tless appear in the next day's papers, and at least one paper would
reprint his favourite likeness over the caption, "Dr. Allan Delcher
Linford, the Handsome and Up-to-Date Rector of St. Antipas." Under this
would be head-lines: "The Resurrection Proved; a Literal Fact in History
not less than a Spiritual Fact in the Human Consciousness. An Unbroken
Chain of Living Witnesses."

He even worded scraps of the article on his way from the church to his
study:

"An unusually rich Easter service was held at fashionable St. Antipas
yesterday morning. The sermon by its able and handsome young rector, the
Reverend Dr. Linford, was fraught with vital interest to every thinking
man. The Resurrection he declares to be a fact as well attested as the
Brooklyn Bridge is to thousands who have never seen it--yet who are
convinced of its existence upon the testimony of those who have. Thus
one who has never seen this bridge may be as certain of its existence as
a man who crosses it twice a day. In the same way, a witness to the
risen Christ tells the glorious truth to his son, a lad of fifteen, who
at eighty tells it to his grandson. 'Do you realise,' said the magnetic
young preacher, 'that the assurance of the Resurrection comes to you
this morning by word of mouth through a scant three thousand
witnesses--a living chain of less than three thousand links by which we
may trace our steps back to the presence of the first witness--so that,
in effect, we have the Resurrection on the word of a man who beheld the
living Saviour this very morning? Nay; further, in effect we ourselves
stand trembling before that stone rolled away from the empty but forever
hallowed tomb. As certainly as thousands know that a structure called
the Brooklyn Bridge exists, so upon testimony of the same validity do we
know that "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believed on him might not perish but have everlasting
life." God has not expected us to trust blindly: he has presented
tangible and compelling evidence of his glorious scheme of salvation.'
The speaker, who is always imbued with the magnetism of a striking
personality, was more than usually effective on this occasion, and
visibly moved the throng of fashionable worshippers that--"

"Allan, you outdid yourself!" Aunt Bell had come in and, in the mirror
over the dining-room mantel, was bestowing glances of unaffected but
strictly impartial admiration upon the bonnet of