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part was played by his miracle at the battle of Beder, dur 

 ing which, on his throwing dust into the air, there came to 

 his rescue legions of angels, who were seen and testified to 

 by many on the field, both by his friends and by his ene 

 mies ; and when I found that miraculous testimonies play 

 a leading part in all religions, even in favor of doctrines 

 the most cruel and absurd, I felt that the &quot;evidences&quot; 

 must be weak which brought forward an argument so ill 

 grounded. Moreover, in my varied reading I came across 

 multitudes of miracles attributed to saints of the Roman 

 Catholic Church, miracles for which myriads of good 

 men and women were ready to lay down their lives in at 

 testation of their belief, and if we must accept one class 

 of miracles, I could not see why we should not accept the 

 other. 



At the close of this first year, for reasons given else 

 where, I broke away from this little college and went to 

 Yale. 



