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to the that that C hrist is said to fished church organisation with col euci u A is supi orttd to have been CHRIST have lived as a study of compara ¬ onies or branch churches in nome written live religions amply proves and reA D Epheseus Corinth Philip and in gligious parallels everywhere abound Jlnlt IDW all places mentioned by St Paul in cruci3 OF THE FOUR GOSPELS Here for instance is a list of good Isl u cl 2nd Tliei salonianiIIIII 62 his Epistles to the Churches Saviours whs were all fied 57 Thin writer also states 1st n I 2nd Corinthinns60 as quoted enough to die for us before Jesus 50 and 01by Euswbius that they also had mon ¬ list a d 2nd l imolhy 01 No Evidence That HeOor the Twelve thought of doing so bplu aiu asteries monks and nuns bishops Y goApostles Ever Lived Phil aon m priests and elders etc In fact they Chrishna of India 1200 H C + 03 Ifcliifws had an old and well establiwdcBY Ho So HILLS Snkia of Hinduston 600 B C 61 Hy Mil Ernest Peter 2nd Pack ¬ 1st hurch organization in all its pleni ° Thnmmuz of Syria 1100 B C 80 JohiT 1st tude and1uwea Wittoba tho Telingonese 522 B CWhether Jesus Christ of the lour 95 or 00 Tlift Vcvelntions Hhilo Tudacui Philo the Iao of Nepaul 022 B C or Gospuls ever existed it tho question Mar m Jew as every student of history Hesus of Great Britain 834 B C and we propuso briefly to examine Jolili knows was eontemiwrnry with the Quexalcote of Mexico 587 B C ° to we limited have none being space 5- 2 tho lAys Without Ensebius Gnly illS IlolrihllUlO by II Sj Hills great Augustus Caesar tho first Ro Quirinus of Homo 500 B C Wo seek preamble way by waste of wo should tic r e I 50 learned Tillemont Titii of Greece 547 B C Ho wets about 20 Prometheus Kmiwmr to and trust tho time readers saw have any knowledge ot the hiltorII ears 58 Egypt 1700 B C of ago at the tune Jesus Christ of At Butuvia N Yj April 17 1000 Thulis b MJ abrupt considered nut wo shall Golfa115 ivfi the host ago of Christianjljoraof I 02 j lin fnp MtitaFl Indrn of Thibet 725 B C heeaiuo wo aro direct Wo even cx lite authors who wrote in t lnf 1 Pliilt Alccstis of Greece 600 B C years rector of St Andruws Bpisco considcra credit for our poet a little uulhors of the Greek All of the St J ° Atys of Phrygia 1170 B C pal church ut Rochester N Y WIlS iM lion o Imvo since nu1 century o 00 04or05 udu St ho denied fourth says It has been proven Crite of Cllnldca 1200 B C mod for hcmy bivnn tho of Christ hyojtuus First then 00 2nd iid 3rd St Johnu8lor Yet Saint where Eushiits hat Piiilos treatise on the Thera Huli of Orissa 725 B C the divinity of Christ source fa wo not mean Gospels Four be Jiishop shall witness 04 first Our or The Uguhtmo Bishop of llip u Regius Ylolito of Sanlis Lydia IInlpllsed longs was written during tho reign llithra of Persia COO B C ¬ imposor crafty Christ man naticul 04 or And OH tho great of Augustus Snlvahna of Bermuda Osiris of males t Sermons 37 ohnp 12 that by many to be tor who may have claimed for him ¬ of tho the angel ° 14 these Augustus deceased For mu the first uiiic0bilicrctl Christ but tho saidtobe Egypt divine honors Odin of self the mentioned in com Sardis Hofus of Egypt of church churrhr to whom St Paul t rotc his to be lull mud nut maiR° Others l e Virgin of the Sou immiiculaUly born of Persia Zoroaiter his over In that Scandinavia of Revelation mid 11uB ¬ old it only wellfound iimii and this and Epistles tofu him ned during Mary and miracleworking Godman Hani of Phoenicia i Baliof Afghan ¬ letter of Ulogyodel organization of which ed church niil tea divinity0D0 this and no othor It is necessary istan Xnmolxis of Thrace Zoar of it fol oredeAd 170 to the Em >eror 11 minutely do t so hilt krojand the lonnor was tho opinion ol thu fciis