Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-24
DIR. TYING ON MODERN MIRACLES.
Accepting the Manifestations in Lourdes
and Knock as In d dIsputabls.

Accepting the Manifestations in Lourdes
and Knock as Indlsputabls.
New YoRK, November 23 The Rev.
DIR. Stephen II. Tying, Jr., preached
Sunday evening in the Church OF the
HOLY Trinity on the miracles at the
shrine OF Notr, Dame 10 Lourdes. Hall
OF the sermon was a discourse on faith
as illustrated in the words of Christ to
that il they had faith, even as grain
OF mustard seed, they might say unto
that mountain, Remove, and il shall re-
move. "The mountain said the
preacher, represents stheimpossible; but
the mustard seel represents capacity oi
development. The mighty deeds OF faith
are done by faith in this world rs mer-
cies are secured by il in the world to
come. 1t is this faith in part which at
Lourdes in France and at Knock in Ire
land has been hOnored OF God. The
scene OF the shrine at Lourdes is beauti-
ful in its pastoral simplicity and its free
dom from all influences of commercial
life. Though have threaded other val
levs | have not seen such country as
southern France. Tie town is full OF
leyends-it was so from the first settle
ments OF the Languedocs. The peas.
ants imaginations take the place OF
newspapers. They form fancies instead
OF having their fancies formed for them.
They have a simple and profound relig-
ious faith"
The preacher said: "Never, even in
dlreamland, have read such tale as
that OF the little French peasant girl
Bernadette, Ia years old, who saw the
form of n strange person IN white IN the
entrance TO a grotto. Time and again
the girl saw il, aud told OF il, but no one
else saw it, aad the priest did not credit
her story. The people believed, though.
The priest wanted to test the vision to
see il il vas real. and 10, stream OF
water burst from the grottO, and now 1t
has been running rs large as Il Saratoga
spring ior twenty-five wears. The little
Girl was sincere and slmple, and died a
happy death. In accordance with the
girls vision in the grotto church was
built there; IL is the finest outside the
walls OF Paris. A Carmelite monastery and
a Benedictine convent have been built,
each as large as one Of our cl,y-blocks,
and OF beautiful architecture-all the re-
suit of faith. You may call it the Illus
tration of half truth or OF a whole
truth, or OF truth covered with error, |
care not. There are piles OF crutches
and multitudes OF ofconveyances cast aside
by the cured at Lourdes, and the church
at Rome has endorsed the appearance
and the cures as miracles. This faith =.
Lourdes, whether well founded and rei-
sonable or not, flames into an enthu:
siasm which shames our nicgard'y Prot
estantism. The poor have poured out
of their poverty 10 honor the shrine.
No one dares attempt to deny that mul.
titude OF cures took place there. The
lame leapeJ, the deaf heard, the bind
saw. Ii will never doin this generation
TO deny these well authenticated facts
Finally the Rev. Dr. Tying said that
although he had been called an eecle-
siastical bigot by newspapers, 4, was tar
from being true. "rhe Roman Catholic
Church is wise above all other societies
of believers. lido not find II in my
heart To impugn their motives, anu IN
INV puuny impotence ! am striving to
attain TO the same results. In tins age
of rationalism men make merry over
miracles; let US congratu ate ourselves
that God has hft us some impenetrable
mysteries. so long as there are facts
that cannot be explained by present
philosophy or present science so long
will there be little opportunity oil the
people being perverted from the talth
that has its place for so many centuries
in human life.