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with them the record of the only
perfect character the world has ever
known, and system of teachings un-
affected by single error, and trans
cending the dreams of all sages and
the talk of all philosophers -
Surely this is impossible of belief.
To believe that, would be to be-
lieye greater miracle than any re-
ported to have been done by Him.
Christ Himself is the miracle of all
miracles and SO long as He and His
work are embedded in the worlds
thought and life, men will believe in
His divinity and the heavenly char
acter of His system. Listen now to
what some of His enemies have
said and see if they do not convict
themselves. Strauss says: "He
remains the highest model of religion
within the reach OF our thought and
no perfect piety is possible without
His presence in the heart"
Diderot, the French Atheist, said
in the company of infdels: ''I defy
you all, as many as are here, to pre-
pare tale SO simple and at the
same time so sublime and so touch
ing as the tale of the passion and
death of Jesus.''
Rousseau, in the same confession,
where he speaks of the gospel as full
of incredible things repugnant to
reason, says "Is it possible that
a book at once SO simple and so
sublime, should be the work of a
man? Is it possible that the sacred
parsonage whose history it contains
should be Himself a mere man?
Where is the man, where the phi
losopher, who could live and die
without weakness and without os-
ltentation? If the life and death OF
Socrates were those of a sage, the
life and death of Jesus were those Of
| a God"
Theodore Parker says: Measure
| Him by the shadow He has cast
into the world-no, by the light He
has shed upon it. Shall we be told
that such a man never lived?
Suppose that Newton and Plato
never lived. But who did theil
wonders and thought theil
thoughts? 1t takes a Newton
to forge a Newton. What man
could have fabricated Jesus? None
but Jesus"
Renan, repudiating all that is
supernatural in the recorded life Of
Jesus, yet says: 'He founded the
pure worship which shall be that Of
all lofty souls to the end of time. y
And then in an eloquent apostrophe
says: "Repose now in Thy glory
noble founder! Thy work is finish
ed. Thy divinity is established
Fear no more to see the edifice o
Thy labors fall by any fault. Hence
forth beyond the range of frailty
thou shalt witness from the heights
of divine peace the infinite results 0
Thine acts. For thousands of year
the world will defend Thee. Ban
ner of our contests, thou shalt b
the standard about which the hot
test battle shall be given. Tho,
shalt become the corner stone of hu
. manity so entirely that to tear TIL.
name from this world would be t
, rend it from its foundations. Con
, plete Conquerer of death, take pos
session of Thy kingdom, whithe
shall follow Thee by the royal roa
which Thou hast traced, ages c
3 worshipers.'
j Could eulogy go farther? And yt
lit is from the enemies of Christianity
They admit His greatness, comics
, Him divine; call Him the cornt
stone of humanity, and yet forhi
i Him the power to work miracle
, They lift Him above man and We
allow Him to do nothing aboy
, man. They admit this greatest {
all miracles, such character j
| such an age, and yet deny Il
8 miracles He wrought. If His life
not real and the record Of His mi
9 acles are mere tales OF fancy-lo'
: ing age, then four plain men-Ma
o thew, Mark, Luke and John-ul
8 taught and unlearned, gave to Il
9 world what it has been impossib
for any genious of any age to po
tray. II it is false it is the mo
e perfect, harmonious and consun
Y mate falsehood that was ever foiste
Il on mankind.
II V. This man was a martyr. III
+ strange to say, predicts His oW
: death. Talks of it calmly; yes, eve
i. makes it the basis of His triumph
s He is to establish kingdom, b
= not through life. HIS throne I
Il makes to rest not on His life, b
# upon His cross. His death I
s named as the great attracting pow
e of His history, Sand |, if be lift
e up, will draw all men unto me
1t | think now we see in this death ;