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. 1910 Excerpt: ..."that in all things He might have the preeminence." That word was affixed once by a master writer to our Master. There it stays. That is the impression He makes on us. He always made it. Likeless, unlikeness, extraordinariness, preeminence, --these are the terms. They are not a complete list. Yet they will do. You ...
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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. 1910 Excerpt: ..."that in all things He might have the preeminence." That word was affixed once by a master writer to our Master. There it stays. That is the impression He makes on us. He always made it. Likeless, unlikeness, extraordinariness, preeminence, --these are the terms. They are not a complete list. Yet they will do. You remember in The Bonnie Brier Bush Flora Campbell said to Margaret Howe: "It is a peety you hef not the Gaelic; it is the best of all languages for loving. There are fifty words for darling, and my father will be calling me every one that night I came home." Those early students were not stylists, not at all like Walter Pater or Henry James. They knew, however, five or six words for Master and they applied them all to Him. They were not restrained in their efforts to tell what they thought He was. I can easily imagine John and James, or Peter and Paul comparing notes, measuring the terms each had applied to Jesus, and the efforts each had made to state the impression Christ had made on them, each in a different way. And then I can easily imagine them stopping it all and bowing down with shame and regret that their best was so poor and inadequate. "Join all the glorious names Of wisdom, love and power; All are too mean to speak His worth, Too mean to set the Saviour forth." The terms of the New Testament are all vital. They are not academic. The doctrine of Christ came not of resolution or effort to frame a doctrine. The doctrine of Christ was born of the fact of Christ as men lived themselves into it. The person was not created by the doctrine, the doctrine came from the person. Those first men did not hesitate to attribute to Him terms belonging to deity. They were not afraid of what we now call the supernatural. These...
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