This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...like these--"Such eyes I saw that craved the light alone, Such mouths that wanted bread and nothing else, Such hands that supplicated handiwork--Men with the wives, and women with the babes; Yet all these pleading just to live, not die!" The disadvantages, the temptations, the privations, the miseries, of the common ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...like these--"Such eyes I saw that craved the light alone, Such mouths that wanted bread and nothing else, Such hands that supplicated handiwork--Men with the wives, and women with the babes; Yet all these pleading just to live, not die!" The disadvantages, the temptations, the privations, the miseries, of the common people would preoccupy Him. Ah! the day is coming when statesmen will love the common people as Christ loved them. Then we shall see some strange and wonderful sights. There are some things, indeed, which we shall no longer see. We-shall not see the liquor-shop at the corner of every street. We shall not see immoral men welcomed in drawing-rooms. We shall not see the memorials of sanguinary wars on every side. Neither shall we see vice and misery in every street. But we shall live in the midst of a healthy, contented, and happy people. It is interesting to notice, before we close, the quality which specially endeared Jesus Christ to the common people. It was not what superficial persons would imagine. It was not some peculiar gentleness. On the contrary, it was fearless moral courage. In the passage immediately following our text He denounces, in startling, flaming, terrible terms, the selfishness, the greed, and the hypocrisy of unworthy ministers of religion. There is nothing that the masses of people value so much as plain bold speech with respect to all evil. They are quite willing to be told their own faults and their own sins by any true prophet of God who is equally ready to denounce the follies and crimes of the great and privileged. There was nothing that so impressed our Lord's contemporaries as His moral courage. You may remember the remarkable passage in the Acts, where the magistrates " took knowledge" of Peter a...
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