lobo very particular upon this point the Bonzes Adnd of Assyria Deva I Antoninus he says 00 For tbislII eribednH having n University at i Miunrliws to whiah boliof St Aug Alnidcs of Thebes we of for there hate been many Saviours Tnt of Siam Cotolonus philosophy or religion whiclb priests and bishops Alexandria uxtm himself adhered both before His reputed °time and Mikado of the Sintoos Beddin of Ja ¬ flourished aforetime c Epistlo have must all Ignatius deacons and burn to answer of o Sav us ii hutl on ofully established when Christ Wo JIUlltC again from chapter 10 since Saviours to right all round pan Thor of the Gauls Cadmus tho among the bltd rollli us that lUMuriw MIC frnllniiis of the MandaOlin to left of us Saviours Fetn and or been Ecclosiastica Hil blossomed again hiving Greece Eustbius of L n ° or twelve look nfin nut more than ten li rtnuf Hw oChraM > bullyuu traiiHphuiAil in the reign of thy great years ° concerning the TherajMutft US as ono might say And although j tes Gcntaut of Mexico etc etc mul Hint no such jwr of age at most o And all hosed Histo ¬ l bnoten rely the stone claims arc made for them And he claims was Egyptians Augustus We should think that after know the of Oospel anciiaor f any vhoio luRl nUll founded on the sacred writings H ci ait IHSUS Christ ovur nil Christians would have us believe ing Oof ° all these human sacrifices ac of a few Emperoros observe pntnyI oon Also thb g look tho Y our Tho Gos was held in of the Thcni euts culled r rNrealexfsltatre that their Jesus only is genuine and Christians will feel more important com count of °its great antiquity tut hay All this from our Nnv Testament passuges as thum alvBft 0 Egyptians tun if tlio AposiliM the others are spurious Well in our than ever They may find the various Country olyJi llur tho doctrine iinjiortiil Therapeutic ° beat Ofrom ing pupcdLvith the down ngu based on the great Euscbius 1nl trot the ix stolic ulstard und urets days we were wont of these obliging ing Jeyoid the kill it of the Roman toKtkamy of Philo Judaens Higher vi 3 So at the stuno time they de nil tho mitiiri < luis tho I ugllltusI all their to hold the same opinion and it willII itll in n work by ono Kersey Graves in the F 1I11 of of renuneiation Empire their been clnr can man authority a no mail better ° i xi t we of Christ nit of- all be our duty to give a few reasons w entitled 1 Sixteen Crucified Saviors 9who liad found its imjMirtation tlminuquote may seem j ropeyand divest hcmsolvcs Yet strang ilincit rot by omtniitrt or unbtlUn The Hind t4i his govern Having laid we renounced it giflwl fortune Also they tiny consult estates of their IIld of tho ° IVenues i learned once never treatise has Philo in his 0 bill by the most Mexican Antiquities We found 1 we had been bam Ianlheon life their projv of o mon anxiotios lill of bide Jesus II luorul Christ of inost name nitntioned tho lied the UK ft mnrvr Anncnlepsls and the Pro o 4n 141 A > Justin Martyr in his it jia ho intimated that JIB had ever t tywjas sold anti divided among ifll boozlcd into believing by faith in Higgins nil strops lisf who prpfoss time ° Christian 2 That contem givss of Religious Ideas mOt one iffiiong them stead of by fuels of apoUigy nddrwwed to BmII wa5 loiter there rlth so that lst tlur oHimli0a neap In lotms tll nrl IIUK nobleII clergy say to tho nothing by had history must I recommended Iina I irony y want 7th ndniiltodi by wror Anloninnx prin- ¬ The above statements are nil ad that hud 3 ri alwi 2nd says The present following of Hie beon Caesar and true philosopher Compare this with Acts 4th 34thI idiuut this mythical personage tho million nuthora0to Imvo filled by Slosheim 10041755 11111 For is ¬ to Saviours Jest tyre opin thoir thorn done among had of these Christians Tho then some