The Verity of Christ's Resurrection

In pursuance of the purpose expressed in the Prefaces to my 'Bridge of History' and to 'God, the Soul, and a Future State'-I herewith publish the substance of four lectures on the Resurrection of Christ, which I have delivered, wholly or in part, in almost every important town of England and Scotland, during a period extending over the last eighteen years.

I have again thought it better to put what I have spoken into a bookish form, for general readers. But, I have, as before, preserved the familiar and conversational tone-the interrogative and repetition-with the occasional light step-aside into other themes by way of relief-in short, the policy of speech that must be employed by all who wish to secure the earnest and prolonged attention of the working-classes to lectures on serious subjects.

Besides, I humbly think it desireable that the soldiers who come after me should know how I strove to conduct the fight. The battle with Scepticism will not be ended for many a long year after I quit the field. I pray that Victory may sit on the helm of the Christian combatants who have to follow me!

THOMAS COOPER.

2, Portland Place,

St. Mary's Street, Lincoln.

April, 1875.

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