HEAT AND COLD. 



though knowingly, he had to resort to, becomes pardon- 

 able in the face of his object. And doubly more so 

 when we consider that the amount of liberty his teach- 

 ings brought about could not have been brought about 

 under any other heading in the face of human condi- 

 tions at the time. No man could have taken charge of 

 the conditions with a twentieth century knowledge of 

 man and nature, and done any better under like condi- 

 tions within his followers. 



Take it all around, Christ should be honored 

 throughout the ages, as a great lover of mankind, a 

 great apostle of human liberty. A great and powerful 

 personality who could use the means that history had 

 suggested in its former political safeguard for future 

 eventualities. A safeguard or method of politics which 

 had run through thousands of generations in preparing 

 for future emergencies. Each generation making 

 prophecies for the future that could be fulfilled by any 

 one who read the history of the times, and cared to take 

 the chance of applying himself to the prophecy. 



As to a prophecy tending to prove that a man was 

 a god, nothing could be more ridiculous to the man of 

 the twentieth century. Because it would be impossible 

 for a man to make a prophecy to-day and leave the same 

 of record without having about six hundred millions 

 of people fulfilling the prophecy when the time became 

 ripe for the occurrence. Every man who read would 

 aspire to its fulfillment, that is if there was anything to 

 be gained by its fulfillment. If it was nothing more than 

 to get before the public, they would aspire to its fulfill- 



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