I am he that liveth, and was dead: and, behold, F.De.. RICHMOND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 823140 ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R 19:8 L Copyright, 1917, by HORACE M. DU BOSE MOY WEN FOREWORD THE present volume does not claim to be a technical treatment of the subject with which it deals. It does, however, aspire to follow the lofty precedent, involving the processes of a true logic, found in the primitive records of the life of Jesus, as also the apostolic method of interpreting the Messianic kingdom and reign of Jesus the Christ. There was a divine reason for the shape into which the gospel story was cast; and though the historic details are not all known, the fact commends itself to the highest and sanest human wisdom. The evangelists were concerned with the Life, and noted the manifestations of that Life in the order of their happening, putting emphasis where the Life emphasized itself, and leaving out of the record what was unnecessary to an understanding-nay, what was unnecessary to an appropriation of the Life. It was not that men should mentally comprehend |