among hold any we cipal If Neither was there any of WIIIUMI many years before very forumosl of modem ecclesinsti for Christ i for ns ninny as wcro pos rectify this misfortune by forging Chrishnn 400000000 ions 9itar of kin to the 1 wets and is local that moution I Thcr 11c The taiHuiieHl taiytt MI 150000 historians lands sold thom the missing testimony in greatest repute among 4 That no 200000000 for Mahomet ijerwHW553 professing thg philosopher of sessors of houses or and Lnivorsity Church Confucius 120000000 and brought the price of time things evidence was forthcoming that any ° lltfor a ygw Reh3aro we thus unjustly hut npeitan and that taught wbu when flourishing faith were l in sum So that there were Alexandria persons as the twelve Apostles for Mithrn 50000000 were sold old distribution wos such Chrirt aver eel f When we say all things ° r lived Is Kf that > ucli n man a hrint was MI earth nnd long before that missionary work our God of according by no ii much That trace o order moan remains every still tiiis unto in beautiful was made 4 nu port of that mad c that date II IM dn ihe Uaati wns four Gospels could be found prior to to bo flood II what do we say more than ° especially ecclesiastic to his Mill thought itself we i D andJ repeats ho Tin eminent English the Cf of A 150 worship about History the Eunubiui By of Agnfyi oiling 0 SucU IPUMI of the kHinanlty 111 a ever tnkcn rciigwus history Take for example mir vvordsr only con Dr NntlvinioJ lordlier 1C8417C8 alrailJ many d ve So hands in tit uuemiS written of works Iw 10 ho was Qult r otJriClirfshndi and Christ caa mgihu ctt Credibility of tho Script tin ist audit dart voilTwle J> ALciuxudiar nnOy deolaring in hu min they cat any tluHg J vui lr +1 cenrairlilausve- x liichlmthessawctiikitiilJp Iraj It ill rbiirtUK4H MlMMBH tlrtSi inifll6ri3r B j ntnrlKii tMtir MRt3 ratetTnty rat 1 lI4r RU tvtodfClII nUo Logos ott a flIil ns story Ihnt to ol ItIwas 1led you s red ample records of them in theI tion and ciimmenting on name says Sec Acts 15th It is said of Chrishna that his no moro than I MY their drink In this class ibiinx illcspiry Atyjl these is iKTuliur that Eiihcbius at so cllrl from meats historical accounts of that period biith was foretold that ho was an abstain nUll of tlw MIIIS of Jove y1 That uro limo 20th I ltnt in point Mr MT illwe looked UpOIl this solemn si incarnate god tint his mother was blood and from things are ooontinned Jor scv > g date should call tho Egyptian °Thcr and from 0 m number was found oulllllt9ulIlI otuough0 thoy Icnco on tho part ofevery contem ¬ a virgin that ho had an adopted nits oChristians deinuliHtmlo° that tho strangled Jo JMigee oral professing of o t inMHgeMt that III as conclusive testi ¬ father who was a carpenter nary writer this race or roiigion tiyight the saute doctrine yhiloHophy 141114or low Philo Again Ilirirttinn and wwoiid In tdet in and i imiiaiiN To show how the modern lesser NA in all parts of tile mony in confutation of tho Christian there was rejoicing on earth and ¬ peso found who wan SBV ONLY nro men elate Will fomdo vitixrmiit tme lights of HIV Christina Church I1RuC worlil amt the best nSn betake them ¬ legend that his moth on his birth heaven 110 that it wns Nautical with null Christ af t tin l1iv Dil most important 11 qius that he was roiigion viewed this colonies of tho Thera Wo0ntficctcd also that ono littlefers name was Main hninnnTaylor tonehingH of tho Pagan by In selves to these ¬ n II hit only of the third cent tion wu submit time following hook of which they have sa grain of evidence traceable to the horn on Dee 25th was visited iMjgiiiuing A each CowiiMl in The outsj Nioene were t tIKetl The Origan born 185 1444° Caxton published the first and monasteries in which first half of tho first century