Evidence of Adrian...206
   " Apostolic Fathers...263, 267
   " Barnabas...268
   " Basilides and Valentinus...280
   " Canon of Muratori...282
   " Clement ...269
   " Clementines...279
   " Hegesippus...277
   " Hermas...269
   " Ignatius...270
   " Josephus...195
   " Justin Martyr...271
   " Marcion...281
   " Marcus Aurelius...206
   " Papias...271
   " Pliny...203
   " Polycarp...270
   " Suetonius...201
   " Tacitus...199

Forgeries in Early Church...238
    " List of...240
Four Gospels:  when recognised...257
    " why only four...258

Gospels, changes made in...283
    " contradictions in...328
    " contradictions between synoptical and fourth...337
    " growth of...285, 289
    " identity of modern and ancient unproven...262
    " many current...266
    " of later origin...311
    " of Matthew and Mark not those of Papias...290
    " original, different from canonical...298
    " similarity of canonical and uncanonical...245
    " synoptical...286
    " time of selection unknown...256
Genealogies of Jesus...328
Greek not commonly known by Jews...314

Ignorance of Early Fathers...232

Krishna, meaning of...345

Length of Jesus’ Ministry..336
Life of Christ from Justin Martyr...306

Martyrs, small number of...212
Massacre of infants unlikely...333
Matthew, written in Hebrew...394
Miracles...316
Morality of Early Christians...221
Mythical Theory of Jesus...340

Passages in Fathers, not in canonical Gospels...301
Persecution, absence of...209
Phrase “it is written"...247
Positions laid down as to Gospels...236
Position A...238
    " B...245
    " C...256
    " D...257
    " E...261
    " F...262
    " G...290
    " H...298
    " I...311
    " J...314
    " K...316
Prophecies, Messianic...342

Silence of Jewish writers...198, 201, 259
    " Pagan " ...193, 206
Story of Christ pre-Christian...340
Son-worship and Christ...343

Temptation of Christ...334
Ten Persecutions...350
Types of Christ...345

SECTION II.—­ITS ORIGIN PAGAN.

There are two ancient and widely-spread creeds to which we must chiefly look for the origin of Christianity, namely, Sun-worship and Nature-worship.  It is doubtful which of the twain is the elder, and they are closely intertwined, the central idea of each being the same; personally, I am inclined to think that Nature-worship is the older of the two, because it is the simpler and the nearer; the barbarian, slowly