Miracles and Modern Criticism
THOMAS B. HUGHES, rector of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, New York, said in a sermon February 21:— "No naturalist has ever doubted the possibility of the swallowing of Jonah by a sea monster. The question has been, Could Jonah live through the ordeal? Not without a miracle. But there is nothing more improbable about this miracle than of the miracle of the loaves and fishes. It is not as wonderful a thing as the Virgin birth of Christ. Christianity is founded upon the possibility of miracles, and when you begin to deny a Bible statement because it is contrary to nature, you might as well close up your churches and give up Christianity altogether." The italicized portion above is strictly logical. The tendency of all this modern criticism is to drag God and his Book down in order to exalt man.