THE PROOFS OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION; FROM A LAWYER’S STANDPOINT. BY CHARLES R. MORRISON. [Illustration] ANDOVER: WARREN F. DRAPER. 1882. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, BY WARREN F. DRAPER, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. _All Rights Reserved._ PREFACE. The present treatise is intended to give what the author has often felt the need of—a compact and thoroughly reliable statement of the principal historical facts to the authenticity and integrity of the New Testament writings concerning our Lord, and the presumptions from them which establish his claims as our Divine Redeemer and Saviour. The question of his Resurrection from the dead is selected as the pivot, because everything hinges upon it. This question, whichever way it is determined, is decisive. It is a question which greatly concerns every one. It is a question of evidence, and as such is especially deserving of careful inquiry by members of the legal profession. For, as Prof. Greenleaf observed in his work hereafter cited,—“If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent on us, who make the law of evidence one of our peculiar studies.” As the question of Christ’s Resurrection is the objective point of our inquiries, all other questions are subordinated to it, and examined so far only as deemed material to the main question. The author has availed himself of a lawyer’s privilege, and made use of the researches, arguments, and conclusions of others who may justly be regarded as authority, and to whom he has given credit as far as practicable, but has endeavored to form an independent judgment in view of all accessible sources of information. The work is, in the main, as published in a series of articles in the _New Hampshire Journal_, and also in the _Vermont Chronicle_, from March 5, 1881, to April 1, 1882, which will explain the use of the common version in the earlier chapters and the New Revision in the later ones.