The Story of a Young Man; (A Life of Christ) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: brings back again the conditions in which Jesus FOREWORD dwelt, causes ancient events to be reacted before our eyes, and with vividness makes us see and love the young man as if he were living still, and in our time were going about doing good. AMORT H. BRADFORD Pastor of the First Congregational Church of Monte lair, New Jersey chapter{Section 4THE STORTOF TOUNG HE Story of a Toung Man" is the EXPLANATION story of Jesus of Nazareth. It is not a life of Christ, in the usual meaning of that term. While it is founded solely upon Scriptural records, it makes no pretense of embody- ing all that is contained in the Gospels. The pur- pose of the story, as its title indicates, is to portray Jesus as the man; to view him in the light of his humanity; and, while never overlooking his divinity, to set forth his earthly career in the form of a nar- rative recording the growth, the struggles, the achievements of a fellow being ? the greatest ever on earth, yet a fellow-being. " Such of the events of his life as are introduced have been chosen with a view to illustrate his char- acter from this standpoint: to emphasize his won- drous personality as a man, and at the same time EXPLANATION to carry forward the story in the progressive form of an unfolding narrative. To have recited all of the incidents connected with the life of the Saviour would have given to the story a comprehensiveness and a redundancy of illustration quite out of keep- ing with the object in view. Tet, notwithstanding the necessary omission of much that is related in the Gospels, it is not believed that any representative feature of the life of Christ has been overlooked. i To consistently carry out its design the story is brought to a close with the death of "Jesus. The crucifixion marks the com...