your ear, and come
unto me; hear, and your soul shall live.... Let the wicked forsake his
way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the
Lord and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will
abundantly pardon." "The Spirit and the bride say come, and let him that
is athirst come, and whosoever will let him take of the waters of life
freely." Yes, _freely_. There is no obstruction. All are without excuse.

CREDIBILITY OF THE EVIDENCE OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST.

Our senses are the means by which we were made competent witnesses. They
are the bed-rock of evidence. We know facts and truths, both
comprehensible and incomprehensible, by the same means. We are as
competent to testify of that which we do not comprehend as we are to
testify of the most ordinary fact. As competent to bear testimony to the
fact of a sweeping tornado as to the fact of a gentle breeze. As competent
to bear testimony to the fact that water freezes and becomes hard as to
testify to the truth of its being a fluid. As competent to testify to a
fact that we never before experienced as to one that we have. Without this
competency no man could be justly held responsible for slander or perjury.

We gain knowledge by means of our senses, and all lying and perjury is
outside of our senses, having no connection with them. We can, in truth,
testify to that which we have seen, heard, tasted, smelt or felt, and to
such only. That which somebody else thus witnessed may be testified by
him, but not by me, unless I, too, was connected with it by means of my
senses. Wise men may be deceived in some things, but fools can not be
deceived in others. Things addressing themselves to our senses are things
about which we can not be so deceived as to truthfully deny that they ever
occurred. I know a live man when I see him by the same means I know a dead
man.

Being competent to bear witness to a new fact, to one heretofore
unexperienced, I would have been competent to bear witness to the death,
burial and resurrection of the Christ, in case I had lived in his day, and
had been as familiar with him as his witnesses. By which I mean to say,
they were competent witnesses; every way qualified to know assuredly
whether the Savior rose from the dead. _They could not be deceived_ about
the matter. They were not. If they were honest men they told the truth,
for they say, We saw, and heard, and our hands have handled. Then the
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