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man should be able instantaneously to trans- 

 mit his thoughts to another situated a thousand 

 miles away was, until the invention of the elec- 

 tric telegraph, impossible. The actual perform- 

 ance of such an operation would have been as 

 much a miracle as the communication of thought 

 from one planej to another would be now. But 

 if man can thus work miracles, why should not 

 the Almighty do so, when higher moral ends 

 are to be served by apparent interference with 

 the ordinary course of matter and force ? Ad- 

 mitting the existence of God, physical science 

 can have nothing to say against miracles. On 

 the contrary, it can assure us of the probability 

 that if God reveals himself to us at all by nat- 

 ural means, such revelation will probably be 

 miraculous. 



If the possibility of God communicating with 

 his rational creatures be conceded, then the ob- 

 jections taken to prophecy lose all value. If 

 anything known to God and unknown to man 

 can be revealed, things past and future may be 

 revealed as well as things present. Science 

 abounds in prophecy. All through the geolog- 

 ical history there have been prophetic types, 

 mute witnesses to coming facts. Minute dis- 

 turbances of heavenly bodies, altogether inap- 



