What is the moral code or character of Romes alleged miracles?
It has been to a great extent of a low unworthy and childish type. According to Schaff the miracles of the Church of Rome have been not so much supernatural and above reason but unnatural and against reason. We are told for example how St. Berinus after being full sail for France, finding he had forgotten something, walked by dryshod on the sea; how St. Dionysius after being beheaded took his head in his hand and walked two miles; how St. Anthony made a heretic’s horse do obeisance to the host by inclining his head and kneeling; how St. Hilarion in answer to the appeal of one of the faithful who patronised the turf but was invariably beaten by his antagonist gave him a jug of water with which to sprinkle his horses and the course, the result being that his horses were able to fly past his competitors and win every race! In contrast to all this the miracles of Christ were works of dignity and power which always corresponded with the object of His mission and were themselves a beautiful
