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as miracles, or in any way asperse the truth of the revelation 

 of which tliey form part. He compares the general resurrection 

 of men to the first introduction of life into this glohe, and says, 

 with strict truth, if the latter was a miracle, as we believe, it is 

 a miracle precisely similar in kind to the miracle wliich believers 

 are expecting at the last day. Some minds are sufficiently 

 convinced by beginning with the acceptance of the miracles as 

 proved by external evidence, and going on from this to accept 

 the conclusion that the teaching which was thus attested must 

 be divine. Temple, speaking for himself evidently, says that it 

 is quite impossible for most men to take to pieces in this 

 manner the records in which the Revelation is contained, and 

 to go from external evidence to the messengers, and thence 

 to the substance of their message, by so easy a method of 

 conviction. He shows how to most of us Revelation is a 

 whole, and one which is found to be divine from whatever side 

 it is looked at. He gives a short account, but a very forcible 

 one, of the evidence for New Testament miracles, and replies to 

 anticipated objections, showing the extreme scientific objector 

 the limitations of his mental attitude towards the world as a 

 whole. He bases his strongest line of evidence on the attestation 

 to our Lord's miracles and character by the disciples in their 

 teaching, their lives, and their deaths, and upon the moral and 

 spiritual evidence displayed by His own character, which 

 intentionally overshadows the rest, and declares it inconceivable 

 that He should have made a false claim. 



Summary. 



The arguments are summed up in the statement that the 

 great Postulate of Science, the tJniformity of Nature, is not 

 demonstrated as universal, but as exceedingly probable, with 

 the exception of two great instances, the Divine will and the 

 human will, that these two exceptions are in no sense barriers 

 to the onward march of Science with her ample powers, her 

 free charter, and extensive field ; that the moral law rests on 

 itself, and that it requires no imiDrimatur at the hands of 

 science, that the avowed purpose and the undeniable effects of 

 Theism and its Revelation are manifested phenomena ; that the 

 results of Revelation, though not a demonstration of God's 

 existence, are a full answer to those who ask, " If God made 

 and rules the world, why do v/e find no signs of His hand in its 

 course ? " This answer is as old as that given by St. Paul on 

 Mars Hill, and its fulness of meaning grows with the passing 



