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Lectures Delivered by the Rev. James Slinpson, at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Charlottetown, P. E. 1.
AGNOSTICISM |
Tue Divinity oF Curist PROVED BY His Work.
VI.
**We are dealing with the truth of the Divinity of Christ as it has been proclaimed by Christendom ever since the day when He lived and died on this earth. We are en- deavouring to test the weight of evidence in favour of such a tremendous claim, and in order to do this effectually we are summon- ing certain witnesses before us that they may bear their testimony for or against it. Two of these witnesses have been already examined by us—the character of Christ, and the teach- ings of Christ. We have found of both that they are facts well authenticated, and _ there- fore credible; acknowledged by foes and friends alike, and reliable. Moreover they are exceptional witnesses. Even His enemies tell us that His character is unique and ideal —His words such as never man spake. Ac- cordingly we have cross-examined these wit nesses, sifted and tested their evidence for ourselves. With what result? Do they justify or condemn Ilim of whom they bear witness ? The answer is plain and unmistak- able. There is noalternative. If the clajm to Divinity made by Him and repeated by His Disciples be not true, then His character is a hopeless tangle, a mass of inconsistencies. His teaching that of a fanatic or an im- poster, and even the keenest antagonists of His Divinity shrink from endorsing either one or other of these terrible charges,
To-day we have to do with another witness —the Work of Christ, which we claim is as unique and superhuman as His character and His teaching. And here again I would make clear that our evidence is by no means based on the Inspiration of Scripture—It is necessary to reiterate this. People have become so im- bued with the idea that unless Scripture is in- spired there can be no truth in Christianity, that it is difficult to convince them that this is not the case. God forbid that I should in any way belittle His sacred word, which I firmly believe to be inspired. But what I insist upon is this: ifit were proved, to-morrow, most conclusively, that the Bible was the work of ordinary uninspired men, and was by no means to be depended upon for its accuracy— it need not in any way interfere with our belief that Jesus Christ is God—a Divine revelation from the Father. The ordinary way in which faith becomes unsettled is this—the Bible says the world was created in six days—Science proves that this was impossible—the Bible says the Flood covered all the earth—Science declares that this was not the case. The Bible is full of miracles—miracles are con- trary to evidence—therefore the Bible is not reliable. But the Bible tells us about God, about Jesus Christ—-it is probable that it is wrong here as elsewhere, therefore I refuse to believe in fesus Christ and in God. We have not time to enter now upon the supposed differences between science and the Bible, only i would say in passing that the Bible is credit- ed with saying a good many things which it does not really say. But I want to point out that this argument is fallacious, since the im- perfections of the Bible (if there be any) do not invalidate the claims of Christ to be the Son of God. So then the first question to be grappled is “* What think ye of Christ ?” Never mind objections against the authenticity of the books of the Bible, or against the scientific or historical accuracy of the Old Testament, or against the harmony of the Gospels, until that is settled> Untess Christ is recognized as the Son of Ged all other beliefs will be vain. If Ele is so-recognized the one thing neédful is attained. If by rational argument you can be so convinced of the truth of Christianity that you are able tosay with the Ethiopian eunuch: ‘**T believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,” then you have a solid foundation on which to stand, and as long as you do stand upon it all the storms of doubt and Biblical criticism and unbelief cannot dislodge you. Doubtless there will be difheulties which must remain unexplained, questions which must remain unanswered, but they are all of minor importance compared with the grand central truth of Christianity, the Divinity of Jesus, and indeed it is as we sometimes sing, ‘*Worth while a thousand years of woe to speak one little word, if in that ‘‘ I believe,”’ we own the Godhead of our Lord.”
I. The first evidence I bring to prove by the Work of Christ that He is Divine is the fact of Christianity. This cannot be disputed. There are in the world to-day some six hun- dred millions of souls calling themselves Christians. This cannot be denied or explain- away, so it must be accounted for. We must appeal to history. If with such non- Christian writers as Renan and Ewald you are prepared to accept the Gospels as historical, we learn that some 1900 years ago a Jewish carpenter gathered a band of fishermen and peasants around Him—that He was put to death at Jerusalem—that after His death His followers went everywhere preaching that He had risen again and that He was God. At first the company numbered about one hundred and twenty souls—in a few days it was three thous- and, shortly after five thousand, then multitudes, both of men and women, were added—‘“‘the disciples multiplied greatly”-—‘‘a great num- ber of priests were added to the faith”—all this was in Jerusalem,. Then, after about two years, the disciples spread through Judea and Samaria and Galilee, and next the gospel was preached to the Gentiles, and continued to be accepted so freely that within thirty or forty years after the death of the founder disciples could be found in every part of she known world.
