n his wife's, and the little
children with their arms around his neck. Suppose that it is so. Do
you think that the people of Chicago would kill him? Do you think any
one would wish to crucify him? Do you not rather believe that every
one who had a loved one out in that cemetery would go to him, even upon
their knees, and beg him and implore him to give back their dead? Do
you believe that any man was ever crucified who was the master of
death? Let me tell you tonight if there shall ever appear on this earth
the master, the monarch of death, all human knees will touch the earth;
he will not be crucified, he will not be touched. All the living who
fear death; all the living who have lost a loved one will stand and
cling to him. And yet we are told that this worker of miracles, this
worker of wonders, this man who could clothe the dead in the throbbing
flesh of life, was crucified by the Jewish people. It was never
dreamed that he did a miracle until 100 years after he was dead.

There is another miracle I do not believe, I cannot believe it, and
that is the resurrection. And why? If it was the fact, if the dead
got out of the grave, why did He not show himself to his enemies? Why
did He not again visit Pontius Pilate? Why did He not call upon
Caiaphas, the high priest? Why did He not make another triumphal entry
into Jerusalem? Why did He not again enter the temple and dispute with
the doctors? Why didn't He say to the multitude: "Here are the wounds
in My feet, and in My hands, and in My side. I am the one you
endeavored to kill, but Death is My slave." Why didn't He? Simply
because the thing never happened. I cannot believe it. But recollect,
it makes no difference with its teachings. They are exactly as good
whether He wrought miracles or not. Twice two are four; that needs no
miracle. Twice two are five--a miracle would not help that. Christ's
teachings are worth their effect upon the human race. It makes no
difference about miracle or about wonder, but you must remember in that
day every one believed in miracles. Nobody had any standing as a
teacher, a philosopher, a governor, or a king, about whom there was not
a something miraculous. The earth was then covered with the sons and
daughters of the gods and goddesses. That was believed in Greece, in
Rome, in Egypt, in Hindustan; everybody, nearly, believed in such
things.

Then there is another miracle that I cannot believe in, and that is th