IN again reissuing The Silence of God I wish to make a few points clearer for the benefit of those who skim a book instead of reading it. I do not deny the occurrence of miracles during the present dispensation. On the contrary I believe there is adequate proof that miracles occur in the present day. And while I would guard against assuming that a miracle gives proof of Divine action, I do not doubt that there are in fact Divine miracles. Nor in saying this am I referring to spiritual miracles such as every true Christian has experienced.

But I maintain that what may be called evidential miracles have no place in this “Christian dispensation.” Any one who thinks out even the simple problem of prayer must understand how and why the people of God, in the days before Christ came, craved such proofs of His presence and power. But in the ministry and death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ God has openly manifested, not only His power, but His goodness and love-toward-man; and to demand an evidential miracle, now, is to reopen questions which have been for ever settled.