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 of other Gospels, all of which were once accepted as genuine. And that, while there is no real evidence of the life or the teachings, or the Resurrection of Christ, there is a great deal of evidence to show that the Gospels were founded upon anterior legends and older ethics. But Christian apologists offer other reasons why we should accept the stories of the miraculous birth and Resurrection of Christ as true. Let us examine these reasons, and see what they amount to. OTHER EVIDENCES OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY Archdeacon Wilson gives two reasons for accepting the doctrines of Christ's divinity and Resurrection as true. The first of these reasons is, the success of the Christian religion; the second is, the evolution of the Christlike type of character. If the success of the Christian religion proves that Christ was God, what does the success of the Buddhist religion prove? What does the success of the Mohammedan religion prove? Was Buddha God? Was Mahomet God? The archdeacon does not believe in any miracles but those of his own religion. But if the spread of a faith proves its miracles to be true, what can be said about the spread of the Buddhist and Mohammedan religions? Islam spread faster and farther than Christianity. So did Buddhism. To-day the numbers of these religions are somewhat as follows: Buddhist: 450 millions. Christians: 375 millions, of which only 180 millions are Protestants. Hindus: 200 millions. Mohammedans: 160 millions.