draw back" and to haggle over miracles of the
kind recorded in the Bible.

The intelligent and consistent sceptic is entitled
to respect and sympathy. But what can be said
for the man who professes to believe in the
Apostles' Creed, and yet rejects on a priori
grounds the Gospel miracles!

Here is the preface to the Fourth Gospel:--
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. The
same was in the beginning with God. All things
were made by Him; and without Him was not
anything made that was made." The sceptic at
once declares his unbelief. And from his own
standpoint he is right; for he regards the record
as human, and no one but a credulous fool
would believe such statements on merely human
authority. The Christianised sceptic, on the
other hand, assures us that "the Nazarene" was
really the God who made the heavens and the
earth; and yet he cannot believe in His healing
a case of paralysis, or raising Lazarus from the
dead. ¹ Was there ever such an instance of
"straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel"!

For not only do the minor and incidental

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