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put up with contempt, reproach, and ridicule ; who was always going 

 about doing good, without either ostentation or secrecy a man so great 

 and true, as he appears among the pettifogging saints of the day, in the 

 case of the adulterous -woman, or at the picking of corn on the Sabbath, 

 or in his ideas of morality as brought out in his sermon on the mount, 



so simple, so grand, so truly divine do you think, can you think 



that such a man would be mean enough and wicked enough to declare 

 a most monstrous falsehood, and stick to it all his life, suffer all sorts of 

 shame, and finally die ignominiously rather than give it up ? No, sir ; 

 that man was no impostor ! . . . . Nor is there any thing that looks 

 like the fanatic or crazy man about him either. Yet he plainly thought, 

 and had some good reason for thinking, that in all his peculiar character 

 he was &quot;exhibiting the peculiar qualities of God. And were not those 

 qualities such as are consistent with the Li-liest wisdom that we can 

 conceive of? And what good, you were asking, does it do us to believe 

 in them ? If you had never seen your father, but your elder brother 

 should say : Father is like me in all that you like in me, in all that you 

 love me for you would not need to see your father face to face, but 

 would love him, and would lovingly respond to his will, and when he 

 sent for you to come home, you would look forward to meeting him, not 

 with dread, but with a joyful trust. If you can have as much faith in 

 the word of that noble man as I have in yours and the captain s about 

 this ship s going towards Liverpool, you will love and worship him, 

 and strive to be like him.&quot; -. 



&quot; Christ said he was God, which is nonsense, and I don t swallow it,&quot; 

 &quot; Look here ! When I tell you that I am a man, what do I mean ? 

 A man has two legs, two arms, and two eyes ; suppose I had but one leg, 

 one arm, and one eye, would it be nonsense to call me a man ? Or sup 

 pose that I had twelve fingers instead of ten, or my body all covered 

 with hair, would it be nonsense to call me a man because I had more 

 than the ordinary qualities of a man ? I might call myself a hirsute, 

 but I should still be a man.&quot; 

 &quot; I don t understand you.&quot; 



&quot; Why, I mean that because Jesus Christ asserted himself to be God 

 it does not follow that he asserted himself nothing but God, or even that 

 he exhibited the whole of God, but that he spoke in the name of God, 

 with the authority of God, that the word of God was spoken in him. 

 It is absurd for us, and evidently was never intended that we should, 

 take the exact weight and measure of the words of his familiar conver- 



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