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writer, De Qrsncey, shows by an algo-
orale tormu!a that Hume's argument
IL detective. Hume would pay no at
tertion TO these who treated the ques-
ton from a Christian standpoint, but
the opium eater" uses cold logic with
out any reference to Scripture and
knocks the infiders argument into a
cooked hat. Any good logician can
do ire same.
x is slransr when one hears a Prot
estant clergyman, Biblical student
come out against miracles in Chris
tan community. That is what Dr.
George L. Robinson did last Sunday in
Duluth when addressing the Profess
tant Y. NJ. G A. He read the follow
ing verses from the book of Joshua:
!hen spahs Joshua to the Lord in
the day when the Lord delivered up
the Amorites before the children of
Israel and he said in the sight of Is
raei: Sun; stand thou still upon Glib
con: and thou. moon, in the valley o:
Aja,on.
And the sun stood still and the
moon stayed until the people had
avenged themselves upon their enc
mics. Is not this written in the book
of flasher? So the sun stood still in
the midst of heaven, and hasted not to
go down about whole day."
Or. Robinson, who is said to. have
travelled in Palestine, declared that in
all probability the sun never really
stopped in its course at all, nor did
the moon lirger in the valley of Ala
!or He boldly said that no such mir
acles ever transpired in the day of
Joshua, the celebrated Hebrew wat-
rior under whose leadership the LAND
Oh 'anaan Wos conquered. Did he al
3arte. airy scientific argument to prove
that the miracles did not take place?
Not at all. We merely said that such
stirring description Of the conquest
of The Amo.ites by Joshua must not
he taken literally, but .iguratively:
and that he was not inclined to believe
that the sur and the moon were
stayed in their course for an instant.
That's the Biblical student for you.
Had he sail that the durnal motion
OF the sun * merely apparent and not
real, and tcat it is the earth which
was stopped in it's course round the
sun on the occasion referred to, we
Wo:;id have some. respect for his
scientific attainments: but his knowl-
edge of astronomy appears to be linn
tea, ami his knowledge Of Scripture,
in spite of his visit to the Holy Land
is not very deep. If he is a believer
in The Bible. why is he disbeliever
in miracles?
What is a miracle? Webster def1nsi
it as a Supernatural event or one
transcendinr the ordinary laws by
which the .tuniversk is governed
When the sun stood still on Gideon,
and the moon in the valley of Ajalon,
it was a supernatural event worthy
of record in the Sacred Volume. JOSH
US. had bescught the Lord to prolong
the day for The destruction of the enc
ms of God chosen people, and the
Lore granted his prayer. Does DR..
Robinson deny that the Creator of the
sun. earth :,n! moon could not regu-
late their r,otions at the request Of
Joshua, the successor of Moses. to en-
able the Hebrews to defeat their enc
mics? OF course minister of the
gospel would not dare to deny the
power of the Almighty.
The laws Ct nature were temporarily
suspended by their Author at the
prayer of Joshua, and resumed their
ordinary operstions when the battle
was fought and won. 1t was a super
natural act, great miracle, and God
was capable of performing it for the
sake of his olect. Human legislators
can suspend the laws they have made;
why cannot the Divine Legislator sus-
pend the laws of the universe on nh
occe sion like that recorded in Joshua ?
Will DR.. Robinson and other wolves
in sleeps clothing please answer?