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turning of water into wine, the healing of diseases, etc.; and as a miracle, the awakening of the dead is most won- derful of all.

These miracles, not common to our experience, find par- allels about us every day, which, being more common, are passed by unnoticed- The reproduction of living organisms, either animal or vegetable, is beyond our comprehension, as well as beyond our power hence miraculous. We can see the exercise of life principle, but can neither understand nor produce it. We plant two seeds side by side ; the con- ditions, air, water and soil, are alike; they grow, we cannot tell how, nor can the wisest philosopher explain this mir- acle. These seeds develop organisms of opposite tenden- cies ; one creeps, the other stands erefl; ; form, flower, col- oring, everything differs, though the conditions were the same. Such miracles grow common to us, and we cease to remember them as such as we leave the wonderment of childhood ; yet they manifest a power as much beyond our own, and beyond our limited intelligence, as the few mir- acles recorded in the Bible for special purposes, and asip tended illustrations of omnipotence, and of the ability of the great Creator to overcome every obstacle and te accom- plish all his will, even to our promised resurre&ion from the dead, the extermination of evil, and the ultimate reign of everlasting righteousness.

Here we rest the case. Every step has been tested by reason. We have found that there is a God, a supreme, intelligent Creator, in whom wisdom, justice, love and power exist in perfe<ft harmony. We have found it reasonable t* expe<ft a revelation of his plans to his creatures capable of appreciating and having an interest in them* We have found the Bible, claiming to be that revelation, worthy of consideration. We have examined its writcis, and their possible obje<5is, in the light of <viiat they taught; we have

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