New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28

thak man would lie, and d:d accord with human OK
pcfience that miracles would happen SIN that is o"n
Gcrous ground. All agree though that for oenoi IN
miracle ycu have good testimony, enough y. 10
from pure lips honest hearts, intelligent
and when men have laid down their lives on 'nat Us'
mony been torn by wild beasts becl roasted at the nes
Of martyrdom pierced with slain IN deense vi
their testimony and the truth, IL - mr'cio .h"'
mon should go through tho act unless inc!
testied to truth and believe their evidence
Now r;d.yt,r discere rerum Qid rctat We may some
times illustrate truth with amusement Not very long
.co p,.ueh had very pleasant cclloluy aud cartoon
showing yersaon between rualstic cufate OF tno
English Church and Sunday hoy on the sup,eot
az miracles. "My boy" says the clergyman what Is
miraciet" and tho boy answered correctly. the hrst
te that he didn't know swell, my lad, IL you should
wake up in tho middle OF the night ond see the sun
aiming what should you say that wasS says the poy
81 should say 1t was tho moon" fLaughterJ "Wel'
but supposiny n man should tell you that 1t was
the SUM- Whit should YOU say them" says INC
boy 81 should say he lied" fIaughterl weii' win
dignity and emotion the curate proceeds: suppose
that never tell le should say TO You that was inc
sum- what should you say then :" 81 should say that
You were drunk" [I.sughterI Well, now, tha' SHOWS
how hard IL is TO prove miracle
Well, now. here vo have blazing Of adultery In
the serene religious light OF the most sanity characters
testified TO by Witnesses and II you were asked under
these moral conditions OF miracles what criticism would
be made upon statement that this blazing sun OF
adultery was flaming Of tho very heavens OF religious
purity what woud you sayi Why youwoud say that 1t
was tho moon sughterl; that nothing inconsistent with
chastity and purity could display itself out OF those
heavens Ali but IL Mr. Tilton along and says
"But II Sir Marmalukc laugher the husband OF this
pious wife, the friend Of this apostolic clergy
man-if say to you that 1t is tho blaz-
tg sun OF adultery, what would you say
theni" think you would say that he lied And II MI
Moulton Sir Philip Sidney laughterl that never told
lie Jaughtcr he should say "But IL on the honor OF
Sir Philip Sidney llaughtcrl and my own combned-I
say It is blazing sun Of adultery"-you would say
that he was drunk. But Punch's catochiSm has gvoh
out and we have another witness 81 tho wire OF Sr
Philip Sidney the communicate OF Henry Ward Beech
err the sisery friend of Mrs Tton say that 1t the
blazing SIN Of adultery ont OF those puro heavens
What would you say TO that Well poteness, even in
bow would make him hesitate. but think he would
have to say der would not give in to the miracle-he
would say, Well. madam think you must have oeen
sunstruck and don't know the moon from the sum-"
uanghter Now gentlemen, there greater contrar
city in the propositions of the natural miracle ana
the sense OF tho boy thus illustrated by o humorous
story than the ooatTarey between the armament of the
moral authority OF this world fixed by the same Divine
hand that OF the stars and divided the day
and the night between the and the moon, dscrim
mated by as firm lines this natural arrangement OF the
skes-ust as impossible of arrangement just as much
final and disorder this transportation or the sun
and the moon in their natural reigns fixed by the Au
thor of this material frame which we live. Nay more
lie who mado these moral divisions meant that they
should he permanent than the physicai ane' or
He said "TEe heavens and the earth shall pass away
hut moi one lot or little of nv law shall fail" Now, that
is respectable authority. and the date of the contnu-
ance OF that law and OF responsibility under It, Is so
remote that it Is worth while TO run our heads
against 1t.