Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-10
MIRACLES AND THEIR USES.

connection Win inc Cnristian renRlOn.
1t says that In dealing with n poly
thclstio race, at was necessary that
divine manifestations adapted to their
comprehension should bc employed TO
arrest their attention, and convince
them Of the existence Of GOD and OF
His fatherly interest In them"
After this was effected, It assumes
that miracles were Of no further use,
and that they ceased because ga mira
clio alter the close OF the written rove-
Iation would have been unnecessary,
and an anachonism in the divine guild
ance OF mon."
IL ~ stran &c how blind inielll.
gent people become when attempt
ing to justify their own deficiencies.
Christ promised that certain glfte
should be- given TO "thcm that believe"
Not Dc proof Of the existence Of God
or NJ means to create belief, but ns
the consequence and effect Of faith,
for the benefit and comfort Of bellev-
ers, and ne signs OF their true faith In
God. The absence Of these "signs" In
the modern orthodox churches ia y
standing argument Of skeptics against
the truth OF Christianity. and an
awkward thing for theoioeians to ex:
plain. They usually fall iato folly
equal TO that OF the Interior In their
sndeavors.
IL miracles were only necessary
TO turn polytheists to mono
theism, how was II that they
were continued among the israeli
ties for many generations after they
embraced the Mosaic creed and
worshipped the "ope living and true
God2 And further, IN It not n fact that
the miracles Of jesus OF Nazareth were
performed among people who were
monotheists7 Were the people OF the
early Christian Church polytheists?
Were not miracles common also among
them? These manifestations were
certainly not given TO convince the
Saints. either OF the existence Of God
or OF the fact that Ho was One.
Az to the "clote OF the written revc-
latio n" we fear the Interior is equally
in error. W hich was tho "close Of
the written revelation" and when
II was losed? Who can tell when the
last was given and be justified In say
ing there was TO DO no more? And II
revelation really ceased for ever,
would 1t not be- more logical to infer
that as revelation had stopped,
miracles were more necessary than
before, II they were designed to prove
"the existence OF God and His father.
ly interest" In mankind?
The commonly accepted theory OF
modern sectaries, that revelation,
mi racler, healings and other mani.
festations from God 10 man
ceased with the apostolic aye,
Is both Illogical anu out OF
harmony with tho books which are
taken as the sole guide Of Christendom.
II the Almighty posed In older
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