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ARTICLE I-THE CONFLICT WITH SKEPTICISM AND UNBELIEF. FIFTH ARTICLE:-THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF THE CHRISTIAN MIRACLES.
WE make the attempt in this Article to define the nature, and determine the appropriate and appointed use of miracles. Incidental reference will be made to recent objections and difficulties, although few, if any, of these will be found to be really novel or previously unanswered. The path of our discussion lies in great part through a not unfamiliar field; yet more precise conceptions of accepted truth are sometimes of hardly less value than new discoveries. For the sake of greater clearness, the remarks we have to offer will be arranged under a series of special topics.
WHAT IS THE IDEA OF A MIRACLE?
In answering this question we reject at the outset what the Germans call the relative nature of the miracle, or the notion that the miraculous quality of such an event is merely rela
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