Benjamin Fish Austin

"Spiritualism today has indubitable proof that man lives after death. Its evidence of this great fact is a million fold stronger than the evidence the world possesses of the truth of historical Christianity. The great fact upon which all the preaching and evangelism of the Apostles of Jesus was based was the dogma of his resurrection. This was the substance of the message of early Christianity. It was based on the testimony of those who saw and recognized the arisen Master. It possessed in those days living witnesses and (accepting the Gospel accounts) large numbers of them. Today its evidence rests on the written testimony of the Gospels which, while divergent, may be regarded as substantially true. It may be said that historical Christianity today rests on the testimony of the two eye-witnesses given in the Gospels. Yet upon the record of these two witnesses - preserved through the centuries - and whether altered or changed in the copying no one knows - the whole Christian world accepts as a veritable fact the Resurrection Story." -Benjamin Fish Austin