This internal evidence is gaining favor day by day. It is preferred by
the ablest modern writers to all others. It was the evidence that
vanquished the infidel socialists of five and thirty years ago. It is
the evidence that makes our modern infidel advocates wince and waver.
They hardly think it necessary to notice the historical evidences. They
know that they seldom get hold of men's hearts. But they cannot afford
to despise the internal evidences. They are a real power. Thousands are
touched by a sight of Jesus as presented in the Gospels, for one that is
moved by arguments from miracles or prophecies. Even the miracles of
Jesus owe their chief power to their benevolent character.
The ablest American writer on the Evidences of Christianity, Rev. Mark
Hopkins, makes the moral and internal evidence almost everything, and
the external ones next to nothing.
The Rev. F. C. Cooke, Canon of Exeter, in his lecture before the
Christian Evidence Society of London, says, 'The one great evidence, the
master evidence, the evidence with which all other evidences will stand
or fall, is Christ Himself speaking by His own word. It is the character
of Jesus that makes men feel that He and His religion are divine. It is
this that warms men's hearts, and wins their love, and produces a faith
full of life and power.
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