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superstitious almost a work o f superhuman skill. The abused and offended maker, yet unpaid for his work, came one day and touched its secret springs, and it stopped. All the patience and ingenuity of a nation’s mechanics and artizans failed to restore its disordered mechanism and set it in motion. Afterward, when his grievances were redressed, that maker came again, touched the inner springs and set it again in motion, and all its multiplied parts revolved again obedient to his will. When thus,, by a touch, he suspended and restored those marvelous movements, he gave to any doubting mind proof that he was the maker— certainly the master, o f that clock. And when Jesus of Nazareth brings to a stop the mechanism o f nature, makes its mighty wheels turn back or in any way arrests its grand movement— more than all, when he can not only stop, but start again, the mysterious clock o f human life, he gives to an honest mind overwhelming proof that God is with Him. For a malignant ppwer might arrest or destroy, but only He could reconstruct and restore! IV. The argument for the credibility of miracles is grandly conclusive and magnificent-in the scope of its hor izon: in fact its very extent is embarrassing; but the main difficulty is that it must embrace in its wide range the entire question of the credibility of Gospel history. If the writers o f the New Testament are to be believed, then we are Just so far on the road to believing their accounts of miraculous works. If their narrative is, for any reason, unworthy of credence, o f course the credibility of the mir acles which they .record need not engage our attention. There is, however the extended argument on the credibility of the Scripture history, viz., is the account of a miracle, in itself, credible? *- ^ . The foes o f Christianity have wit and wisdom enough to ¿.see that they may as well give up the fight, unless they can break down the evidence o f miracles.- Let them allow that one miraculous work has been wrought, and there 4s a fatal breach in their wall of defense; for, if one miracle has been wrought, others may have been— if miraculous works, why not miraculous words? and so prophecy, as well as miracle, is conceded. And of what use to oppose a system o f reli gion, buttressed up by b Important Books For Preacner, Teacher and Christian Worker Jesus Christ at the Crossroads B y A . Z . C o n ra d , D . D . W ith the certa in ty o f p ro p h e tic viaion and the fearlesa zeal that a ccom p a n ie s such certa in ty, th e w riter ch a l len ges M od ern ism to p ro v e its righ t to exist. 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