"The fact is historically indubitable that Jesus Christ said that He raised the dead as well as preached a Gospel of celestial healing to the poor. The assertion makes a large demand upon our faith. Let us inquire whether its falsity or incorrectness would, or would not, be a greater miracle than its literal accuracy."
THE world was tottering upon its foundations at the time Christ was born. The most enlightened and refined nations of antiquity, at the very height of their power, intelligence, and splendour, had sunk into the most frightful depravity. The revolting and melancholy account of the heathen world recorded towards the close of the first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, is abundantly sustained by pagan writers themselves. The brightest pages of Grecian and Roman history record enormous crimes. We find rapine and revenge, cruelty and avarice, resting