The Principles Of Jesus Applied To Some Questions Of Today

Excerpt from The Principles of Jesus: Applied to Some Questions of Today Men are no longer content with the conventional judgments about conduct that satisfied them a few years ago. It is a striking sight to see them turning instinctively to Jesus for light on their difficulties or to claim His authority in support of their solutions of the problems of life. "There is something touching," says Harnack, "in the anxiety which every one shows to rediscover himself with his own point of view and his own circle of interest, in this Jesus Christ, or at least to get a share in Him. It is the perennial repetition of the spectacle which was seen in the 'Gnostic' movement even as early as the second century, and which takes the form of a struggle on the part of every conceivable tendency of thought for the possession of Jesus Christ." There is a striking testimony here to the abiding authority of Jesus. " He would approve of our course," those say who are sure. 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.

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Accompanying Biblical text is author's translation.