The Making of Men (Paperback)

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. 1915 Excerpt: ...will aright, the knowing and feeling would take care of themselves. His teaching is directed to the will, and His purpose as a teacher and as Savior is stated in the words of the text, "I have come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." Paul had this function of the Master in mind when he said, "For me to live is Christ." Paul's purpose as a teacher was that of his Lord--it was life, the more abundant life. needs in their eagerness to hang on His words. So popular was He that the elders and priests, the Pharisees and chief rulers of the Jewish race maligned Him and persecuted Him in the hope of breaking the spell of His teaching. In vain. The teachings of the Savior are more alive to-day than ever before. And though He wrote no books on pedagogy, more books have been written on Him and His method of teaching than on all other teachers of all lands in all times. Jesus Christ stands forth to-day (as the sublimest teacher in the world's history. Now what was His conception of the teacher's function? Was it to make of His pupils intellectual giants? Not at all. His enemies asked of Him how He knew letters, never having studied them. His pupils were mostly ignorant, unlearned men. Was it to beget pleasurable, passionate feelings in His followers, as with Quintilian? Not at all. His message was not to whoever knows, nor to whoever feels, but to "whoever wills, let him come and partake of the water of life freely." Not that our Savior would condemn knowledge or feelings, not that; but that He directed His instruction to the will, the arbiter of our being, the commander-in-chief of our In the oratory of the Greeks, Romans, and Christians are found the same differences as to aims to be reached, ends to ...