65 
the first instance was evidential, and concluding that therefore it could 
not be a miracle, J meant to deny that it was a credential of a divine 
message or revelation. Now that we are certified of the fact, I admit 
that it is evidential of God’s existence and almighty power. But that it 
was either when it occurred, or now, evidential of a divine message or 
revelation, I cannot see. Neither can I see how, in the first instance, it 
was evidential of anything, since, ex hypothesi, there‘ were no recipients 
of evidence in exchange. If, however, Dr. Martin chooses to regard the 
miracle as not essentially evidential. he is entitled to his opinion. Only 
he must be content to occupy an exceptional position. 
I must close here. I cannot follow Dr. Martin in his three remain- 
ing articles. If his charge that I have contradicted logic has been proved 
to be inconclusive, it is likely that the charge of contradiction to the 
Confession of Faith, standard authors, and the Bible, is in the same cat- 
egory. Be that as it may, the first argument must serve as a sample of 
the others. As to the charge that I have contradicted my humble self, 
I have only this to say, that as Dr. Martin has proved that I contradict 
logic, the Confession, standard writers, the Bible—everything, the proof 
that I contradict myself may be proof that I have got right. 
A friend of Dr. Martin shouts triumphantly, in the Southern Pres- 
byterian, that I have been struck by the ‘“‘Martin cyclone.” I deprecate 
the discourtesy, as he himself will the logic, of this definition of his 
attack: proximate genus, Storm; specific difference, consisting of four 
specific marks—(1) Windy; (2) Moving in a circle; (3) Blown by 
Dr. Martin; (4) Demolishing Professor Girardeau. ‘I would hasten 
my escape from the windy storm and tempest. . . . For it was not an 
enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it; neither was it 
he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would 
have hid myself from him: but it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide 
and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked 
unto the house of God in company.” 
