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"But where is thy proof in the unwritten evidence--monuments which
cannot lie, bearing silent but convincing testimony to the truth of
these miracles?"
"Twelve stones" it is said, were set up at Gilgal to commemorate the
passage over Jordan."
"Ay, in thy book we read it."
"But mark the intention, to which no lying imposture durst have
referred,--to the end, it is written, that when the children of those
who had witnessed this miracle, and their children's children, should
ask their meaning, it should be told them. Now the miracle for which
these stones were set up as a memorial by the eye-witnesses themselves,
could not, as before proved, have been imposed upon the people at the
time it happened, had it not really occurred."
"All this I can safely grant. Yet thou lackest wherewith to conclude
thine argument."
"Bear with me, my lord, until I have made an end. Let us suppose, for
one moment, there was no such miracle wrought as this same passage over
Jordan."
"Which supposition of thine I do hold to be the truth as firmly as I
believe your revelation is an imposture."
"And yet if it _should_ be true, my lord?" The minister said this in a
tone that made the listener start.
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