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 that two men are one man, or that three separate and distinct Gods are only one God, but I do insist that we shall accept the plainly demonstrated facts of life. A true science says, What are the proved facts? A false science discards the facts which it finds inconvenient. As honest men, as men of common sense, it is our duty to ask ourselves if the phenomena presented to our attention are real facts or only apparent facts. If what we perceive is real enough to be a fact of life, we must be honest enough to give it due credit.

Now what are the facts in regard to Jesus?

Perhaps we are all convinced that a man named Jesus of Nazareth really existed. As we have already suggested, such an effect as he has produced in human history cannot be accounted for except by an adequate reality back of it. I think that we may safely label this as a fact.

If such a man really existed, as we have conceded, we will perhaps all agree that his life was of such an unusually beneficent nature that most men regard it as the most ideal life of history. I find that even Jews are proud of him as the most brilliant one of their race, and that Mohammedans give him high place in their limited