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The candles seemed to be waving deliberately like elm-tops in a high wind. Someone called, "Clerk, fetch me volume xiii.... I think we shall find there.... You recollect the case of Hildeshein v. Roe.... Wasn't it Hildegaulen and another, m'lud?"... "I tried the case myself. The Prussian Plenipotentiary...."
Therefore it is obvious that, before we can be expected to believe the tremendous story of the Resurrection, we must be shown overwhelming evidence of the authenticity of the Scriptures. Before you can prove your miracle you have to prove your book. Suppose the case to come before a judge. Let us try to imagine what would happen: COUNSEL: M'lud, may it please your ludship.
COUNSEL: I do not know, m'lud. JUDGE: Were the copies seen and revised by the authors? Did they correct the proofs? COUNSEL: I don't know, m'lud. JUDGE: Don't know? Why? COUNSEL: There is no evidence that the documents had ever been heard of until long after the authors were dead. JUDGE: I never heard of such a case. I cannot allow you to quote these papers. They are not evidence.
JUDGE: Of course, you intend to call Matthew? COUNSEL: No, m'lud. He is he is dead. JUDGE: It seems to me, that to prove this resurrection you will have to perform a great many more. Are Mark and John dead, also? COUNSEL: Yes, m'lud. JUDGE: Who were they? COUNSEL: I I don't know, m'lud. JUDGE: These statements of theirs, to which you allude: are they in their own handwriting?
"Is the person with the ah bristles still downstairs?" "He is, m'lud," said Jenkins, with another sigh. "Then tell him to possess his soul in patience, Jenk, for I fear he will remain there a long, long time." "You don't mind if we drive about a bit, do you, Beverley?" "Not in the least." "I er I generally go the longest way round when I have to call on " "On Gaunt?" "Yes."
"May it please you, m'lud, and gentlemen of the jury," she said, causing Lawrence hastily to change his pose, and Phoebe to look a little scandalized. "There's a time for everything," he insisted, with a blush. "Let me tell you this is no laughing matter." "You should not make yourself look so ridiculous," said Carrissima. "Why should you everlastingly be retained for the prosecution?"
JUDGE: I cannot allow you to read the alleged statements of a hypothetical witness who is acknowledged to have been dead for nearly two thousand years. I cannot admit the alleged letters of Paul as evidence. COUNSEL: I shall show that the act of resurrection was witnessed by one Mary Magdalene, by a Roman soldier JUDGE: What is the soldier's name? COUNSEL: I don't know, m'lud. JUDGE: Call him.
So 's arternoon, as we was passing the end o' the street, I sez to m'lud, I sez, 'Won't your Ludship jest pop your nob round the corner and squint your peepers at the 'osses? I sez. So 'e laughs, easy like, and in we pops. And the first thing we see was your 'ead groom, Mr.
Arthur, m'lud has a theory that the English-speaking peoples should do something together, doncheknow, and the devil of it is to get 'em together, doncheknow." They all laughed save Anne, who looked awful at this scandalous mimicry of a personage, until His Lordship laughed too. "You are only a journalist," said he gayly, "and talk like your journal.
COUNSEL: No, m'lud. JUDGE: Are they in the handwriting of this Paul of Tarsus? COUNSEL: No, m'lud. They are copies; the originals are lost. JUDGE: Who was Paul of Tarsus? COUNSEL: M'lud, he was the apostle to the Gentiles. JUDGE: You intend to call some of these Gentiles? COUNSEL: No, m'lud. There are none living.
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