[Illustration: The Lamb Resurrecting Lazarus, IV Century Sarcophagus.]

While the figure on the modern cross is almost naked, those on the
earlier ones are clothed and completely covered. Wearing a flowing
tunic, Jesus is standing straight against the cross with his arms
outstretched, as though in the act of delivering an address.
Frequently, at his feet, on the cross, there is still painted the
figure of a lamb, which by and by, he is going to replace altogether.
Gradually the robe disappears from the crucified one, until we see him
crucified, as in the adjoining picture, with hardly any clothes on,
and wearing an expression of great agony.

[Illustration: Modern Christ.]




[Illustration: Christ and the Twelve Apostles, Carrying Swastikas and
Solar Discs Instead of the Cross. Sarcophagus, Milan.]

THE SILENCE OF PROFANE WRITERS



In all historical matters, we cannot ask for more than a
_reasonable_ assurance concerning any question. In fact, absolute
certainty in any branch of human knowledge, with the exception of
mathematics, perhaps, is impossible. We are finite beings, limited in
all our powers, and, hence, our conclusions are not only relative, but
they should ever be held subject to correction. When our law courts