would wise men and shepherds who nd ury iutroduoad edifices heliofe cred I iAo lh JlliitfICl I the most learned aifll evc printed in England Inol474 infthe monks perform the mysteries of have been of greator value than led byn star was warned byan inodorn ortho deconsu io26 Hie jkv in ilu woid our convocation of tho clergy ° For those who pit1 whole granaries of assertions made angel of danger that all children were 0 siiblime life gui hed j onSnago illfho Oen disti o we doIthe in order to said If n rnnnl I uvidcuce Ixmdon hapof Chrutinn of their scriptures philosophize in the latter half of tho second conIordered to bo destroped drama Testament over liro side ooow tIIr invention parents fled to Tin find dangerous litera1 up his destnJy this brought to their that presented him anvl was there tury Then inI cxiwunding include Mark and Par Origon was hurt ° tiny destroy us II Compare iil on them Statute the us time fact recorded by Gibbon that Mnthura that he hnd a forerunner aro Kgypt mad evas etluoated in tho Uni it will by allegory Thoy have also the this with Ioilo Boo Xs avowal in sense ralld Syaoptft Oos ote nut of their in Rome Christianity was rejected that ho was wise in his childhoodunder Alexandria of writiiurfl of the first tendons versity IINoohnllt011l In alike for by his par- ¬ justly meanings eon ¬ 1 ns nn idle and Extravagant opin ¬ xiry much College 4 f Cardinals 1515HII S lost and searched sect ifn records of the erbal agree intitnietion of time luarllo RfiJ from till ¬ ckwo ¬ brothers retired to othei Sucohus well known how profitable this fa educa hind liberal by of ion a every man allegories ilir IK snob is ents Aintnonius and Matthew c elebrndd SOl veyed by those to UMI universally lion cud understanding preached a note ¬ nciiloilmt tho taste of fasted Decline solitude tilt whoso teachings Origen furtm1at0 ble of Christ tins beer Coi ipnro tins with the and statement of Rev Mark might pass for one wns entitled Savior in Col and Fall clop xv AVo observed worthy sermon frank and forth rolibrionI tho set also inonils ns of gospel Bibli views ell Archdeacon of Rw 101188 Hull says Thero its own existed prior to his in his Win in Chris ¬ nnd Redeemer Paley D D The gospel which likewise that both parties lossinfs 1st 2Hd 278 nsot forth in his Christianity Carlisle li8lII Wo cannot niTord to il Kiipyrlot Hlin pngo 1 was preach ¬ tian and pagan to ac ¬ birth i and on earth nnd in heaven at seemed which viz and can heard olsusw hnvo Mark that reply td nfTnirs ye which is under knowledge thin truth of those miracles the same time was both human nUll an iiiilv 24 versus in itrjitly0 undor Iffive n conscience in church xnmo and Ingifliism whgn ed to every crwUuro 0mnoJi tho read miracles points We lilt support the gosiHil because worked h t lie found in 1 Paul am made n which wore claimed by their nlherc ivine no hereof gasv in differ othor hcavtn tood ejected devils had apes ¬ and wereIthi ° gospoj Hupimrtcd us laiimintf III ouo ofthew the very lowIsaries and while they owero con ¬ loughts 0 origin denrou common n hut have existing religion Nothing prix Vol 1 chap 2 Gibbons Decline est oijlcr among Therapeutic omcinls tented to ascribing theme to the arts tles reformed tho faol ono nail the namo thing HHdtapntod IK view uf tills All rc trickeryof fa and Fall of Rome whichI magic nnd to the powers of dem ¬ was poor was conspired against says 4th 24th Onlatians post thtosohisnmtical ith tho of and un- ¬ wore introduced a igions ° in the Roman world Again the imxst ommont oritiosngrowl in th lint lIeI ons I they mutually concurred in res- denounced riches was meek asso thing lire an allegory ¬ nationl adventurers has beon merciful the by of chaste reign establishing thoro and the true orders and toring ofImarried an