BIBLICAL MIRACLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1921, Page 6

BIBLICAL MIRACLES.

VIEWS OF DEAN IN&E. a striking pronouncement on miracles was made by Dean Inge in the course of jin address to the New Reformation Society at Trinity College, Oxford. Dealing with the apparent absence of faith, he asked his audience to let him propose a personal test. “Suppose you were offered a ride on H. G. Wells’ time machine,” he said, "would you at once go and prove byocular demonstration the two dogmas which are now so much controverted? Would .you go to Bethlehem and witness the accouchement of the Virgin Mary and satisfy yourselves that her physical condition was not that of other married women ? “Would you go to Joseph’s garden very early in the morning and watch the angels rolling away the heavy stone, helping the risen Lord out of His grave

clothes, folding them up and laying them in q. corner, handing Him the new clothes which they had brought with them—for we could not suppose that He appeared to *Mary Magdalene without them—and then watch Him issuing from the vault? "Having seen all this, would you say, ‘Thank God, my faith is now established on an absolutely sure basis. ! Christ was certainly God’? “Or would you feel that somehow ■ these precious doctrines had lost some of ! their value for you by being reduced to banal, brute fact? If you will face this question fairly, I think it will take you to the heart of the problem about miracles, though not, alas! to the solution of it.”