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session of new worlds and dedicating them Christo 

 et EcclesicB, and our Declarations of human rights, 

 and our suppressions of huge rebellions against 

 God and man, and whole races emancipated, — 

 not only do these bear witness that Jesus com- 

 muned with the heart of the world until it burned 

 again ; but even these wild vagaries of the imag- 

 ination, these doctrines of miraculous and immacu- 

 late conceptions, and trinities, and double natures, 

 and infinite atonements, and I know not what, — 

 these likewise show what a hand of power must 

 have been laid upon the inmost springs of human 

 thought and feeling by Him who has given occa- 

 sion to such extravagant speculations."^ Thus, 

 more than thirty years ago, wrote one of the 

 ablest and most conservative of Unitarian divines. 

 Those who do not acknowledge the deity of 

 Jesus Christ, as simple students of religion and 

 history readily and gratefully grant all the facts 

 essential to our argument at this time. 



Whoever that Nazarene peasant was. He uttered 

 the superlative message concerning the Deity. 

 And this man who died young without intellect- 

 ual or spiritual training; so far as we know, 

 without the revelations which come to most sen- 



1 Introduction to Schenkel's Character of Jesus, by Dr. W. H. 

 Furness, Vol. I. p. x. 



