This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...as a church believe that we have found Jesus, that we have found the law of life and salvation. If so, it will behoove us to study it carefully; and certainly I do not know where we will find any more powerful exposition of that law than in the life and character of Jesus, the Master. The text that I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...as a church believe that we have found Jesus, that we have found the law of life and salvation. If so, it will behoove us to study it carefully; and certainly I do not know where we will find any more powerful exposition of that law than in the life and character of Jesus, the Master. The text that I have read says that the "Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth," and in the Inspired Version in the same chapter the statement is made explicitly that the Word of God is the gospel. The gospel, then, became flesh arid dwelt among us. I wonder why God determined that the law of life and salvation should become flesh and dwell among men. I wonder why Jesus chose to take upon himself flesh and blood. I think it was because he wanted to appeal to the hearts of men and he wanted to appeal to the intelligence of men. The thing that appeals to one will not always appeal to the other. I suppose that not every young man who falls in love pauses to analyze the thing that has happened to him. It does not interest his intelligence, particularly; he does not care. But certainly it has had a profound influence on his heart. On the other hand, there are many things that we understand clearly that have no appeal to our hearts. We can work up a perfectly intelligent defense of taxation, for instance; but the man who goes to purchase a marriage license feels quite different to the man who merely gets a tax receipt. I have pictured to myself Jesus in meditation.,1 have imagined him following that occasion when in the councils of heaven he volunteered to come to earth and undertake the salvation of man, and I have fancied him thinking to himself: "Now I have undertaken this mission, how shall I go about the task of...
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