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 teem with interesting truths, some of which resemble those enunciated by Jesus. Is not this resemblance a kinship inherent in the nature of the truth? Perhaps for fair-minded men it is needful only to submit the documents in the case and leave them without discussion. Possibly, indeed, the world has already decided this question. It would seem so if we judge from the scant attention which the sayings of Confucius, Gotama, Zoroaster, and others obtain in the world of thought. Are these latter not obsolete and half-forgotten, merely remembered because of an inﬂuence they once exerted? The teachings of Jesus are the inspiration of our civilization, the noonday splendor of a sun which illumines with spiritual light every problem of humanity.

Still others, even though they admire the character of Jesus, claim that the story of his life is a gross exaggeration, as well as his reputed claims concerning himself. It is, of course, possible to assert that while such a man as Jesus lived, the accounts given of him in the Bible are highly exaggerated, written by people who lived long afterward and who desired to throw around the founder of their religion a glamour not warranted by the facts as they occurred. If this