New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-15

..,o.u,s Surely God might we will even say in our
capacity should svnnS s sG po,sby Of
doubt The simple fact that It can be honestly as
vsert an" against II Why should just and low
Ing God leave in doubt question OF sh h Vas h n,o
mrna 10 ,haf they saw Him after His death might
have made record CT II. witnessed ana presGrse ,
r., IN fhe fortv DAYS He remained could have gone Into
Jerusalem. confronted the authorizes anh wruts
sions and such testimony to His death. burial
temperance and identity as 10 make coup. impos S
no merit in faith in questions purely historical and
the question Of fact here ~ sucn ,,., ,os, s,,,s-
factory way Of determining matters OF fact an An.
glo-Saxon Institution which has borne the TEST OF
long eMpesr Of fury must be wholly free from
p rr bias or any preconceived opinion on the
:. o in settling such issues OF fact the
miraculous birth and bodily resurrection OF Jesus as
pointcd out nj the beginning OF this discussion al
ccierovmen and communicates who have solemnly
committed themselves TO a certain view must De
80 Then suppose we have secured an impartial
tIrv for the trial OF those questions; under VI. rus
Of law in universal use no Judge would PERM, mos,
~ The evidence offered here 70 go to the jury az
ali "A fundamental rule If that the best possible
syidencs. OF wh; srn 1nh tGreenea0 finder his
rule only competent witnesses IN 10 t re
sus Himself.
NO WORD FROM HIS PARENTS.
There Is not a word directly from either OF them
~, tho subject or from any who says they ever
heard either OF them speak OF H. Another universal
ruls 10 that "the witness Is confined to facts that
lie within his own knowledge" tGreeneaD. This
excludes the entire testimony Of Paul as to the res-
urrer.lon save 49, TO his trance and the vision
when ha saw the light and thought ne heard Jesus
In the sky Nothing that he says Of what the other
APOSTLES saw OF what the 800 brethren saw. would
be admitted They must give their own evidence
'Hcarsay evidence Is always held incompetent 70 es;
by witnesses VINO can speak OF their own PERSONAL
knowledge" (GreenleaO. This excludes every parti-
Gle OF sO-caled evidence In regard TO the mlracI-
ous birth and the bodily resurrection II they nap,
penei they were both susceptible Of being proved
knowledge" bur no such witness appears and says
Il saw Il" i is all hearsay As already not,ced,
speaks OF seeing Jesus after He rose in the letters
they wrote Why not? Why this silence on their
approach 10 any declaration ls in the later account
OF the Acts. where some one else, we do not know
i'm the marvellous. telling of constant conversation
with angels; q prophcsyngs and speakngs WIN YIN
supernatural events. says that Peter said In
speech: This Jesus has God raised up whereof
we are all uitnes-es." and. in two others words 10
the same effect. The man who writes this does not
even say hc heard Peter make these speeches. Here
again II ls rghi to apply the same test az TO the
other question Of fact Submit al the evidence to an
intelligent jury with no prepossessions ana wna'
If the body Of Jesus dii arise and ascend into
Heaven and It sens strange ina, 50 ma'sEaI
should be insisted upon II this age LET us ook Tor
Will frv 10 state It with perfect fairness We told
I'm the thirty nine articles that There Is but one Nv
ing and true Cod everlasting, without body parts or
passions and that in unity OF this Godheal there
be three Persons Of one substance power and eter-
nifv" one OF these. OF course. being Jesus christ:
Now though o, one substance and eternity and
rover he had been while earth Withdrawn from
immediate relationship with the other Persons or the
Goiheai for He frequently prayed 70 one OF them
as Ills Father and rss Cod and As being In Heaven
when He was Garth. When II" came 10 resume
Hl- former relations with the other Persons OF the
Trinity we told again In the thrty-nine articles
that lie "ild truly arise again from the dead. ana
took again His body with flesh bones and all things
apIeria,nlng - the perfection Of mans nature;
whcrewlih He asceried into Heaven. and there sit
,.'h until Re return TO Judge all men nj the LAST
dny" so .he universe ls now being carried on ana
i,s affairs administered BY God without body or
parts" one-'hri part % whom. nevertheless. Al
though one ana the formess substance. II sit
ting On the right hand OF God localized somewhere.
and on His right hand. al the same time, being
OF the substance In human FORM win resh
and bones ARCHIBALD H'fhlNS
washington. May N. 1896