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Foreword to the First Edition xv exactly true’. Yet neither offers corroborative evidence of either the Resurrection or Ascension. What people in modern times want to know, writes F. C. Conybeare, is whether the Ascension did really happen. That is the plain issue which Bishop Gore and others both apologists and critics, seem to shirk, but which has been answered fully and clearly by Maulvi Shams. It has also been answered by many in the seclusion of the study and library. But, to quote again F. C. Conybeare: ‘Would it not be simpler in the end to tell people plainly that a legend is only a legend. They are not infants in arms. Why is it accounted so ter- rible for a clergyman or minister of religion to express openly in the pulpit opinions he can hear in many academical lecture rooms and often entertain in the privacy of his study?’ DUDLEY WRIGHT, (Phil. D, P. S. P. )