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coming race will cast out miracles, never to 

 return. Every one who knows what miracles 

 imply will praise him in consequence } as one of 

 the greatest benefactors of the human race." 

 (p. 41) ! ! ! 



Mr. Noel remarks that " the above 

 passage is commendable, at any rate, for 

 its clearness and candour ; " he might with 

 equal justice have added, a more stupen- 

 dous piece of folly, impiety, and untruth- 

 fulness was never penned by the most 

 daring and blaspheming Atheist since the 

 world began. The man who in the present 

 day can deny the fact of the miracles 

 recorded in Scripture, and patent to the 

 whole world, is nothing more or less than 

 an ignorant and intolerant bigot, who is 

 unworthy of the least notice. If any 

 Christian might think it worth while to 

 notice the delusion which has beclouded 

 the minds of infidels like Strauss and his 

 godless followers, we need only (1) point 

 to the Saviour's Resurrection from the 

 grave, on which the Christian religion 

 rests, and the certainty that in God's own 

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