It will be remembered that Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea, and that he has been characterized (very properly) as the father of ecclesiastical history. Christianity, to the devout, virtually hangs on the writings of this man Eusebius, whom so many of his fellow-churchmen denounce as a forger and a fraud. Dean Milman, who censures Gibbon so severely for telling the truth about the church, expresses his regret that '"the fine gold so soon became dim in the Christian church." Even the Emperor Constantine, after he had become a quasi-Christian, and after having put Eusebius in the Council of Nice, as a friend, in an address to the people of Nicomedia, accused him of deceit, fraud, and forgery as to the gospels. In his writings, Eusebius frankly admits that falsehood is justifiable in the interest of the church. He says the writings of Philo and the gospels are one and the same, that Christianity did not take its rise with Christ, that its doctrines are but the natural outgrowth of all good men. Even Pope Boniface IX., 1310 A. C., denounced Christianity as a fraud. He said Christ was but an ordinary man, that inspiration was a lie, that the whole Christian scheme was ...
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