But, we are told, the miraculous character of the Gospels destroy their credibility. In answer, we take the offensive; if we are to be convinced by "evidence and not mere assertion, we Shall find little or no evidence for the unbelieving dogma that miracles do not occur. "They do. Most of Christ's miracles were such that expert scientific testimony was not Particularly necessary, and it is to be doubted that He would have fared better had He performed His miracles before a full assembly of the academy of science. The Church today is not afraid of scientific inquiry into her miracles, e.g. at Lourdes she welcomes lit at a special bureau for doctors, but finds difficulty in getting the average liever to investigate. It is so müch'easler for him to be dogmatic without any evidence! Nobel Prize Winner Alexis Carroll a doctor of world repute, does not hesitate to say, after: "Certain facts observed at Lourdes cannot be accounted for by any of the known laws lof wound healing and tissue regeneration. In the course of the miraculous cures the rate of tíssüe construction greatly exceeds that which has been observed in the healing of a wound under optimum conditions." If there is good evidence that miracles occur today, the evidence for Christ's personal miracles is at least worth considering.
That critics, that people in general, are surprised "at the wonders related lot Christ is not unnatural. He intended that they should be surprised, and greatly surprised. That is why He performed them. They were His credentials, He had to show that He was not a fraud, but was entitled to legislate for mankind. To those who wellld not take His word He pointed to His miracles; "If you do mot belféve Me, believe the works that-I: do."'The miraculous character of His deeds, if well-attested, should not be a serious obstacle to belief in Him; it-would be more difficult to believe that so miraculous a character could not work miracles.
They Speak reverently of the Missing Link, who may or may not have been a "myth, while smiling in a superior manner at the splendidly authenticated wonder-working carpenters "Son; but to their ' slightly amusing question, "Can we really believe the Gospels?" we answer, as the Catholic Church "has answetéd down throügh the centuries, with a ringing defiant, "YES!
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