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Although at first sight, the idea that we are immersed in a medium almost infinitely denser than lead might seem inconceivable, it is not so if we remember that in all probability matter is composed mainly of holes. We may in fact regard matter as possessing a bird-cage kind of structure, in which the volume of ether disturbed by the wires when the structure is moved is infinitesimal in comparison with the volume enclosed by them. If we do this there is no difficulty from the great density of the ether; all that we have to do is to increase the distance between the wires in proportion as we increase the density of the ether. Prof. J. J. Thomson.
Chapter IV: Why Is the Resurrection Judged Credible? We return to ask a second time the question put to King Agrippa by Paul: “Why is it judged incredible with you, if God should raise the dead?” The absence of good reason for unbelief is here clearly intimated. The grounds for acceptance of the resurrection of Jesus as a fact and appropriate action in the light of the fact are suggested by Paul to be most substantial. Almost without realizing it we are face to face with one of the most outstanding and compelling reasons for belief in the Easter message. It is this, that Paul the Apostle believed it. On it he rested his Easter faith. Can there be any doubt about his conception of the relation of the Easter message and the Easter faith to each other? Verify, if you will, by restudy of the four great letters of his concerning which
