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was there a continual miracle in the cessation of the fall of manna on the 
seventh day ? Come down to the time of our blessed Lord. How very 
few were the miracles throughout the prophetic period ! Our blessed Lord 
Himself refers to that— to the one leper who was cleansed, and the one 
widow sustained. Bat was our blessed Lord cautious or sparing in the 
working of miracles ? Were not His miracles of a character calculated to 
strike awe and reverence over all the world ? But where was the necessity 
for such a miracle as cursing the barren fig-tree, and causing it to wither 
away ? If your view is correct, no miracle should be wrought except for 
some high and extraordinary purpose ! But the taking away of one or two 
miracles will not satisfy the sceptical spirit of the age. The men who object 
to one or two miracles deny the existence of miracles at all. They feel that 
if they admit one they might admit thousands. Take the Biblical account of 
the collection of the animals into the Ark. Was there no miracle in bringing 
all the clean and unclean animals together into the Ark ? Do you suppose 
Noah went to bring them together — to tame all the wild animals and bring 
them in ? We do not know enough of science to say that the animals which 
were taken into the Ark were not capable of producing all the varieties that 
we see now upon the earth, and to a certain limited extent I would go with 
Darwin’s theory. We know man’s power of multiplying apparent species — I 
do not say real species — and producing varieties of dogs, horses, pigeons, and 
other animals ; but we do not know enough of the limitation of the law. We 
find that there is a law limiting variation in the propagation of animals, but 
we do not know how far it extends. For anything science shows to the 
contrary, we may account for all the various animals now distributed over 
the face of the earth from those species which were preserved in the Ark. 
Then we are told we multiply miracles for the dispersion of these animals ; 
but the same power of God which brought those which were to be saved 
from all parts of the earth could distribute them again over the whole earth. 
And remember that we know very little of the power and rapidity with 
which the animal creation might increase and multiply when there is nothing 
to disturb their multiplication ; but we do know that one little weed intro- 
duced here from America only a few years ago, has increased to such an 
extent as to become a pest, filling up all our canals ; and that has been done 
within our own memory. We cannot say how rapidly the animals would 
increase and multiply after the earth had been delivered from the deluge. 
Rev. H. Moule. — I have not much to say in reply to the observations 
which have been made, but I will first refer to Mr. Reddie’s remarks as to 
the creation of light. I distinctly stated that the Scriptures appear to speak 
of the events after the period spoken of in the second verse of the first 
chapter of Genesis as a restoration of light and life, and order and beauty. 
Life had existed before ; and, if so, light. Dr. Pusey has stated that 
the original words of the chapter admit the interpretation of an indefinite 
period from the beginning of creation to the period of confusion, thus 
giving a carte blanche on which scientific men might write anything they 
please. With regard to Mr. Titcomb’s remarks, I do not think they have 
