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. 1914 Excerpt: ...recruits for the Kingdom of God, and whenever he found a response to his ideal of a world dedicated to God, whether it was in blind Bartimeus by the roadside, or rich Zacchaeus in his home at Jericho, he said with equal appreciation: "Thy faith hath made thee whole"; "This day is salvation come to thishouse." "In short ...
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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. 1914 Excerpt: ...recruits for the Kingdom of God, and whenever he found a response to his ideal of a world dedicated to God, whether it was in blind Bartimeus by the roadside, or rich Zacchaeus in his home at Jericho, he said with equal appreciation: "Thy faith hath made thee whole"; "This day is salvation come to thishouse." "In short, his categories of social judgment were not those of wealth and poverty."1 Whatever social revolution may be the logical consequence of his teaching, he was not a social revolutionist. It is impossible to convert the teaching of Jesus into that of an industrial agitator. His purpose was not revolution, but revelation. He was primarily concerned, not with the distribution of goods, but with the inspiration of goodness. He cared less for social classification than for social sanctification. He was not a socialist, but a saviour. Yet it does not follow from this apparent limitation that the teaching of Jesus is either silent or indulgent concerning the ethics of property. On the contrary, and in words whose severity and irony 1Cf. F. G. Peabody, "Jesus Christ and the Social Question," 1900, p. 205. no commentary can obscure, Jesus recognizes the tremendous risks which the possession, or even the pursuit, of money involves. "How hardly," he says, "shall they that have riches enter into the Kingdom of God." "It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God." "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth." "A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." The modern world appreciates, as perhaps no generation since the time of Jesus Christ has done, the insight and prec...
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