Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-12-29

SHAW! miraclcs-poof! No sucl
thing. All CANNON. every bit of It.
Now if you know any more about it than
/ do sail in.n
''In the first place the records don'l
say it was big fish,"
well, go ahead-dog fish, want it p
NO levity, please. Now you believe
there is a God, or Supreme Power, that
made and controls all things?"
s'S'pose so, but, well-yes, s'pose So"
admitting this, you admit all. Now
| if God can make all things, He can work
miracles, and because our poor finite
minds can't comprehend the Infinite, is
no excuse for our unbelief You see
the sun, the moon, the stars; and it is
hoped the folly of your ways. You hear
the wind, you feel the cold. you smell the
flowers, you taste the fruit; i'm short,
you know you are in possession OF all the
senses, while others may deny that you
possess even common sense. But to re-
sumo. You say all these things exist be-
cause you have the evidence of your
senses to prove it, and you admit that
God made all these because He made all
things. Now, how did He make them ?
Can't explain. For what purpose?
What did he make the mosquito for or
the smallpox, or the yellow fever, or
the Democratic party"
20, mighty He never made that"
'.Or earthquakes. or volcanoes, or many
other things too numerous to mention ?"
s'Give it up"
Don't know, Ell? Then why say
there's no such thing as a miracle, and
never was? Why, man, you're a mira
Gle yourself! Head, heart, brains, bones,
muscle, nerves, arteries, veins flesh,
blood and all that-a model of machine
so perfect that not even Lowell invent
or has ever dared to file caveat in the
patent office, claiming an improvement
on any portion of your physical struc-
ture. Add to this your mental gifts and
spiritual endOwments, and then ask the
wisest of men to explain what you are,
or to even take you all apart and put you
together again, let alone any explana-
ton"
Eyes, but you wander. How about
Jonah and that big fish p
"How do we know? We all believe
many things we can't prove or explain.
1t might have been big fish made to
order. " hat right have you to say it
wasn't so long As you admit that God
created all the inhabitants of the sea,
the beasts of the field, and all things else,
and no two of kind? Well say He
made big fish expressly for that Occa-
sion. The fish swallowed Jonah. and
Jonah lived in the belly of the fish for
three days and three nights. How could
he live? How do you know but the
fish had all the modern conveiiences in
side Of Hudson river steamboat !?
Jonah paid his fare from JOppa to Tar
shish, and was entitled to first-claSs pass
age. We don't claim, however, that this
fish craft was all rugged out for an ex-
cursiOn party, to carry brass band and
a lot of deadheads to some picnic. 1t
was more of a special, private convey
ance, chartered for Jonah exclusively.
Makes no difference whether he even had
a staterOom or not, whether he rolled
around in the cabin or was shut up in
the steerage. He was in out of the night
air and got along first rate, and when
the monster found good place to land
he heaved to and put Jonah ashore"
"Didn't throw out any gang plank,
eh ?"
mo, You idiot. And now 90 thy way
and read up before you come again. It's
too much like talking alone now" He
went.
This is the first time we ever gave an
unbeliever real good theological whack,
but it counted. We knocked conceit
enough out of him to make room for
heaps of faith, and hereafter he'll let a
miracle pass for miracle until he can
prove it myth.
The Rev. Mr.. Busser may take up a
different line of thought from ours next
Sunday evening, but truth is approacha-
BILE on all sides.