Author : Charles Fletcher Dole
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333245795
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (457 download)
Book Synopsis Jesus and the Men About Him (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Fletcher Dole
Download or read book Jesus and the Men About Him (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Fletcher Dole and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Jesus and the Men About Him There is constant need of object lessons and parables, even for the most thoughtful minds, in enforcing moral truths. From whatever point of view we consider the figures in the New Testament story, they furnish most interesting types to describe precisely such men as we see to-day. Whatever, also, any one thinks of certain dogmatic or historical questions about Jesus, there is practically no name or word so clear or that carries such wealth of mean ing as when we tell men of the Christ life and the Christ ideal. The characters presented in the follow ing pages are here used purely for this practical or ideal purpose, as so many pictures or object lessons, to make truth the more simple and beautiful. The author, indeed, has ceased to be very deeply interested in questions of mere historical criticism. Larger and more important subjects demand the thought of the world. Men need to know that a beneficent God manifests himself in human life now no less than when Jesus walked in Galilee. Men need to have preached to them what Paul used to say, that as many as are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. Men's faithlessness is not concerning the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.