104 PROF. H. LANGHORNE ORCHARD, M.A., B.SC., ON 
doctrines; they account for its wonderful rise and spread and 
the divine vitality of its continuous history. If Christianity is 
true, they are true also. It was well remarked by Bishop 
Douglas* that the more thoroughly Christianity is examined 
the stronger appear the proofs of its truth “ . . . the 
closest scrutiny and most: impartial examination of the 
evidences which support those miracles on the credibility of 
which the truth of the Revelation in the New Testament is 
built, have served only to satisfy me that Christianity is 
founded upon a rock, and that every attempt to sap its 
foundations tendeth to discover their strength the more.” 
As Dr. Salmon expresses it, “a non-miraculous Christianity is 
as much a contradiction in terms as a quadrangular circle; 
when you have taken away the supernatural what is left behind 
is not Christianity.” ‘‘ Miracles,” says Smythe Palmer, “are of 
the essence of Christianity. No one who reads the Bible with 
a candid and impartial mind can be of another opinion.” 
Archbishop Templef remarks—“It is not possible to get rid 
of miracles from the history of the Apostles. They testify to 
our Lord’s Resurrection as an accepted fact, and then make it 
the basis of all their preaching. They testify to our Lord’s 
miracles as a part of the character of His life.” And the truth 
of Christianity is bound up with the perfection of the Divine 
character. To quote the words of M. Arnold,t “ Christianity is 
immortal ; it has eternal truth, inexhaustible value, a boundless 
future,” and “certainty and grandeur are really and truly 
characters of Christianity.” “ . . Sine vid non itur, and 
Christianity can be shown to be mankind’s indispensable way.”§ 
Of Christ’s Resurrection it has been said that “In one form 
or other pre-Christian history is a prophecy of it, and post- 
Christian history an embodiment of it.” “ It may indeed be said 
that the Church was founded upon the belief in the Resurrection, 
and not upon the Resurrection itself . . . But belief 
expressed in action is for the most part the strongest evidence 
which we can have of any historic event.’|| The existence of 
a Christian society is explained by the fact of Christ's Resur- 
rection, and by that only. Westcott also notices that this 
* 
In The Criterion, a work of great ability. 
7th Bampton Lecture. 
Literature and Dogma, p. 8. 
Ibid., p. 7. Similar is the testimony of the Government Report on 
S. African Affairs :—“ Hope for the elevation of the native races must 
depend mainly on their acceptance of Christian faith and morals.” 
|| Westcott : The Gospel of the Resurrection, p. 107. 
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