sion do they point?

Bear in mind the statement of M. Burnouf, that religions are built
up slowly by a process of adaptation; add that to the statements of
Eusebius, the great Christian historian, and of St. Augustine, the great
Christian Father, that the Christian religion is no new thing, but was
known to the ancients, and does it not seem most reasonable to suppose
that Christianity is a religion founded on ancient myths and legends,
on ancient ethics, and on ancient allegorical mysteries and metaphysical
errors?

To support those statements with adequate evidence I should have to
compile a book four times as large as the present volume. As I have
not room to state the case properly, I shall content myself with the
recommendation of some books in which the reader may study the subject
for himself.

A list of these books I now subjoin:

_The Golden Bough._ Frazer. Macmillan & Co.
_A Short History of Christianity._ Robertson. Watts & Co.
_The Evolution of the Idea of God._ Grant Allen. Rationalist

Press Association. _Buddha and Buddhism._ Lillie. Clark.
_Our Sun God._ Parsons. Parsons.
_Christianity and Mythology._ Robertson. Watts & Co.
_Pagan Christs._ Robertson. Watts & Co.
_The Legend of Perseus._ Hartland. Nutt.
_The Birth of Jesus._ Soltau. Black.

The above are all scholarly and important books, and should be generally
known.

For reasons given above I claim, with regard to the divinity and
Resurrection of Jesus Christ:

That outside the New Testament there is no evidence of any
value to show that Christ ever lived, that He ever taught,
that He ever rose from the dead.

That the evidence of the New Testament is anonymous, is
contradictory, is loaded with myths and miracles.

That the Gospels do not contain a word of proof by any
eye-witness as to the fact that Christ was really dead;
nor the statement of any eye-witness that He was seen to
return to life and quit His tomb.

That Paul, who preached the Resurrection of Christ, did not
see Christ dead, did not see Him arise from the dead, did
not see Him ascend into Heaven.

That Paul nowhere supports the Gospel accounts of Christ's
life and teaching.

That the Gospels are of mixed and doubtful origin, that they
show signs of interpolation and tampering, and that they have
been selected from a number