— born of a virgin; they describe the adoration and gifts of the eastern kings; they foretell His lowly position in life, the incidents of His public career, His sufferings, the circumstances of His death — all are described with the minutest exactness even to such trivial matters as gambling for His clothing, or giving Him, for drink, vinegar and gall. With His photograph in one hand and a detailed account of His life in the other, how can I fail, when I meet Him, to recognize the Messias? And meet Him I do in the person of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, which is but the history of Christ and His followers and the doctrines they preached. Therein I find recorded as accomplished facts all that the ancient Testament foreshadowed. Such a weight of evidence is there in favor of Christ the Messias, that if an angel from heaven were to teach otherwise I would answer him "Anathema." If God were to charge me with blasphemy, I would reply: " Not guilty; you, not I, are responsible for the error." For the two Testaments are like the cherubim described in Exodus, their wings fold over the ark of the New Covenant, Christ's sacred personality, and they gaze ever through Him upon each other. They are the seraphim of Isaias's vision, who adoringly turn to Jesus and forever echo one another, chanting: " Holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth."
But let us suppose for a moment that Christ was a mere man, commissioned by God to reform society by introducing Christianity. What follows? First, it would be short-sighted policy on the part of God.
