For some extraordinary reason, there is a fixed notion that it is more liberal to disbelieve in miracles than to believe in them.

Why, I cannot imagine, nor can anybody tell me.

For some inconceivable cause a "broad" or "liberal" clergyman always means a man who wishes at least to diminish the number of miracles; it never means a man who wishes to increase that number.

It always means a man who is free to disbelieve that Christ came out of His grave; it never means a man who is free to believe that his own aunt came out of her grave.

It is common to find trouble in a parish because the parish priest cannot admit that St.Peter walked on water; yet how rarely do we find trouble in a parish because the clergyman says that his father walked on the Serpentine?
And this is not because (as the swift secularist debater would immediately retort) miracles cannot be believed in our experience.