Records of Jesus Reviewed, and Fifty Questions Answered Through Five Hundred Reverent Reasoners (Classic Reprint)

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One can hardly have too many aids to be ready always to give: an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope: that is in you with meekness and fear, having a good conscience, and at the same time heed Shakspere's hint that your reasons be sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion and strange Without heresy.

Of books whose theme is the birth, the life, the death, and the character of Jesus Christ, the name is legion. None of them, except one or two of limited scope, seem to present impartially the most advanced thought extant on the fifty principal topics of that theme Most of the authors evince that self-interest, the long habit of look ing mainly at one side, and steady training in opposition to the other' side, are influences for casuistry too powerful to be matched by the best intentions. They have each, adds Moncure D. Conway, brought his little block of stone, under impression that it was the: whole temple, to a point where comparative study may take it up and fit it to every other block, that the sacred edifice of humanity may arise.

The success of the writer or reader who has in hand this fitting will depend much on how little he strains to avoid mal-adjustment of his Spiritual stature to the proportions of any Procrustean creed bed; on how impartially he selects his appliances; on how readily he draws his weapons for Truth from the whole religious armory of Christendom. Nay, even heathendom will be brought under tribute, and Seneca shall testify that he who determines anything without.

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