Christianity Is a Great Miracle
Some of the higher critics are telling us, with a marvelous amount of assurance, that belief in miracles is a non-essential part of Christianity; that one can be a Christian and believe in Christianity without believing in miracles. It seems to us that this is an utterly false conception of Christianity. Christianity is itself a great miracle. The work of Christianity is the regeneration of men; and the regenerating or re-creating of men is just as truly a miracle as was the creation; as was the changing the vile, putrid flesh of the leper into the healthy flesh of a child. Christianity apart from miracles is nothing but a system of dead ethics. What an infinitely foolish thing it is for six couples to waltz and dance for 14 hours and 42 minutes, stimulated with strychnin, rubbed with alcohol, given food, sleeping during some of the moments of the time, simply and solely to see how long men and women can endure such a strain; and the same ones are about to repeat it under rules by which they can take treatment of different kinds while they are dancing, but they must not lose step. Their constitutions will probably be broken forever in such efforts, and yet perhaps it is just as well. The question is whether such constitutions were worth more than they are sold for.