equally wnsI Mjlie ved PhilO describes the distinction whore its walit 0 rebuked wns nUll phil to And the sinners xvi by chap aspire with superstition who false ciated Ibid coI people as equally cnnoj i among those rHthur no IlilTenm Tho ofilce tho saner great scholar sagely 11 for it befriended a widow tact a ii Hiit bf truo via of Celsns equally useful nUll clesin iVical ministrations onoh othor In replyoto tiooohalbw dlll1l1 iw nsophers nail as in ¬ the iisptl writes ooiml from and ser is and rank in a footnote hinge religion marks priests woman at a well submitted to profitable by the of hi icon the humblest from Sumo 111118bhu Christen ° bishops r that they OHeb iously to be lamented that the Christ suits and injuries was a philanthro iuontiolI iijMin which to OI ne authority of tho supn more previously written Timothy 3d inn Fathers by acknowledging tho pist hull a Inst supper was crud the 1agan ° rntesllnvimr presented Oabiiiylunt test ¬ Co ipnr this with 1st ill t ou COlllf ifi faith thnn lied IYIIf mloilOO darkness Mollnl of illduH replies not byrot mony to prove that tip original of 13th they that have used tho supernatural or as they deem it the fled between two thieves is boliffs For Origen thnto pdsiiinii of thoso ho descended to hell but b- our K sjMls wits The OOlpoiof the olllce of deacon well purchase to infernal part of Paganism destroy supervened No BoholnrlyLtempling lulToro any proof whoI Egyptians Philn with their own hands the great jul wa resurrected nnd after three wo must now in order t I answer tint we nog 4hls n good degree Also Urn com ¬ tho pix i Pflaland Timothe vantngc which we might otherwise SOPH by many people And all this ads It1list III morcofully demonstrate rfoooplainly the advantage 1111 1 nay to some of Ir derive from tho liberalconcessions 1200 CI r do reap thorllrolll osftiou examine critically us tlwfccrvnnts of Testis Christ l New Testament Fur With regard lo propbecey we Imyu nru so we11ad 10 passngtis of our taints with tho bishops and den of Our adversaries Admitting this the clolwho ¬ tMII nhsoluto4y oth of ho do teach men gospels and epistles nil to the time Hebrews 13th 7th ther we noted in the pages of this the coming to earth foretold vistd 8f thwe things over noted writer that those among the ers besides ClirisTma nnd Christ as nsI when written0 to wlu m addressed COli4IIO to be correct as do rile mot Hencmbcr them that have rule litornti tlic to believe without examination tho profoundof niil these passages on jvhn have spoken unto you the Romans who condescended to men for example ChnngTi Osiris Cad ¬ faith scripture tits of what to nnd rrom foundation ask to till reader will Hebrews 13th lion the Christians considered thorn mus Quirinus Quexalcote and Ma the most im ¬ refer Ecolesinsticnl writers most Iy WOII Our iwxt witness is this proiou5lywriltel wwk nee male liomet and Messianic prophecies am state really knows the 17th J Obey them that have tho rule only in one positive no most that agrw gos purl tail tin the Chi from which tho narrative to be found in the Vegas introduced author of any one of our cnnonien over vou and submit yourselves for yet have we inspiration mcnt that drew their ° un ¬ gosjtuls nor whey they were written thoy watch for your souls as one that submission to their mysterious doc ¬ nese snored books and in those of Iva KpliHt presents himself answer who and ono unit mi copiously copied f the trines without being able to produce Egpt Greece Rome Mexico Arnb concerning thuI Bishop Fnustus A D U84 says must give nn account follow deniable testimony a single argument that could engage In nnd Persia Ther are also ninny shall bo From Egypt ns the fact that the our gos of undoubted origin is an It cm tho to inwsl ns J inquiry fitm tho comparisons Osiris