UNQUESTIONABLY, the moral image of Jesus, even if regarded as nothing more than an idea, is the noblest and dearest possession of humanity: a thing surely for which a man might be willing to live or to die. For this idea is the noblest to which, in religion or in morals, the mind of man has ever attained. It is the crown and glory of the race; it is the holy place in which the moral consciousness may find refuge from the corruption of every-day life. The man who would knowingly stain or becloud this idea, would be a blasphemer against the majesty of the divinely-begotten human spirit, in its fairest and purest manifestation. Even if we were to regard the image of Jesus as an invention, we should have to confess it to be the sublimest fiction that the mind of man has ever conceived. We should have to own that as a romance, it far transcends every common experience, and that in its world-transforming power it has proved itself more mighty and more efficacious than the whole range of actual facts, of whose reality history gives us unquestionable evidence. But just because it does so transcend alike all the romance and all the reality in the world besides, it is impossible for us to regard it as a fiction; just because it is so deeply and indissolubly interwoven with the whole development of the human race, and because, more particularly, the origin of the Christian faith, in its peculiar features, would be utterly inexplicable if it be not true—we must of necessity view it as historical and real.—Dr. C. Ullman's "Sinlessness of Jesus an Evidence for Christianity."