Excerpt from The Testimony of the Four Gospels Concerning Jesus Christ
This book is sure to bring down fresh obloquy upon myself and upon the sacred cause which I aspire to serve. It is therefore necessary to guard against misunderstandings and misrepresentations at the outset. In as few words as possible, I wish to state what the object of this book is and what it is not.
To begin with the negative, my object here is not to attack, or to depreciate in the very smallest degree, that ideal of human goodness and even perfection which is so widely identified throughout Christendom with the name of Jesus Christ. We cannot have too lofty and pure an ideal of what man may and ought to reach, and in thousands of Christian hearts that ideal is associated with the name of Christ. To them the name of Jesus Christ stands for the most perfect man in all relations of life, the most perfect father, most perfect son, and most perfect brother; no less for the most perfect woman, mother, daughter and sister; all that is sweetest and best in human relations, in conduct and in character, is typified or symbolized to the mind under the term "Christ-like."
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