The Ridpath library of universal literatureA biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors . for the rapidand extensive progress of the Christian religion can,upon no other principles, be rationally accounted would be as great a miracle for a few unlearnedfishermen and mechanics to be successful in founding areligion, which in a short time changed the whole aspectof the world, as any recorded in the New , supposing the facts in the question to be true, 288 ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER what Other, or greater, evidence of the truth could wehave had than
The Ridpath library of universal literatureA biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors . for the rapidand extensive progress of the Christian religion can,upon no other principles, be rationally accounted would be as great a miracle for a few unlearnedfishermen and mechanics to be successful in founding areligion, which in a short time changed the whole aspectof the world, as any recorded in the New , supposing the facts in the question to be true, 288 ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER what Other, or greater, evidence of the truth could wehave had than we already possess ? What other factsof equal antiquity are half as well attested? Let thedeist choose any portion of ancient history, and adducehis testimony in proof of the facts, and then comparethe evidence in their support with that which the friendsof Christianity have exhibited for all the material factsrecorded in the gospel; and I shall be disappointed ifhe does not, upon an impartial examination, find thelatter to be much more various and convincing.—FrCiimuiary Discourse on the Evidences of ALEXANDER, James Waddell, , anAmerican Presbyterian clergyman, son of Alexander; born in Louisa County,Va., March 13, 1804; died July 31, 1859. Hegraduated at Princeton College in 1820; was atutor there until 1827, when he became pastor ofa Presbyterian church at Charlotte Court-House,Va., and in 1829 of one at Trenton, N. J. In1833-34 he was Professor of Belles-Lettres andLatin in Princeton College; was pastor of theDuane Street Presbyterian Church, New York,1844-49; Professor of Ecclesiastical History,Church Government, and Sacred Rhetoric inPrinceton Theological Seminary, 1849-51, In1851 the Duane Street church was reorganized asthe Fifth Avenue church, New York, and he againbecame its pastor, a position which he held untilhis death. He was a frequent contributor to re-ligious and literary periodicals, and wrote manybooks, among which are more
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