad the apostles, such as the

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