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to be denied ? Or if we say that there is no Creator (which 
is more than we can prove) , can we explain the existence of 
this craving in a world in which every other desire has a sphere 
for its fulfilment ? Is man likely to be satisfied by the reply, 
“ God is beyond your understanding, therefore don J t try to 
think about Him ” ? We need not fear for Christianity. It is 
not likelv to be in real danger so long as men who are asking 
for the bread of life are put off with the stone of Agnosticism. 
If men seek for information, — and they do still seek, nay, 
even yearn, for information, — concerning the world unseen, 
there is none for them, save in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 
34. And that revelation comes before us on evidence which, 
however warmly it be contested, is absolutely alone in its 
immense strength. The “ threefold cord ” of miracles, pro- 
phecy, and power to touch and satisfy the human heart, 
“ cannot be broken.” The evidence for the two former is 
misrepresented or evaded, but it is never fairly grappled with. 
No one has been able to tell us how it is that we are to reject 
evidence for these alleged historic facts, which is far stronger 
and more express than for any other historic facts what- 
soever.* The way in which Christianity has resisted the 
incessant, continual, passionate attacks of its assailants must 
be evidence enough of the immense strength of its foundation. 
No other religion has ever resisted such attacks. And the 
secret of its strength is the way in which it brings the Divine 
to the level of our human comprehension. The author 
of Natural Religion has lately remarked that no religion 
could have any permanent hold on mankind which did not 
identify itself with humanity. Christianity has revealed God 
by displaying Him in a human form, that is, as the Scriptures 
tell us, in the image of God ; in one of the (< knowable like- 
nesses ” in which the “ Unknowable ” has “ manifested ” 
Himself. From the perfection of the human we may gain as 
complete a knowledge as to our limited intellects is possible 
of the perfection of the Divine. God becomes man, as the 
necessary step in the way of.bringing man back to God. 
35. There could be no greater confirmation of the truth of 
what has been said than an admission which Mr. Spencer very 
candidly makes towards the close of his argument. Chris- 
tianity is rationally untenable, because the mystery which it 
professes to expound is “ ultimate and absolute.” But we 
* No other historical facts are commemorated by such remarkable memo- 
rials as the Passover and the Eucharist, the latter of which has subsisted 
for above eighteen hundred, the former for more than three thousand years. 
