[7] History of God’s Church, by Enoch Pond, D.D., p. 606. And as to Judge Waite’s “many cases of resurrection from the dead, handed down in the ancient mythologies” and by heathen writers, it will be soon enough to notice them whenever there shall be a serious attempt to run a parallel between the evidence in support of them, and that which proves the resurrection of our Lord. And so of the whole swarm of lying wonders, whether found in heathen writers, the Apocryphal Gospels, or exhibited by modern conjurors or spiritualists,—senseless, frivolous, for no worthy object, and, beyond the mystery accompanying them, supported by no reasonable proof. Our Saviour told his disciples “beforehand” that “there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.” (Matthew xxiv. 24.) Paul told Timothy that “the Spirit saith expressly that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, through the hypocrisies of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron.” (1 Timothy iv. 1, 2.) This will be strange to any modern Sadducee who believes there is “neither angel nor Spirit,” but the Christian will do well to give heed. [8] Within the last thirty years, through the labors of English Wesleyan missionaries, there has been an entire moral renovation of cannibals, once revelling and rioting in every excess of atrocity and bestial shame. Now there are nine thousand churches and thousands of communicants, fourteen thousand schools and nearly fifty thousand scholars: and out of a population of about one hundred and twenty thousand, over one hundred thousand are reckoned as regular attendants at the churches. Cannibalism has been voluntarily abandoned, save by a single tribe, in eighty inhabited islands: idolatry has been abjured, and all traces of it swept away. And to-day a gentle and refined English woman, as Miss Gordon-Cumming in her book, At Home in Fiji, testifies, can travel these islands alone, mingling with the people, rambling through their villages, sleeping in their huts and eating at their tables, with none to molest her or make her afraid. (See Rev. Edward Abbott, in _Congregationalist_ of February 15, 1882.) [9] 2 Timothy iv. 8. [10] Revelation xxii. 17. INDEX A. ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO SUBJECTS AND ANCIENT AUTHORS AND WRITINGS. Absence of the body of Jesus. See Empty Tomb. Acts and Luke, have one author, 9, 77. Acts, quoted from, by Justin, 23, 24, 26. when written, 79. Acts of Peter and Paul (Apocryphal), 37, 38. Acts of Pilate (Apocryphal), 34, 35, 36, 41, note 5. Admissions and Presumptions, 9, 12, 13, 22, 43. See, also, Renan, Strauss, Waite. After-thought, Resurrection is not an, 6, 86. Aged disciples, 55, 57, 59, 60, 62, note 4. Agrippa Castor, testimony of, 45. Alexandrian Codex, 70, 71, 73, note 10.