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122 THE VERDICT OF HISTORY. 
Roman would have run from their pristine vigor exhibited 
in the days of Thermopylae and Cannae down to the 
state of marasmus senilis pictured by Juvenal, a state of 
rottenness which even the transfusion of German blood 
into the putrid veins of that degenerate and decaying race 
could not remedy, is a fearful corroboration of the 
apostle’s testimony.” 
We cannot leave this subject without briefly adver- 
ting to a great historic fact, indeed, the most massive 
and significant fact in all history, which, in its remoter 
bearings, not only strikes at the very heart of the evo- 
lutionistic philosophy, but at the same time wounds it 
mortally in all its parts. I refer to the Resurrection of 
our Lord. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the central] 
fact of our Christian belief and it is, rightly understood, 
the® all-sufficient answer to the theory of evolution. 
Christ’s resurrection is an historical fact fully as much 
as the defeat of Xerxes at Salamis in 480 B. C., the dis- 
covery of America by Columbus in 1492, and the peace 
of Versailles of 1919 are historical facts, proven by the 
word and record of contemporary witnesses. But if 
Christ was raised then we have proof for the following 
tenets, all contradicting evolutionary speculation at so 
many vital points: 1) The existence of a personal God 
who is concerned with human affairs; 2) The reality of 
miraculous interference with natural forces; 3) The truth 
of atonement and the redemption, and 4) The inspiration 
of the Old Testament Scriptures (hence also of the crea- 
tion account in Genesis). The details of the argument 
are beyond the scope of this paper, but a little patient 
study will bring to light the fact that each of these four 
basic ideas is dove-tailed, mortised and anchored so 
firmly in the fact of Christ’s resurrection, that you can 
get rid of them all only by denying that fact. Hence it 
is, aside from any investigation of proofs of evolutionism, 
