In his narrative of this miracle Fleetwood says: "The spectators beheld, at a distance, the torments these poor creatures suffered; with what amazing rapidity they ran to the confines of the lake, leaped from the precipices into the sea, and perished in the waters" (Life of Christ, p. 121). In striking contrast to the religion of Buddha, the religion of Christ has made its adherents cruel and unmerciful. To this Christian writer the torture and destruction of these domestic animals is no more than the burning of a field of stubble. In this miracle he sees only a manifestation of love and kindness on the part of his Savior. Referring to the request of the inhabitants that he depart from their country, he says: "The stupid request of the Gadarenes was complied with by the blessed Jesus, who, entering the ship, returned to the country from whence he came, leaving them a valuable pledge of his love, and us a noble pattern of perseverance in well-doing, even when our kindnesses are condemned or requited with injuries" (Ibid, p. 122). 574 What did Jesus say to the strange Samaritan woman whom he met at the well? "Thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband" (John iv, 18). "Christ here makes himself a wandering gypsy, or Bohemian fortune teller, and I much wonder that our gypsies do not account themselves the genuine disciples of Jesus, being endowed with like gifts, and exercising no worse arts than he himself practiced."--Woolston. 575 Was he not an egotist and given to vulgar boasting? Speaking of himself, he said: "Behold, a greater than Solomon is here" (Matthew xii, 41, 42). 576 Did he not practice dissimulation? John: "And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I know that thou hearest me always, but because of the people which stand by I said it" (xi, 41, 42). Luke: After his resurrection when he intended to stop at Emmaus with his companions, "He made as though he would have gone further" (xxiv, 28). 577 After performing one of his miraculous cures, what charge did he make to those who witnessed it? Mark: "He charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it" (vii, 36). Did he desire them to disregard his commands? If he did he was a hypocrite; if he did not he was an impotent--in either case a fallible man instead of an omnipotent God. 578 On the approach of the Passover what did he say to his brethren? "Go ye up unto this feast; I go not up yet unto this feast" (John vii, 8). The correct reading of the last clause is, "I go not up unto the feast." The American revisers, to their credit, urged the adoption of this reading; but the Oxford revisers retained the error. In uttering these words, Jesus, if omniscient, uttered an untruth; for John says: "But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret" (10).