irreverent as he is that we keep the windows of our minds shut. To
excuse our own mediocrity we call the man who tries to get out of the
rut a "blasphemer." And so we ask the world to praise our indifference
as a great virtue, and to denounce the conscientious toil and thought
of another, as "blasphemy."




[Illustration: The Lamb Standing Upon the Gospels. VIII Century.]

IS JESUS A MYTH?



What is a myth? A myth is a fanciful explanation of a given
phenomenon. Observing the sun, the moon, and the stars overhead, the
primitive man wished to account for them. This was natural. The mind
craves for knowledge. The child asks questions because of an inborn
desire to know. Man feels ill at ease with a sense of a mental vacuum,
until his questions are answered. Before the days of science, a
fanciful answer was all that could be given to man's questions about
the physical world. The primitive man guessed where knowledge failed
him--what else could he do? A myth, then, is a guess, a story, a
speculation, or a fanciful explanation of a phenomenon, in the absence
of accurate information.

Many are the myths about the heavenly bodies, which, while we call
them myths, because we know better, were to the ancients truths. The
Sun and Moon were once brother and sister, thought the child-man; but