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and allegory; in the profound discussion of phil- osophy, its principles have been exhibited; one here, another there; one phase of this, another of that. AVhen of all these diverse utterances we de- mand that they shall be self-consistent, as the expres- sion of the thoughts of a single mind, we apply a test which no false system can stand. The question is, Does Christianity stand this test ? 1 answer : It 13(3 A Busy Life, must stand it or be condemned. To be proved self- contradictory is to be proved false. To make out this charge against Christianity, it is not sufficient to show that some things in it are incomprehensible and their consistency unintelligible. No man may be able to comprehend how three corisist in one God- head, and yet, they may thus co-exist. This state- ment accords with all analogy. Co-existence is to be found everywhere, the mode of which no man professes to explain. To prove Christianity self-con- tradictory, it must be shown that it affirms facts and principles both of which cannot possibly be true. Now man has been trying to prove Christianity contradictory for more than two thousand years. Have they succeeded? By misrepresentation and distortion, by exaggeration and equivocation, they have made it appear as if they had found the much sought contradictions. But millions of the clearest,