But suppose we reject the account as found in Holy Scripture, as unreliable, it is not go- ing to alter our position at all, Tacitus, the heathen Roman historian, writing of the burn- ing of the city of Rome, which took place thirty years after the Ascension, says the Christians were accused as the authors of this mischief, and gives the following account of them: ‘‘They had their denomination from Christus, who in the reign of Tiberius was put to death as a criminal by the procurator Pontius Pilate. This pernicious system though check- ed for a while broke out again and spread not only over Judea but reached this city also, At first they were only apprehended who confess- ed themselves of that sect; afterwards a vast multitude were discovered by them.” This testimony to the early propagation of Christ- ianity is extremely material, It is from an historian of great reputation, living near the time, from a stranger and an enemy to the re- ligion. It establishes these three points—that the religion began in Judea; that it had reach- ed Rome, and not only so, but that there it had obtained a great number of converts. _ Next in order of time and perhaps superior in importance, is the testimony of Pliny the younger. Pliny was the Roman governor of Pontus and Bithynia. He writes a leiter to Trajan the Emperor to know how to deal with the Christians in his province. The date is about eighty years after the death of Christ. In it he says: ‘Many of all ages and of every rank, of both sexes likewise. are accused and will be accused (of Christianity.) Nor has the contagion of this superstition seized cities only but the lesser towns also and the open coun- try. Nevertheless it seemed to me that it may be restrained and corrected, It is certain that the temples which were almost deserted begin to be more frequented and the sacred solemn- ities (of heathen worship) after long intermis- sion are revived.”
Here then, is very singular evidence of the progress of the Christian religion in a space. Not seventy years after the apostles began to mention the name of Jesus to the Gentile world the Christians were in such numbers in the Roman Provinces that the au- thorities had to appeal to the Emperor to know how to treat them. But it is unnecess- ary to multiply quotations from this time for- ward, profane history is full of references to Christians. In two or three centuries it tri- umphs over the religions, the philosophies, the superstitions of mankind. “* It wins its way from town totown, from shore to shore, till it becomes the prevailing religion of the Roman Empire; it c es the customs, the laws, the jurisprudence of the world, and at last the
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bow before the mightier might of the cross of Christ. Yet from the first ev erything wa against it. Its origin as a Jewish sect, the prejudices and superstitions of the lower class es, the prestige and antiquity of the existing polytheism, the keen intellects of the philoso phers, the culture and refinement of the wealthy, the might of the mailed hand of Im- perial Rome itself —and yet it triumphed, tri- umphed in the face of persecutions tuo dread- ful to be described.
And by what means, by what arms did it triumph? By abjuring every appeal to the passions, or lusts, or desires, or ambitions of men. By demanding that they renounce the honor, and glories, and emoluments of the world and embrace (under the then conditions of the case) losses, imprisonments, degrad- ation, death. By holding out as the reward of faithful service tribulation in this world, immortality in the world to come. Jesus chose means adapted for defeat, while Mo- hammed, preaching a religion of conquests and sensuous enjoyments, chose means adapt- ed for conquest. With confidence then we appeal to history, for its pages contain the in delible record of the superhuman action of Jesus Christ among men. The triumph of Christianity in those first centuries is a phen- omenon that refuses to take its place in any process of natural evolution, because no natur- al causes are adequate for its explanation, and ifany one can believe these miraculous events, contradictory to the process and dispositions of human nature, were brought about without any supernatural assistance, he must be pos- essed of much more faith than is necessary to make him a Christian and remain an unbe liever from mere credulity,» And lodk at Christianity now. For eighteen centuries it has stood unshaken, attacked upon all sides, by foes within as well as without, it has _re- mained impregnable. The longer it has ex isted the stronger it has proved to be, until we see it as it is to-day. It has interlaced itsell with the history and the interests of mankind. Poetry, painting, sculpture, literature, archit ecture are all saturated by its spirit. It has worked and is still working a mighty revolu tion in the world, not less real because quiet and bloodless, and you and I look around up- on it, a kingdom, worldwide, enobling, exact ly, adapted to the circumstances of the age, the political requirements of nations—the most sacred yearnings of humanity. Again | claim that its founder must be Divine.
