be reduced so near to nonentity, as was required to pass through the ordinary stages of human generation, human birth, and human parturition, --a puerile notion which reason, science, nature, philosophy, and common sense, proclaim to be supremely absurd and self-evidently impossible, and which even the Scriptures fail to sustain,--a logical, scriptural exposition, of which we will here present a brief summary:-- 1. The essential attributes of a self-existing God and Creator, and "Upholder of all things." are infinitude, omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, and any being not possessing all these attributes to repletion, or possessing any quality or characteristic in the slightest degree incompatible with any one of these attributes, cannot be a God in a divine sense, but must of necessity be a frail, fallible, finite being. 2. Jesus Christ disclaims, hundreds of times over, directly or impliedly, the inherent possession of any one of these divine attributes. 3. His evangelical biographers have invested him with the entire category of human qualities and characteristics, each one of which is entirely unbefitting a God, and taken together are the only distinguishing characteristics by which we can know a man from a God. 4. Furthermore, there issued from his own mouth various sayings and concessions most fatal to the conception of his being a God. 5. His devout biographers have reported various actions and movements in his practical life which we are compelled to regard as absolutely irreconcilable with the infinite majesty, lofty character, and supreme attributes of an almighty Being. 6. These human qualities were so obvious to all who saw him and all who became acquainted with him, that doubts sprang up among his own immediate followers, which ultimately matured into an open avowal of disbelief in his divinity in that early age. 7. Upon the axiomatical principles of philosophy it is an utter and absolute impossibility to unite in repletion the divine and the human in the same being. 8. And then Christ had a human birth. 9. He was constituted in part, like human beings, of flesh and blood. 10. He became, on certain occasions, "an hungered," like finite beings. 11. He also became thirsty (John xix. 28), like perishable mortals. 12. He often slept, like mortals, and thus became "to dumb forgetfulness a prey." 13. He sometimes became weary, like human beings. (See John iv. 6.) 14. He was occasionally tempted, like fallible mortals. (Matt. iv. 1.) 15. His "soul became exceeding sorrowful," as a frail, finite being. (Matt. xxvi. 38.) 16. He disclosed the weakness of human passion by weeping. (John xi. 35.) 17. He was originally an imperfect being, "made perfect through suffering." (Heb. ii. 10.) 18. He "increased in wisdom and stature" (Luke ii. 52); therefore he must have possessed finite, changeable, mortal attributes.