and other II odious hug the attention of men of sense 200 gospels were not Continued Next Week New Testament test It is Kusebius 1nmphiUiH l els xv Chnp learning but neat ccclosinslicnl wrikrs will stles is spoken ofas laving bruised thin AM au lothe written by any of the Cacsarea of modern Hishop nil by I IJO It is conceded fv These truths wo rend nnd many serpents head after it hind bitten his BOONE 00 FAIR of all ecclesiasti ¬ long while lifter by sumo unknown I theologian that tie base of nil our most distinguished Lot nil the other aarsons others amid they burst upon us like hell Hercules is represented with his of origin tho historians enl + information regarding Ky a revplntion while tho belief of our heel on n serpents head Chrishna is Florence Erlanger Rev Moses Hulls Biblical Ency writings witnesses hide their diminished bed the cospvU is found in Urn Bible youth was shaken mightily yea even lictured and sculptured in the same Ku Chndwicks of 17 Dr clopedia mill and Kuso In second volumoi chapter old Queen arguments of Origen 3rd century to very foundations and after way and Persia hns tho same the its via present lM rutty tickets th boIof Today Rtuid trip couceptiotsraretIth centaryS0p1 ¬ sebius Ecclesiastical History Down fell the egend cnrthqunke Miraculous hills Iampbilus Sept Mark tho sold bo that Matthew will ancient neither Route Tho Crescent showing tint A POll ound this passage plemented by writings of the until whole edifice of our faith and them rll ied of Plato who was said toand 1lIko nor John were written prior to 1 2 and 3 good returning were Christians of Zoroaster of lolio Fnthers and of tho Christina hernucuts century from wo stood looking on with mixed tech ¬ h o a son of Apollo rate trip 2nd goa Hound of tho 1010 Septet our half tho Inst above thoir pncred writings were disappointment apologists whom these two annoyance Tnrs mad Vulcan of Quexalcote of this En of ings Ky for International hI10 Erlwgcr New gton to chap tho See also In vol 2nd prolific writers larguly pullII mentioned nnd regret for we received in our S1lehiluolqllnlof Yu of Apj olonins occasion is 240 true by testi ¬ cycloi odia of Clirlsh Moreover it ithould never t proves the assertion nhnmn Ciiote absolutely n very pious training nod woro 0 youth be to wishing invalidated be However which cannot nnd inc5denttljjjfof forgotten that for IfiOO years no oc mon ill prepared for such disquieting dis ¬ nn of Ynsuva the sermon heartreaching waive we n rsny from statements pages many our air in By quoting has pretended viz clcsinstionl historian Hut the facts wero too J eSlls I Philo Jndncus who nliovo arguments 11111 append the prearliwl on Sunday in fashionable coveries to have any other information than tho writings of Of virgin mothers we have Yasu Dr churches hns been manufactured on strong nnd forced ujon us the con ¬ by compiled Imliitft ns dates thobolicfs of on able is found in the writings of tho above wroto n treatise elusion Hint we have been grossly tic tin the mother of Chrishna Main of fnmoils- SnffTnlny np some in evening his in in ThornpoulH Lardncr Nathaniel the authors infinitely theIRllli customs of mentioned There cnn bo no doubt that Snkia Celestine of Zulis Chitnalcbn tho per tticyiuTiler Kso influence of n pot ceived showing that they rentiso on the Credibility of ablest Christianity has ever produced Alexandrin Egypt the of ale the remains of n hnm bone nil Christian teaching has been nnI of Quexnlcoto Semcle of Bncchus from showing GoSpelS thus called Scriptures writings beind sacred Continued on fourth page Therefore without exception nil ticipated byother masters long prior and a short black It clay and n well estab ¬ highest ecclesiastical authority when of tho Egyptians P gin where Euscbius loaves off y