II, The next evidence I bring forward to prove by the work of Christ that He was divine is ‘‘the social and moral reforms which His religion has wrought among men.” | need not, Iam sure, produce testimony to convince you of the pitiful state of the old heathen world. The slightest knowledge of ancient history will cause you to admit readily the oppression of the mighty over ‘the weak, the degradation of womankind, the curse of slavery, the intolerance of the wealthy, the miseries of the poor—all this has been changed by Christianity. ‘‘Christianity (says a recent
American writer, McKim) has asserted for every man his sonship in the family of God, and_ so laid tthe
foundation of personal liberty and individ- ual rights. It threw its «gis around the poor and the weak and the prisoner, and claimed for them sympathy and justice and charity. It first unspeakably ameliorated the condition of the slave, affirming that. he was not a chattel, but a brother in the family of God, and so sowed the seed which led to the ultimate aL- olition of slavery. It struck the fetters from the limbs of woman, and restored her to her rightful place as the helpmate and companion of man. It took from the father the power of life and death over his children, and made the paternal relation holy and beautiful. It gave to marriage a sanctity which it was sacrilege to violate, and elevated love from the depths of sensuality to the throne of purity. It abol- ished the cruel and bloody games of the glad- iatorial arena, It at length drove from the stage the licentious shows which so deeply de- praved the morals of the people. It rooted out the prevalent crime of infanticide—that re- volting and inhuman practice which more than almost anything else revealed the corruption of the human heart under the blight of paganism. It developed the hu nane instincts of men and created the hospital and the orphan asylum and a host of kindred institutions of charity. It reformed the principle of legislation and laid the foundations of the new science of in- ternational law.” And if it be contended that these reforms are the result of civilization rather than of Christianity, I ask how comes it that the non-Christian nations have not adopted them? Look at Turkey and Asia under tbe rule of Mohammedanism; China, with its boasted centuries of civilization; India under the much lauded system of Buddha.
How, then, are we to account for these phenomena? Are they natural? Do the prin- ciples and powers which history and experi- ence make us familiar with, as those which belong to man, even in his highest develop- ments of genius and his noblest achievements of moral power, suffice to explain the facts before us? Surely not. Neither does history give any parallel, ancient or modern, to these achievements of Jesus Christ, nor any promise or germ of the development of any such power. The Christian history, like the character and teaching of Christ, is unique. It stands alone without a peer or a rival; and the only reason able conclusion is that a power was at work in it, which was more than human. In other words, that Jesus of Nazareth was what He claimed to be, and what the Christian Church from the beginning believed Him to be —the Son of God.”
III. The third evidence I bring forward to prove by the work of Christ that He was di- vine is, He has revolutionized the order of the virtues. Prior to His, every system of morality placed courage, and the whole class of quali- ties that are akin to it, in the first rank; and the milder virtues, as far as they afforded them any recognition, in the second. Christianity has exactly reversed this, Since it has done so, the change has received the almost unani mous approval of the wisest and the best of men. Christ has acted upon mankind mightily. He has rescued the degarded from their degra dation, rejuvenated hardened hearts that no other force could break or subdue, and elevat- ed the good and the noble. Iask is sucha fact consistent with the theories that un- believers propound as to the origin of Christi- anity ?
Again, I would have you notice the mode in which Christianity brings a new moral and Spiritual power to bear on the heart of man. In this conception it is absolutely unique, no such idea having been thought of before or since. It effects this by bringing the whole force of religion to bear on man’s moral na- ture, and concentrating it in the person of Christ. I ask you to keep in mind, steadily, this important fact, that it is the great aim of Christianity, not merely to teach morality, but to render its practice possible by imparting to man a spiritual power of which he was pre- viously destitute.
All the great heathen philosophers were deeply conscious of the weakness of the mo- tives by which they could enforce ‘the practice of virtue. The violence of passion was too strong forthem. lll that they thought they could effect was to benefit the virtuously in- clined, but they felt themselves powerless to act upon the masses. When men had arrived at acertain stage Of corruption they viewed their case as opeless. Philosophy was destitute of a spiritual power, capable of acting mightily on the heart. Every page of ancient literature that survives testifies to this, philosophy left degraded men to perish in their degradation. Its only hopes for humanity were placed in political legislation, but how such legislation was to be brought about lt failed to discover.
Ineed nottake up yourtime in proving that it is the prime object of Christianity to grapple with this defect. That it has done so we have the evidence of numerous non-Chris- tian writers. | Lecky, the great Irish Ration- alist, says: ‘‘It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character which through all the changes of eighteen cen- turies has inspired the hearts of men with an
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