CHRIST. 



raent. But during Christ's time a prophecy had no 

 means of solution to the ignorant, common-place peo- 

 ple. But to men like Christ and thousands of his sta- 

 tion in politics or priesthood, they could hardly repress 

 their wonder at the utter ignorance of the rabble, in 

 not comprehending such commonplace political moves. 

 As to the testimony of the apostles concerning the 

 resurrection and the various other wonders w r hich they 

 attribute to the man Christ, nothing can be more con- 

 demnatory of the man's knowledge of humanity who 

 exists to-day in accepting same as probable. The man 

 who listens to the testimony of twelve buried men, or 

 say one thousand men, who are buried beneath the de- 

 bris of centuries, and accepts the same as truth, when 

 the testimony is contrary to the laws of nature as re- 

 vealed to him in the light of his own existence, he must 

 be indeed very gullible and very ignorant of the nature 

 of man of his ow r n time. He certainly does not have 

 character sufficient to inquire of his neighbors qualities 

 not to say men buried beneath the debris of centuries. 

 The man who cannot pass intelligent judgment on the 

 characters of his contemporaries has no business in- 

 quiring into the personal characteristics of the buried 

 ages. He is void of personality within himself, and 

 should rest on the judgment of others. He is like the 

 reed in the wind swaying with the greater influence 

 brought to bear at the time. Let the wind change, he 

 changes. A man who is willing to accept the judgment 

 of twelve or twenty, or say one thousand men, testifying 

 to an occurrence across the broad vista of buried ages. 



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