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confound His enemies by appearing to them too? Brethren, Christ's life-long practice was to hide His glory and reveal His shame. Only three climbed Thabor, but vast throngs lined the slopes of Calvary, And justly so, for the kingdom He came to found was not of earth, nor to be built by means so earthly as to seem to rest on human causes. Besides, it is a law of Nature and of grace that all great changes and reforms result from the efforts of a few. The surging masses cannot be converted instantly, but are as plastic matter which skilful hands must gradually work and mould. Nothing is so fickle as a throng. The eleven, when they saw their Lord, believed and were glad, but many of the five hundred doubted. The multitude had seen His wondrous miracles but with what result? To-day they cry: " Hosanna," tomorrow, " Crucify Him; " and if they had refused to credit Him in life, neither would they have believed Him risen from the dead. Still witnesses, if need be, may be found even among Christ's enemies, for St. Justin, then a Jew, declares the Resurrection was taken by all for granted. It is admitted by the Jewish historian Josephus, and according to Tertullian a circumstantial account of it was written by Pontius Pilate to the Emperor Tiberius. Now are our witnesses reliable? Certainly their opportunities for knowing what they testify were most exceptional. Intimately acquainted with Our Lord, they had through forty days repeated chances to establish His identity. It was but natural that at His first appearance they should suspect they saw a spirit, but Christ